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SOR IV News Updates and GPRA Basics

Now that we are a couple of months into 2025 and have welcomed several new CSBs/Agencies to the GPRA data collection process, we wanted to go over some GPRA basics and SOR IV News Updates!

  • The first SOR IV Monthly Progress Reports have been created and added to CSB/Agency folders. Progress reports are uploaded to Dropbox folders on a monthly basis and provide useful information around the number of intakes and discharges completed so far in SOR IV and – once follow-up windows begin opening – the number and types of follow-ups completed.

  • Note: OMNI will not be providing CSBs/Agencies with intake GPRA goals for this year. If you have questions, please contact DBHDS.

SOR IV Trainings/Onboarding

  • In case you missed it! Our team conducted the SOR IV Intake GPRA Training on December 9th. The slides and video recording from this training can be found here: New to the GPRA/GPRA Refresher — Virginia SOR Support. If you are new or want to refresh your GPRA knowledge, please review!

  • Save the date! The SOR IV Follow-Up and Discharge Training will be on April 17th, 2025. We will send out the registration link with more details soon.

  • 1-on-1 TA support! OMNI can provide 1-on-1 TA to any CSB/Agency that needs it. Please reach out to us for GPRA administration questions, to receive a list of GPRA administrator onboarding resources from our website, or to request a Zoom call with one of our TA team members for further GPRA support. Here are the best ways to reach us:

GPRA Basics

  • We are in Year 1 of the SOR IV grant period. The SOR IV grant period will span three years.

  • How to receive a GPRA submission confirmation email:

    • Confirmation email: To receive a confirmation email, type your email address in when prompted at the end of the online survey, then be sure to click through to the end of the survey and click “Submit” (see image below).

      • Clicking “Submit” prompts a confirmation email to be sent. Otherwise, you will not receive a confirmation email.

        The email will include the survey type and client ID and confirms that we have received your survey; the email will NOT include individual survey responses to protect personally identifiable information (PII).

  • How to download a PDF of responses:

    • PDF of Responses: After clicking “Submit”, you will be brought to a summary page of the survey’s responses, similar to the screenshot below.

    • To download a PDF of responses, select “Download PDF” in the upper right-hand corner (see the second image below).

Click “Submit” on the final window of the survey to receive the confirmation email.

Clicking “Submit” prompts a confirmation email to be sent. Otherwise, you will not receive a confirmation email.

Select “Download” the PDF in the upper right-hand corner.

As shown in the circled red in the image.

We deeply appreciate your commitment to data-driven inquiry and the impactful work you do in your communities. We look forward to supporting you with your GPRA processing needs!

SOR Treatment Community Forum on Understanding and Sharing your Data: Recap

Thanks to all who attended the 4/19 CSB/Agency Treatment Community Forum on data sharing. We enjoyed offering the time for CSBs/agencies, DBHDS, and OMNI come together to share and learn from each other.

If you were not able to attend, or want to review it, the forum was recorded and is available in the Resources >> Trainings area of our website. Here is a direct link to the recording, and to the PDF of the slides.

Here are a few links that we talked about during the meeting that you might like to explore:

As a reminder, your Dropbox also has folders that contain your Annual Agency Reports, Quarterly Reports, and Monthly GPRA Progress Reports.

In the session, we also learned about how an agency uses the raw GPRA data. If you have interest in receiving this dataset for your agency, please let us know. We are also happy to answer any questions that came up for you after our session ended. Reach us at SORSupport@omni.org.

Seeking your SOR II Success Stories!

DBHDS and OMNI are seeking your SOR II Success Stories and wanted to make it easy for you to contribute throughout the year! We want to hear from you about how your SOR II funding is supporting the services you provide in your community.

We have prepared a very simple survey that will easily allow you to share some of your Success Stories on an ongoing basis. You can also attach documents or photos to better document your stories if you wish. Click here to share.

We’ve also added a new page to the website from which you can also access the survey. Here is the new page and link: https://www.virginiasorsupport.org/success-stories

We look forward to reading what you share!

GPRA Refresher Training Reminder!

This is a reminder that we are hosting an abbreviated GPRA Refresher Training on Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021 at 11am ET. Please register here. This is a shortened 1.5 hour training.

Come to this training if you are already familiar with the GPRA, but want a refresher on GPRA administration, the process of tracking clients for follow-up, and a re-cap of new elements for the SOR II grant period. If you have questions about whether this is a good fit for you, reach out to us at SORSupport@omni.org.

GPRA Refresher Training!

An abbreviated GPRA Refresher Training will be held on Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021 at 11am ET. Please register here. This is an abbreviated 1.5 hour training.

Come to this training if you are already familiar with the GPRA, but want a refresher on GPRA administration, the process of tracking clients for follow-up, and a re-cap of new elements for the SOR II grant period. If you have questions about whether this is a good fit for you, reach out to us at SORSupport@omni.org.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/part-200#200.112 Per 2 C.F.R. § 200.112-1113 The Federal awarding agency must establish conflict of interest policies for Federal awards. The non-Federal entity must disclose in writing any potential conflict of interest to the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity in accordance with applicable Federal awarding agency policy. Failure to adhere to these statues will result in immediate termination of funding.

Virginia’s State Opioid Response (SOR) grant is awarded at the discretion of DBHDS and SAMHSA. All recipients of SOR funding supports evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery services to address opioid and stimulant misuse and use disorders, including for cocaine and methamphetamine. The SOR grant is not intended to be utilized as a long-term or permanent funding source. All SOR proposals must include a realistic plan for financial sustainability beyond the grant period.