COVID-19 Resources

We wanted to share an upcoming webinar that may be helpful for your agencies in the upcoming months as you move toward telehealth:

Essential Tips for Using Videoconferencing to Deliver SUD Treatment and Recovery Services Webinar hosted by the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (ATTC)

 We have also created this document with additional resources from the CDC, SAMHSA, and NAADAC around COVID-19. Feel free to send the SOR TA Team any other webinars or resources that would be useful to share with other agencies.

GPRA Question Change

We are announcing a change to the GPRA survey to align with a recent SAMHSA update. This change has been made to the intake, follow-up, and discharge surveys (both print and online versions). To succinctly summarize the change, we created a short video to help visually explain the question modification. Watch the video below or click here to download the video.

Here is a written summary of the GPRA Question Change:

Section A: Behavioral Health Diagnosis: Question 1a (FDA-approved medication in past 30 days) is now asked regardless of the previous answer for Question 1 (diagnosed with an opioid use disorder) in this section. Question 1a has also been changed slightly to ask if a client received FDA-approved medication for “an opioid use disorder”; this question previously asked only about “this opioid use disorder” (indicating the opioid use disorder had to have been diagnosed in the past 30 days). The same exact changes occurred to Question 2 and Question 2a, but regarding alcohol use disorder instread of opioid use disorder.

Two answer choices have also been added to Question 1a: “Client was diagnosed with an opioid use disorder, but did not receive an FDA-approved medication for an opioid use disorder” and “Client was not diagnosed with an opioid use disorder and did not receive FDA-approved medication for an opioid use disorder.” These options appear regardless of the previous answer for Question 1. The same exact change occurred to Question 2 and Question 2a, but regarding alcohol use disorder instread of opioid use disorder.

Please reach out to SORSupport@omni.org with any questions.

Remote GPRAs & Gift Cards at Intake Interviews

We hope everyone is hanging in there! We appreciate all your efforts to support your community during this stressful time. While client service provision remains a priority, we wanted to communicate some recent updates from SAMHSA regarding the SOR grant.

First, we encourage your agencies to offer GPRA interviews via phone or video during this time, and SAMHSA has approved these additional methods for all GPRA interviewing (intake, follow-up, and discharge).

Encrypted Emails for Client IDs

As some of you are aware, the TA Team reaches out to agencies periodically to follow up on various GPRA issues (i.e. missing client ID numbers, incorrect interview dates, etc.). For confidentiality purposes, client ID numbers and other identifying information cannot be communicated via email. From now on, the SOR TA Team will be sending encrypted emails when contacting agencies about GPRA issues specific to an individual client.

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.