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!

Meet the OMNI SOR Treatment & Recovery Teams!

Our team has decided that it's high time you learned more about us! To do that, we've set up a new section of our website to help you do just that: About us. We hope you enjoy learning a bit more about each member of OMNI's Virginia SOR Treatment and Recovery Teams, and you can check out all our photos as well. Much nicer than seeing us only on Zoom, right?

In this photo, we feature the Treatment Team folks you most often connect with at OMNI when seeking TA (starting in the top left corner): Julia Simhai, Cheryl Winston, Julia Ricotta, Kate Rifken, Charlotte Gray, Nikki Dee, and Audrey Dervarics. Our Team meets each week to talk about ways to improve our TA for you, and to develop protocols and trainings to enhance your experience working with the GPRA.

All of us truly enjoy the connections we continue to make across CSBs and DBHDS. We look forward to working with you throughout 2021, and send best wishes for a happy and healthy year ahead!

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Peer Services & MAT Maps Updated

The SOR team has updated both the Emergency Department with Peer Services Map and the Jails with Peer Services and/or MAT Map. We have made minor changes to the maps data based on previous feedback, and the updated maps can be found on the SOR Support website (https://www.virginiasorsupport.org/recovery-maps). Please let us know if you see any other information that needs to be updated.

 

These maps were created as part of the SOR grant to visualize gaps in services and provide a current snapshot of services available across the state. The peer services and MAT data are from the 2019 Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services report on availability of opioid use disorder treatment in jails and peer services in emergency departments . We hope to keep updating these maps as access to recovery services continues to increase across the state.

GPRA Refresher Training Recording & Slides

OMNI held a GPRA Refresher Training yesterday (1/27/2021) to provide a high-level overview of the GPRA and the SOR II grant to those already familiar with the GPRA. Thank you to those who joined us for the training!

 We posted the training recording and slides on the Trainings resource page of our website. Please review these resources if you were unable to join the training and would like a refresher of the GPRA. In addition, below is a list of useful materials to accompany this training for your reference:

 TA Support Resources (all materials below are listed here):

Please reach out to SORSupport@omni.org if you have any questions!

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.

2021 SOR Webinar Series: Evidence-based Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorders

The first webinar of the 2021 SOR webinar series will take place on Thursday, January 21st at 2pm EST! The webinar will focus on evidence-based treatment for stimulant use disorders. Dr. Robert Baillieu, CSAT Medical Officer, and Dr. Neeraj Gandotra, SAMHSA Chief Medical Officer, will be presenting.

There are a limited number of phone lines available for this webinar, so it is encouraged to share lines if possible. Webinar logistical information includes:

Webex Access Information

For Participants:

Conference number: PWXW1912991

Audience passcode: 8800801

Call-In Information

  • Dial-in Number: 888-469-0874; Participant Code: 8800801

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.