Reminder! GPRA Orientation & Refresher Training Tuesday 2/8/22 at 11am ET

OMNI will hold a one-hour GPRA Brief Orientation & Refresher Training on Tuesday February 8, 2022 from 11am-noon ET. This will be a higher-level overview of important elements of GPRA completion for new staff or anyone who might like a refresher. This training will most directly focus on follow-up GPRAs, and we will point out existing supporting TA resources, documents, and recordings of prior in-depth GPRA trainings housed on our website.

Prior-recorded trainings available on our website are recommended for those needing a more-thorough review for completing Intake or Follow-up/Discharge GPRAs.

Register in advance for this training here:

https://omni-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdOCpqz8sH9CZ75H_2CMdPhb1RI72bsNW

 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

SOR Year 3 Annual Report

We are excited to share that the SOR Year 3 Annual Report is now available on the SOR website. This report covers evaluations from the third year of SOR funding for prevention, treatment, and recovery, and examines multiple data sources, including GPRAs and quarterly surveys. You can find the full report here or on the SOR Website’s Reports page: https://www.virginiasorsupport.org/reports. A short executive summary is available here.

We have also created agency-level reports summarizing each agency’s GPRA data for the entire SOR I and SOR II grants. Agencies with enough GPRA data to receive a report will receive an email this week with more information about this report.

We thank everyone for your data collection efforts, collaboration, and most of all the incredible amount of work accomplished by CSBs and their communities under this grant!

If you have any questions about either report, feel free to reach out to us at SORSupport@omni.org

GPRA Orientation & Refresher Training Tuesday 2/8/22 at 11am ET

OMNI will hold a one-hour GPRA Brief Orientation & Refresher Training on Tuesday February 8, 2022 from 11am-noon ET. This will be a higher-level overview of important elements of GPRA completion for new staff or anyone who might like a refresher. This training will most directly focus on follow-up GPRAs, and we will point out existing supporting TA resources, documents, and recordings of prior in-depth GPRA trainings housed on our website.

Register in advance for the 2/8/22 training here: https://omni-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdOCpqz8sH9CZ75H_2CMdPhb1RI72bsNW

Prior-recorded trainings available on our website are recommended for those needing a more-thorough review for completing Intake or Follow-up/Discharge GPRAs.

 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

GPRA Kudos to Alexandria CSB

We recently announced that in 2022, we'll be sharing some shout-outs about CSBs or Agencies that are doing well with their intakes, follow-ups, engaging supporting clients, and/or those that demonstrate a "spirit of inquiry" when engaging with our TA Team on GPRA administration issues.

This month, we'd like to send some kudos to the Alexandria Community Services Board (CSB). They have had consistently strong follow-up rates over the past 6 months ranging from 70-90%, in line with SAMSHA’s goal of 80%. Additionally, they have managed to maintain a good number of intake GPRAs, averaging about 6 per month. Way to go!

Quarter 4 Services Summary Report in your Dropbox Folders!

Thank you to everyone for completing the Quarter 4 Quarterly Reporting Survey! We have created agency-level reports summarizing your agency's response(s) to the Recovery and Treatment surveys for Quarter 4. These reports are in a sub-folder in your agency’s Dropbox folder titled "Quarterly Reporting Survey Reports".

For any Quarterly Reporting Survey questions, please visit our Quarterly Reporting Survey resource page and/or reach out to our team at SORSupport@omni.org!

Brief Survey on GPRA Administration - Feedback for SAMHSA

Greetings SOR grantees!  We are interested to get feedback from your CSB on your experience implementing and administering the GPRA survey for the SOR grant. Please take a few minutes to respond to this short survey here detailing your experience and anything you think would be important for our grant funder (SAMHSA) to receive feedback on. This survey will be live until Friday, January 28th. If you have any immediate questions, please reach out to SORSupport@omni.org.

SOR II Year 2 Quarter 1 Treatment and Recovery Services Survey

It's time to complete the SOR II Year 2 Quarter 1 Treatment and Recovery Services Survey! Contacts that previously completed the quarterly survey for your agency received an email with specifics on completing the survey on Wednesday, January 5th. If you did not receive this email and believe you should have, please contact SORSupport@omni.org.

Please refer to the Quarterly Survey resources page to review applicable information and resources relevant to completing the survey. These include:

Quarter 1 of the SOR II grant ended December 31st. Survey responses should reflect all of quarter 1 (October 1 - December 31, 2021). This survey is due no later than Friday, January 21st - this deadline is firm due to SAMHSA reporting requirements.

Please reach out to us at SORSupport@omni.org with any questions, concerns, or recommendations about this survey. Thank you all for your help with this survey – it is greatly appreciated!

TA Request: Please Double Check Your Entered Email Address in GPRA Submissions

As you know, you are able to type in your email address at the end of entering GPRA's into the online system in order to receive a submission confirmation.

If your email address is misspelled or incorrectly entered, you won't receive that confirmation and OMNI receives a bounce notification, requiring us to reach out to CSBs for clarification. We have seen increasing numbers of these bounces of late.

We kindly request that you please double check entry and spelling of your email address so that you will receive confirmation of your GPRA submission in a timely way. Thank you!

Addressing Burnout in Virginia's Peer Support Field

Last week the OMNI SOR Recovery Team hosted a webinar on Addressing Burnout in Virginia's Peer Support Field. As it is also relative to you all's work, we wanted to share it here as well. Some prevalent challenges regarding peer burnout that emerged from this session were:

  • Supervisors and team members would benefit from a better understanding of what a peer does and doesn't do. Avenues to addressing this barrier could be supervisors and team members learning more about what defines the role broadly, or agencies/teams defining the role more clearly.

  • Peers need time off or work schedule adjustments to recuperate from burnout, but a culture reluctant to be open about health care providers' mental health and taking time off leads to this not happening.

  • Lastly, there is a need to value the expertise peers bring to this work more, especially surrounding peers' resiliency and from non-peer staff.

You can find a link a video summary of the information here and a PDF overview of this information here. Both are also listed on the Peer Recovery Research page of the SOR Support website.

This video includes the information covered in the session as well as the discussion questions posed during it. Both are included as we hope that this recording can help facilitate a mini-session on burnout with appropriate groups of staff at your agency. The recording will prompt you to first listen to the information provided and then pause the video at each set of discussion questions.

Reminder: OMNI Offices Closed from December 24-January 2

This is to remind you that OMNI will be officially closed from December 24th through January 2nd, reopening on Monday, January 3rd.

Our entire team be unavailable for project-related support during the closure dates. Any emails or voice mail messages will be reviewed and responded to as soon as possible starting January 3rd. GPRA online surveys and all resources on our website will still be available during this time. However you will not receive any updated tracking sheets in your Dropbox folder during the week of December 27-31. This will resume starting the week of January 3rd.

Let the OMNI Team know if you have any questions about our closure or anticipate any concerns. Though our official closure is from the 24th to the 3rd, please try to wrap up TA requests by Monday, December 21st so we can get you the info you need before our closure.

Wishing you a happy and healthy end of 2021 and a bright start to 2022!

SOR Support Team

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.