State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care

Posted by on April 21, 2006

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Program to Improve Addiction Treatment
Deadline: May 31, 2006

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (<a href="http://rwjf.org/">http://rwjf.org/</a>) has launched Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care (<a href="http://www.advancingrecovery.net/">http://www.advancingrecovery.net/</a>), a four-year, $11 million program to support partnerships between treatment provider organizations that deliver care and states that are in the unique role of being both the largest purchaser of publicly funded treatment services and regulators and licensers of those services.

In the first round of funding, six state-provider partnerships will be selected to participate in a learning network that will provide technical assistance and coaching for delivery of addiction treatment. Funding will support the process of making changes at both the state and provider levels.

Advancing Recovery will focus on five categories to improve treatment quality, including the use of: 1) medications for specific diagnoses; 2) screening and brief intervention in primary care settings; 3) specific psychosocial clinical interventions; 4) post-treatment care; and 5) case management, wraparound, and supportive services.

Single state agencies, intermediate purchasing entities, community treatment agencies, or provider associations are all eligible to apply. Each application must represent a partnership involving a single state agency and sufficient community treatment agencies.

RWJF will award up to six grants for up to twenty-four months. Each grant award will be a maximum of $180,000 per year, including overhead.

The Advancing Recovery Call for Proposals is available online at the RWJF Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001915/rwjf">http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001915/rwjf</a>

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