Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS) announces the availability of funding as part of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Prescription Drug Overdose (PDO) grant and Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) . Advancing health and racial equity is a core goal of this opportunity. This funding aims to invest in local communities to strengthen overdose response and prevention strategies where residents of Massachusetts are facing the greatest impact from the opioid crisis and the war on drugs. This funding is intended to specifically address overdose along the intercept points of the criminal legal system. MDPH seeks applicants who will develop community action plans that will lead to community vetted implementation activities with a focus on intercepts with the criminal legal system. Eligible applicants include municipalities, Public Health Districts or Shared Service Arrangements, or other community-serving entities including tribal jurisdictions, coalitions, and taskforces.
