Specifications include, but are not limited to: The OD2A: LOCAL grant and overdose prevention requires a multifactor, community-wide, data-driven approach. The funding helps build a community infrastructure of overdose surveillance, harm reduction, recovery, and care in Sedgwick County. Addressing disparities is an overarching goal. Activities must be culturally-relevant to those disproportionately affected by overdose and historically underserved. For the OD2A: LOCAL funding, Sedgwick County Health Department(SCHD) focuses on the following people: Black African Americans, people ages 15-25, people who are unhoused and veterans. Part of the grant requires integrating harm reduction strategies and principles and reducing health inequities related to overdose by closing gaps in access to care and services. activities, including harm reduction education andnaloxone distribution. Overarching OD2A education outcomes are to increase treatment entry, reduce drug use frequencyand high-risk drug use practices, and improve the overall health of people who use drugs (PWUD), with a focus onreducing overdose. This Request for Proposal (RFP) outlines one of the SCHD activities within the OD2A: LOCAL grant. The RFP will identify one firm or firms that can hire, train and provide hourly stipends for youth navigators in peer-led schools organizations who will provide harm reduction and overdose prevention education to people ages 15-25. The Navigators will work in middle and high schools and colleges and in places where those age groups congregate. Funding would allow the peer-led work to continue Fight Fentanyl messaging, one-on-one interactions, and creating presentations such as townhalls with people with lived experience. This funding will enhance the capacity for organizations who are currently doing this work in areas of Wichita with high risk for overdose and populations who are unhoused. Vendors will provide data to SCHD for analysis.
