The Department of Health (DOH), Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (ADAD) issues this Request for Information (RFI) for the purpose of gathering comments and feedback that could influence and assist in the development of Request(s) for Proposals (RFP) for substance use prevention (SUP) services. The RFP may result in multiple contracts awarded for services statewide. The ADAD has or anticipates available funds to procure services to prevent substance use disorders (SUD) by addressing risk and protective factors that influence the likelihood of substance use, misuse, or abuse and related behaviors. The ADAD supports the implementation of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a data-driven planning process that can be applied to prevention systems at both the state and local levels to select and deliver effective prevention interventions appropriate across the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Categories (universal, selective, and indicated) and using the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Strategies. Please refer to SPF Hawaii (link provided in attached file) and the Surgeon General’s Report on Prevention (link provided in attached file). The SPF Hawaii website, a collaboration of ADAD and the University of Hawai‘i Center on the Family at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, features a dedicated section on Community-Defined Evidence Practices. Community-defined evidence practices (CDEPs) are practices that communities have shown to yield positive results as determined by community consensus over time, and which may or may not have been measured empirically but have reached a level of acceptance by the community. CDEPs reflect ways of knowing that may fall outside traditional academic frameworks but are deeply aligned with community-defined measures of success. As ADAD considers prioritizing services based on the trends identified in the 2024 State Epidemiological Profile, ADAD is interested in learning about prevention approaches which are important in communities that have been underserved.
