A Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Combating Overdose through Community-level Intervention (COCLI) has been posted. Applications are due Monday, November 6, 2023 although the sponsor will begin accepting applications in mid-October.
The University of Baltimore’s Center for Drug Policy and Prevention (CDPP) invites sub-award applications for the Combating Overdose Through Community-level Intervention Initiative (COCLI) Initiative, funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP, CFDA=95.007). The COCLI program targets U.S. communities with the highest rates of fatal and non-fatal overdoses. Proposals must support and promote collaboration between public safety and public health agencies to ensure that overdose reduction efforts are robust and that community’s benefit from a comprehensive and coordinated response. Applicants must leverage evidence-based or promising practices approaches to implement or enhance new or on-going community-based programs that aim to reduce opioid-involved overdoses, overdoses involving stimulants, or polydrug overdose, and other harms associated with drug (mis)use. Some applicants (Tier 3) must also evaluate these community-based efforts to assess their efficacy in reducing overdose and other harms associated with drug (mis)use.
This Notice of Funding Availability seeks projects focused on the following priority areas:
- Activities that research and analyze a range of existing community-based efforts to address overdoses;
- Evidence-based and proven strategies designed to reduce overdose deaths that incorporate approaches that advance equity;
- Research activities that address opioid-involved overdose, overdose involving stimulants, or poly-drug overdose, and other harms associated with substance (mis)use;
- Research activities that deal with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Proposals will be accepted in three funding tiers:
- Tier 1 – Awards of up to $50,000 will fund program planning of new or innovative approaches. The University of Baltimore recognizes that complex community problems typically necessitate an involved planning process. It is often challenging for researchers and practitioners to suggest an effective response to a community’s problem without first engaging the community to discover why the problem exists and how the problem could be addressed effectively and efficiently. The sponsor expects to fund up to five planning grants.
- Tier 2 – Awards of up to $150,000 will focus on innovative program development and implementation. Projects should be designed to support small, innovative projects that either: (a) develop, clarify, and implement a novel program, strategy, or approach that has not yet been evaluated; or (b) adapt an existing evidence-based strategy for use in new setting/s or with new population/s.
- Tier 3 – Awards of $150,001 to $200,000 must focus on implementation and evaluation of evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies. Projects should be designed to support medium sized innovative projects that already have some evidence base, but would benefit from full implementation and rigorous evaluation.
CHSS researchers interested in responding to this solicitation are encouraged to reach out to Dr. Cynthia Lum of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, if they would like to discuss proposal ideas. CHSS researchers who plan to submit a proposal should complete a Pre-Award Request for Assistance form so that the CHSS Pre-Award Research Administration Team can work with applicants on their proposal submission.
October 03, 2023