April 29, 2019 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program - Rural Centers of Excellence on Substance Use Disorders Deadline: June 10 The Health Resources and Service Administration's (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on April 25 for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Rural Centers of Excellence on Substance Use Disorders (RCORP-RCOE). HRSA will provide three cooperative agreements totaling about $20 million to establish three Rural Centers of Excellence. View the funding opportunity here: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=hrsa-19-108 Each Center will adopt one of the following three Focus Areas: - Focus Area 1: Innovative and effective treatment interventions for substance use disorders (SUD), particularly opioid use disorder (OUD), in rural communities;
- Focus Area 2: Best practices in recovery housing programs for SUD, particularly OUD, intervention among low-income, high-risk individuals in rural communities; and
- Focus Area 3: Addressing synthetic opioid-related overdose mortality in rural communities in the Delta and/or Appalachian regions.
Selected RCORP-RCOE applicants will receive up to $6.7 million each for a three-year period of performance to identify, translate, disseminate, and provide technical assistance to implement evidence-based programs and promising practices related to treatment for and prevention of SUD in rural communities, with a focus on the current opioid crisis. Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities, including, but not limited to, - Public or private institutions of higher education;
- State, county, or city or township governments;
- Faith-based and community-based organizations; and
- Federally recognized American Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal governments.
See pages 7-8 of the NOFO for more information on eligibility requirements. Applicant organizations may be located in an urban or rural area but all RCORP-RCOE program activities must exclusively serve populations residing in HRSA-designated rural areas, whether across multiple states, within one or more regions, or throughout the nation. See the HRSA Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer to identify HRSA-designated rural areas. FORHP will host a technical assistance webinar for applicants on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, from 1 to 2:30 PM EDT. FORHP will also provide a recording for those who cannot attend. Please see page iii in the NOFO for details to log in to the webinar and access the webinar playback. You may also contact ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov for questions on this program. Please visit https://www.hrsa.gov/opioids to learn more about how HRSA is addressing the opioid epidemic. | 
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