UT has received a $200,000 grant to build an East Tennessee consortium to support treatment for and prevention of opioid use disorder in 10 rural East Tennessee counties with the highest risk for substance use disorder.
The grant comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, which announced the 2018 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Planning (RCORP) competition this summer. The planning grant provides funding for one year to cultivate strong county, state, and regional-level partnerships and will incorporate workforce recruitment and retention needs as well as efforts around planning and capacity-building activities. Continue reading