Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success II SEOW Supplements (PFS II SEOW Supplements)

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announces the availability of funds to expand and enhance State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) activities funded under the Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success II (SPF-PFS II) grant announcement. The SPF-PFS II grant program was designed to address two of the nation’s top substance abuse prevention priorities: 1) underage drinking among persons aged 12 to 20; and 2) prescription drug misuse and abuse among persons aged 12 to 25. The purpose of these supplemental grants is to allow SPF-PFS II grantees to expand and enhance the activities of their current State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroups (SEOWs). At a minimum, grantees must use these supplemental funds to work with their SEOWs to: • develop a systematic, ongoing monitoring system to track progress in reducing underage drinking and prescription drug abuse in grantee communities of high need; • detect trends and use such data to redirect resources, as necessary, toward successfully achieving the goals of the SPF-PFS program; • support the SEOW as it collaborates with state and local agencies, organizations and individuals to use data, skills and/or decision-making authority in guiding and promoting positive behavioral health; and • document and institutionalize SEOW processes, including developing capacities for sustaining the SEOW, developing useful data products, disseminating such information to key decision makers and continually evaluating data and systems. This includes: • Developing a key set of indicators to describe the magnitude and distribution of substance-related consequences and consumption patterns across the state and in grantee communities of high need; • Developing a similar set of key indicators for prevention of mental illness and promotion of positive behavioral health across the state and in grantee communities of high need; and • Collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating these data through the development of an epidemiological profile. Grantees may also use supplemental funds to fund and support the services of an epidemiologist or data analyst. PFS II SEOW Supplement grants are authorized under Section 516 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2020 Substance Abuse Topic Area HP 2020-SA. SAMHSA strongly encourages all grantees to provide a smoke-free workplace and to promote abstinence from all tobacco products (except in regard to accepted tribal traditions and practices).