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Funding Opportunity: Youth Substance Use Disorder Prevention Program

The Center at Sierra Health Foundation was awarded the California Department of Health Care Services Proposition 64 Youth Substance Use Disorder Prevention Program contract. This statewide program will provide $20 million in funding and technical assistance for organizations that are developing or increasing community substance use disorder prevention, outreach and education focused on youth.

Grants up to $1 million are available for community-based organizations and Tribal organizations that strive for health equity and that will work on specific culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention, outreach and education projects focused on youth ages 12 to 26.

Download the request for applications.

Applications are due by February 6 at 1 p.m.

The Center will hold a webinar to review the request for applications on Jan. 10.

Learn more and register for the webinar on the Youth Substance Use Disorder Prevention Program web page.

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The Center awards $9.9 million for community-based opioid use disorder prevention and education

Through the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Access Points Project, 55 community-based organizations throughout California will receive funding to add or strengthen prevention, education and stigma reduction efforts for people with opioid use disorder and substance use disorder, particularly in communities of color.

“The intention of this prevention and education project is whole person – and whole community – care,” said Chet P. Hewitt, president and CEO of The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, which manages the MAT Access Points Project. “These organizations have established relationships with their community members built on trust, cultural understanding and integration with wraparound services available in a person’s own neighborhood – that’s a powerful combination to strengthen and grow community efforts to tackle opioid use disorder.”

The MAT Access Points Project is funded through the Department of Health Care Services California MAT Expansion Project and is administered by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation.

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Multi-language media campaign supports Californians seeking treatment for opioid use disorder

The Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Access Points Project recently launched a statewide media campaign to support Californians seeking treatment for opioid use disorder.

The multimedia campaign is a partnership of The Center and non-English-language and community-based media partners trusted for their expertise and deep connections with communities. The campaign includes messages in multiple languages and focuses on people who are disproportionately impacted by substance use disorder and its criminalization and barriers to treatment. It builds on the State of California’s ChooseMAT.org campaign and will run through January 2020.

Campaign partners, their networks and the public will have an opportunity to provide feedback to inform a later campaign focused on stigma reduction, opioid use disorder education, and treatment availability and options. Information will be posted on the MAT Access Points web site.

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San Joaquin Valley community organizations receive census outreach funding

The Center at Sierra Health Foundation today announced $3.8 million awarded to 63 community-based organizations throughout the nine counties of the San Joaquin Valley and across California’s census Region 6, which includes Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings and Tulare counties. This funding will support local trusted community organizations to provide hands-on, high touch, linguistically and culturally appropriate census outreach to hard-to-count communities.

Awarded grantee partners were required to demonstrate established relationships with hard-to-count communities that are most likely to be undercounted in 2020 Census efforts, such as Latino, African American, Asian, LGBTQX, immigrant and non-English speaking populations, people with disabilities and others. Funded activities to increase census understanding and participation include house meetings, canvassing, phone banking, community media and small group interactive presentations, mobile assistance centers, art-focused events, hands-on assistance and more. We will post a list of organizations that received grants on The Center web site in early January.

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Community partners celebrate an impactful year

More than 100 community partners gathered at Sierra Health Foundation on Dec. 10 for our Second Annual End-of-Year Community Celebration to reflect on a great year. This celebration lifted up the work of the Black Child Legacy Campaign, Sacramento Youth and Community PopUps, My Brother’s Keeper Sacramento and Build.Black. Coalition. Partners celebrated together with great food, fun games and music.

Thank you to all of our partners and community members for an impactful year and for all that we have accomplished together.

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