Grants Will Also Go Toward Strengthening Law Enforcement and Community Relations
ANNAPOLIS, MD - The Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism is now accepting concept papers for 2017 AmeriCorps State-Targeted Priority program grants in Maryland. These grants will fund service activities that address critical community needs, namely the need to prevent prescription drug and opioid abuse and strengthen law enforcement and community relations.
In order to understand statewide needs and identify prospective applicants for this grant opportunity, the Office on Service and Volunteerism is partnering with Governor Larry Hogan's Opioid Operational Command Center, the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
"Marylanders from every corner of the state know the devastation that heroin and opioid abuse can cause," said Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford. "That's why it's so important that groups already dedicated to community service become a part of our statewide fight to end this epidemic."
Through additional funds provided by the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, the Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism has hired a special initiatives coordinator to assist in this grant process. Working with the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, the coordinator's goal is to ensure that Maryland is equipped to effectively address the opioid epidemic.
The grants come on the heels of Governor Hogan's announcement of the administration's 2017 Heroin and Opioid Prevention, Treatment, and Enforcement Initiative, a multi-pronged and sweeping administrative and legislative effort to continue addressing Maryland's ongoing opioid and heroin epidemic.
The first step in the application process for a 2017 AmeriCorps State-Targeted Priority program grant is to submit a concept paper, due by 10 a.m. on Friday, March 10, 2017. Concept papers will be reviewed and applicants will be notified of acceptance by March 24. At that time, accepted applicants will be invited to complete a full grant application, due in April. The funding year will run from August 15, 2017, to August 14, 2018. To submit a concept paper or for more information, visit gosv.maryland.gov/available-funding/.
About the Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism
The Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism is a unit of the Governor's Office of Community Initiatives. Through the use of federal dollars, the office funds AmeriCorps State programs to support community service efforts in Maryland. Each year, the office recognizes more than 200,000 Maryland volunteers on behalf of the governor.
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2 comments:
Hurry up and get medical pot rolling. That should have a lasting effect.
All this time, effort and money isnt needed. As the borders become secure and significantly reduce the heroin that democrats have been supplying to the usa {by purposely keeping borders open for the drug suppliers} The supply, the market, and therefore the addictions will drop significantly. But then the politicians will step up and pound their chest about how these wonderful programs deleted the opioid epidemic.
Just more spending and growing government programs...feel good stuff
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