Substance Abuse Disaster Relief Project
Project Overview
Resources
Media Campaign Materials
Information for Contractors
Contacts
Project overview:
Between July 2009 and September 2010, the IDPH Division of Behavioral Health will have funding available to provide substance abuse disaster relief prevention and treatment services to Iowans impacted by last year's weather disasters. The funding, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Social Services Block Grant through the Iowa Department of Human Services, will be disseminated statewide to Comprehensive Prevention contractors and Iowa Plan IDPH-funded substance abuse treatment providers for specific services.
Through disaster relief funding, contractors will:
- Implement local services related to a statewide prevention campaign to decrease substance abuse related to weather disasters and on-going stress. The statewide campaign includes TV and radio messages, billboards, and newspaper articles that reference the Iowa Concern telephone response and referral line at 1-800-447-1985.
- Conduct focused outreach to clients who left treatment or who may have relapsed during or since the weather disasters
- Provide "disaster-informed" enhanced treatment services to clients and families responding to the prevention campaign and focused outreach
Resources:
Media campaign materials:
Information for contractors:
For more information
- Substance abuse prevention services & media campaign - contact Debbie Synhorst at 515-281-4404
- Substance abuse treatment services - contact Gloria Scholl at 515-273-5048
