{"id":523424,"date":"2010-04-10T20:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.seliger.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-04-10T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:54:34","slug":"so-what-are-you-supposed-to-do-to-respond-to-the-community-resilience-and-recovery-initiative-crri-program-rfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523424","title":{"rendered":"So What Are You Supposed to do to Respond to the Community Resilience and Recovery Initiative (CRRI) program RFP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subscribers to our email Grant Alert Newsletter will see a link to the Community Resilience and Recovery Initiative (CRRI), which is a program designed to provide “Grants to strength families, communities, and the workforce through appropriate, evidence-based interventions.” What does that mean applicants should actually propose to do<\/em>?<\/p>\n

You won’t really find out based on SAMHSA’s grant announcement<\/a>, which says that you’re supposed to do things like “Reduce depression and anxiety” and “Reduce excessive drinking (and other substance use if the community chooses)” without saying how<\/em> that is to be done. In other words, whoever wrote the announcement page forgot to answer the 5Ws and H<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From SAMHSA’s page you can download the application kit file, which has lots and lots of stuff about how important evidence is (“The CRRI will use a place-based strategy to implement multiple evidence-based interventions targeted to four levels in the community”), and how important strengthening communities are (“The intent of the program is to help communities mobilize to better manage behavioral health issues despite budgetary cuts in existing services and to promote a sense of renewal and resilience”), and so on, but no definitions of what it means to “promote a sense of renewal and resilience.” Grants are for $1.4 million\u2014maybe you should use that for 20 giant potlucks.<\/p>\n

In reading through the RFP, you’ll find several references to “Section I-2.2.” If you search for “2.2,” you’ll finally find what SAMHSA actually wants you to implement:<\/p>\n