New York Rural Opioid Court Initiative

During the development phase of the grant application the UCS engaged with Policy Research Associates (PRA) to implement the goals and deliverables of the project. PRA had agreed to hire a Project Director who would manage the day-to-day operation of the initiative and support the 8 identified counties where this program would be implemented. However, once the grant was awarded, PRA informed the UCS that they no longer had the capacity to support this project on such a large scale but would continue with one of the deliverables, creating the Sequential Intercept Model. As a result, the UCS entered into partnerships with the Center for Justice Initiatives (CJI) and NPC Research to meet the other goals and deliverables as originally described in the grant application.
 
The original grant award had $5,758,788 for contractual services. Of this total amount $438,000 was awarded to NPC Research for evaluation services (which is still the current goal of the grant) and $5,320,788 was awarded to PRA to implement goals and deliverables. However, once PRA backed out of their initial agreement, only $220,000 was awarded to PRA and the rest of the deliverables PRA was supposed to deliver went out to bid on the open market. The Center for Justice Innovations won the bid and was awarded $3,803,336 to continue with the project as was originally intended. Additionally, an award for $171,500 was made to SCRAM for phones to treatment participants. These phones were also originally supposed to be provided by PRA. The amount remaining, unallocated on the contractual services line is $1,174,527.