COVID Mitigation Services

The Vendor is required to provide COVID Mitigation funds that were disbursed to agency, by agency, to be distributed, pursuant to agency approved proposals, for the sole purpose of COVID-19 testing and mitigation; agency plans to target these funds for mental health and substance use disorder congregate.
- Applications shall specify the need for the following types of supplies and resources:
• COVID-19 tests
• PPE such as hand sanitizer and masks
• Handwashing stations
• Cleaning supplies used for disinfecting, disinfecting wipes
• Physical barriers/guides to support social distancing, for example, a Plexiglas’s partition separating receptionist from consumers
• Services to ensure ventilation systems operate properly (The specifics of this item will need to be delineated.)
- Provide a congregate (6-15 residents) housing opportunity focusing on relapse prevention; it is an essential component to the recovery system in the state’s network of substance use disorder recovery supports.
- Testing for staff and consumers in shelters, group homes, residential treatment facilities, day programs, and room and board programs; purchase of resources for testing-related operating and administrative costs otherwise borne by these housing programs.
- Hire workers to coordinate resources, develop strategies and support existing community partners to prevent infectious disease transmission in these settings.
- States may use this funding to procure COVID-19 tests and other mitigation supplies such as handwashing stations, hand sanitizer and masks for people experiencing homelessness and for those living in congregate settings.
- Funds may be used to relieve the burden of financial costs for the administration of tests and the purchasing of supplies necessary for administration such as personal protective equipment (PPE); supporting mobile health units, particularly in medically underserved areas; and expanding local or tribal programs workforce to implement COVID-response services for those connected to the behavioral health system.
- Promote behaviors that prevent the spread of covid-19 and other infectious diseases (healthy hygiene practices, stay at home when sick, practice physical distancing to lower the risk of disease spread, cloth face coverings, getting vaccinated).
- Maintain healthy environments (clean and disinfect, ensure ventilation systems operate properly, install physical barriers and guides to support social distancing if appropriate).
- Education, rehabilitation, prevention, treatment, and support services for symptoms occurring after recovery from acute covid-19 infection, including, but not limited to, support for activities of daily living.
- Develop and implement strategies to address consumer hesitancy around testing; ensure access for specific community populations to address long-standing systemic health and social inequities that have put some consumers at increased risk of getting COVID-19 or having severe illness.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year