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