Common use of Quality Improvement Clause in Contracts

Quality Improvement. Points to consider: If applicable, the QI model that will be used; How will the QI process be used to track progress; The staff members who will be responsible for overseeing these processes; How you will implement any needed changes in project implementation and/or project management; What decision-making processes will be used; When and by whom will decisions be made concerning project improvement; What are the thresholds for determining that changes need to be made; Will the Advisory Board have a role in the QI process; and How will the changes be communicated to staff and/or partners/sub-awardees. Appendix F – Biographical Sketches and Position Descriptions Include position descriptions for the Project Director and all key personnel. Position descriptions should be no longer than one page each. For staff members who have been identified, include a biographical sketch for the Project Director and other key positions. Each sketch should be two pages or less. Biographical Sketch Existing curricula vitae of project staff members may be used if they are updated and contain all items of information requested below. You may add any information items listed below to complete existing documents. For development of new curricula vitae include items below in the most suitable format: Name of staff member Educational background: school(s), location, dates attended, degrees earned (specify year), major field of study Professional experience Honors received and dates Recent relevant publications Position Description Title of position Description of duties and responsibilities Qualifications for position Supervisory relationships Skills and knowledge required Amount of travel and any other special conditions or requirements Salary range Hours per day or week Appendix G – Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities SAMHSA expects recipients to utilize their data to: (1) identify the number of individuals to be served during the grant period and identify subpopulations (i.e., racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minority groups) vulnerable to behavioral health disparities; (2) implement a quality improvement plan for the use of program data on access, use, and outcomes to support efforts to decrease the differences in access to, use, and outcomes of service activities; and (3) identify methods for the development of policies and procedures to ensure adherence to the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care.

Quality Improvement. Points to consider: If applicable, the QI model that will be used; How will the QI process be used to track progress; The staff members who will be responsible for overseeing these processes; How you will implement any needed changes in project implementation and/or project management; What decision-making processes will be used; When and by whom will decisions be made concerning project improvement; What are the thresholds for determining that changes need to be made; Will the Advisory Board have a role in the QI process; and How will the changes be communicated to staff and/or partners/sub-awardees. Appendix F – Biographical Sketches and Position Descriptions Include position descriptions for the Project Director and all key personnel. Position descriptions should be no longer than one page each. For staff members members, who have been identified, include a biographical sketch for the Project Director and other key positions. Each sketch should be two pages or less. Biographical Sketch Existing curricula vitae of project staff members may be used if they are updated and contain all items of information requested below. You may add any information items listed below to complete existing documents. For development of new curricula vitae include items below in the most suitable format: Name of staff member Educational background: school(s), location, dates attended, degrees earned (specify year), major field of study Professional experience Honors received and dates Recent relevant publications Position Description Title of position Description of duties and responsibilities Qualifications for position Supervisory relationships Skills and knowledge required Amount of travel and any other special conditions or requirements Salary range Hours per day or week Appendix G – Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities SAMHSA expects recipients to utilize their data to: (1) identify the number of individuals to be served during the grant period and identify subpopulations (i.e., racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minority groups) vulnerable to behavioral health disparities; (2) implement a quality improvement plan for the use of program data on access, use, and outcomes to support efforts to decrease the differences in access to, use, and outcomes of service activities; and (3) identify methods for the development of policies and procedures to ensure adherence to the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care.

Quality Improvement. Points to consider: If applicable, the QI model that will be used; How will the QI process be used to track progress; The staff members who will be responsible for overseeing these processes; How you will implement any needed changes in project implementation and/or project management; What decision-making processes will be used; When and by whom will decisions be made concerning project improvement; What are the thresholds for determining that changes need to be made; Will the Advisory Board have a role in the QI process; and How will the changes be communicated to staff and/or partners/sub-awardees. Appendix F – Biographical Sketches and Position Descriptions Include position descriptions and biographical sketches for the Project Director and all key personnelproject staff. Position descriptions should be no longer than one page each. For staff members who have been identified, include a each and biographical sketch for the Project Director and other key positions. Each sketch sketches should be two pages or less. Biographical Sketch Existing curricula vitae of project staff members may be used if they are updated and contain all items of information requested below. You may add any information items listed below to complete existing documents. For development of new curricula vitae include items below in the most suitable format: Name of staff member Educational background: school(s), location, dates attended, degrees earned (specify year), major field of study Professional experience Honors received and dates Recent relevant publications Position Description Title of position Description of duties and responsibilities Qualifications for position Supervisory relationships Skills and knowledge required Amount of travel and any other special conditions or requirements Salary range Hours per day or week Appendix G – Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities SAMHSA expects recipients to utilize their submit a Disparity Impact Statement (DIS) within 60 days of receiving the grant award. The DIS is a data-driven, quality improvement effort to ensure underserved subpopulations are addressed in the grant. The DIS is built on the required GPRA data tosuch that no additional data collection is required. The DIS consists of three components: (1) identify the number of individuals to be served during the grant period and identify subpopulations subpopulation(s) (i.e., racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minority groups) vulnerable to behavioral health disparities; (2) implement a quality improvement plan for to address subpopulation differences based on the use of program GPRA data on access, use, and outcomes to support efforts to decrease the differences in access to, use, use and outcomes of service activities; and (3) identify methods for the development of policies and procedures to ensure adherence to the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care.

Quality Improvement. Points to consider: If applicable, the QI model that will be used; How will the QI process be used to track progress; The staff members who will be responsible for overseeing these processes; How you will implement any needed changes in project implementation and/or project management; What decision-making processes will be used; When and by whom will decisions be made concerning project improvement; What are the thresholds for determining that changes need to be made; Will the Advisory Board have a role in the QI process; and How will the changes be communicated to staff and/or partners/sub-awardees. Appendix F – Biographical Sketches and Position Descriptions Include position descriptions for the Project Director and all key personnel. Position descriptions should be no longer than one page each. For staff members who have been identified, include a biographical sketch for the Project Director and other key positions. Each sketch should be two pages or less. Biographical Sketch Existing curricula vitae of project staff members may be used if they are updated and contain all items of information requested below. You may add any information items listed below to complete existing documents. For development of new curricula vitae include items below in the most suitable format: Name of staff member Educational background: school(s), location, dates attended, degrees earned (specify year), major field of study Professional experience Honors received and dates Recent relevant publications Position Description Title of position Description of duties and responsibilities Qualifications for position Supervisory relationships Skills and knowledge required Amount of travel and any other special conditions or requirements Salary range Hours per day or week Appendix G – Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities Standard Funding Restrictions HHS codified the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards, 45 CFR Part 75. In Subpart E, cost principles are described and allowable and unallowable expenditures for HHS recipients are delineated. 45 CFR Part 75 is available at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/grants/grants-management/policies-regulations/requirements-principles. Unless superseded by program statute or regulation, follow the cost principles in 45 CFR Part 75 and the standard funding restrictions below. You may also reference the SAMHSA expects recipients to utilize their data site for grantee guidelines on financial management requirements at xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/grants/grants-management/policies-regulations/financial-management-requirements. SAMHSA grant funds may not be used to: Pay for the purchase or construction of any building or structure to house any part of the program. (1Applicants may request up to $75,000 for renovations and alterations of existing facilities, if necessary and appropriate to the project.) identify Provide residential or outpatient treatment services when the number facility has not yet been acquired, sited, approved, and met all requirements for human habitation and services provision. (Expansion or enhancement of existing residential services is permissible.) Provide inpatient treatment or hospital-based detoxification services. Residential services are not considered to be inpatient or hospital-based services. Make direct payments to individuals to enter treatment or continue to participate in prevention or treatment services. Note: A recipient or treatment or prevention provider may provide up to $30 non-cash incentive to individuals to participate in required data collection follow up. This amount may be served during paid for participation in each required follow up interview. Meals are generally unallowable unless they are an integral part of a conference grant or specifically stated as an allowable expense in the grant period and identify subpopulations FOA. Grant funds may be used for light snacks, not to exceed $3.00 per person. Consolidated Appropriations Action, 2017 (i.e.Public Law 115-31) Division H, racialSection 520, ethnicnotwithstanding any other provision of this Act, sexualno funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to purchase sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. Provided, and gender minority groups) vulnerable That such limitation does not apply to behavioral health disparities; (2) implement a quality improvement plan for the use of funds for elements of a program data on accessother than making such purchases if the relevant State or local health department, in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, determines that the State or local jurisdiction, as applicable, is experiencing, or is at risk for, a significant increase in hepatitis infections or an HIV outbreak due to injection drug use, and outcomes to support efforts to decrease the differences such program is operating in access toaccordance with state and local law. Pay for pharmaceuticals for HIV antiretroviral therapy, usesexually transmitted diseases (STD)/sexually transmitted illnesses (STI), tuberculosis (TB), and outcomes hepatitis B and C, or for psychotropic drugs. Appendix H – Administrative and National Policy Requirements If your application is funded, you must comply with all terms and conditions of service activities; the NoA. SAMHSA’s standard terms and conditions are available on the SAMHSA website at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/grants/grants-management/notice-award-noa/standard-terms-conditions. HHS Grants Policy Statement (3GPS) identify methods for the development of policies and procedures to ensure adherence If your application is funded, you are subject to the National Standards for Culturally requirements of the HHS Grants Policy Statement (GPS) that are applicable based on recipient type and Linguistically Appropriate Services purpose of award. This includes any requirements in Parts I and II of the HHS GPS that apply to the award. The HHS GPS is available at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/grants/grants-management/policies-regulations/hhs-grants-policy-statement. The general terms and conditions in the HHS GPS will apply as indicated unless there are statutory, regulatory, or award-specific requirements to the contrary (CLAS) as specified in Health and Health Carethe NoA).