The Steadman Group works with the Office of the Attorney General in Oklahoma to provide programmatic compliance and evaluation services for their opioid abatement grants. The state of Oklahoma distributes these grants to mitigate the impact of the opioid epidemic. A wide range of school districts, city and county governments, and hospital systems received these grants. Some examples of the funded services include school-based prevention programming, such as the Botvin LifeSkills program, naloxone distribution, training for first responders, and increasing recovery resources such as housing and employment services.
To evaluate the overarching grant-funded programming throughout the state, The Steadman Group reformatted the reporting forms to receive more detailed and outcomes-based information from the grantees. This new reporting form allowed us to have the data needed to perform compliance checks and evaluate the change the OAG funded programs were making.
The Steadman Group compared the grantees’ implementation plan to their reported objectives, allowing us to determine whether the grantees were following through with their stated objectives. In addition, we are creating a dashboard of population health outcomes to determine whether opioid settlement spending is creating positive outcomes in the community.