Disparities Impact Statement (DIS)
The RCORP Disparities Impact Statement (DIS) includes overarching strategies to reduce behavioral health disparities in the target rural area(s) to ensure funds are used to help the most disadvantaged to prevent larger health disparities in the future. Key planning and implementation pieces of the DIS are listed below. Clicking on the image in each box will give more information about the DIS and how the COP-RCORP are implementing this process.
2024 HRSA Reverse Site Visit presentation: Disparities Impact Statement Roadmap: How to Chart a Course for a DIS that Aligns with Your Consortium, Grant(s), and Community. The Reverse Site Visit (RSV) a 3-day event held by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), Rural Strategic Initiatives Division (RSID) to convene grantees, partners and stakeholders, connect to share, cultivate skills and knowledge, and celebrate successes
COP-RCORP DIS describes how the consortium plans to reduce behavioral health disparities in the target rural service area(s) and to continuously monitor and measure the project’s impact on health disparities in order to inform process and outcome improvements. This DIS is unique in that in combines three diffierent grants (Ohio University RCORP-BHS (FAIN: G2846290; Ohio University RCORP-BHS (FAIN: H7N45748); Pacific Institute for Reseach and Evaluation RCORP-PS (FAIN: H7N42563) into a single document.
Where we started: Utilizing a micro community of practice (workgroup), a subset of members from the master consortium worked to consider how CLAS related to prevention, treatment, and recovery for opioid use disorder in rural and Appalachian communities in Ohio.”