Behavioral Health

OMNI partners with organizations and governmental agencies around the country to support their success as substance use prevention funders and practitioners. Anchored in the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), our team brings expertise in evaluation, training, technical assistance, and community engagement paired with deep content knowledge in substance use prevention best practices. OMNI’s data-driven approach is situated within authentic client relationships, allowing us to tailor our services to support state, local, and systems-level prevention planning, capacity building, and evaluation. 

OMNI has decades of experience in evaluating and providing technical assistance across numerous prevention funding streams such as SAMHSA’s Substance Abuse Block Grant – Prevention Set-Aside, Partnership for Success, and SPF grants. We are experts in supporting needs assessment and strategic planning processes, building the capacity of the prevention workforce, facilitating State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroups, supporting the development and utilization of prevention data management systems, and analyzing and reporting on meaningful evaluation data.

We are focused on helping states meet federal reporting requirements, while also collecting, using, and reporting on meaningful data that helps them tell their prevention story of impact and outcomes.

OMNI’s team of addiction treatment and recovery experts tackle complex problems with systematic methods to create effective solutions. Our research provides unique insights to guide clients as they work to implement data-driven solutions and improve outcomes. OMNI works with individual treatment providers, systems of providers, and national partners to design outcomes-focused evaluations, implementing both standardized surveys to produce comparable results, and custom surveys to meet unique client needs.

OMNI also brings expertise in evaluating federally-funded treatment and recovery initiatives such as SAMHSA’s State Opioid Response (SOR), Access to Recovery (ATR), and numerous discretionary funds for co-occurring treatment and mental health services and treatment services for justice-involved populations. OMNI works with states to establish:

• Evaluation planning - We design evaluations to track grant progress and outcomes. Our strategic evaluation plans detail how each objective is measured and the data collection processes.

• Comprehensive capacity building - We work with the managing government agencies to provide staff with the knowledge and resources necessary to support their communities.

• Technical assistance (TA) - Our TA teams resolve technical issues and support grant administration. This includes GPRA trainings, epidemiological data support, and one-on-one guidance to subrecipients on implementation and community evaluation.

• Data collection and management - We have developed effective and efficient systems and processes to facilitate timely submission of GPRA data from community partners to SAMHSA. We use GPRA data and other evaluation metrics to produce actionable reports, briefs, guides, and toolkits on grant progress and impact.

OMNI works with government leadership and community members to improve behavioral healthcare systems by understanding the unique complexities of local environments and creating strategies that leverage partnerships, streamline resources, share information, and collaborate on shared goals.

Through our work, we aim to help communities coordinate behavioral healthcare provision such that individuals in need of mental health and substance use disorder treatment can access the treatment that they need, when they need it. We know that when systems and people coordinate, collaborate on funding, and share outcomes goals, equitable, high-quality behavioral health care is achievable.

Our process involves a mixed-methods approach to understanding local context, identifying systems gaps, and making recommendations for improved coordination between organizations, systems, policies, and technologies. We conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups, listen and learn in existing workgroups, and administer custom surveys to learn more about specific topics such as partnerships across law enforcement and behavioral health programs, technology platform needs and barriers, community resources and strengths, etc. We then share data and concrete, actionable recommendations so that communities can take immediate action to move toward their vision of equitable and high-quality behavioral healthcare provision.