Rural Opioid Prevention Education and Support (ROPES) Project Evaluation
The Rural Opioid Prevention Education
and Support (ROPES) Project is a federal opioid grant
awarded to City-County Health
District in Valley City, North Dakota. The Center for
Rural Health (CRH) is a partner and is engaged in program
evaluation.
The purpose of the ROPES Project is to address and prevent opioid misuse in a seven-county area of North Dakota involving the public health units in the following eight counties:
- Barnes (applicant site)
- Dickey
- Foster
- LaMoure
- Logan
- McIntosh
- Stutsman
- Wells
Building Capacity
The ROPES Project works to build rural capacity (particularly within public health) and community education on peer support, housing support, medication-assisted treatment, use and distribution of Narcan, needle exchange, mental health first aide training, and development of a Federally Qualified Health Center site in Valley City.
Evaluation
The CRH evaluation is a formative evaluation where evaluation is associated with program implementation. Both process and outcome metrics are used. A focus is on decision-making.