UK Research Foundation - Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission (KY-OAAC) Develop and Maintain a Website

Abstract This proposal describes a renewed 24-month partnership between the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission (OAAC), spanning July 2026 to June 2028. Rather than a single intensive development push, this contract is designed for steady, sustained collaboration—allowing our team to be responsive to Commission priorities as they evolve, support the people who rely on these tools, and build lasting capacity into the kyoaac.ky.gov platform. Dr. Lindsey Hammerslag, Assistant Professor in the UK College of Public Health, will serve as Site PI and lead day-to-day coordination with OAAC and KYOAG staff. The RADOR-KY team will handle all technical implementation, including website maintenance and design, data management, RADOR integration, and geospatial analysis. We will continue to partner with Joe Brewer, from the College of Design, using his expertise in user interface design to ensure the dashboards and website elements are responsive and intuitive. We will bring in Dr. Margaret McGladrey and Brooke Hiltz, from the College of Public Health, to lead user engagement efforts. These will include focus groups with community members and local jurisdiction staff, ensuring the platform remains accessible and grounded in real user needs. Kelsey Carter will coordinate project management and administrative functions throughout the contract. The proposed work addresses ?ve goals identi?ed as priorities for the Commission: Goal 1: Support existing tools for local jurisdiction reporting. We will maintain and improve the tools that local jurisdictions use to report on their use of OAAC funds, ensuring the reporting portal is reliable, user-friendly, and capable of capturing the information OAAC needs to oversee fund usage effectively. We will also work to re?ne the tools available to OAAC for reviewing and processing local jurisdiction reports, with the goal of reducing administrative burdens on the OAAC team. Goal 2: Re?ne tools to share how funds are being used by local jurisdictions and grantees. We will improve the public-facing tools that show how OAAC funds have been spent and their impact. Dashboards will be developed using the RADOR system to display allocation of funding (across funding types) and the impact of funding (from local jurisdiction impact reports) alongside key outcomes relevant to opioid overdoses (e.g., overdose rate, use of medications for opioid use disorder). Goal 3: Understand the needs of community members applying for or using KYOAAC funds. We will conduct outreach to community members and local jurisdiction staff to understand how they use—and want to use—funding information from kyoaac.ky.gov. We will highlight areas of need, providing the Commission with actionable summaries of steps that could help communities identify funding gaps and make the case for investment in their area. At the direction of the Commission, we will identify and implement changes to the community dashboards to address the feedback we collect. Goal 4: Support community members applying for or using KYOAAC funds. We will build tools that help communities benchmark themselves against similar jurisdictions and access resources, including searchable prior applications, and peer county pro?les, to lower the barriers to creating successful, evidence-based and community-informed applications for OAAC trust fund awards. Goal 5: Support OAAC and community monitoring of OAAC funding usage. We will develop automated tools to ?ag unspent funds and improve OAAC’s ability to monitor jurisdiction-level fund usage over time. We will work with the OAAC to develop internally-facing summaries of award goals and outcomes, to help OAAC gather context on fund usage and inform future investment.