Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy's Rural Communities Opioid Response Program is a multi-year initiative that funds a range of grant programs to help rural communities provide prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder. In addition to grant programs for rural communities, the RCORP program also funds:

• RCORP-TA, which provides technical assistance to awardees
• Three RCORP Rural Centers of Excellence (RCOEs) on Substance Use Disorders
  • Prevention – University of Rochester Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence
  • Treatment – University of Vermont Center on Rural Addiction
  • Recovery – Fletcher Group Rural Center of Excellence
  The Rural SUD Info Center provides access to tools and resources from the RCOEs.
• Rural Behavioral Health Workforce Center – Northern Border Region

Featured RCORP Awardees

The 2026 Exploring Rural Health podcast series features the top three 2026 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Innovation Tank finalists:

• First place, Lincoln County Ambulance District:
  Preventing Death and Supporting Recovery, with Ray Antonacci and Sarah Czarnecki
• Second place, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma:
  Recovery Is Possible: Continuity of Care from Incarceration to Community, with Kelsea O'Leary
• Third place, Mercy Virtual Substance use Recovery Program:
  Virtual Roads to Real Recovery, with Amanda Kennedy

The 2023 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program: Helping Meet Rural Needs video series provides an overview of the grant program, with selected Awardees discussing how they have used RCORP funding to address the needs of their communities:

The Rural Monitor features the accomplishments of RCORP awardees:

Creating a Consortium to Combat the Opioid Epidemic in Ohio
November 6, 2019
Ohio University and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) braided their Rural Communities Opioid Response Program planning grants together, allowing the organizations to form a master consortium with five counties.

Programs funded by RCORP are also featured in the Rural Health Models and Innovations section:

• Rural Project Examples from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program

Program Contact

For more information about this program, email: ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov.