# Admin - Core

> **NIH NIH U2C** · GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,339,870

## Abstract

The criminal justice system is an ad hoc behavioral health service provider for justice-involved populations. Yet,
fewer than 10% of justice-involved individuals are able to access behavioral health services on any given day
regardless of setting. The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Justice Community Opioid Innovation
Network (JCOIN) provides an opportunity to advance the justice system as a provider of services, particularly
for those with opioid use disorder. The Administrative (Admin) Core of the Mason Coordination and
Translation Center (MCTC) will serve as the communication hub for JCOIN. Dr. Faye S. Taxman (George
Mason University [Mason]) with Ms. Amy Murphy (Mason) and Mr. Mark O’Brien (Addiction Policy Forum [APF]),
will lead the Admin Core. All have extensive experience with coordinating large scale networks of stakeholders
across diverse disciplines. Besides providing daily support to JCOIN, the Admin Core will provide NIDA, the
Steering Committee (SC), external stakeholders, Clinical Research Centers (CRC), Methodology and Advanced
Analytics Resource Center (MAARC), and other MCTC Cores with resources and organizational structure to
facilitate all JCOIN activities. The Admin Core will promote collaboration among grantees and stakeholders, and
provide timely updates to internal and external stakeholders on the state of the science, all with the goal of
expanding access to promising interventions and approaches to improve the capacity of the justice system to
effectively respond to the opioid epidemic. The Core will develop and implement a communication strategy for
JCOIN; develop and maintain internal and external websites housing information from the SC, CRCs, MAARC,
and other MCTC Cores; develop a smart app for JCOIN resources; promote JCOIN activities, including other
MCTC Cores, through conferences, social media, and web presence; host a “JCOIN Seminar” series at a
minimum of six stakeholder conferences a year; establish and maintain committees to support JCOIN activities;
and host SC meetings. The Admin Core will provide NIDA with timely information and tools to monitor and
promote JCOIN progress and findings, including monthly reports. The Admin Core draws from a diverse team to
achieve the goals of JCOIN. The broad expertise and significant experience of Drs. Taxman and Molfenter in
research-practitioner partnerships coupled with APF (O’Brien) and Center for Health & Justice (Pam
Rodriquez)’s deep reach in the stakeholder justice health communities will ensure that the Admin Core can and
will disseminate JCOIN work and build capacity for uptake of JCOIN study findings into practice. The discipline
diverse team—academics, practitioners, policy makers, technical assistance providers--will extend the reach of
MCTC to the broader community for the benefit of JCOIN. The Admin Core will provide internal structure to
facilitate timely, engaging communication among all Cores and partners. By using modern technology along with
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9955233
- **Project number:** 5U2CDA050097-02
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Faye S Taxman
- **Activity code:** U2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,339,870
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9955233

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9955233, Admin - Core (5U2CDA050097-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9955233. Licensed CC0.

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