We will target our services towards residents of the service area who have OUD or are at risk of OUD. Our interventions will include direct services through patient navigation and community wide prevention, outreach and education, and collaboration initiatives.
Purchase District Health Department (PDHD) is located in far western Kentucky and will serve all eight counties (Ballard, Carlisle, Calloway, Graves, Hickman, Fulton, Marshall, and McCracken) of the region through the RCORP-Overdose grant.
DOiNG will address the area's critical needs including access to: 1) overdose prevention supplies; 2) peer recovery support specialists; 3) medication-assisted treatment (MAT); and 4) local recovery community organizations.
The purpose of the RCORP-Overdose Response grant is to support immediate responses to the overdose crisis through improving access to, capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for SUD in a large rural area of the state of Georgia
Key activities for the RCORP-Overdose Response project include purchasing and distributing naloxone within the target rural service area; offering MAT waiver training; assisting uninsured individuals with SUD/OUD in the rural service area with obtaining health insurance and accessing SUD/OUD trea
Hire 2 Peer Recovery Support Specialists to initiate and conduct support groups for patients with an OUD/SUD diagnosis. Hire 3 behavioral health technicians to initiate support services, referrals to MAT.
TEARS RCORP Overdose Response Program through the Recovery Resource Center (RRC) will provide service to address the needs of individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder / opioid use disorder.
