The overarching goals of the project are to prevent overdose deaths across rural York County, Maine; to address the increasing rate of infection from drug use; and to support historically underserved vulnerable populations, such as incarcerated individuals and unhoused people, in their recovery.
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.
MCCC, in tandem with community partners representing local health departments, jails, and law enforcement, will implement the Mountain Opioid Prevention Program to improve access to, capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for rural, underserved individual
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.
In North Georgia's Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, and Polk counties, opioid overdose is a severe crisis. These counties face alarmingly high opioid overdose mortality rates, with each exceeding the state average.
The Ute Mountain Ute are a federally recognized Tribe living on the 889.1 square miles of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation in the Four Corners Region of America's Southwest, spanning across Montezuma County (Towaoc), Colorado and San Juan County (White Mesa), Utah - a community entirel
To increase capacity of services addressing SUD/OUD in our community, we will offer a formalized training program for peer recovery support specialists (PRSSs) that will include supervision, professional mentorship, and a clear path to certification.
The Arkansas Rural Opioid Use Team Education Overdose Response program (AROUTE-OR) was developed in response to immediate needs in the target area for increased access to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) services in North Arkansas.
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.
