Peer Recovery

The Okmulgee Opioid Response Project (OOPRS) exists to reduce the morbidity and mortality of SUD and OUD in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, a high-risk, rural community.

The project will strengthen and expand prevention, treatment, and recovery services for rural residents to enhance their ability to access treatment and move toward recovery.

Southwest MS Substance Opioid Abuse Response (SW SOAR): The program focuses on pregnant, parenting, and parenting-aged women, in seven rural counties in southwestern Mississippi: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Pike, and Walthall.

Mission: To engage Northern Michigan in a coordinated response to reduce substance use disorders.

The entirely rural service area includes Moffat, Routt, Rio Blanco, Grand and Jackson Counties in northwest Colorado. Though nearly 80% of the population identifies as non-Hispanic white, 16.4% of the population identifies as Hispanic.

Santa Cruz County Overcoming Substance Addiction (SOSA) consists of 23 partners that represent seven sectors: primary and inpatient/emergency health care, behavioral health, law enforcement, emergency medical response, the legal system (courts and detention), education and youth development, and

The project activities are designed to bring SUD/OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery activities to the targeted rural service area, with an added emphasis on addressing the needs of the county’s incarcerated, unhoused or homeless, veterans, and public housing populations.

The RRN will target residents in (2) rural areas of Lorain County, Ohio. There are less than 0.3% of American Indian/Alaskan Natives, therefore our target population will not likely include many Native Americans.

Between 2018 and 2020, Kittitas County saw 8.5 opioid related deaths per 100,000, 2.5 deaths per 100,000 higher than the United States average. In 2021, the number of opioid related deaths per 100,000 in Kittitas County rose to 17.1 when factoring in 8 fentanyl related deaths alone.

The Consortium proposes to meet community needs by: (1) partnering with prevention providers and target area schools to provide substance use disorder prevention services to children in target area schools and to the elderly; and (2) initiating the HealthWays Resource Center which will provide co