Risk Reduction

Preferred Family Healthcare

Clarity Healthcare (a division of Preferred Family Healthcare) will implement a Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Overdose Response project to reduce the morbidity and mortality of SUD/OUD in the high-risk rural communities we serve.

Mississippi Public Health Institute

Mississippi (MS) has been among the states most adversely affected by the opioid epidemic, exhibiting an alarmingly elevated number of opioid prescriptions per resident.

Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness NPC

Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness intends to increase overdose response for Native Americans and to address immediate unmet needs in rural areas through improving and enhancing access to, capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance use disorder

MaineHealth (G39RH49496)

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.

MaineHealth (G39RH49495)

The purpose of the proposed project is to immediately address the Opioid Overdose Crisis in rural Maine by improving capacity and local access to Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) providers, peer recovery specialists and other community social service and crisis intervention specialists within

Kentucky Rural Health Information Technology Network, Inc.

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

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.

Mountain Comprehensive Care Center, Inc.

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

Boundary Regional Community Health Center, Inc.

RCORP funds will support staffing the mobile clinic to provide critical outreach and prevention services to the rural area which will include distribution of fentanyl test strips, Narcan, and naloxone, and SUD/OUD treatment services.

Augusta University Research Institute

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.