Workforce Development

Mississippi Public Health Institute

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.

The Memorial Hospital

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.

Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, Inc.

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.

Kittitas County Health Network

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.

Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation

The project was created to strengthen the CNMI Blue Ribbon Initiative's collective impact initiative of addressing substance use disorders/opioid use disorders with regards to prevention, treatment, and recovery services in the CNMI Community.

Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care, Inc.

AFMC is a quality improvement organization, and leads Consortium members to establish the Arkansas Rural Taskforce for Opioid Response (ARTOR) with committed healthcare organizations and others with interests in substance- or opioid-use disorder (SUD/OUD) to launch foundational prevention, treatm