Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma IHS SASP: Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Aftercare - The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma wishes to expand and enhance our mature and integrated substance abuse and co-occurring prevention, treatment, early intervention, and recovery support services to better serve rural non-reservation American Indian (AI) youth and adults within the area of central Oklahoma served by the tribe. This shared vision shall expand and advance the continuum of care for substance abuse services, reduce alcohol, addicting, and illicit drug abuse and their negative impact on health, increase abstinence, reduce costly health utilization, and improve tribal health. The project will reduce the impact of trauma and improve public health while increasing tribal treatment and prevention capacity. Due to the scope of the problem and demands of the project, operational tasks will be divided within the tribal system. The Kickapoo SASP-SA project will focus on prevention, outreach, education, awareness, youth engagement, client identification, case management, and aftercare. Kickapoo Behavioral Health will conduct the direct client substance abuse treatment component of this plan utilizing trained and experienced providers and a mature and intact substance abuse treatment infrastructure. Goal 1: To expand and enhance substance use disorder and recovery support services for American Indians and their families who reside within the tribal service area. Objective 1.1: Launch the project. Recruit, hire, train 80% of personnel and begin operations in within two months. Objective 1.2: Identify and conduct provider and staff training to improve service delivery in 75% of staff within one year. Objective 1.3: Initiate project-wide evaluation and performance assessment in 100% of service locations within two months. Objective 1.4: Collection and report 100% of performance data within year one. Goal 2: To provide appropriate and culturally relevant treatment and recovery support to reduce the prevalence of substance abuse and its impact upon the area age 12-25 population. Objective 2.1: Employ the evidence-based SBIRT, MI, and MET/CBT to treat 100% of screened substance abusing youth and adults during year one and ongoing. Objective 2.2: By the end of year one, define and implement methods to improve client recovery, housing, employment, criminal justice involvement, access to care, retention in services, and social connectedness for 100% of clients. Objective 2.3: Endeavor to infuse the language, culture, and spirit of recovery into the project and organization by the end of year one. Objective 2.4: Expand the substance abuse surveillance system by end of year one. Objective 2.5: Increase community linkages and establish two meaningful community collaborations during each project year.
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