Sunday, June 1, 2025
6/1/2025
Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Overdose Response - Address: Lost River Treatment Center 10025 S 705 Road Wyandotte, OK 74370 Project Director: Lillian Kittrell Phone: 918-303-5433 Fax: 918-615-9606 Email Address: Lillian.kittrel@modoclrtc.com Website: www.modoclrtc.com Grant Program Funds Requested: $300,000.00 The Modoc Nation’s Rural Communities Opioid Response Program will implement their services within Ottawa County and throughout the four-state area of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas in high-risk rural communities. The main goals of the program are to increase the number of individuals with opioid use disorders receiving treatment through increased capacity, foster inter-agency collaboration across a broad network of social services, treatment, recovery services and improve quality of life of patients through a decrease in illicit and prescription opioid misuse. Modoc Nation operates Lost River Treatment Center (LRTC) as a licensed center with a full array of medical and behavioral health services. LRTC has a history of providing integrated care to Natives, Non-Natives and their families, pregnant women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, veterans and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations seeking assistance. The Tribe recognizes that there is a need for additional supportive services, especially to treat rurally located and lower income patients. The solution sought here is the development of a systematic recovery support program that assists clients in meeting their basic needs, promotes sober and healthy living as the norm, individual responsibility is accepted by the community, and an overall decrease in overdoses from heroin and opioids. Our treatment regimen for services adheres to the evidence-based National Practice Guidelines from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Our clinic operates as an Office-Based Opioid Treatment Clinic that relies on a collaborative care model overseen by a director of behavioral health. To increase the capacity of our tribe to address our opioid crisis long-term and consistent with the Modoc Nation’s commitment to sustainable development, we have adopted a Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC). The ROSC is realized through improving the collaboration and communication between local medical, behavioral health, prevention, and career services departments. The ROSC supports our efforts with added components of outreach, development of recovery support and telehealth services, formal collaborations, community education to reduce stigma, and professional workforce development. The goals of this program are to purchase and distribute naloxone, fentanyl test strips or other relevant supplies within the target rural service area. Assist uninsured individuals with SUD/OUD in the target rural service area with obtaining health insurance and accessing SUD/OUD treatment and other behavioral health and social services. Lastly, to establish services to reduce transmission of infectious diseases.
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