Thursday, April 18, 2024
4/18/2024
Clarity Healthcare, a division of Preferred Family Healthcare, IInc. (PFH) Overdose Prevention Strategies (OPS) project will establish an expanded system of integrated and coordinated educational, prevention, early intervention, and treatment resources for opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose (OD) for various numbers of community members, businesses, and provider-entities (100-education/prevention; 75 Naloxone administration training; 600 average Naloxone HCL intranasal cannulas distributed per year) in the Missouri Counties of: Pike, Marion, Monroe and Ralls; and Illinois Counties of: Adams and Pike. Strategies/interventions include three (3) goals and corresponding objectives have been established to measure education, training, improved access to services, improved care coordination, and increased community resource connection project goals and measurable objectives, including: 1.) Provision of education and training on OUD and OD to community entities and members, throughout 6 Missouri and Illinois counties: Obj. 1.OPS staff will provide education on OUD to project partners, reaching 100 individuals annually and a total of 30 organizations and 500 individuals over 5 years; Obj. 1.2 OPS staff will train 75 individuals from referenced entities annually on administration of overdose reversal drugs, for a total of 375 in 5 years. (e.g., Train the Trainer); Obj. 1.3 OPS staff will distribute 300 intranasal Naloxone kits (2 units per kit) to community members and first responder entities annually, for a total of 1,500 kits distributed over 5 years 2.) Increase of behavioral health treatment referral and care coordination for those with SUD/OUD experiencing OD-50 participants with known or suspected OD history will be assisted with co-payments and prescription costs for OD reversal drugs by the end of each year of the project: Obj. 2.1 50 participants with known or suspected OD history will be assisted with co-payments and prescription costs for OD reversal drugs by the end of each year of the project; Obj. 2.2 90% of participants that have experienced OD and are referred/connected to behavioral health treatment will engage in available services within 10 business days; Obj. 2.3 Participants engaged in treatment who have experienced OD & accessed ER/ hospital treatment will reduce emergency medical treatment episodes by 25% within 6 months.; Obj. 2.4 Patients referred by MDs for overdose risk on prescription medications will complete at least 2 sessions with Care Coordinator, MAT Nurse, or Therapist. 3.) Provision of wraparound community resource connection and wellness support for those impacted by OD: Obj. 3.1 90% participants will access community resources (e.g. food bank or dental care) through OPS Obj. 3.2 90% treatment-engaged participants who use tobacco will receive tobacco cessation education, resources, and treatment: Obj. 3.3 75% of participants will experience an increase in global functioning, as indicated by DLA-20 (MO) or ASAM (IL), within 6 months.
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