Monday, May 5, 2025
5/5/2025
St. Luke's Recovery Support Project - The St. Luke's Recovery Solutions Project (SLRS) will enhance behavioral health services in Las Cruces and Dona Ana County, New Mexico, for persons who experience homelessness and have alcohol or opioid use disorders. Each year, 100 (80 in Year 1) unduplicated individuals, including persons recently released from the county jail, will receive harm reduction services, screening and brief interventions (SBIRT), medication assisted treatment, and/or supportive housing services (480 total). The project applicant is St. Luke's Health Care Clinic (SLHCC), a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center providing primary care, behavioral health and substance abuse services. The goals for the SLRS Project are three-fold: Goal 1. Educate, empower and engage persons who use drugs, including adult males and females, with about 50% Hispanic, to overcome the stigma and shame of seeking and staying in addiction treatment; Goal 2. Integrate evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in the primary care clinic; and Goal 3. Offer homeless and near homeless individuals assistance and advocacy at key transition-in-care points in the community and in field outreach activities among high-risk populations throughout Dona Ana County. Objectives for project goals: Goal 1. Increase clinic staff training with an emphasis on harm reduction; increase needle exchange, Narcan overdose prevention, acudetox, and HCV/HIV counseling and testing into the clinic; engage clients in service delivery through feedback systems; and utilize peer specialists as employees in service delivery; Goal 2. Increase screening of patients regarding tobacco, alcohol and drug use, offer SBIRT, and provide a non-narcotic treatment option with naltrexone for persons diagnosed with an opiate or alcohol use disorder with observed oral dosing or monthly injection; and deliver all SUD services with a combined recovery approach of medication, counseling and support; and Goal 3. Collaborate with local agencies, hospitals, jails, probation/parole offices, and drug courts to identify homeless individuals with substance use problems and link them to care and recovery support services including housing, employment, transportation and legal services; collaborate with agencies with experience as direct service providers -- Families and Youth Incorporated (FYI) for clinic and field health education and outreach, and Mesilla Valley Community of Hope for housing and benefit assistance. The Crimson Research Center at New Mexico State University will conduct project evaluation. The proposed SLRS Project will substantially improve the health, well-being and quality of life for homeless individuals and families suffering from substance use disorders in Southern New Mexico.
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