Saturday, November 23, 2024
11/23/2024
Summary. Housing Works, Inc. is proposing a program to expand/enhance access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for persons with an opioid use disorder (OUD) seeking or receiving MAT; Housing Works will primarily focus on persons of color in East New York, Downtown Brooklyn/Central Brooklyn, and East Village in NYC. Housing Works will serve 120 unduplicated individuals annually with grant funds and 360 over the entire project period. Project name. Housing Works Medication-assisted Treatment Services Program Populations to be served. Housing Works’ populations of focus (POF) will be persons of color with an OUD seeking or receiving MAT. Housing Works will focus on its clients receiving services at its two FQHC sites in Brooklyn, located in East New York and Downtown Brooklyn, and its FQHC in Lower Manhattan. The catchment area where services will be delivered will be East New York, Downtown Brooklyn/Central Brooklyn, and East Village, in New York City (NYC); these areas have some of the highest rates of substance use and OUD in the city. Strategies/interventions. Housing Works’ program activities will include: 1) provide MAT in combination with comprehensive OUD psychosocial services; 2) conduct screenings and assessments for OUD, and co-occurring substance use and mental disorders; 3) develop outreach and engagement strategies; 4) Provide RSS, including peer recovery support services; and 5) Use telehealth services, or other innovative interventions, to reach, engage, and retain clients in treatment. Housing Works will also provide education, screening, care coordination, risk reduction interventions, screening, testing, and counseling for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases for people with OUD who are receiving MAT, and will implement tobacco cessation programs. Housing Works will implement two EBPs: SBIRT and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Project goals and measurable objectives. The program’s goals are 1) Increase in the number of individuals with OUD receiving MAT at HW’s three project sites; and, 2) Decrease in illicit opioid drug use and prescription opioid misuse at six-month follow-up. The program’s objectives are to conduct outreach activities, recruiting at least 120 persons from the POF per year; conduct screening and assessments of substance use disorders with 120 persons from the POF per year; provide MAT and comprehensive OUD psychosocial services to 120 enrolled clients per year; provide MI to at least 75% of program participants; conduct telehealth services with at least 50% of program participants to encourage retention in services; provide recovery support services for 100% of program participants; provide tobacco cessation programming for at least 25% of program participants; and provide education, screening, care coordination, risk reduction interventions, screening, testing, and counseling for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases programming for at least 90% of program participants.
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