Recovery Alliance Peer Supports and Services - Recovery Alliance Peer Supports and Services (RAPSS) will deliver integrated care with Peer Recovery Support Services (PRSS). The RAPSS continuum spans services from the Alliance’s 37,000 square foot recovery community center (RCC) to West Texas’ premier harm reduction project and is fully peer developed and peer run. RAPSS will enhance and expand addiction recovery for 1,000 individuals by medical and peer providers on the Upper Rio Grande US-Mexico Border.
RAPSS will serve individuals with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) or Co-Occurring Disorders (COD) and their family members in El Paso County, Texas. The impact of these disorders continues to undermine the strength of our families and our communities, and results in increased demand for services from individuals and their family members who seek scant resources in West Texas to address these challenges and to engage in recovery.
Through this RCSP grant, participants will receive PRSS including family support, care coordination with primary, dental, mental health care including individual and trauma counseling, and resource navigation. They will have access to a safe, drug-free environment that will foster healthy social, community-based connections at the RCC. Peers will become peer recovery sup-port and service providers through training, supervision and mentoring. Goal 1. Increase access to PRSS in El Paso County. Goal 2. Increase access to family recovery support, education, and care navigation. Goal 3. Increase access to PRSS in an integrated care setting. Goal 4. Increase access to PRSS training, supervision, and mentoring. Goal 5. Provide increased access to a safe, healthy, drug-free community environment at our RCC. Goal 6. Evaluate the project to assess progress toward reaching project goals and objectives and participant outcomes related to recovery and various life domains associated with improved quality of life.
Participants’ Assessment of Recovery Capital (ARC) scores will increase by at least 25% and participants GPRA scores will rise significantly in the following: a) were currently employed or engaged in productive activities/attending school; b) had a permanent place to live in the community/were residing in a stable living environment; c) had no/reduced involvement with the criminal justice system; d) had increased access to services; e) had no past month substance use; f) were socially connected; g) were retained in services for substance abuse treatment.
RAPSS will provide integrated PRSS including peer services, primary care, dental care, and mental health services to 200 indigent adults in the first year including recovery coaching, family supports, integrated care coordination and training and will provide 6,000 units of indirect services at our harm reduction program and the recovery community center. Over the course of the grant we will provide services to 1,000 unduplicated individuals. People served by RAPSS in El Paso County are 83% Hispanic, 3.4% African American, 1.1% Native American, 1.8% Asian and 12% another race. There are over 50,000 individuals with a SUD and over 49,000 with a COD living in El Paso County.
