Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
McDermott Center, dba Haymarket Center, Chicago’s largest community-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment center, proposes Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Center – Chicagoland project (CORC2) to reduce opioid-related overdoses by expanding outreach and direct treatment services to 350 individuals over four years in opioid “hot spots” in Cook and DuPage Counties, focusing on hospitals, drug courts, and homeless encampments. At least 3/5 of CORC2 participants will be Hispanic/Latinx or black/African American, and 3/5 recently homeless in some form. Participants may also be experiencing co-occurring mental disorders and speak languages other than English. The projects goals include Goal 1: reduce opioid OD deaths by expanding outreach visits to 500 persons. Objectives include outreach to two Cook County hospitals and three DuPage County medical centers. Haymarket will make project staff available 7 days/week to the 5 medical facilities for transportation of patients to Haymarket (“hot handoff”). The project will secure outreach in all Cook County’s six municipal drug courts, and share best practices learned via Haymarket’s website and at workshops. Goal 2: reduce opioid OD deaths by expanding treatment, including using MAT, to 350 participants. Objectives include admitting 350 participants to withdrawal management or residential treatment; providing intensive outpatient treatment to 90% of participants who desire and are appropriate for it and aftercare outpatient treatment to 90% who desire and are appropriate for it; provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to 90% of participants who elect it; and providing mental health counseling and/or psychiatric care to 90% of all participants who are assessed as having a MH condition. Goal 3: reduce opioid OD deaths by expanding comprehensive recovery services to 250 participants. Objectives include providing case management and care coordination to 90% of participants in residential treatment; providing linkage to community-based and peer-recovery support services to 90% of participants in residential treatment; ensuring access to family counseling and services to 70% of participants in residential treatment and to 80% of participants in intensive outpatient, as needed; and ensuring 80% of participants in L’s 2.1 and 1 treatment who wanted recovery home housing were connected to on- or off-site recovery homes. Goal 4: reduce opioid OD deaths by disseminating opioid overdose reversal drugs and training to 175 persons. Objectives include distributing naloxone to 175 participants; and training 160 participants in naloxone use. Lighthouse Institute-Chicago will provide process and outcome evaluation, data reporting, and assist with ongoing performance improvement. Lighthouse Institute has one of the best follow-up rates in the country for SAMHSA-funded projects.
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