Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
Riverside San-Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. (RSBCIHI) is the largest tribal health care organization in California. We will screen 12,000 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) patents for non-medical drug. We will deliver assessment, brief intervention, treatment, and/or recovery support services to youth and adults for opioid and stimulant misuse. We will also train staff members, distribute naloxone, and deliver culturally-based prevention activities. Our catchment area covers Riverside and San Bernardino Counties and nine (9) federally-recognized Indian reservations. We deliver services to 5,128 local tribal members and 32,335 other AI/AN people who live off the reservations in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. In the last two (2) years, we screened 11,857 unduplicated patients for non-medical drug. Of these patients, 1,001 reported a non-medical drug use problem. Methamphetamine, opioids (heroin and pharmaceuticals), and cocaine/crack and other stimulant use are problematic substances used in our catchment area. Our TOR project has four (4) goals: 1) Build Capacity to Address the Substances Affecting Our Communities; 2) Deliver Evidence-Based Intervention and Treatment Services; 3) Deliver Effective and Culturally Appropriate Prevention Activities; and 4) Measure our Performance to Determine Whether we are Achieving our Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes. To accomplish these goals, we will: • Review and revise our 2018 strategic plan. • Train 154 staff members to ensure they are familiar with our MAT program procedures and know how to prevent and treat opioid misuse. • Create an advisory committee of community members from our nine (9) tribal communities. • Deliver prevention education and activities to 1,000 youth and adult community members. • Disseminate naloxone, and provide training to 200 first responders/community members. • Deliver MAT services to our 12 existing patients. Also, deliver assessment, brief intervention, treatment, and/or recovery support services to 83 more youth and adults who report opioid misuse and 122 youth and adults who report stimulant misuse. • Expand our TOR services to include peer recovery support services. • Expand our TOR project to provide treatment transition for patients re-entering communities from criminal justice settings or other rehabilitative settings. • Install telehealth equipment at our new Santa Rosa Health Center so community members in this rural location will have full-time access to our TOR services. • Expand our ScreenDox screening program to our new Santa Rosa Health Center and to our eye care and dental departments at our other seven (7) health centers.
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