Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), in partnership with numerous State and community-based organizations, proposes to continue a series of targeted responses intended to reduce the negative impact of opioid use on Connecticut citizens and communities. These responses build on the State's evolving recovery-oriented system of care, helping to continue to shift the focus of care from responding to acute episodes to a prevention and recovery management framework. Connecticut's strategy spans community education and grassroots prevention coalitions, to pre-recovery outreach and engagement, to recovery initiation through active treatment and recovery supports services, and finally, to long-term recovery maintenance. Connecticut's goals and objectives are designed to assist a population in cities and rural areas, who are actively using opioids, are early in recovery, and may have criminal justice involvement. These goals include: - Reduction of opioid overdose deaths and increase of awareness of the danger of opioid use using multi-faceted prevention strategies. These strategies are designed to reach all 3,588,184 of the State's citizens. - Increasing and maintaining access to treatment, with a focus on medication assisted interventions, for at-risk populations, including individuals involved in the criminal justice system. 1650 individuals are anticipate to receive treatment services, with 825 per project year. - Outreach and engagement to those individuals who are actively using opioids and not yet receiving treatment including individuals who may have been brought to the emergency department due to an opioid overdose. 7,950 individuals are expected to be reached out to, or 3,975 per project year. - Provision of recovery support for those newly in recovery, including temporary housing, utilizing peer specialists and employment support for individuals in methadone clinics, court involved, or otherwise in need to support in order to progress in their recovery. 1,950 individuals are projected to be in need of recovery support services per year for a project total of 3,900. Connecticut maintains considerable momentum to implement these projects. Community awareness of opioid problems has galvanized local, grass-roots groups into action Community coalitions including local government leaders, health professionals, educators, police, and behavioral health experts have formed to address this epidemic. The legislatively mandated Connecticut Alcohol and Drug Policy Council (ADPC) continues to support recommendations developed by subcommittees in the areas of Prevention, Treatment, Recovery, and Criminal Justice. Numerous proposed SOR projects area result of the Council's work. These new SAMHSA resources are crucial in order to support and implement the hard work of these groups.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
