Friday, September 20, 2024
9/20/2024
Project Name: Bridge to Success Workforce (BSW) NORA is a community-based substance abuse prevention and peer recovery support organization that seeks to reduce the progression and onset of substance misuse and its related problems. NORA will partner with workforce development boards, labor unions and economic development agencies to provide a one-stop treatment, recovery, and workforce expansion program to adult men and women who are have been impacted by opioids. Populations to be served: BSW will target adult men and women, age 18 and over, in Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties. Participants will be majority white/Caucasian and black/African American. Up to 70% will report current unemployment. Half will not have completed high school. The majority will be poly-substance users. In 2017, Ohio had the 2nd highest opioid death rate in America. It is estimated that the opioid crisis kills 5,000 people – more than the number of people 30 Boeing 747 airplanes can hold - and costs Ohio between $4 and $5 billion each year. Half of Ohio businesses report suffering consequences due to substance misuse, primarily related to absenteeism, decreased productivity, and shortage of workers. Strategies and Interventions: NORA’s BSW project will target low income, opioid-impacted individuals and enroll them in a one-stop comprehensive system of care that integrates wraparound and clinical services. Once an individual has completed treatment, he will progress to the second phase of the program and receive career and employment training. This project will build on current substance abuse treatment infrastructure and improve Ohio’s industry sectors impacted by the opioid crisis by 1) expanding treatment and peer recovery support services, 2) Partnering with local organizations to provide wraparound and career and employment services, 3) Disseminating communications materials to reduce stigma and raise awareness of opioid use to employers and workforce development boards across Ohio, 4) Monitoring BSW by collecting and analyzing participant data. Project goals: Over the project’s lifetime, NORA will reach 500 adult men and women (100 per year for years 1-5). Goal 1: Reduce overdose deaths and opioid dependence by providing substance abuse treatment and wraparound services; Goal 2: Increase employment opportunities for adult men and women impacted by opioids by coordinating local and statewide employment and training activities; Goal 3: Reduce substance use, including opioid use, by organizing a BSW Committee comprised of labor unions, economic development agencies, businesses, and workforce development agenices; Goal 4: Improve statewide employment and training strategies by collecting and reporting community-level data with stakeholders throughout Ohio. By April 31, 2024: 70% of early-recovery participants will have reported reduced use of or abstinence from substance use (including tobacco) at six months post-intake and 50% of early-recovery participants will have maintained or increased employment at six months post-intake.
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