Treatment and Recovery Services for Adolescents, Transitional Aged Youth, and their Families in NYC - Summary. Bridging Access to Care (BAC) is proposing a program to enhance and expand comprehensive treatment, early intervention, and recovery support services for transitional aged youth (ages 18-25) with SUD and/or COD, and their families/primary caregivers; the project will serve NYC, with a focus on Brooklyn. BAC proposes to serve 120 unduplicated individuals annually and 540 over the entire project period. Project name. Brooklyn Expansion of Treatment and Recovery Services Program Populations to be served. BAC’s population of focus (POF) will be transitional aged youth (ages 18 to 25) with substance use disorders (SUD) and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders (COD), and their families/primary caregivers. BAC’s catchment area where services will be delivered will be the underserved and high-need communities in New York City (NYC), with a focus on Central Brooklyn, East New York, East Flatbush, and Bushwick. Strategies/interventions. BAC’s program activities will include: 1) providing a comprehensive, family-centered, trauma-informed, evidence-based, coordinated, and integrated outpatient system of care, which includes early intervention and recovery support services; 2) screening clients for alcohol misuse and illicit drug use; 3) screening all clients and their family members for tobacco use; 4) education and messaging on making healthy choices; 5) housing and housing placement services; 6) testing for HIV and Viral Hepatitis; and 7) implementing the following EBPs: Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Contingency Management. Project goals and measurable objectives. The program’s goal is to enhance and expand comprehensive treatment, early intervention, and recovery support services for the POF. The program’s objectives include: Provide comprehensive, family-centered, trauma-informed, evidence-based, coordinated, and integrated outpatient services, including intervention and recovery support services, to 60 clients in year 1 and 120 participants per year in each of the following years; Screen clients (60 in year 1, 120 in subsequent years) and their family members/primary caregivers, who are included in treatment planning, for alcohol misuse and illicit drug use, including marijuana, opioids, stimulants, inhalants, and benzodiazepines; Provide persons engaged in risky or hazardous drinking with brief behavioral counseling interventions to reduce alcohol misuse; Screen all clients (60 in year 1 and 120 in subsequent years) and their family members/primary caregivers for tobacco use and provide tobacco use counseling and interventions as part of a standard of practice, as appropriate. Provide augmented, pregnancy-tailored counseling for pregnant clients who use tobacco products; Provide tobacco cessation counseling to 60 clients per year; Provide education and messaging on making healthy choices that includes no use of any substances through social media and social marketing, reaching 500 persons from the POF per year; Provide recovery housing to 2-3 clients in year one (3 – 5 in subsequent years); and Provide HIV and HCV testing for 50 clients per year.
