Wednesday, September 27, 2023
9/27/2023
Summary. Exponents, Inc. (EXP) is proposing a program to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery support from substance abuse and addiction in NYC by supporting the enhancement, expansion, and delivery of recovery support services (RSS) as well as promotion of and education about recovery. EXP will serve 200 unduplicated individuals annually and 600 over the project period and will provide trainings 45 agencies over the project period. Project name. Communities of Recovery NYC Populations to be served. EXP’s population of focus (POF) will be individuals in need of long-term recovery support services, including men and women currently in recovery from substance use disorder, as well as those who operate and work within RSS organizations. The catchment area is NYC, with a focus on Upper Manhattan, Central Brooklyn, and the South Bronx. Strategies/interventions. EXP’s program activities will include: 1) Peer Recovery Support Services (PRSS), which will be designed and delivered by people who have experienced both drug/alcohol addiction and recovery; EXP will utilize one recovery coach and one trained peer to implement PRSS; services will include monthly recovery coaching sessions, and access to internal harm reduction and medication-assisted treatment services, workforce development, peer accompaniment, and ongoing support; 2) RSS, which will include non-clinical services (case management, non-clinical individual and group sessions, and reSET, a prescription digital therapeutic program to improve outcomes in the treatment of substance use disorders); 3) the evidence-based Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) EBP; and 8) implement the Supported Employment EBP; 4) build connections through infrastructure building between recovery networks, between RCOs, and with other RSS; 5) provide activities designed to reduce stigma and resultant discrimination and/or negative attitudes concerning people with addiction and in recovery from drug/alcohol addiction; 6) conduct public education, training (including addiction peer recovery coach training) and outreach; and 7) tobacco cessation programming. Project goals and measurable objectives. The program’s goal is the enhancement, expansion, and delivery of recovery support services (RSS) as well as promotion of and education about recovery. The program’s objectives include: Provide PRSS to an additional 200 persons from the POF per year; Provide RSS to an additional 200 persons from the POF per year; Build connections and collaborations among substance use and mental disorder treatment programs through at least 12 networking/training/TA presentations per year to promote PRSS to program participants and other stakeholders, referring at least 20 individuals in need of recovery to PRSS per year; Conduct a social marketing campaign designed to reduce discrimination and negative attitudes concerning people with addiction and in recovery, reaching at least 7,500 persons annually; Increase access to addiction peer recovery coach training for 30 individuals per year in efforts to increase the peer specialist workforce; and provide tobacco cessation programs, activities and strategies, reaching 200 persons from the POF per year.
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