Saturday, April 20, 2024
4/20/2024
Project Name: Eastern Aleutian Tribes Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Population(s) to be served: Adults with opioid use disorders (OUD) living in EAT's service area. Project Summary: Eastern Aleutian Tribes will decrease illicit opioid drug use and prescription opioid misuse by expanding the capacity of EAT and its partners to provide MAT for OUDs. Strategies/Interventions: Eastern Aleutian Tribes (EAT) is a tribal organization serving 8 communities in the Eastern Aleutian Borough region of Southwest Alaska. EAT proposes to use this funding, the Medication Assisted Treatment-Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) grant, FOA TI-21-006, to: 1) Provide MAT for the maintenance and treatment of OUDs in combination with comprehensive OUD psychosocial services; 2) Develop and implement an outreach and engagement plan in all eight EAT communities; 3) Develop and implement a plan to mitigate the risk of diversion and ensure the appropriate use/dose of medications by patients. We are seeking to increase the number of unduplicated individuals with opioid use disorders and who are in need of MAT. Our population is underserved and living in a remote area of the Eastern Aleutians Borough region. Program participants, mostly Aleut, live in small communities only accessible by airplane or ferry, and where access to health care is limited. We intend to increase the number of people receiving MAT-PDOA and to increase the number of people participating in MAT services, as we intend to serve 114 new, unduplicated individuals with an opioid use disorder over the 5-year grant period, using evidence based interventions combined with traditional modalities. In addition, we will expand our MAT services to each of the 8 communities we serve through outreach efforts that include training local clinic providers in MAT treatment services and through the use of telehealth to connect our other EAT providers to these services. EAT provides effective, culturally-based behavioral health and medical care to the Alaska Native people of our region, and this program will work closely with our medical providers and pharmacy for complete and well-rounded MAT-PDOA treatment services.
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