Center Point, Inc. (CPI) is requesting $525,000 per year for up to five years from the SAMHSA CSAT to expand the availability of comprehensive residential and outpatient SUD and COD treatment, recovery support services, and harm reduction strategies for pregnant and postpartum women and their minor children, including services for non-residential family members of both the women and children, that result in positive outcomes in the women's life, as well as for her children and other family members. The population of focus for the LifeLink project is low-income (based on Federal poverty guidelines) adult women who are pregnant or postpartum up to twelve months, and their minor children age 17 and under, who limited access to quality primary and specialty care or a comprehensive treatment service system for SUD and/or COD. The geographic catchment area where project services will be delivered is Marin County, CA and the participants will be from Marin, Sonoma, and Napa County. CPI's LifeLink program will serve 15 women and children in Year One and 20 women and children in Years Two through Five and 95 unduplicated women and families in total.
The goals of the LifeLink project are to conduct outreach strategies in the identified communities to identify, engage, and admit into residential or outpatient treatment pregnant and postpartum women and their minor children; deliver an evidence-based, comprehensive residential and outpatient treatment model, including trauma-informed specific services; provide harm reduction and recovery support services; improve treatment and recovery outcomes and quality of life for women and healthy development for children and; to increase CPI's sustainable capacity to serve pregnant and postpartum women and expand the availability of a comprehensive continuum of care to promote sustainable recovery and independence for pregnant and postpartum women and their minor children. CPI will conduct comprehensive SUD and COD screening and assessment of all pregnant and postpartum women at intake and continuously to diagnosis medical necessities, treatment planning and clinical needs, including medications and need for Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).
CPI will embed the project components within a continuous care model of specialty SUD and COD services, which include the well-established LifeLink residential treatment program as well as new and enhanced outpatient treatment, outreach, recovery residence/transitional housing, harm reduction options for the population of focus. Children will be enrolled in age-appropriate early education programming and linked into primary and behavioral health care and supportive services provided by community partners; these include pediatric health care, screenings and developmental diagnostic assessments, and mental health care, including trauma-informed systems of assessments, interventions, and social-emotional skill building services.