Thursday, May 2, 2024
5/2/2024
Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services, Inc. (CCNS) is one of the largest behavioral health (BH) and social service providers in Brooklyn and Queens. We provide outpatient mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and support to individuals from every walk of life. Through OPT into Recovery, CCNS will expand and enhance access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) and psychosocial services for individuals over the age of 16 living with opioid use disorder (OUD) in Brooklyn and Queens. While CCNS will serve individuals from across the two boroughs, we will prioritize outreach to and engagement of those living in the high risk, very high poverty neighborhoods of Far Rockaway and Central Brooklyn. Our population of focus is racially and ethnically diverse. CCNS anticipates that about half of individuals served by OPT into Recovery will identify as Black, with 22 percent identifying as white, and 23 percent identifying as bi-racial. Half will be of Latino origin, with many speaking Spanish as a primary language. We anticipate serving an approximately equal number of females and males, with about 5 percent of those served identifying as LGBTQ. Participants will be over the age of 16 years, with most being between 21 and 64. In addition to OUD, the majority of those served by this program will have experienced histories of trauma or be living with co occurring mental health conditions. Additionally, many will be adversely affected by an array of social drivers of health (SDOH), such as poverty, unstable housing, and un or underemployment. Our program will integrate a broad range of trauma-informed, recovery oriented psychosocial supports and community-based BH treatment with MOUD. We will accomplish this by integrating OPT into Recovery into our two CCBHC locations (in Flatbush (a neighborhood in Central Brooklyn) and Far Rockaway), with additional access points at our three other mental health clinics located across Queens. All five of these site locations are in or accessible to the Brooklyn and Queens communities disproportionately impacted by OUD. We will serve the following numbers via OPT into Recovery: 100 individuals in Year 1 and 125 unduplicated individuals in each subsequent year, for a total of 725 individuals served over the five years of the program. Our goals and objectives include the following: Goal 1. Increase the number of individuals with OUD receiving MOUD in Brooklyn and Queens, including: 1.A: Expand staff MOUD capacity, supporting 100% of CCNS prescribers to obtain their DATA Waiver to prescribe buprenorphine to more than 30 patients; 1.B: Provide MOUD to 725 unduplicated clients over the five years of the grant; 1.C: Engage 100% of clients served at our five BH clinics in SBIRT, providing a brief intervention using Motivational Interviewing (MI) and ensuring that those living with OUD are referred to MOUD, counseling, and other psychosocial services; and 1.D: Conduct one targeted outreach campaign monthly to priority target populations, including individuals who are Black/Latino and those in very high poverty areas. Goal 2. Decrease illicit opioid drug use and prescription opioid misuse at six-month follow-up, including: 2.A: Offer 100% of clients integrated psychosocial services to build recovery capital; 2.B: Ensure that 75% of clients participate in support groups offered by a Certified SUD Peer Specialists within 6 months of program engagement; and 2.C: Achieve a 50% reduction in the number of clients who indicate that they are engaging in opioid misuse after six months in the program. Goal 3. Reduce opioid overdose deaths and disparities for priority Brooklyn and Queens populations, including: 3.A: 100% of clients, along with their families if they are engaged in treatment, will receive Narcan, and training on how to respond to an overdose; and 3.B: 60% of clients will report having increase in recovery capital.
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