The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Perkins Family Clinic Behavioral Health, Project Hope, continues to grow and service the rural communities of Lincoln, Logan and Payne Counties in Oklahoma with medical, dental, behavioral health and substance use treatment to Iowa Tribal Members, clients with any Tribal affiliation and non-Native clients. Perkins Family Clinic and Perkins Family Clinic Behavioral Health have worked to improve capacity and increase integrated medical and behavioral health and substance use services since 2018. PFC-BH has increased capacity for individual, family and group counseling, peer recovery support services, case management, mediation assisted treatment, 12 Step and Wellbriety groups, and Positive Indian Parenting groups over the past two years; many of these efforts through funding by SAMHSA, Tribal Opioid Response Funding.
If awarded this funding cycle, goals and objectives for this project include increasing prevention in the community by continuing to provide Botvin LifeSkills to Perkins-Tryon Middle and High School students and outreach education and support to the Tribal members and community. Key Personnel will work with local youth and Elders to plan and provide a Youth Event at the end of the grant funding cycle. Treatment and Recovery efforts will continue with MAT and integrated care services, collaboration with local sober living communities to provide groups and 12 Step and Wellbriety cultural support groups, as well as counseling, PRSS and case management services. Personnel will also be trained as Warrior Down Recovery Coaches and work to embed the re-entry program into local county jails and increase treatment and recovery for inmates. Harm Reduction will be continued through education and supplying Lincoln, Logan and Payne County First Responders with Narcan as well as identifying other community partners who will benefit from decreasing overdose in their businesses. Fentanyl strips will be purchased and be available for Tribal and community distribution as an effort to decrease overdose deaths.
PFC-BH Tribal Opioid Response Key Personnel will conduct 30 GPRA assessments over the life of the grant, administer the CRAFFT adolescent screening tool to 300 adolescents and provide 100 units of Narcan into the community. TOR Key Personnel will work to meet with every patient who enters MAT/Outpatient Opioid Based Treatment at PFC Medical Facility and strive to be providing integrated medical and BH services to a minimum of 75% of patients receiving MAT services by the end of the two year grant period.