Sunday, May 5, 2024
5/5/2024
The Puerto Rico (PR) Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (MHAASA) proposes a 5-year ECDC-San Juan Peroject to provide a continuum of care, including prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services for individuals with SUD involved with the courts. Recognizing the need for treatment instead of incarceration for individuals with SUDs, through this project the MHAASA will increase and expand access to substance use treatment and recovery services based on evidence-based (EB) interventions foer people with SUD or concurrent MH conditions in the MHAASA's existing Drug Court of San Juan. Treatment and recovery to SA adults will be enhanced with the Wellness PLUS EBP to complement MAT and psychosocial treatment for adult participants, and the EB models of Trauma-Info9rmed Care, Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma Management, and RSHT. Goal 1, related to treatment, is to increase and expand access to substance use treatment services based on EBP interventions for people with SUD in MHAASA's existing Drug Court of San JUan over the 5-year PR-ECDC-SJ project period. To achieve that goal, at least 60 participants per year will be screened and assessed for the presence of SUD or co-occurring SU/MH disorders. All project participants who are screened will have a developed and appropropriate harm reduction, treatment, and/or recovery intervention and treatment plan within 30 days of admission. Participants identified as high-risk will be screened for infectious diseases (inclucing HIV and viral Hepatitis A, B and C). To increase connectedness to treatment services, a Court Liaison will be integrated to the SJ DC staff team. Medical evaluation to identify phyhsical health needs that interfere with SU treatment, referral and follow-up will be part of the interventions. Staff will be trained on the Trauma-Informed Care and Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma Management models to enhance trauma-based interventions. Through the implementation of the project, the MHAASA will ensure that the keyu components of the drug court model are implemented over the 5-year project period. Goal 2 related to recovery support, is to ensure access to community recovery support services such as peer counseling and recovery coaching for adults with SUDs. To acheive this goal, the DC will link 300 participants to follow-up and relapse prevention services, achieving abstinence from SU in at least 75% of the participants. It is expected that 75% of the participant so not reflect criminal justice involvement during each project year. Vocational assessment to identify needs for vocational education and training will be part of the interventions. Access to services will be enhanced by adding transportation services to the program. Recovery Support Services will be enhanced by integrating 180 participants to Peer Support Specialists' services in year 3-5 of the project (60 each year), implementing one recovery support group per year and achieving at least 90% retention of adults with SUDs in treatment. Peer counseling and coaching services will be coordinated by the MHAASA's Mutual Support Center, led by certified peers and trained in the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) EBP. An evaluation team will be used to cololecty, analyze and report process and outcome data quarterly in required SAMHSA formats. MHAASA will report performance on measures related to the number of individual served, diagnoses, abstinence from SU, housing stability, employment/educational status, social connectedness, health/behavioral/social consequences, access to treatment, treatment interventions provided, retention, and criminal justice involvement. MHAASA is requesting $400,000 per year for the 5-year period, or a total of $2 million for the project proposed.
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