Sunday, May 5, 2024
5/5/2024
The Puerto Rico (PR) Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (MHAASA) proposes a 5-year ECDC-Ponce Project to provide a continuum of care , including prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery services for individuals with SUD involved in 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 SU treatment and recovery services based on evidence-based (EB)interventions for people with SUD and concurrent MHD in the MHAASA's existing Drug Court in Ponce, PR. Treatment and recovering to SA adults will be enhanced with the Wellness PLUS, Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma Management, and RSHT EB models. The project seeks to achieve Goal 1, related to treatment to increase and expand access to SU treatment services based on EB interventions for people with SU and SU/MHD in the PR-MHAASA's existing Ponce Drug Court over a 5-year PR-ECDC-Ponce 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 MH disorders. All project participants who are screened will have developed and implemented an appropriate harm reduction, treatment and recovery interventio and treatment plan within 30 days of admission. Participants identified as high-risk will be screened for infectious diseases (including HIV and Hepatitis A,B, and C). To increase connectedness to treawtment services, a Court Liaison will be integrated to the Ponce DC staff team. Medical evaluation to identify physical 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 Pro9cessing Therapy for Trauma Manageme4nt models to enhance trauma-based interventions. Through the implementation of the project, the MHAASA will ensure that the key 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 achieve that goal, the DC will link 300 participants to follow-up and relapse prevention services, achieving abstinence from SU in at least 75% pf the participants. It is expected that 75% of the participants not reflect criminal justice involvement during each project year. Vocational assessment to ide4ntify enneds for vocational education and training will be part of the interventions. Access to services will be enhanced by integrating 180 participants to Peer Support Specialists' services in years 3-5 of the project (60 per year), immplementing one recovery support group per year, and achieving at least 90% retention of the adults with SUD's in treatment. Peer counseling and coaching services will be coordinated with the MHAASA's Mutual Support Center, led by certified peers and trained on the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) EBP. An evaluation te3am will be used to collecty, analyze, and report process and outcome data quarterly in the required SAMHSA format. MHAASA will report perfo9r4mance on measures related to the number of individuals served, diagnoses, abstinence from SU, housing stability, employment/education status, social connectedness, health/behavioral/social consequences, access to treeatment, treatment interventions provided, retention in treatment, and criminal justice involvement. A total of $400,000 per year is requested for the 5 year period, or a total of $2 million over the grant period.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
