Tuesday, January 14, 2025
1/14/2025
Empowering Nevada is a program focused on improving care coordination and the continuum of care for pregnant and postpartum women with a primary diagnosis of substance use disorder in Nevada. The program aims to decrease gaps in the continuum of care by developing resource sharing and contracting mechanisms that enhance bidirectional linkages among providers, community-based organizations, and other support services. Additionally, the program seeks to increase the adoption of universal screening and SBIRT, as well as expand the EMPOWERED program to address critical gaps in NAS mitigation/prevention, SUD and/or OUD treatments, and support services for pregnant and postpartum women and their families in Washoe County, Carson City, Storey County, and Churchill County. EMPOWERED is a recovery-oriented program that combines medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with educational, counseling, and peer support services and aims to manage the social determinants of health (SDOH) of program participants and their families longitudinally. We operationalize this vision through seven goals. These goals and objectives include: (1) wrap-around care, coordination and navigation services (2) educational and counseling services to increase participation and offer peer recovery support sessions for better outcomes (3) social determinants of health management, coordination, navigation and referrals to improve the overall health of the targeted population (4) sustainability in rural, health professional shortages areas and underserved areas by accelerating arrangements between key partners in Medicaid and other programs. Based on initial projections, this project will serve: Year 1 -- 115 mothers, 115 babies Year 2 -- 115 mothers, 115 babies Year 3 -- 115 mothers, 115 babies Cumulative Total: 690 program participants throughout the course of the three-year Pilot Project
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