Drug Abuse Alternatives Center Perinatal IOP will be referring clients to The Village for Center Point, Inc. - Abstract Center Point DAAC is requesting $525,000 per year for up to five years from the SAMHSA CSAT to establish a well-coordinated and integrated system of care for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders (SUD) and their families across a continuum of residential settings that support and sustain recovery. The population of focus for the LifeLink project is women who are pregnant or postpartum up to 12 months, and their minor children age 17, who are living below the federal poverty level, uninsured, unemployed, and/or underemployed, and who have limited access to quality primary care or treatment services for SUD and/or co-occurring disorder (COD) in Sonoma County, CA. Participants will be recruited from CP DAAC’s treatment programs in Sonoma County, and the geographic catchment area where residential services will be delivered is Marin County, CA. CP DAAC’s project will serve 10 women and children in Year One, 15 women and children in Years Two through Five, and 70 unduplicated women and families in total. The goals of the LifeLink project are to conduct outreach strategies in the identified communities to identify, engage, and admit pregnant and postpartum women and their minor children into SUD treatment; deliver an evidence-based, comprehensive residential treatment model, including trauma-specific services; improve treatment and recovery outcomes and quality of life for women and healthy development of children; and expand the availability of a comprehensive continuum of care to promote sustainable recovery for pregnant and postpartum women and their minor children. CP-DAAC will conduct comprehensive SUD and COD screening and assessment of all pregnant and postpartum women at intake and continuously to determine diagnosis of medical necessities, treatment planning, and clinical needs, including medications and need for Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). CP-DAAC will embed the project components within a continuous care model of SUD and COD services, which include the well-established LifeLink residential treatment program operated by Center Point, Inc. in Marin County, as well as new and enhanced case management, harm reduction, and recovery support options for the population of focus. Children will be enrolled in age-appropriate early education programming and linked into primary and behavioral health care and supportive services provided by community partners; these include pediatric health care, screenings and developmental diagnostic assessments, and mental health care, including a trauma-informed system of assessments, interventions, and social-emotional skill building services.
