Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board’s Preventing Youth Overdose (GP PYO) program will implement an American Indian and Alaska Native-focused youth and young adult navigator program in Rapid City, South Dakota to increase access to needed resources to prevent and reduce youth overdose. GP PYO will also engage with and train service providers in harm reduction and youth substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery. According to the US Census Decennial data 2020, Rapid City, South Dakota, currently has a population of 74,703, with 12,854 self-identified as American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN). As of January 2023, Oyate Health Center, a tribally managed walk-in clinic, has over 22,200 active users, with 5,657 under 18. As of June 2023, there were 4,083 active users between 12-24. Our focus will be on youth ages 10 to 24 at risk of, in treatment for, or recovering from opioid use disorders (OUD). Funds are needed to increase access to improve local awareness among youth of risks associated with fentanyl, increase access to medications for opioid use disorder (OUD), and train healthcare providers, families, and school personnel on the best practices for supporting youth with OUD and those taking medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). The GP PYO program will engage in the following objectives: Objective 1: Lead the coordination of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services by implementing a PYO Navigator program by month 4 of the grant that helps youth and young adults with OUD and co-occurring disorders with access, education, and navigation of existing community resources. Resources include MOUD for youth and young adults with OUD. Objective 2: GP PYO program will raise awareness of risks associated with fentanyl, increase access to MOUD, and support youth with OUD by offering monthly training sessions on related topics to healthcare providers, families, and school personnel. GP PYO program will target healthcare providers and prescribers most safely and effectively to prescribe MOUD to youth by offering an annual accredited training opportunity on pediatric MOUD prescription. Objective 3: Target healthcare providers and prescribers on the safest and most effective way to prescribe MOUD to youth by offering an annual accredited training opportunity on pediatric MOUD prescription. GP PYO program will serve an unduplicated number of participants, 200 each year, reaching 600 unduplicated individuals.
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).
