Saturday, November 23, 2024
11/23/2024
Abstract Project Title: Building the Anchorage Culturally Responsive Community of Recovery through Multi-Organizational Partnerships. Applicant Organization and Address: CHOICES, 1231 Gambell Street, Anchorage, 99501 Project Director Name and Contact Phone Numbers: David P. Moxley, Ph.D., DPA, 405-250-4156 (Cell); 907-786-6912, 907-786-6900 (Office), 907-786-6912 (Fax). Email Address: dpmoxley@alaska.edu Grant Funds Requested: Annually for three (3) years in the amount of $300,000 per year for a total of 1.2 million dollars. Applicant requests consideration as the first BCOR submission in Alaska. Statement of Need and Organizational Capacity. CHOICES based in Anchorage, the principal urban area of Alaska, accounting for almost 33% of the state’s population requests funding from SAMHSA’s Building Communities of Recovery (BCOR) Program to address serious infrastructure challenges in meeting the needs of people who face SUD and/or COD in the a city that has heightened mortality and morbidity rates as a result of substance misuse and its interactions with poverty, dislocation of Alaska Native people and other minoritized groups, limited and inadequate recovery resources, and limited housing access, creating a sizable homeless population the members of which cope with Alcohol use and addiction and other substance misuse. CHOICES is a principal provider of recovery supports to people who have few alternatives for achieving recovery outcomes. The organization, founded in 2003, is a Community of Recovery (COR) governed by directors many of whom offer lived experience, may be in recovery themselves, or have family members on the path to recovery. CHOICES incorporates outreach, engagement, pathways to recovery support, intensive case management, and bridging opportunities to work with people in recovery. The organization operates with personnel who understand recovery through their own lived experience. The principal personnel model involves peer support specialists. Purpose of Project. The project will advance a Community of Recovery over the course of three years of funding, building on its existing core as a recovery focused organization. Funding will allow CHOICES to expand personnel in the areas of clinical recovery services, intensive case management, recovery coordination, and peer support. The project will work with four partners involving Denali Family Services, First Congregational Church of Anchorage, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Department of Human Services, and the UAA Department of Computer Science. The project will add additional partners in the second and third year of operation. Principal Goals. Increasing: (1) the number of peer support specialists within the BCOR who are from diverse backgrounds and from the population of people served, (2) the number of peer support personnel entering and completing higher education programs in Human Services, (3) peer support supervision, training, and professional development in recovery based practice, (4) supports for recovery involving entry of participants into highly supportive clinical and nonclinical care, community support, and an enriching culture of recovery, (5) recovery opportunities by uniting principal project organizational partners into a Community of Recovery in which peer support is a principal approach to recovery practice, and (6) organizational learning for advancing effective and innovative recovery practice through participatory evaluation embracing a quality improvement approach in building a culturally responsive, person-centered and effective COR. The project will enroll 50 people who are coping with SUD or COD in the first year growing the capacities of the project over three years to enroll or sustain the enrollment of a total of 340 members in the third year composed of a mix of duplicated and unduplicated members of the COR.
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