Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Providing substance abuse treatment and prevention services - The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Tribal Opioid Response Project is located on the L’anse Indian Reservation in the Upper Peninsula of MI, located on the southern shore of Lake Superior and delivered through the KBIC Substance Abuse Program. The project will provide recovery and prevention services with a population of focus that includes in the I HS Bemidji Area. Services will include the Oshki Maaji Recovery House and prevention and education activities on the L’Anse Indian Reservation and in Baraga County, where the Reservation is located. Primary focus for recovery housing will be KBIC Tribal Members who have completed a minimum six-week residential treatment program at the Oshki Giijigad house, but any Bemidji Area member can transition from residential treatment to the Opioid Response recovery house at KBIC. As cited by the KBIC SAP Clinical Manager, the occurrence of fentanyl overdoses in the area and on the L’Anse Indian Reservation are increasing. In addition, heroin is becoming, again, more prevalent due to the unavailability of opioid prescription drugs such as OxyContin. A static issue with Community members in the Tribal police jurisdiction have been crime related to alcohol and marijuana abuse, however; over the last few years, according to the Tribal Police Chief, there has been a significant rise in meth, heroin and cocaine. The funding of this Opioid Response Project will allow KBIC to staff a halfway house for clients leaving in patient treatment programs. This need is apparent, as Oshki Gijigad, New Day, Treatment Center data shows that, even though 46% of residents maintained sobriety upon discharge, 36% experienced relapse within 30 days of their release. (KBIC-SAP 2020 Program Management Summary) The Oshki Maaji Halfway House will use traditional Native American cultural teachings and traditional medicine from the Tribal Healer to support opioid and substance recovery. The evidence based practices used in the recovery and prevention services are the White Bison Red Road to Wellbriety and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. KBIC SAP outpatient will offer CBT outpatient substance abuse therapy, talking circles, and community and youth substance abuse prevention activities and education.
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