Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Red Lake Nation's Opioid Response Across Rural and Urban Locations - The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians seeks to address the overdose crisis for Native Americans (NAs) living both on the reservation and also in Minneapolis/St. Paul urban areas (including all surrounding suburban areas) by further developing our culturally responsive continuum of services, including prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services for stimulant misuse, opioid use disorder (OUD), and co-occurring substance use disorder through the development and expansion of behavioral and complementary health integration, expanding community education and awareness of prevention activities. NAs in MN have the highest rate of death due to drug poisoning (compared to Whites); and experience overdose deaths at seven times that of White counterparts (MHD, 2019). NAs also experience disparities in mental health disorders, and lack access to and drop out of mental health treatment at high rates. In order to enhance the continuum of care and help to better stabilize clients, we will add two new services: complementary medicine and community health education. Our goal is to: Increase and enhance the culturally responsive prevention, treatment, and recovery services to NA community members to reduce overdoses deaths across Minnesota; specifically in the rural Red Lake/Bemidji area and in Minneapolis/St Paul metro area. We have three main objectives: Objective 1. Expand Treatment Services; Objective 2. Increase Recovery Services; and Objective 3. Increase Prevention Services. Key activities include but are not limited to: recruiting staff for new roles, hosting recovery support groups in reservation-based jail, increasing awareness and access to Sober Talk - Izhitwaawin Studio podcast, and hosting additional Community Wellness Gatherings. We will serve 290 people in year one, 355 in year two, 420 in year three, 485 in year four, and 550 in year 5 for a total of 2,300 unique individuals.
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