Saturday, December 7, 2024
12/7/2024
Alabama A&M University Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program-II (AAMU OIFSP-II) seeks support for tuition and stipends to facilitate the training of 43 Master of Social Work (MSW) students who will undergo comprehensive didactic and experiential training, including apprenticeships, to equip them for collaborative, team-based service provision to families affected by opioid use disorders (OUD) and other substance abuse disorders (SUD) in medically underserved areas of North Alabama.The demand for qualified social work professionals in Alabama to work with families impacted by OUD and other SUD is urgent. According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Alabama ranked 11th with 42,000 children affected by the opioid epidemic. Among these children, 27,000 lived in households with opioid-using parents, approximately 3,000 losing their parents to death or incarceration, and over 9,000 removed from their homes and placed in foster or kinship care due to parental opioid use, while another 3,000 children accidentally ingested opioids. AAMU's Graduate Social Work Program is uniquely positioned to train paraprofessionals to address these challenges in medically underserved communities. As the nation's first registered apprenticeship program in Master of Social Work, we collaborate with over 50 field agencies and 13 registered apprenticeship sites in North Alabama, designated as medically underserved areas by Federal Designations for Graduate Practice.To support the number of peer support specialists and other behavioral health paraprofessionals capable of serving families affected by OUD and other SUDs in North Alabama, the AAMU OIFSP-II aims to: (1) provide 43 students with comprehensive didactic and experiential field training focused on families affected by OUD and other SUDs, including year-round apprenticeships and stipends spanning four year; (2) develop and deliver a curriculum emphasizing a) children and youth, trauma, and mental health and b) the role of the family and the lived experience of the consumer and family paraprofessional partnership; (3) organize four (4) interprofessional conferences and eight (8) virtual workshops for students and diverse community behavioral health professionals; (4) maintain and support 13 apprenticeship sites and establish eight (8) additional sites.The traineeship plans to cultivate a highly-skilled, integrated health professional workforce to serve rural, vulnerable, and medically underserved populations affected by OUD and other SUDs in Alabama.
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