Tuesday, May 6, 2025
5/6/2025
Susanna's Place: The VI TCE/HIV for Minority Women Project - The Village Virgin Islands' Susana's Place is a behavioral health home for 144 Afro-Caribbean and Hispanic substance abusing adult women on St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Susana's Place will optimize its clients' substance abuse, mental health and other health outcomes, and positively impact St. Croix's alarming HIV/AIDS burden. The project will serve 48 clients annually in its efforts to positively impact the significant health and behavioral health disparities faced by the women of St. Croix. The goals of this project, each with measurable objectives, are to (1) Expand access by the target population to substance abuse/co-occurring disorder treatment; (2) Reduce the spread of substance abuse related HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease; (3) Reduce the impact of trauma within our target population; and (4) Optimize health outcome among our target population by implementing a Facilitated Referral Model Behavioral Health Home. Susana's Place will achieve these goals by providing its participants with intensive outpatient substance abuse and co-occurring disorder treatment and peer-involved continuing care, HIV risk reduction activities for clients and their partners, including implementation of the evidence-based SISTA and Safe in the City interventions, onsite testing for HIV and hepatitis, and intensive care coordination of treatment services, and the evidence-based Seeking Safety for trauma intervention.
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