Saturday, May 18, 2024
5/18/2024
SoberHood's Texas Addiction Recovery Community Statewide Network (TARC-SN) will expand the capacity of peer-led addiction recovery organizations and strengthen the voice of peer leaders in policy and program development by creating a state peer leadership council and annual conference, offering training and supervision via an online learning management system and fostering the growth of a statewide network of local peer-led recovery coalitions. The goals of the TARC-SN project are to: organize the peer recovery community to establish a sustainable mechanism for integrating the peer voice in state addiction and health systems change and services delivery; promote skills development with an emphasis on leadership and management for peer led organizations; develop partnerships that support access to addiction RSS's along with policy and program development in behavioral health systems; and identify technical assistance needs of peer providers and provide training and support to ensure that they are seen as valuable players in the delivery system. SoberHood will achieve three major objectives: Provide training and/or supervision services to an unduplicated 100 participants in year 1, 100 duplicate participants plus 100 first time recipients for a total of 200 participants in year 2, and 200 duplicated participants plus 100 first time recipients for a total of 300 participants in year 3 through an online learning management system and/or state leadership conference; establish a Peer Addiction Recovery Leadership Council of rep's from all Texas Department of State Health Service regions and diverse populations that meets quarterly to impact policy and programming decisions at the state and local level, assess health and service disparities and serve as the quality improvement workgroup; launch an online platform capable of cost effectively deploying a statewide network of resource directories managed and updated by local peer-led recovery coalitions.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
