St. Claire Medical Center, Inc.

This project will target several populations within Carter County who have historically suffered from poorer health outcomes or health disparities, as compared to the rest of the target population. Persons leaving incarceration with SUD/OUD are more likely to experience homelessness as a result of limited recovery housing options and the regulations or constraints that prohibit them for accessing housing; as a result, we will replicate our First Day Forward reentry program in Carter County to engage with inmates and connect them to housing, treatment, recovery resources, employment, and other services post-release. For adolescents and youths, we will expand our school-based prevention programming, which includes “lived experiences” presentations by local peer recovery support specialists. For the elderly, we will target medication safety presentations to local senior citizen centers