Fairview Health Services

The project will facilitate no less than quarterly lunch-and-learn for GICH providers on topics related to SUD/OUD access, treatment, and best practices for women, birthing, and their families through training related to screening and referral tools, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, care coordination, stigma reduction, managing medical complications in children with NAS, and harm reduction programs. Second, three key clinical leaders will work with the consortium to help meet the goals. The providers will help give health education resources to community members on healthy pregnancy, prenatal care access, risks to mom and baby of substance use during pregnancy. Cultural Broker will work with the criminal justice system, social services, ED, and community action sites, to provide community-based, individually tailored services to clients. The members represent criminal justice, child welfare, and social services. The RN Care Coordinator role will be critical to this coordination serving as a key trainer and supportive leader throughout this process. The proposed project goal is to reduce the incidence and impact of neonatal abstinence syndrome in the target rural service area by improving clinical and social services systems of care, and cultural and family supports. Over the three-year period of performance, the Grand Rapids RCORP project will (1) Reduce structural- and systems-level barriers within the rural target service area to (a) Increase access to behavioral health care, specifically SUD/OUD, services for rural pregnant and postpartum persons and their families; and (b) Address community risk factors and social determinants of health. (2) Strengthen the quality and sustainability of behavioral health care services for rural pregnant and postpartum persons and their families in the service area by implementing. coordinated, evidence-based, family-centered SUD/OUD and other services.