Leigh-Anne White & Company LLC

1.Provide evidence-based appropriate education to improve family members/caregivers’, first responders’ (to include EMS and law enforcement), social services and medical, providers’, and the public’s understanding of evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery strategies for psychostimulant misuse and use disorders, and to reduce stigma associated with the disease for a minimum of 100 individuals per year. This includes: six protective factors parenting classes for parents; Chalmer’s life skills work life training for adults; Chalmer’s faith and finances training for adults; education for the public to help overcome addiction; and continued motivational interviewing training for prevention staff. 2. Identify and screen at least 500 individuals at risk for psychostimulant misuse and use disorders and provide or make referrals for a minimum of 300 individuals to prevention, harm reduction, early intervention, treatment, and other social support services to minimize the potential for the development of SUD/OUD resulting in at least 100 individuals receiving case management services. 3. Screen, provide educational information, and refer to treatment a minimum of 50 patients who use psychostimulants and who have infectious complications, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and endocarditis, particularly among people who inject drugs. 4. Recruit, train, and mentor interdisciplinary teams of at least five SUD/OUD clinical and social service and community-based providers who are able to identify and treat psychostimulant misuse and use disorders using evidence-based methods. This includes: hiring an additional full-time counselor; training all staff in motivational interviewing; and training one counselor per year in EMDR to address trauma related issues to at-risk individuals in Toombs County. 5. Enhance discharge coordination for a minimum of 25 people in treatment and recovery and/or leaving the criminal justice system who require linkages to home and community-based services and social supports. This includes: hiring a social worker to assist with community linkages; continuing in building and establishing a recovery community in Toombs County; assisting in securing a recovery community house; and assisting in providing partial rent for the recovery community house over the next three years to build stability and sustainability within our community. 6. Expand peer workforce and programming as interventionists in various settings, including hospitals, emergency departments, law enforcement departments, jails, SUD/OUD treatment programs, reentry service providers, harm reduction programs, and in the community. This includes offering peer recovery groups; Y12SR groups and trauma informed yoga classes; and experiential/fine arts SUD groups. A minimum of 100 individuals per year will participate in at least one component of this programming.