Delaware State University

The Vision Consortium aims to strengthen and expand prevention, treatment, and recovery services in rural areas of Delaware by providing training, education, and support to the behavioral health workforce. The project seeks to enhance the ability of behavioral health professionals to provide effective evidence-based treatments and interventions to help move individuals towards recovery. The Vision Consortium is a multi-sectored group, which represents Re-Envisioning Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services. Each member agency represents an aspect of prevention, treatment, and recovery services, such as workforce education and training, behavioral health treatment provider, county-wide coordinating agency, prevention, and acute care service delivery. Specifically, the project aims to provide evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery activities over a three-year period to the youth, individuals, families, and the behavioral health workforce in rural areas of Sussex and Kent Counties by focusing on: • Providing the evidence-based programing to youth and families at-risk for psychostimulant use disorders. • Implementing screening and brief interventions in clinical settings to provide referrals to individuals at-risk for psychostimulant misuse, including those who have infectious complications • Recruiting, training, and mentoring members of the behavioral health workforce on motivational interviewing, and screening, brief interventions, and referral (SBIRT) through learning collaboratives. • Enhancing discharge coordination for people in treatment and recovery of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds who require linkages to home and community-based social supports • Expanding peer workforce development by hosting a monthly learning collaborative focused on supporting and coaching peers on effectively working with individuals in treatment and recovery in various settings.