Women’s Health

This project will ensure that MH establishes an integrated MAT program focusing on a 'whole-patient' treatment approach.

Project Empower (PE) is a collaborative program in Logan County, West Virginia dedicated to reducing the incidence of NAS and increasing access to SUD/OUD treatment and recovery support services for pregnant individuals and individuals of childbearing age.

Through our consortium, the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership will focus on ensuring integrated care and care coordination to improve systems of care, family supports, and social determinants of health in Barbour, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph and Webster counties.

Our goal is to reduce the incidence and impact of NAS by improving systems of care, coordinating services across clinical settings, and expanding family supports for rural pregnant and postpartum individuals and their families.

The need for integrated and coordinated care among pregnant people, parents and people of childbearing age who have a history of or who are at risk for SUD/OUD in Armstrong, Indiana, Butler, Venango, and Lawrence counties of Pennsylvania is urgent.

The objective of this collaboration is to create a consortium in which all entities are working to improve NAS incident and impact through SUD/OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts for individuals and families within Cleveland County.

Early access to compassionate SUD/OUD care for pregnant people, adequate prenatal care, and continuation of SUD treatment postpartum are essential to decrease the severity and impact of NAS.

Goals of the Proposed Project In light of the demonstrated need and gaps in available services, we propose the following goals for our RCORP-NAS project.

Opioids are the leading cause of Minnesota's overdose deaths increasing 17-fold over the past 20 years. Five rural, underserved counties collectively had a more than 10% increase in nonfatal opioid overdoses in 2020 compared to 2019.

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 car