Arizona

Horizon Health and Wellness will provide a Medication Treatment Assisted Treatment program in Florence, Arizona - serving the communities of Florence and Coolidge, Arizona. The program will provide comprehensive and integrated substance use treatment services which will not only provide MAT, but assessment, intensive outpatient, standard outpatient, peer support and primary care services. MAT will be provided for both Opioid Use Disorder as well as Alcohol Use Disorder.

Cochise County is designated as both a Health Professional Shortage Area for medical and behavioral health services. Chiricahua is the only FQHC in the county. Cochise County has witnessed an increase in deaths from drug and alcohol misuse. Currently there is only one facility in Cochise County, other than Chiricahua, that offers outpatient MAT. We are establishing a new MAT access point, in Benson, adjacent to our Benson clinic. Currently, this area, has no established MAT patients.

LAHMB will serve rural communities within Gila County in Arizona, specifically addressing the target tribal population living in the San Carlos Apache Reservation. The LAHMB Consortium will focus on the prevalence of opioid and other substance addiction and its consequences on children and families.

Hire 2 Peer Recovery Support Specialists to initiate and conduct support groups for patients with an OUD/SUD diagnosis. Hire 3 behavioral health technicians to initiate support services, referrals to MAT. Will work with the mobile team to identify screen and refer patients with an OUD/SUD diagnosis.

This project is focusing on building a consortium of key community players who will: a) Organize resources to cover needs of the White Mountain residents who suffer from OUD/SUD, b) Collect and report data on the direct and indirect patient care/experience of the OUD/SUD population after integrating Peer Support specialists. c) Build strategies to sustain the Consortium, The Peer Support Specialist Program and The Collection and Reporting of Data which will help to build Best Practices that will ensure better care of the SUD/OUD population.

Santa Cruz County Overcoming Substance Addiction (SOSA) consists of 23 partners that represent seven sectors: primary and inpatient/emergency health care, behavioral health, law enforcement, emergency medical response, the legal system (courts and detention), education and youth development, and workforce development. Santa Cruz County is a rural, low income, Hispanic/Latino county on Arizona’s U.S.-México border with a severe shortage of behavioral health professionals.

The overarching goals of the proposed four-year project align with the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Behavioral Health Support (RCORP BHS) program, and have been designed to improve the delivery of healthcare services in the rural service area. These goals include: 1. Improve Local Access to High-Quality, Integrated Behavioral Health and SUD services; 2. Improve the Quality and Sustainability of Behavioral and SUD Services through Coordinated, Evidence-Based Care; 3. Improve Delivery of Services to Address Risk Factors and Social Determinants of Health

The Pinal County Latino Opioid Consortium (PCLOC) is implementing Si Se Puede as an opportunity to build comprehensive prevention, treatment, and recovery infrastructure supporting the rural community of Coolidge, Arizona, and is funded by the Health Rural Services Administration. The PCLOC members – Amistades, Inc.

This project is geared toward adolescents in the project area. It provides training and resources for those working and living with youth on mental health, trauma, transportation, counseling, telehealth, and MAT services.

Santa Cruz County Overcoming Addiction (SOSA) is a cross-sector consortium that convened in 2019 with the goal of collaborating to increase the availability of, and access to, culturally and linguistically appropriate services to prevent, treat and recover from substance use disorder (SUD) and especially opioid use disorder (OUD). SOSA currently has 15 members representing primary care, emergency care, behavioral health, emergency medical services, law enforcement, k-12 schools, higher education, and workforce development.