Massachusetts

Athol Memorial Hospital

NQC3 brings key clinical and community stakeholders together to redesign our region's behavioral health and substance use disorder care, considering its rural nature and building upon existing assets. The project has a continuum of strategies: 1) Treatment- to provide geographically accessible and integrated medical and substance use disorder care; 2) Recovery-offer community supports for high-risk populations and people living with mental health, substance use addictions; and 3) Prevention- to improve community mental wellbeing by addressing systemic and structural risk factors.

2021 Boston Medical Center OBAT Clinical Guidelines

The purpose of this document is to provide detailed guidelines of the Nurse Care Manager Model of Office Based Addiction Treatment program for management of substance use disorders, with particular emphasis on treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine (alone and in combination with naloxone) and naltrexone (oral and extended-release injectable formulations).
Posted Date
03/22/22

Coping with Overdose Fatalities: Tools for Public Health Workers

The suggested tools and resources herein address the need for agencies to support frontline service providers following exposure to an overdose fatality. Frontline service providers may include any staff members that interact directly with populations that are at greater risk for experiencing overdose. The suggestions throughout the document should be implemented in keeping with agency-based policies and procedures for staff support. Introducing these strategies into the workplace can foster greater well-being among those staff members most vulnerable to trauma and distress. The goal of these suggestions is to promote well-being in the workplace for those most vulnerable to trauma, stress and grief. To achieve this, outlined below are principles for agencies to incorporate into their organization, how to acknowledge death in the moment, approaches to coping with strong emotions, the importance of building a support system, and the process of grief.
Posted Date
07/28/21

Railroad Street Youth Project, Inc.

Rural Recover Resources will reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with overdoses in high-risk rural communities of South Berkshire County by: 1) creating an integrated network of providers to facilitate access to a coordinated continuum of SUD/OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery services; 2) promoting overdose prevention efforts linking those with SUD/OUD in primary care systems to needed medical assisted treatment, substance use and mental health counseling services; 4) building a recovery community by providing adequate social supportive services to access needed prevention,

After Incarceration: A Guide to Helping Women Reenter the Community

The information in this document was guided by the vision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health and lessons learned from a 3-year reentry enhancement project conducted across 3 different reentry organizations. The participating pilot sites were the Resonance Center for Women, Inc., the College and Community Fellowship, and the Institute for Health and Recovery . Using the information compiled through this project, this guide was created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation.
Posted Date
07/16/20

Baystate Franklin Medical Center

Many barriers exist to addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) across the prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery spectrum in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. A primary barrier is the inability of individuals to make a crucial connection between themselves and the services they need to get well and to coordinate those services over time.

Judiciary Courts of the State of Indiana Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Franklin County Sheriff’ s Office, located in the most rural county of Massachusetts, seeks funding from HRSA’s RCORP-Planning grant to enhance the work of the established North Quabbin Community Coalition’s Prevention, Addiction, Recovery, and Treatment (PART) Task Force to prevent and reduce substance misuse for all citizens from cradle to grave in the rural and underserved North Quabbin region of Massachusetts.