Pennsylvania

Counseling Management Services and consortium partners will address health equity within the target rural service area of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, through professional development and training opportunities, community engagement, and stigma reduction campaigns. The consortium partners will work collaboratively to provide wholistic care across physical and behavioral health sectors, and in conjunction with social services and community supervision to pregnant women, or women of childbearing age, with SUD or at-risk of SUD.

The Healthy MOMS Program is designed to assist expectant mothers struggling with Substance use disorder to enhance their and their baby's health, ensure family stability, and minimize Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome related expenses. The program provides case management services and helps individuals access community resources. The program utilizes the Maternity Care Home model and operates in nine counties in Northeast Pennsylvania. We are grateful for the support from the HRSA R-CORP NAS Grant, which enables us to offer these critical services.

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. Our innovative program will facilitate the adoption of evidence-based practices in our target service area designed in response to unmet needs and gaps in care that contribute to adverse outcomes among individuals and their families in NWPA.

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. To meet this growing need deeper interventions are required that can effectively reduce the incidence of Neonatal Abstinence Disorder (NAS) in this 5-county rural service area, which includes 2 of the 5 counties in the state that have the highest incidence of NAS, Venango and Lawrence. Goals of the RCORP NAS consortium include: 1.

This project will provides knowledgeable, relevant, and immediate responses through our experienced consortium in Northwestern Pennsylvania that positively impacts prevention, treatment and, recovery for individuals and families impacted by Substance Use Disorder/Opioid Use Disorder (SUD/OUD).

This project will leverage community resources to establish and strengthen child and adolescent behavioral health (BH) services in Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder, and Union Counties, Pennsylvania to: 1. Establish new behavioral health prevention, treatment, and recovery services for children and adolescents. a. Implement at least one evidence-based afterschool program in the targeted communities with a specific focus on increasing emotional and social competencies and reducing behavior challenges.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU), CleanSlate Addiction Treatment Centers (CleanSlate), West Branch Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission (WBDAAC), and Community Care Behavioral Health Organization (CCBHO) established a collaborative consortium for the Clinton County Opioid Reduction and Expansion (CORE) Program.

Our project focuses on the Addiction Recovery Mobile Outreach Teams (ARMOT) warm hand-off program for patients with Substance Use Disorders in the three area hospitals. Screening, assessments, referral to treatment, and recovery support services are provided by a Case Manager and Certified Recovery Specialists. This project also includes a 24/7 warmline operated by AICDAC staff for information and referrals to treatment for the hospitals, first responders, and the general population.

The University of Pittsburgh Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) is joined in the consortium by: St. Luke’s University Health Network (SL), Schuylkill County Mental Health, Developmental Services, and Drug and Alcohol Programs (SCDA), Schuylkill County District Attorney’s Office (DA), Pennsylvania (PA) Office of Attorney General (AG), PA Counseling Services (PCS), and Center for Community Resources (CCR).

The Peer Recovery Expansion Project (PREP) is a collaboration of sixteen consortium members aimed at improving access to and quality of treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and other behavioral health conditions in HRSA designated rural service areas across five Pennsylvania counties.