The purpose of this proposed project is to improve health care in rural areas by establishing 20 new MAT Access Points and increasing the capacity for sustainable MAT services and support services provision in McKinley County, NM.
This grant, through the support of a cross-sectoral consortium across four counties, will bring a new level of collaboration and resources to our region. The consortium involved in this grant includes the applicant agency – the United Way of Eastern New Mexico, two counseling agencies, two acute care hospitals, one of which includes an outpatient behavioral health clinic, 12 school districts, two academic institutions, four county detention centers, a rural education cooperative, and Initium Health, a health care consulting firm providing data coordination and support.
Capacity Builders, Inc. has a long and successful history of delivering culturally aligned, locally-focused programming across the Navajo Nation. Sustainability is ensured through comprehensive training, resource-building, and partnership coordination. As Capacity Builders, Inc. pursues its overall mission of becoming unnecessary as a force of change in one of America’s most impoverished and forgotten communities.
Santa Fe Recovery Center, Hozho Center for Personal Enhancement, Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS) WellSpring Recovery Center Behavioral Health Services, Navajo Area Indian Health Service Gallup Indian Medical Center and the New Mexico Human Services Department Behavioral Health Services Division have formed a collaborative partnership identified as the McKinley County Opioid and Substance Use Recovery Network (Consortium). This Consortium was established to respond to the opioid and substance abuse crisis in McKinley County, New Mexico.
The Integrated Care and Care Coordination focus area was selected in order to address the high rates of incidence of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the service area, the estimates of how many individuals who are not receiving addiction treatment in the service area, and the opportunity to improve care coordination through a state-level NAS database roll-out.
For the past two decades, New Mexico’s overdose death rate has been among the highest in the nation. New Mexico suffers from major shortages in health professionals and lack of access to adequate comprehensive primary care services. Delivering HRSA’s 15 required core activities across 14 counties requires a high degree of collaboration and coordination among all Consortium members.
The Northern New Mexico Rural Health Network (Network) proposes to address the systemic issues outlined below using a collective impact approach that creates prevention, treatment, and recovery coherence and quality by establishing and supporting a common evidence-based methodology across the region.