West Virginia

The SHINE (Sober Health Initiative – Elevate!) Project provides three new mobile MAT access points, a local harm reduction clinic access point, and a rural hospital emergency department access point in rural Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The SHINE Project uses an existing, modified, mobile clinic to provide telehealth counseling for individuals with SUD/OUD receiving in MAT services. Due to lack of transportation and the difficult mountain terrain, mobile clinics are in the more remote areas of Greenbrier County.

Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery in collaboration with Westbrook Health Services, is applying for HRSA's Rural Communities Opioid Response Program – Medication Assisted Treatment Access to develop a Mobile MAT Program to bring MAT and support services to three rural communities in West Virginia. By refocusing a current harm reduction mobile unit and adding an additional Mobile unit dedicated to MAT and support services, the Westbrook Mobile MAT Program will be able to create new access points in currently underserved communities.

Together with its Consortium of providers and other key stakeholders, Community Care of West Virginia will provide services to individuals with SUD/OUD within the target rural service area who are at risk of becoming pregnant, are currently pregnant, and/or have recently given birth, as well as their families. CCWV will take the lead in addressing the need for contraception, prevention and treatment access to individuals of childbearing age, who have, or are at risk for, SUD/OUD.

The long-term goals of these proposed efforts are to: 1) establish and evaluate a comprehensive team model for infants with NAS and their families; 2) expand and sustain communication among a collection of service providers; and 3) coordinate services that address family need. Target Population: The opioid epidemic is associated with poor health outcomes, chronic stress from abuse and neglect, and poverty and is presently higher than the national average in WV.

PACI will address health equity in the target rural service area by reducing disparities in African American and housing instable individuals who are pregnant/postpartum. Community Connections will identify referral partners in the African American community & initiate culturally competent outreach with the goal of increasing program referrals. Case Managers & Maternal Support Workers will visit client homes and assess housing stability, work with clients to find stable housing & fast track high-need clients to residential SUD programs.

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. The Project Empower Consortium works together to address the needs of the target population throughout preconception, prenatal and labor/delivery, and postpartum stages in a high-risk, rural community.

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.

Prestera Center for Mental Health Services, Inc has proposed to add new medication assisted treatment (MAT) access points that serve adults eighteen years and older with opioid use disorder (OUD) and/or alcohol use disorder (AUD) across six rural West Virginia counties: Boone, Mason, Lincoln, Clay, Monroe and Summers counties. These counties are each physically located in HRSA-designated rural areas (as defined by the Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer). These counties were selected because there are either few or no MAT providers currently located in each county.

The Mid-Ohio Valley: WVU Research Rural Opioid Response Program is a collaborative effort of ten rural counties that build off the success and groundwork established through the Implementation I award. The core Substance Use Disorder/Opioid Use Disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery activities for this grant will be addressed through various approaches.

The Consortium proposes to meet community needs by: (1) partnering with prevention providers and target area schools to provide substance use disorder prevention services to children in target area schools and to the elderly; and (2) initiating the HealthWays Resource Center which will provide community anti-stigma outreach, Narcan training/provision, case management services, mental health and substance use disorder screening/assessments, peer recovery coaching, and referral to care.