Culturally and linguistically appropriate education and stigma reduction

• Development of a media marketing campaign
  
• Establishment of Families Against Narcotics (FAN) Chapters
• Evidence-based training in collaboration with consortium partners

Increase access to Naloxone

• Identify partners and non-partners, currently providing Naloxone education and kit distribution.
• Provide education on best practice and management strategies.
• Apply for funding to support Naloxone service expansion.

Year-round drug take-back programs

• Provide education to the community on the importance of drug take-back.
• Build relationships stakeholders and drug take-back programs.
• Increase the number of year-round drug take-back programs throughout the service area.

Increase and support school and community-based prevention programs.

• Expand evidence-based SUD/OUD curricula throughout the education systems within the three-county area including K-12 and higher education.
• Host educational speakers and public forums throughout the communities.
• Collaborate with community partners, e.g. farmer’s markets, local fairs, community gatherings, etc., to expand education opportunities.

Identify, screen, and refer individuals at risk for SUD/OUD.

• Utilize the CMREN media vendor to create a web-based central repository of counseling service, behavioral health service providers, support groups, harm reduction services, and recovery support services.
• Promote Hope Not Handcuffs (FAN) and MSP Angel Program.
• Amplify best practices for screening and referral services.

Screen, refer, and/or treat patients who have SUD/OUD with infectious complications.

• Engage with collaborative partners to coordinate access to necessary screening and treatment, while developing a comprehensive care plan for SUD/OUD patients with infectious complications.

Recruit, train, and mentor interdisciplinary teams to provide Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

• Identify barriers for MAT.
• Increase interdisciplinary recruitment and continuing education for MAT providers.
• Establish a peer mentoring support network among MAT providers.

Increase the number of providers and other health and social services professionals treating SUD/OUD.

• Manage and host interdisciplinary CME approved SUD/OUD training.
• Increase opportunities for collaborative relationships to provide education for health professionals.
• Enhance FSU student engagement in SUD/OUD training and education.
  • Grow the workforce through professional development, recruitment incentives, and loan repayment programs.

Reduce barriers to integrated treatment.

• Collaborate with FSU Dental Hygiene program and local dentists to reduce barriers to treatment and minimize stigma.
• Embed FAN initiatives to support stigma reduction, peer recovery, and family support services.
• Increase the use of community health workers (CHW) to assist in building relationships with at-risk patients, ensure compliance, and decrease barriers to care.
• Increase use or patient navigators to support integrated treatment and recovery of at-risk populations.
• Investigate best practices for planning and treatment of pregnant women, the elderly, and children who have experienced Adverse Childhood Events (ACE).

Strengthen collaboration with law enforcement and first responders.

• Collaborate with law enforcement and local drug court
  • Hope Not Handcuffs, MSP Angel Program
• Collaborate with Spectrum Health and First Responders to introduce Come Back Rapid Response Program (quick response team for EMT to call if patient resists being taken to the hospital, a FAN program).
• Increase emergency treatment availability through collaboration with FSU Criminal Justice Program, FSU Safety, and local law enforcement agencies.

Optimize reimbursement for treatment encounters through proper coding and billing.

• Collaborate with MiRHC and Association for Rural and Community Health Professional Coding (ARCHPC) for best-practice education.
• Provide education to local providers and billing centers to reduce treatment costs.
• Investigate opportunity to implement new payment models to reduce cost of services uninsured and underinsured patients.

Enable individual families and caregivers to find access to evidence-based, affordable treatments for SUD/OUD.

• Promote use of CHW and Patient Navigators to find and access evidence-based affordable treatments, encouraging use of CMREN web site service listing.
• Coordinate with FAN to deliver family coaching and support services.

Enhance the discharge coordination for SUD/OUD patients leaving the criminal and/or social justice system.

• Promote use of CHW and Patient Navigators to find and access evidence-based affordable treatments, encouraging use of CMREN web site service listing.
• Coordinate with FAN to deliver family coaching and support services.
• MSP Angel, Hope Not Handcuffs, and Hope and Healing (leaving hospital)
• Coordinate with faith-based organizations to provide education to individuals in recovery.
• Establish relationship with Sisters of Sobriety to expand recovery community and create new communities.
• Establish relationship with local transit authority to increase access to local services.

Expand peer workforce and programming as interventionists in various settings.

• Peer recovery coaches, CHS, faith-based programming and support.
• Increase access to MDHHS certified peer recovery certification trainings.

Support the development of recovery communities, recovery coaches, and recovery community organizations to expand access to recovery support services.

• Collaborate with community organizations, e.g. FAN, Sisters of Sobriety and Ten16.
• Collaborate with Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan (PIHP) to implement peer recovery coaching in outpatient settings including Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).
• Faith-based wrap-around programs.
• Intent to develop Narcotics Anonymous Chapters.