Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center Inc

SECOND CHANCE MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT AND RECOVERY PROGRAM - THE SCIOTO PAINT VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER IS SEEKING FUNDING THROUGH THE SAMHSA MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT-PRESCRIPTION DRUG AND OPIOID ADDICTION FOR A PROJECT TITLED SECOND CHANGE MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) AND RECOVERY PROGRAM. THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS A TREATMENT APPROACH THAT PROVIDES SCREENING, ASSESSMENT, MAT TREATMENT, SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT (SUD), REFERRALS TO TREATMENT, AND RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INCARCERATED IN LOCAL COUNTY JAILS. IN THE FIRST YEAR, THIS PROGRAM WILL SERVE AT LEAST 100 INDIVIDUALS IN THE PRIMARILY RURAL, PRIMARILY APPALACHIAN AREA: PIKE, PICKAWAY, HIGHLAND, FAYETTE AND ROSS COUNTIES. ADULTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING OPIOID USE DISORDER (OUD) AND CO-OCCURRING MENTAL HEALTH (COD) DISORDERS AND ARE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED IN THE LOCAL COUNTY JAILS WILL BE THE TARGET POPULATION. OVER THE COURSE OF A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD, THIS GRANT WILL SERVE OVER 575 CLIENTS. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE TO ENGAGED INDIVIDUALS WITH OUD IN TREATMENT, PRIMARILY MAT SERVICES, PRIOR TO THEIR RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION TO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF FOLLOW-UP TREATMENT POST INCARCERATION AND WILL AIM TO DECREASE RECIDIVISM RATES IN REGARD TO NUMBER OF CLIENTS RETURNING TO JAIL. LICENSED STAFF WILL BE TRAINED TO PROVIDE SCREENING TOOLS AND COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS TO INMATES. ASSESSMENTS WILL BE UTILIZED TO IDENTIFY POSSIBLE OUD AND COD CONCERNS AND TO THEN REFER THESE INDIVIDUALS TO APPROPRIATE TREATMENT SERVICES THAT CAN BE PROVIDED BY THIS AGENCY WITHIN THE COUNTY JAILS. EVIDENCED-BASED AND POPULATION APPROPRIATE TREATMENT APPROACHES WILL THEN BE PROVIDED BY LICENSED AND TRAINED STAFF SUCH AS QUALITY INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING, MAT SERVICES, CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, RECOVERY SUPPORTS, AND REFERRAL TO RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS, OUTPATIENT TREATMENT, AND RECOVERY HOUSING AS APPROPRIATE UPON RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION. TELEHEALTH SERVICES WILL BE UTILIZED AS NEEDED TO PROVIDE COUNSELING SERVICES WHICH WILL ALLOW THESE SERVICES TO CONTINUE AND ELIMINATE BARRIERS TO SUCCESS. ONCE THE PERSON IS STABILIZED AND READY FOR RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION, RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES SUCH AS VOCATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST CLIENTS. UPON RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION, SPVMHC STAFF WILL ASSIST CLIENTS IN ATTENDING APPOINTMENTS IN THE COMMUNITY, HELP PREPARE THEM FOR SEEKING AND OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT, ASSIST THEM IN OBTAINING THEIR GED AND ACCESSING OTHER EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, AND ASSISTING THEM IN SEEKING APPROPRIATE HOUSING. THESE RECOVERY SUPPORTS WILL ASSIST CLIENTS IN BETTER MEETING THEIR BASIC NEEDS AND WILL LIKELY ASSIST IN TREATMENT RETENTION AND SUCCESS.

THE LACK OF CRISIS STABILIZATION, BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, MENTAL HEALTH STAFF SHORTAGES, TREATMENT OPTIONS DUE TO INSURANCE RESTRAINTS, AND THE OUT-OF-CONTROL SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS WITHIN FAMILIES HAS RESULTED IN A PLETHORA OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE GAPS IN JUVENILE AND ADULTS WHO ARE INCARCERATED. ADD TO THIS LIST THE OPIOID AND COVID PANDEMICS ALONG WITH THE UNDIAGNOSED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES WITHIN THE RURAL AREAS OF THIS MIDWEST STATE, IT IS FOUND THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE BECOMING MORE ILL AND UNDERSERVED AS TIME GOES ON. THERE ARE REPORTS OF SUICIDAL IDEATIONS AND BEHAVIORS, SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIORS, AND HIGH RECIDIVISM. COHESIVE TREATMENT PROTOCOLS AND WARM HAND-OFFS ARE WARRANTED. THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS FUNDING FOR TWO SPECIAL POPULATIONS WITHIN A SIX-COUNTY TREATMENT AREA – JUVENILES AND ADULTS. EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENTS, COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS, AND AVAILABLE MEDICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR THOSE WHO ARE INCARCERATED IN COUNTY JAILS AND IN A COURT-ORDERED JUVENILE FACILITY ARE ALL A PART OF THIS COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSAL THAT SEEKS TO AMELIORATE THE ABOVE-MENTIONED BARRIERS.