Arming Minorities Against Addiction & Disease (AMAAD) Institute
California
Arming Minorities Against Addiction & Disease (AMAAD) Institute was designed to engage, motivate, and strengthen communities of color in South Los Angeles through peer-driven recovery and essential services support.
Experience
- Support services, community support, and resources
- Specialized, strength-based management and leadership development
- Focus among LGBTQIA+ people of color
Eskenazi Hospital’s Project POINT
Indianapolis, Indiana
Eskenazi Hospital’s Project POINT (Planned Outreach, Intervention, Naloxone, and Treatment) is a team of certified peer recovery coaches and a social worker. The program is present seven days a week in the emergency department at Eskenazi Hospital. They offer wrap-around services to patients who present with a substance use disorder.
Experience
- Aiding in insurance sign-up
- Providing medication vouchers, food gift cards, clothing, and harm reduction kits
- Conducting assessments for MAT services
- Facilitating connections to recovery housing
- Providing referrals and transportation to detox, treatment facilities, and outpatient clinics
- Providing follow-up support
Hope Coalition
North Carolina
Hope Coalition supports the development of comprehensive, locally driven responses to opioids, stimulants, and other substances, in partnership with law enforcement, through the expansion of supervision, prevention, and PRSS to improve access to and quality of supports countywide for the purposes of providing diversion and reentry support.
Experience
- Peer counseling services with trained peer support specialists in long-term recovery
- Facilitated support group meetings affording participants the opportunity to share their experiences in a safe space
- Case navigation for individuals in need of support
- Bike program and voucher program to address transportation barriers
- Social activities that promote healthy, sober engagement
- Education and vocational support, including GED services, certificate programs, and referrals toother services
- Alcohol assessments and education
- Parent support programs, and resources
- Community projects to help individuals reconnect to their communities
- Peer support programs, and peer support specialist training
Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System (HEROES)
at the University of Texas
Texas
Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System (HEROES) at the University of Texas is a recovery community organization that provides comprehensive clinical and behavioral health treatment services and assertive outreach, to include PRSS, at no cost to individuals seeking long-term recovery from opioid use disorder, to parents who are involved in the child welfare system, and within sober high schools in Adolescent Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care.
Experience
- Initial screening by a physician associate, followed by a physician appointment to discuss medication-assisted treatment options
- Same-day prescription where medically necessary
- Assistance setting up long term treatment
- Licensed chemical dependency counseling
- Peer recovery coaching
- Peer-facilitated support groups
- Recovery tracking mobile app
- Counselor-facilitated educational support groups
- Recognition for milestones in recovery
Latah Recovery Community Center, Inc.
Idaho
Latah Recovery Community Center, Inc. is an established nonprofit rural recovery community organization (RCO) with 7 years’ experience providing volunteer and professional peer recovery support services.
Experience
- Peer recovery coaching
- A 24/7 behavioral health crisis center
- A harm reduction program that includes naloxone distribution and safe syringe exchange
- Outreach and free case management services to their local jail, specialty court, university, and veteran populations
- A housing program with Oxford House
- 25 group meetings per week
Oklahoma Citizen Advocates For Recovery and
Transformation Association (OCARTA)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Citizen Advocates for Recovery and Transformation Association (OCARTA) is an established recovery community organization (RCO) that has provided PRSS for over 20 years.
Experience
- The only Council on Accreditation of Peer Recovery Support Services (CAPRSS) accredited RCO in Oklahoma
- The seventh RCO in the nation to become CAPRSS accredited
- Sister 2 Sister program provides peer mentoring and recovery support services for women and women with children who are seeking or are in recovery
- Wellness Hub program provides peer support services for anyone else who is seeking or is in recovery
State of Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC)
Richmond, Virginia
The State of Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) is a public safety state agency. VADOC provides peer recovery support services (PRSS) statewide through probation and parole offices, as well as select correctional centers.
Experience
- Providing PRSS since October 2019
University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB)
Alabama
University of Alabama, Birmingham Department of Psychiatry, Substance Abuse Division is partnering with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office to expand peer recovery services to pretrial supervision participants and provide evidence-based treatment, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), to individuals at high risk for overdose. The program seeks to address persistent poverty, serve a region that has been disproportionately impacted by substance use, reduce recidivism rates, and increase treatment admission rates.
Experience
- Comprehensive screening and assessment
- Outpatient program and intensive outpatient levels of care for adults
- Outpatient and intensive outpatient levels of care for adolescents age 13 to 18
- Day treatment program
- Individual, group, family therapy, and aftercare
- Group sessions in the morning, afternoon, evening, and weekends
- Specialty groups (grief, trauma, gender-specific, etc.)
- Onsite mental health and primary health care
- Opioid-specific interventions with medication-assisted treatment
- Case management to connect patients to community resources
- Certified peer recovery support specialists on staff
- Individualized recovery plans to meet the individual needs of each patient
- School-based interventions
- Community justice programs
Wellbeing Initiative, Inc.
Nebraska
Wellbeing Initiative, Inc. is a peer-led nonprofit organization that partners with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health in the implementation of the Overdose Prevention and Intervention (OPI) Program.
Experience
- Provides peer recovery services in hospitals, treatment courts, jails, and treatment centers
- Provides technical assistance to behavioral health and integrated health centers
- Focuses on transition-age youth experiencing homelessness
- Focuses on providing peer recovery services for tribal populations
Winthrop Police Department, C.L.E.A.R.
(Community and Law Enforcement Assisted Recovery) Program
Massachusetts
Winthrop Police Department, C.L.E.A.R. Program is a law enforcement and public health department multidisciplinary partnership that has developed into a nationally recognized program that assists individuals in keeping hope alive through acknowledging recovery as an achievable goal for anyone through recovery-oriented community policing.
Experience
- Connecting at-risk community members with the services they need
- Ensuring and enhancing recovery
- Harm reduction
- Addiction recovery
- Mental health stability
- Socioeconomic stability
- Access to vital resources
- Eradicating stigma
