Community Health and Support
Community Health
We strive to increase awareness of opioid and substance misuse, prevention, treatment, recovery within the communities of Clarke, Choctaw, Escambia, Marengo, Monroe, and Sumter.
Healthcare Professionals
We aim to increase awareness of opioid and substance misuse among healthcare professionals and the ability to identify and screen individuals at risk for SUD/OUD.
Healthcare professionals will be equipped to provide or make referrals to prevention, harm reduction, early intervention, treatment, and other support services to minimize the potential for the development of SUD/OUD.
Community Health Workers
Our community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in helping bridge the gap between community and healthcare services. CHWs help increase the number of patients receiving SUD and OUD services while also increasing the number of patients who receive referrals to community support services.
Healthcare Provider Support
The Providers Clinical Support System’s (PCSS) mission is to increase healthcare providers’ knowledge and skills in the prevention, identification, and treatment of substance use disorders with a focus on opioid use disorders.
PCSS is a program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) created in response to the opioid overdose epidemic to train primary care providers in the evidence-based prevention and treatment of opioid use disorders (OUD) and treatment of chronic pain. The project is geared toward primary care providers who wish to treat OUD. Source: PCSS
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The Southwest Alabama Opioid Response Project is an initiative of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program and aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD) in the rural Alabama communities of Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dallas, Escambia, Greene, Henry, Marengo, Monroe, Perry, Sumter and Wilcox Counties.
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