Southwest Alabama Opioid Response Project Team
West Central Alabama Area Health Education Center is the recipient organization of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program(RCORP) Implementation II,III, and IV—a multi-year initiative that addresses barriers to treatment for substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD). The program works toward the Health and Human Services’ goal of ending the opioid epidemic. RCORP is supported through HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
West Central Alabama Area Health Education Center
VALUES: Diversity of the Alabama healthcare workforce. Education by improving the supply and distribution of healthcare professionals in underserved Alabama communities through community/academic educational partnership. Equal access to healthcare for underserved and disadvantaged populations; improving health outcomes; and reducing health disparities Workforce and economic development through expanding the Alabama healthcare workforce.
MISSION STATEMENT: To improve health equity in West Alabama by supporting healthcare workforce and community-based initiatives aimed to address social determinants of health.
VISION: Connecting students to careers, professionals to communities, and communities to better health.
Rosie London, MSM, MSHR is the Executive Director of West Central Alabama Area Health Education Center and the Project Director for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Programs.
Team
Our team is committed to increasing capacity, reducing morbidity, and reducing mortality of those at risk and diagnosed with substance use disorder, specifically opioid use disorder. We work in tandem with our multi-sector consortium to meet the needs of individuals and families through community education and collaboration throughout our fifteen- county service area.
Rosie London, MSM, MHR
Executive Director of West Central Alabama AHEC and Project Director of RCORP Programs
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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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