11/3/2017 1:49:09 PM
Organization |
Total 3-Year Grant Award |
White Earth Nation |
$1.8 million |
Red Lake Nation |
$1.5 million |
Fairview Health Services |
$1.4 million |
Organization |
Total 2-Year Grant |
Description |
American Indian Family Center |
$54,400 |
· The projects will train and hire paraprofessional maternal outreach workers cross-trained in recovery support.
· These workers will be added to programs supported by Women’s Recovery Services, a DHS grant program. The care model is inspired by the Parent Child Assistance Program, which is an evidence-based approach whose goals are to:
o Assist substance‐abusing pregnant and parenting mothers in obtaining substance use disorder treatment, staying in recovery, and resolving myriad complex problems related to their substance abuse.
o To link mothers to community resources that will help them build and maintain healthy, independent family lives, and to prevent the future births of alcohol and drug‐affected children. |
Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe Human Services |
$57,400 |
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Hope House of Itasca County |
$59,200 |
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Journey Home (St. Cloud Hospital Recovery Plus) |
$110,000 |
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Meeker-McLeod-Sibley (MMS) Counties Human Services |
$57,400 |
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Perspectives, Inc. |
$59,800 |
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Resource, Inc. |
$73,000 |
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RS Eden, Inc. |
$66,600 |
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Ramsey County Mothers First |
$74,000 |
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St. Stephens Human Services (Kateri Residence) |
$54,600 |
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Wayside Recovery Center |
$71,200 |
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Wellcome Manor Family Services |
$62,400 |
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Clay County |
$300,000 |
· The Clay County Detox will hire a full time care coordinator who will serve opioid use disorder clients and assist them with successful transitions for a continuum of care.
· Referral and assistance to access medication-assisted treatment will begin within the first 48 hours of admission to the detox facility and the coordinator will identify referring, treatment and support agencies in the county and surrounding communities.
· The care coordinator will integrate person centered planning as a key component for discharge planning.
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Dakota Communities (contract with the Upper Sioux) |
$554,938 |
· The Dakota Communities will develop an assessment tool based upon Dakota cultural strengths and resources to better assess the healing needs through a holistic and cultural lens.
· The Dakota Communities will design and develop a collaborative care plan that is coordinated between, and capitalizes upon, the cultural strengths and resources of the four Dakota communities in Minnesota.
· The Dakota Communities will design and develop a plan for a culturally intrinsic healing center and transitional housing facility that more effectively and sustainably responds to the opioid epidemic in the four Minnesota Dakota communities.
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Hennepin County Medical Center |
$1,025,000 |
· HCMC Division of Addiction Medicine will serve as Minnesota’s Project ECHO hub. Along with other ECHO sites throughout Minnesota, HCMC will engage Minnesota’s medical communities in a series of learning collaboratives via videoconference “clinics” focusing on evidence-based assessment and management of patients with opioid use disorders and associated comorbidities.
· The teaching faculty and audience will be multidisciplinary and work together to discuss patient needs within the context of effective, patient-centric models of health care delivery.
· HCMC will assist community providers in the stabilization of their patients through education, consultation, and direct care with the ultimate goal of empowering general medical practices to bring quality evidence-based care to their patients.
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Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe |
$150,000 |
· The Integrated Care for High Risk Pregnancies (ICHRP) supports programs targeted at opiate use during pregnancy.
· The grant supports planning, system development and integration of medical, chemical dependency, public health, social services and child welfare.
· Additional funds have been added to support the training and hiring of paraprofessionals to the care team. These workers will have knowledge and skills related to peer recovery support, maternity care, system navigation and advocacy.
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Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe |
$264,000 |
· The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe’s AHNJI-BII-MAH-DIZ Halfway House in Cass Lake will reduce recidivism and re-offense among Native American offenders that have a history of opioid misuse. AHNJI-BII-MAH-DIZ will provide care coordination in a transitional housing setting to help clients successfully transition from correctional facilities back to their communities.
· Clients will develop individual treatment plans, set employment goals and work on strategies for long-term housing.
· At AHNJI-BII-MAH-DIZ clients will have access to a network of social support and community wellness programs that will aid in their successful transition back into the community.
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Meridian |
$399,860 |
· Valhalla Place will target high-risk active opioid users, along with their friends and families, to provide education about opioid overdose and train them to use Naloxone to reverse an opioid overdose.
· Naloxone kits will be distributed through syringe exchange programs, community outreach agencies, Native American/Tribal organizations and substance use disorder treatment programs to promote access to treatment whenever possible.
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Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe |
$75,000 |
· The Integrated Care for High Risk Pregnancies (ICHRP) supports programs targeted at opiate use during pregnancy.
· The grant supports planning, system development and integration of medical, chemical dependency, public health, social services and child welfare. Additional funds have been added to support the training and hiring of paraprofessionals to the care team.
· These workers will have knowledge and skills related to peer recovery support, maternity care, system navigation and advocacy.
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Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe |
$247,531 |
· The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MLBO) Nenda-Noojimig Mino Gigizheb Program will integrate a coordinated plan of care for Native American Indian community members, aged 18 or older, who self-identify as experiencing opioid use disorder (OUD). · The program will provide long-term coordinated care through improving access to culturally specific opioid disorder treatment, decreasing the current gaps in unmet treatment needs and reducing opioid related deaths through increased prevention, treatment and recovery efforts related to OUD.
· The MLBO Nenda-Noojimig (“Those ones who seek healing”) Mino Gigizheb (“It is a good morning”) Program will integrate a coordinated plan of care for Native American Indian community members, aged 18 or older, who self-identify as experiencing opioid use disorder (OUD).
· The program will undertake an assessment to develop a blueprint for opioid community response that will create an action plan on how to implement strategies to decrease the burden of opioid misuse, abuse and overdose in the MLBO community, address public awareness, provider education, and access to treatment.
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Minnesota Department of Health |
$300,000 |
· MDH will provide Minnesota’s eight regional Emergency Medical Service (EMS) programs with funds to purchase opiate antagonists. EMS and law enforcement officers will be trained in the recognition, response and treatment of drug overdose.
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Minnesota Hospital Association |
$50,000 |
· The Minnesota Hospital Association Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) subgroup will develop a roadmap to better identify, screen and treat NAS.
· The roadmap will be based on published literature and evidence based best practices, incorporating expert feedback from obstetricians, perinatologists and neonatologists in partnership with patients and multi-disciplinary leaders.
· The roadmap will help medical professionals identify opioid addiction early during pregnancy to increase the number of women accessing appropriate treatment before giving birth, guide providers to newborn assessment tools to help with early identification, and share best practices in NAS treatment to help hospitals and health systems make decisions about treatment. |
Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center |
$93,075 |
· Nokomis Endaad, of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, will provide care coordination to clients who have mental health, housing, or medical needs, in addition to economic assistance and life skills support.
· Included is their weekly Women’s Sobriety Support group which is an avenue for women to develop and maintain relationships with other sober women in the community. |
Minnesota Mental Health Community Foundation |
$134,125 |
· Fast-Tracker is an online, searchable database of substance use disorder and opioid use disorder treatment programs and resources.
· The Minnesota Mental Health Community Foundation’s Fast-TrackerMNSUD.org will offer searchers information about programs, availability, services offered, and special aspects of each program.
· Emergency contacts and information about life-saving resources are available on every page online anytime. Fast-TrackerMnSUD.org is also a resource for information offering information and links to more. |
Native American Community Clinic |
$130,000 |
· NACC will increase access to opioid-related treatment and improve retention in care through the expansion of their medically assisted treatment program. NACC plans to train a provider for the addition of one new office based opioid treatment provider to prescribe buprenorphine/naloxone to increase their capability of prescribing to 130 patients. NACC will build on its comprehensive program with Minneapolis-based White Earth Substance Abuse Treatment Program to screen and to provide intake, daily dosing, nurse care coordination and recovery services (counseling at NACC and recovery groups at White Earth). NACC will prioritize American Indian pregnant women for the program.
· NACC will develop a syringe exchange program in partnership with the community organization. The syringe exchange program will greatly decrease the risk for transmission of blood borne pathogens (HIV, Hepatitis C) as well as provide an opportunity for nurse triage, overdose prevention education with naloxone, and referral and linkage to critical health resources. Under this community partnership, NACC will provide sterile needles, syringes and biohazard sharps removal. NACC will provide in-kind registered nurse and community health worker time to assist in staffing of the syringe exchange |
Recovery is Happening |
$418,731 |
· · Recovery is Happening (RIH) will hire two peer recovery specialists to assist clients suffering from opioid use disorder. The peer recovery specialists will help provide a comprehensive approach to recovery by replacing “referrals” to treatment with “accompaniment and support.”
· The peer accompanies the individual to every needed appointment and ensures that all providers are working together to provide appropriate services directed at achieving long term recovery. The peer recovery specialists will attend medicated assisted recovery implementation team training. The training will teach the implementation team how to replicate the medicated assisted recovery model at RIH, including peer recovery support and education about medication-assisted treatment and recovery.
· RIH will employ a full-time Rule 25 assessors to provide substance use disorder assessment at RIH, as well as off campus by appointment to meet individuals where they are in the entire southeastern Minnesota region.
· Further, the assessor will be available for outreach in adult detention centers, detox centers, and hospitals to facilitate urgent evaluations for those incarcerated or on commitment with opioid use disorder. This will remove administrative hurdles and allowing for immediate connection with a recovery community, peer recovery specialists, medicated assisted recovery groups, intensive long-term outpatient treatment, housing and more.
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Red Lake Nation |
$150,000 |
· The Integrated Care for High Risk Pregnancies (ICHRP) supports programs targeted at opiate use during pregnancy. The grant supports planning, system development and integration of medical, chemical dependency, public health, social services and child welfare.
· Additional funds have been added to support the training and hiring of paraprofessionals to the care team. These workers will have knowledge and skills related to peer recovery support, maternity care, system navigation and advocacy.
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Rural AIDS Action Network |
$249,986 |
· Provide syringe exchange services and naloxone training and distribution to community members and professionals.
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St. Louis County |
$675,000 |
· The Opioid Withdrawal Management Unit (OWMU) is a six bed, continuum of care unit embedded within the Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment Detox Unit providing a medically supervised environment for opioid withdrawal including Methadone or Suboxone. Expected length of stay is 3-5 days. Once stable, patients are referred to an appropriate level of care. The OWMU provides immediate access to an array of treatment services for opioid overdose survivors removing the barrier of wait times that often result in fatal overdoses.
· Activities to expand access to naloxone within the Carlton and St. Louis county communities include partnering with UMD College of Pharmacy and the Rural AIDS Action Network (RAAN) to train prescribers, pharmacists, student leaders, local coalitions and drug court participants and their families in the distribution and use of naloxone. In addition, RAAN and Carlton and St. Louis counties will deliver naloxone directly to opioid users in rural Northern Carlton and St. Louis counties as well as clean syringe exchange and HIV HEP-C testing eliminating the barrier of people driving over 100 miles one way in order to get to the Duluth RAAN office for these life-saving services.
· The OBOT (office-based opioid treatment) project is embedded in a treatment continuum including an OWMU, ClearPath MAT (medication-assisted treatment) Clinic, and Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment Rule 31 outpatient treatment. The OBOT project will offer an array of options entirely driven by a holistic and individualized care plan with the ability to respond to a wide range of patient severity, complexity, motivation to change and recover. The OBOT project will work to recruit additional waivered physicians and will maintain a support system for physicians and their patients as needed. The OBOT project will reduce unmet treatment needs. |
The Steve Rummler HOPE Network |
$200,000 |
· Provide training and naloxone kits to any individual or group in need, including hospitals and healthcare agencies, first responders, treatment centers, sober living facilities, treatment court and the public; Educate and provide opioid overdose rescue kits to populations and regions of Minnesota identified as Minnesota’s potential opioid service gaps.
· Counties in this initiative include: Beltrami, Stearns, Dakota, Washington, Nobles, Carlton, St. Louis, Crow Wing Baker, Polk, Roseau, Clearwater, Cass, Mahnomen, Hennepin and neighboring regions.
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Unity Family Healthcare d/b/a St. Gabriel’s Health |
$293,331 |
· CHI St. Gabriel’s Health will provide expertise and experience on best practices in addressing opioid use disorder in the family practice setting.
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Wayside Recovery Center |
$650,600 |
· Wayside will serve as a Project ECHO hub, providing capacity and competency building regarding best practices that best serve pregnant, post-partum and parenting women struggling with opioid dependence.
· Wayside Recovery Center will increase their Peer Recovery services to assist with transitions between levels of care, better integration into community life, be supported, and engage in long-term relationships with Wayside in order to achieve a sustainable future on the recovery journey.
· Women who are pregnant, post-partum or parenting who are also incarcerated and need opioid based treatment options many times fall through the cracks. Wayside will offer treatment and recovery liaisons who will go into the community and offer out-reach, assessments, and transition care coordination for those |
White Earth Nation |
$150,000 |
· The Integrated Care for High Risk Pregnancies (ICHRP) supports programs targeted at opiate use during pregnancy. The grant supports planning, system development and integration of medical, chemical dependency, public health, social services and child welfare.
· Additional funds have been added to support the training and hiring of paraprofessionals to the care team. These workers will have knowledge and skills related to peer recovery support, maternity care, system navigation and advocacy.
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Wilder Recovery Services |
$124,669 |
· Wilder Recovery Services will offer bilingual, bicultural care coordination services to clients in its outpatient treatment program, which specializes in serving clients from Southeast Asian backgrounds with dual diagnosis mental health and substance use disorders. The primary goal of care coordination is supporting the whole-client, whole-family recovery journey, all from a culturally-affirming and responsive lens while building an active continuum of care relationships with other providers and support services in the state of Minnesota.
· Wilder Recovery Services will offer bilingual, bicultural peer recovery services to clients in its outpatient treatment program, which specializes in serving clients from Southeast Asian backgrounds with dual diagnosis mental health and substance use disorders.
· Peer Recovery services will offer one-on-one support to clients with an opioid use disorder in both the outpatient treatment program and aftercare groups. The peer will provide non-clinical services such as mentorship and peer support; destigmatize the process of addiction, treatment and recovery; and support the care coordinator and client in completing community referrals and recovery goals such as housing, employment, education, and basic needs.
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