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Project Name: Fresno New Connections Community Response Project (FNCCR Project)

Partner Agencies (Subcontractors): LAGS Medical Centers, Lock it Up Project (California Health Collaborative), The Wildfire Effect

Project Description: The primary goal of the FNCCR Project was to increase access to OUD treatment, coordinated and integrated care, recovery support service (RSS), and prevention activities to reduce the prevalence of OUDs and overdose deaths. The project included developing and supporting state, regional, and local level collaborations in Sanger, Reedley, Clovis, Lemoore, Visalia and Dinuba, focusing on service enhancements for best practices to comprehensively address the full continuum of care related to opioid misuse, abuse, and dependency.

Goal 1: Educate and empower youth, young adults, their families, schools, faith-based organizations, community members, and parent engagement organizations to identify opioid abuse and disorders to increase their ability to live drug-free lifestyles, reducing symptoms or needs, and to build resilience through recovery-based support.

Goal 2: Develop and maintain a services coordination and continuum of care that is inclusive of culturally responsive and reflective prevention, behavioral health, SUD, and MAT accessible to youth to enhance their quality of life.

Goal 3: Provide holistic and person-centered treatment that meets individuals’ strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences.

Primary Contact:
Name: Rob Martin
Position: Executive Director
Agency: Fresno New Connection, Inc.
Email: rmartin@teamfnc.com
Phone: (559) 248-1548

Website: https:fresnonewconnections.com

Summary: Fresno New Connections Project

YOR I Project Name: Expanded Learning Programs as Centers of Whole Child Health and Wellness

Partner Agencies: The Glen Price Group

Project Description: The purpose of the project was to create positive outcomes for youth and families in Expanded Learning programs by increasing cohesion between education, intervention, public health, health care, behavioral health, social services, and treatment stakeholders. This project would position Expanded Learning programs as key collaborators promoting whole child and family health and wellness. The goal of the project was to engage cross-sector stakeholders in the creation of a statewide strategic plan that leverages Expanded Learning programs as a vehicle to advance child and family wellness. Stakeholders were engaged from the state to the site level to create a cohesive structure for successful local and statewide collaboration across the continuum of care for children and families to address a variety of variables, including substance use.

YOR II Project Name: Equity-Driven Whole Child Health and Wellness: Substance Use Intervention Pathways

Partner Agencies: Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove, ProYouth, JVH Empower, Sue Nelson Consultant, Glen Price Group

Project Description: This project was designed based on YOR I capacity building efforts to increase access to quality service pathways for youth misusing opioids and/or stimulants. Activities were focused in two counties – Tulare and Orange.  The work was designed to   build sustainable state, organizational, and local-level capacity to continuously improve equity driven whole child health and wellness outcomes. The program convened health, education, expanded learning, mental health, and substance use disorder stakeholders in a networked improvement community designed to integrate authentic youth voice and foster screening and stigma reduction strategies, data sharing partnerships, full access to needed services, and

YOR III Project Name: Expanded Learning Programs as Centers of Whole Child Health and Wellness

Project Description: The California AfterSchool Network (CAN) will increase knowledge of the dangers of Fentanyl, available resources to educate students and families about Fentanyl, and the importance of accessing and training on the use of Naloxone to provide life-saving overdose treatment. CAN will accomplish this through a training and communications campaign.

Primary Contact:
Name: Jeff Davis
Agency: Foundation for California Community Colleges: California AfterSchool Network
Email: jdavis@afterschoolnetwork.org
Phone: 916-325-0854

Website: www.afterschoolnetwork.org

Project Name: FNL YOR California

Partners: Tulare County Office of Education

Project Description: For their statewide project FNL YOR California engaged the statewide Friday Night Live youth development system in 50 of 58 counties to explore ways to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors for youth at risk of opioid use and addiction.  Help increase awareness and reduce stigma around MAT for youth. 

Primary Contact:
Name: Lynne Goodwin
Position: Administrator
Agency: CA FNL Partnership/Tulare County Office of Education
Email: lgoodwin@tcoe.org
Phone: (559) 733-6496

Summary: California Friday Night Live Project

YOR I Project Name: Strengthening School Response to Youth Opioid Use

Partner Agencies (Subcontractors): National Center for Youth Law, California Bridge Program, Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center

Project Description:

The purpose of this project was to reduce opioid deaths by helping schools and school-based health providers improve and expand access to a continuum of quality opioid-related services for youth. There were two YOR I goals: 

• Prevent opioid use among adolescent and transitional aged youth (TAY) across California through peer-to-peer health education in schools.
• Identify and treat adolescent and TAY using opioids by providing schools and school-based health providers with tools to screen for substance use, provide brief interventions, and link to effective treatment, including medication-assisted treatment. 

YOR II Project Name: Addressing Youth Substance Misuse

Partner Agencies: National Center for Youth Law and Two Feathers Native American Family Services

Project Description: The YOR II project aims continued to develop and provide tools and resources to adolescent and school health providers throughout California to significantly reduce and address substance misuse and substance use disorders (SUDs) amongst youth, particularly those in low-income, under-resourced, and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. We are doing this by: (1) ensuring that targeted school health providers in the three regions, as well as throughout California, are better equipped to identify and manage SUDs, especially those that involve opioids and stimulants; (2) facilitating access for more young people to age-appropriate, evidence-based early intervention and treatment; (3) surfacing innovative new strategies that work to prevent substance misuse and reduce the peer and community stigma associated with help-seeking for an SUD; and (4) helping reduce the disproportionate effect of prescription and illicit drugs on indigenous communities in California. We employ evidence-based practices and research indicating that schools and school-based health centers (SBHCs) represent an ideal location to embed these services. The project materials and trainings were available statewide with a focus on the Inland Empire, Central Valley, and Humboldt counties.

Primary Contact:
Name: Sierra Jue-Leong
Position: Project Director
Agency: California School-Based Health Alliance
Email: sjueleong@schoolhealthcenters.org
Phone: 510-268-1160

Website: www.schoolhealthcenters.org

Summary YOR I: California School-Based Health Alliance Project