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Prior YOR Grantee

Kern County Behavioral and Recovery Services

Project Name: Kern County Youth Treatment Access Expansion

Project Description: Through strengthened partnership Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (KernBHRS) will develop outreach strategies specific to youth that are in need of substance use disorder treatment services. Increased outreach will promote enrollment in SUD treatment programs for youth (12-17) and young adults (18-24), prepare treatment providers to better serve adolescents and young adults that have an opioid use disorder, and increase access to Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). These goals will be reached by engaging youth serving community partners to formulate strategies for providing addiction and recovery education, overdose prevention approaches, and resources for accessing SUD treatment locally. Additionally, work will be done throughout the community to provide support in stigma reduction and ease stigma related barriers to youth and young adult access of MAT services.

Primary Contact:

Name: Liz Bailey
Position: Behavioral Health Recovery Systems Administrator
Phone: 661-868-7852
Email: EBailey@KernBHRS.org

Website: https://www.kernbhrs.org/

Prior YOR Grantee

California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals

Project Name: SUD Youth Specialty Credential

Description: CCAPP is the largest statewide consortium of community-based for-profit and nonprofit substance use disorder treatment agencies and addiction-focused professionals, providing services to over 100,000 California residents annually. CCAPP is the only statewide consortium representing all modalities of SUD treatment programs and professionals, which includes adolescents. CCAPP is proud to trailblaze a new specialty credential for existing SUD counselors to be recognized for youth and adolescent competency. Adolescents will hold a platform on the implementation of this education and share their voice, directly influencing CCAPP’s new youth credential. By educating existing counselors, CCAPP will empower them to reach their communities with confidence knowing their credential matches the incredible work they do for their community. The next generation deserves a fighting chance against SUD; this new specialty credential will match our needs to improve our communities indefinitely.

Primary Contact:

Name: Stephanie Borkovec
Position: Public Relations
Phone: (714) 269-0304
Email: communications@ccapp.us,

Agency Web Site: https://ccapp.us

Current YOR 4 grantee

Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County

YOR IV Project Name: Pajaro Valley Youth SUD Prevention and Education Project

Project Description: Building on our experience and partnerships developed in YOR II & III, HIPSCC will support the creation and operation of a youth-led SUD advisory board for Pajaro Valley, composed of young individuals who have shown themselves to be active health advocates and trusted peer leaders to guide our efforts to increase access to integrated, youth-focused SUD services in Pajaro Valley. HIPSCC plans to expand access to youth-oriented SUD prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services by building and enhancing the use of trauma-informed SUD services that are patient-centered and that address the specific emotional and behavioral health needs of youth with complex needs. The project will strengthen and expand the reach of our community and school-based SUD prevention efforts by emphasizing cross sector systemic approach and revising the curriculum and education materials to ensure they are culturally responsive and appropriate for the age and literacy level of attendees. By ensuring the wants, needs, and beliefs of young people are taken into consideration and by giving them an active role in the decision-making processes that affect their wellness and care, we anticipate a higher level of engagement of youth in shaping strategies and policies related to SUD services in their communities and increased impact and sustainability of our efforts.

Partner Agencies: Salud Para La Gente, Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance

YOR III Project Name: Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) SUD Learning Collaborative

Project Description: SafeRx Santa Cruz County (SafeRx) is a multi-sector substance safety coalition dedicated to aligning best practices around overdose prevention. SafeRx is housed under the Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County, a non-profit coalition of 26 local public and private healthcare organizations.

SafeRx seeks to address access, capacity and knowledge gaps related to MAT for youth (ages 12-24) within the Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey Tri-County region through developing an Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) SUD Learning Collaborative. Key partners include Santa Cruz Community Health clinics and the Central Coast Overdose Prevention Coalition consisting of champion MAT providers, clinical staff, youth, and youth-serving organizations convening to strategize improved MAT access for youth.

The Goals of AYA:

Elevate the lived experiences of youth around SUDs
Expand Tri-County youth MAT provider networks
Highlight and share best practices around MAT for youth
Host expert speakers, facilitate peer learning and review case studies

YOR II Project Name: SafeRx Youth Care Integration

Project Description: SafeRx Santa Cruz County, an opioid and substance use prevention and safety coalition, and Santa Cruz County Office of Education’s Schools Integrated Behavioral Health Initiative (SIBHI) partnered to develop and expand Santa Cruz County capacity to overcome barriers to youth treatment and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) access. Youth treatment needs, driven by information collected from key informants, was integrated into coalition meetings and projects, including material creation, MAT expansion, and naloxone distribution. This project increased awareness among youth, families, and school staff about existing treatment options, as well as working to identify and fill gaps. There were increased interagency connections through networking and enrollment in a new county-wide closed loop social service referral system.

Partner Agencies: Santa Cruz County Office of Education, SafeRx Santa Cruz County

Primary Contact:
Name: Celyne Demonteverde
Position: Programs Director
Email: cdemonteverde@hipscc.org
Phone: 805-455-5680
Website: www.hipscc.org

Prior YOR Grantee

County of Solano Probation Department

Project Name: Solano County Probation Collaborative Youth OUD/SUD Treatment Program

Project Description: The Solano County Probation Department (SCPD)’s Collaborative Youth OUD/SUD Treatment Program will expand access via a menu of services to reach youth/young adults. The menu brings together four Medi-Cal SUD treatment providers and SCPD to create a network of strategies to reach client youth before/during justice involvement. The program reduces opioid/stimulant use and addiction among vulnerable youth who are justice involved or at-risk for system involvement aged 12-24 in Solano County through a multi-agency collaborative to recruit, assess, and refer youth to prevention, intervention, and treatment programs. Our goals include: 1) Increasing access for youth and young adults to timely, effective, culturally responsive OUD/SUD services; and 2) an overall reduction in at-risk youth developing an OUD/SUD through fortified partnerships and extensive community engagement, prevention, and intervention efforts.

Primary Contact:

Name: Jessica Fraser
Position: Quality Assurance & Implementation Analyst
Agency: Solano County Probation
Email: jafraser@solanocounty.com
Phone: (707) 784-7689

Website: https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/probation/contact/juvediv.asp

Prior YOR Grantee

Eggleston Youth Center

Project Name: The Eggleston Substance Abuse and Education Project

Description: The Eggleston Substance Abuse and Education Project seeks to reduce unmet treatment need and opioid overdose-related deaths through prevention, treatment, and/or recovery support activities for OUD and for stimulant misuse and use disorders to reduce the impact of the opioid and stimulant crisis on youth and families. In addition, focusing on destigmatizing misinformation about medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for youth with opioid use disorders using language that is selective and purposeful, while advocating for the non-judgmental, non-coercive provision of services and resources for successful outcomes while addressing opioid use disorder OUD/StUDs and overdoses across the continuum of prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery, with a focus on youth/young adult populations and communities at the highest risk of mortality, and with higher barriers to services, including communities of color, justice-involved populations, pregnant women, and subpopulations and expanding access to youth-relevant outreach.

Primary Contact:

Name: Linda M. Garcia, MBA, CADC-II
Position: SUD Program Director
Email: lmgarcia@egglestonyouthcenter.org
Phone: (626) 472-6000

Current YOR 4 grantee

Another Choice, Another Chance

YOR IV Project Name: Transcend II: Support Beyond Boundaries

Project Description: Supporting our mission is to reduce the prevalence of substance use and addiction within underserved communities, Another Choice Another Chance (ACAC) will continue to prevent overdose and increase access to treatment through its Transcend Program. Building on our findings and experience under YOR III, ACAC services are expanding to include a pop-up community drop-in center and a community street outreach team. This initiative will focus on engaging young people (ages 16–25) in Sacramento County who are at risk for, or currently using, stimulants or opioids.

The Transcend Program is designed to be inclusive and welcoming to youth from all backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on reaching underserved populations. The program will provide a safe, supportive, and engaging environment where participants can access mindfulness-based prevention, educational enrichment opportunities, and substance use treatment services.

Partner Agencies: PFLAG, Luther Burbank High School, Sacramento Co. Department of Probation, Sacrament Co. Department of Health and Human Services, La Familia Family Counseling Center, MedMark, Better Life Children Services Foster Family and Adoption Agency

YOR III Project Name: Transcend: Transcend your challenges, embrace your well-being.

Project Description: Another Choice Another Chance is a non-profit organization (established in 1987) that provides outpatient substance use and mental health counseling services to youth, adults, and families with the objective of reducing the prevalence of mental health and substance abuse in underserved communities. The Transcend program will expand services for young people with or at-risk of an opiate and/or stimulant use disorder to include our new drop-in center, which will target young people (ages 12-24) in Sacramento County. Transcend will welcome young people of all backgrounds, with an emphasis on marginalized communities, and provide a safe, welcoming, and engaging environment by which to participate in mindfulness-centered enrichment activities, prevention, intervention, and treatment.

Primary Contact:
Name: Okeema Polite, MA, LMFT
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Email: opolite@acacsac.org
Phone: 916-388-9418
Website: www.acacsac.org