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Project Year: YOR II

Agency: Toiyabe Indian Health Project

Project Name: Anadutana

Partner Agencies:

• Toiyabe Indian Health Board of Directors
• Owens Valley Career Development Center
• California Rural Indian Health Board
• Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center
• Telewell Behavioral Health
• Toiyabe’s Chief Executive Officer

YOR II Project Description: The proposed “Anadutana” project was administered by the Family Services Department of the Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc. (Toiyabe) and community partners through a large collaborative of Native American, non-native and child-serving partners. Anadutana is a Paiute word meaning “lacing a baby in the cradle board.” A cradle board has been used historically by American Indians to provide security to our young. The Anadutana project is Toiyabe’s effort to provide security and support for our future generations. The purpose of the project is to encourage wellness amongst youth by providing a network of intervention and treatment options for opioid and stimulant use disorders.

Project Year: YOR III (2022-2024)

Partner Agencies:

• Bishop Tribal Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court
• Owens Valley Career Development Center
• California Rural Indian Health Board
• Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center
• Native American Smartcare
• Inyo County Behavioral Health Department
• Inyo County Probation Department

Project Description:  YOR III will provide improved and effective linkages to MAT programing offered at Toiyabe Indian Health Project. These improved linkages to service will help alleviate the suffering and support recovery for youth that are currently falling through the cracks and open up doors to services needed. By providing new linkages to care through new partnerships Toiyabe Indian Health Project will be able to increase outreach and improve prevention services to youth and provide a pathway to access care.   

Primary Contact:

Name: Earl Lent, Michelle Saenz
Position: Earl Lent, SUD counselor and Michelle Saenz, Family Services Director
Agency: Toiyabe Indian Health Project
Email:  earl.lent@toiyabe.com or michelle.saenz@toiyabe.us
Phone: 760-873-6394

Website: www.toiyabe.us  

Project Name: Project MAT Youth Expansion (MAT-YE)

Partner Agencies (Subcontractors):  Valley Care Community Consortium (VCCC)

The overall purpose of TTC’s project is to improve access to culturally responsive
prevention/screening/assessment/treatment/recovery support/other support services among youth ages 12-18 in LAC’s SPA 2 who are or at risk of misusing opioids/stimulants. The target population will be low-income youth, primarily racial/ethnic minorities, enrolled in local middle and high schools and youth programs at local agencies. Specific goals for the 14-month project are:

1) Expand access to prevention/screening services among at-risk youth;

2) Expand access to assessment/treatment/recovery
support/other support services among youth who are misusing opioids/stimulants; and

3) Decrease stigma and increase knowledge related to overdose prevention and OUD/StUD treatment among youth, families, and teachers/staff.

Outreach/education activities will include dissemination of targeted outreach materials, social media postings, provider trainings, and youth prevention presentations with youth and parents/guardians. Service delivery activities will include screening, referring, and assessing youth with OUD/StUD and linking them to comprehensive treatment, including MAT.

Primary Contact for Information about the Project:

Name: Dr. Jessica Lasater
Position: Senior Supervisor/Psychologist
Email: jlasater@tarzanatc.org
Phone: 818-996-1051 x 3813

Name: Hilario Vazquez
Position: Youth Program Supervisor II
Email: hvazquez@tarzanatc.org
Phone: 818-996-1051 x 3129

Agency Website Link: Home – Tarzana Treatment Centers

Project Name: Project Wellness

Partner Agencies (Subcontractors): Empire Recovery Center, Steps to Tomorrow

Project Description: Project Wellness is in response to the public health priority of reducing opiate use and related disorders among youth in Shasta County and addresses the limited availability of youth-specific service integration models that aim to address youth opiate needs. Project Wellness is a behavioral health integration navigation approach that promotes service partnerships and the use of evidenced-based practices to serve youth opiate needs, including youth with OUDs in Shasta County. Project Wellness will develop service integration partnerships within local school districts and juvenile probation to provide both education and referral and navigation services to youth for OUD treatment, including MAT services.   Project Wellness will offer OUD assessment, OUD psychosocial treatment, and MAT for Shasta County youth ages 12-24.

Primary Contact:
Name: Doug Shelton
Position: Clinical Division Chief
Agency: HHSA, Children’s Services
Email: dshelton@co.shasta.ca.us
Phone: (530) 229-8423

Project Name: Stanislaus YOR Implementation Program

Partner Agencies: Center for Human Services, Modesto City Schools, The Last Resort, Golden Valley Health Centers, Doctor’s Medical Center Memorial Medical Center

Project Description: The Stanislaus YOR Implementation Program is: 1) bringing substance use disorder (SUD) services to youth (i.e. schools), as opposed to youth coming to treatment sites, which expands the number of youth and young adults enrolled in SUD treatment and overall reduces the number of youth and young adult overdose deaths related to an opioid or stimulant use disorder; 2) partnering with the existing Stanislaus Opioid Coalition to build community/prescriber capacity to identify and reduce existing barriers to treating youth with Medication-Assisted Treatment; and 3) increasing family support/involvement in SUD treatment and reduce perceived barriers by using a parent/family navigator.

Primary Contacts:
Name: Jennifer Marsh
Position: SUD Prevention Coordinator
Agency: Stanislaus County Behavioral Health & Recovery Services
Email: jmarsh@stanbhrs.org
Phone: 209-525-5316

Name:  Cameo Culcasi
Position: Chief, Substance Use Disorder Services
Agency: Stanislaus County Behavioral Health & Recovery Services
Email: CCulcasi@stanbhrs.org
Phone: 209-525-6229

Website: www.StanRx.net

YOR I

Project Description:  The Santa Clara County project has three goals:

Provide education on opioid use, its risks, and available resources. Our multi-pronged marketing campaign includes digital ads and toolkits for providers, physicians, school personnel, and other community partners. Toolkits will include educational materials on OUD and the consequences of use for the provider along with client/patient handouts. The digital campaign and all materials will include a link to a website with information on opioids, consequences of use, overdose information, and referral information on how to access outpatient services and MAT. Factsheets will be distributed at health fairs, schools, libraries, community agencies, hospitals, health clinics, and other venues.

Increase access to screening and increase the number of referrals to outpatient treatment and MAT for youth with or at risk of OUDs. Primary care physicians, which includes pediatrics, internal medicine and family practice physicians, will be educated on an effective screening tool and how to refer youth at risk of or exhibiting OUDs for further assessment and treatment.

Implement a team of physicians and clinicians who will provide youth MAT services. Protocols will be developed for collaboration. Protocols will also be developed for primary care, psychiatry, and emergency department physicians to consult with addiction medicine staff on OUD questions. Collaboration meetings will be scheduled to discuss each case.

YOR III

The County of Santa Clara is embarking on a mission through YOR 3 grant funding to enhance and expand treatment services for our youth and young adults. Recognizing the ever-changing trends in substance use has brought us to a heightened concern for care, as there are more frequent overdoses, other physical and mental health complications and increased risk of death due to opioid and stimulant-related use by our TAY population.

Areas of enhancement within our Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) services will include expansion of our Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP) evidence-based best practices model, utilizing a Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) approach, utilizing a Family-Parent Partner to engage family members, improving access to psychiatric assessment, medications and psychotherapy within our Youth System of Care and providing transportation to assist with client/patient access to services.

Primary Contacts:

Name: Dan Lloyd
Position: Management Analyst, Substance Use Treatment Services, Children, Family & Community Services Division
Agency: Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services
Email: dan.lloyd@hhs.sccgov.org
Phone: (408)313-8844

Name: Mira Parwiz
Position: Division Director
Agency: Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services, Substance Use Treatment Services, Children, Family & Community Services Division
Email: mira.parwiz@hhs.sccgov.org
Phone: (650) 623-7839

Website: www.opioidstakeyou.org

Summary: Santa Clary County BH Services Project

Partner Agencies (Subcontractors):  Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; University of California, Santa Barbara; Multidimensional Family Therapy

Project Description: SBNC increased access to MAT by combining psychological and behavioral therapy with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications and treatment for mental illness, including SUDs, particularly those patients leaving the hospital who have been diagnosed or are at high risk for SUDs, as well as decrease emergency room visits and hospitalization costs. SBNC improved and expanded access to a continuum of OUD prevention, intervention, MAT, and other treatment and recovery services for youth (ages 12–24) and their families, thereby preventing opioid overdose-related deaths through our Isla Vista Neighborhood Clinic, located in the town of Isla Vista, though services are currently offered at all our clinics. Isla Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Barbara County. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 23,096. Most residents are college students at nearby University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB, located to the east of the community) or at Santa Barbara City College. The student population, mostly 18-24-years old, shares densely packed housing with a working-class Hispanic population.

Primary Contact:
Name: Nancy Tillie
Position: Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics
Agency: SBC YOR
Email: nancy.tillie@sbclinics.org
Phone: (805) 617-7863

Website: www.sbclinics.org