Direct Service

YOR II

Project Name: Koreatown Organizing to Reduce Youth Opioids (KORYO)

Project Description: The Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) built on decade-long prevention efforts to increase and expand our capacity to provide youth aged 12-24 with opioid and stimulant use disorder (OUD/StUD) services in Los Angeles’ Koreatown Community by conducting a needs assessment, enhancing our infrastructure and networks, and improving pathways to treatment services. KYCC is using youth-guided, culturally relevant, and responsive services, along with data and outcome-based strategies, to strengthen network capacity. The goal is to provide outreach and education, identify barriers to services, and increase referral and access to Medication-Assisted Treatment and other recovery services. Our hope is to ultimately reduce the use of opioids and stimulants among youth and positively impact this crisis on California’s youth and families.

YOR III–Agency: Koreatown Youth & Community Center

Project Name: KORYO

Description: Building on the findings and the success of the YOR CA 2 project, the goal of KORYO is to further increase program capacity and improve access to quality SUD services for young people who are using opioids and stimulants. The project will focus on reaching youth and young adults ages 12-24 in Koreatown and neighboring communities through youth-guided, culturally relevant and responsive services, along with data and outcome-based strategies. The project will further increase pathways to services including prevention, navigation, treatment, MAT, and recovery support. Additionally, the project will empower and mobilize youth and young adults through the transformative power of storytelling facilitated by the youth advisory council.

Primary Contact:

Name: Hiroko Makiyama, LCSW
Position: Recovery Services Manager
Agency: Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc.
Email: hmakiyama@kyccla.org
Phone: 213-365-7400 x 5517

Website: www.kyccla.org

YOR I Project Name: Expanding Access to Youth Substance Use Disorder Services

Project Description: La Maestra’s YOR project increased access to evidence-based, youth-specific SUD, and OUD treatment services, including MAT, counseling, and recovery support services. La Maestra engaged youth ages 12 to 24 with a specific focus on preventing opioid overdose deaths. La Maestra implemented screening of all patients ages 12 to 24 for SUDs, referring, assessing and providing onsite counseling, and recovery support services, and distributing Naloxone to youth and families. La Maestra increased the availability of youth-customized technological diagnosis and treatment tools through virtual reality (VR). La Maestra uses VR equipment to provide youth patients with VR therapy to enhance the treatment of SUD, OUD, and co-occurring mental health conditions.

YOR II Project Name: Enhancing the Quality of Opioid/Stimulant Use Disorder (OUD/StUD) Services Among Vulnerable San Diego Youth

Project Description: La Maestra’s Comprehensive Community Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic continued to build on YOR I services and enhance OUD/StUD services for youth and young adults between the ages of 12 to 24 in San Diego County. Our goal is to help reduce overdose-related deaths and improve the health and well-being of youth in our community. In all La Maestra services, there is a particular focus on low-income, uninsured, and underinsured youth and racial and ethnic minority youth. La Maestra is using a whole person and patient-centered approach to provide evidence-based Medication-Assisted Treatment, co-occurring disorder treatment, mindfulness interventions, drug education, and prevention and recovery services, while following everyone’s developmental stage.

YOR I Primary Contact:
Name: Corinne Hanson
Position: Chief Development Office
Agency: La Maestra Family Clinic, Inc.
Email: chanson@lamaestra.org

YOR II Primary Contact:
Name: Robyn Wasserman
Position: Operations Director
Agency: La Maestra Community Health Centers
Email: rwasserman@lamaestra.org
Phone: 619-285-7097

Website: www.lamaestra.org

YOR I Summary: La Maestra Project

Project Name: YOR LA CADA

Project Description: The YOR LA CADA project provided services to youth ages 12-24 who are at risk of developing an OUD, have an OUD, or are at risk of an opioid overdose.  YOR LA CADA worked primarily with the middle and high schools and the colleges in and around the Santa Fe Springs area to provide education and medications for addiction treatment (MAT) of OUDs to parents, teachers, students, and administrators. Information delivered focused on the dangers of opioid use, the options available for treatment, and the information necessary for individuals looking for help. In addition, we will outreach to our community partners in the effort to leverage existing professional relationships and community contacts. To ensure that a substantial swath of the populations served by LA CADA are informed of the availability of medications to treat OUDs.  Our goal is to be the first resource individuals in Service Planning Area (SPA) 7 think of and seek out when they need MAT services.

Primary Contacts:
Name: Juan Navarro
Position: Executive Director
Agency: LA CADA
Email: jnavarro@lacada.com
Phone: (562) 777-7500

Name: Arlene Vasquez
Position: YOR Project Director
Agency: L.A. CADA
Email: avasquez@lacada.com
Phone: 562-348-0083 x220

Website: www.lacada.com

Project Name:  YOR Marin County

Partner Agency: BluePath Health, Novato High School, Tomales High School, and San Rafael High School

YOR II Project Description: In an effort to create a more equitable and holistic culture of health for Marin County youth, this program expanded screening and referrals to opioid and stimulant use disorder (OUD/StUD) services for youth in Marin County. This project established three care coordinator positions across three schools—Novato High School, Tomales High School, and San Rafael High School—that are provided referrals for students with OUD/StUDs. Multi-payer provider networks were leveraged to expand referrals to OUD/StUD services for all Marin County youth. The RxSafe Marin Youth Action Team youth advisory group served as a youth advisory on all components of this project, including outreach and education. Strengths and needs of this project were assessed by evaluating aggregated screenings and outcome measures. This data is used to enhance care coordination and create financial sustainability for high school health and wellness.

YOR III Project Description:

The Marin County Probation Department (MCPD) is working with Huckleberry Youth Programs and BluePath Health to implement Marin YOR 3 and continue the work of Marin YOR 2, by providing care navigation services to youth at risk for opioid use disorder (OUD) and stimulant use disorder (StUD) on site at three San Rafael high schools and one middle school; delivering substance use services to those identified with OUD or StUD through on-site clinicians and referrals to external providers; implementing the use of the youth-driven resource guide and a social health network platform closed-loop for referrals; having the OD Free Marin Youth Action Team advise and provide input on all components of this project; and facilitating the Marin 9 to 25 Payer and Funder workgroup to enhance collaboration, guide quality improvement efforts, and develop a place for financial sustainability for middle school and high school health and wellness.

Primary Contact:
Name: Lauren Jacobson
Position: Program Manager
Agency: BluePath Health
Email: lauren.jacobson@bluepathhealth.com
Phone: 516-459-5757

Website: https://www.marin9to25.org/youth-opioid-response-yor

YOR I Project Name:  OCMAT4Y (Orange County Medication-Assisted Treatment for Youth)

Partner Agencies: KCS Health Center, Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies (MECCA), Desert Vista Consulting

Project Description:  OCMAT4Y established a care collaborative devoted to building a robust system of SUD care to facilitate access to treatment for Orange County youth and young adults ages 12-24. The goal of OCMAT4Y was to establish infrastructure and build community-based provider capacity to meet the needs of youth and families in Orange County, while also advancing systems change across the broader SUD treatment continuum through the Be Well SUD Leadership Coalition. OCMAT4Y, Mind OC with its partners, achieved the following:

• provided 668 youth with clinical services, including MAT for 46 individuals
• 29 providers were newly X-Waivered
• an array of outreach, education, training, and prevention activities reached at least 15,678 youth, families, providers, and community members
• social media posts reached more than 72,562 people.

YOR II Project Name: Be Well Orange County Alliance for Youth (BE OCAY)

Partner Agencies: KCS Health Center, Multi-Ethnic Coalition of Community Agencies (MECCA), YoPros Advisory Council

Project Description: BE OCAY successfully built on and expanded our strategy and accomplishments in three domains: 1) clinical services and recovery supports; 2) community-based outreach, education, and training; and 3) cross organizational systems change. BE OCAY is an initiative of Be Well OC, a well-established cross-sector collaborative that works with providers to support vulnerable populations and advance health equity to achieve optimal mental health for Orange County residents. As a collaboration between Be Well OC, KCS Health Center, the Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies (MECCA), YoPros (Youth/Young Professionals Advisory Group), and the cross-sector organizational members of the Be Well Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Leadership Coalition, BE OCAY achieved the following:

• 2,091 youth screened, 587 referred, 369 evaluated for MAT
• 119 youth received MAT, 761 youth received recovery services
• 8,120 potential patients, family/caretakers reached, through leveraging existing and new community forums to spread resources and education regarding MAT and StUD

YOR III Project Name: Be Well Orange County YOR-3

Partner Agencies: KCS Health Center, Multi-Ethnic Coalition of Community Agencies (MECCA)

Project Description: Be Well Orange County YOR-3 will continue and expand prior YOR strategies that increase capacity and access to SUD services for youth ages 12-24. As a collaboration between Be Well OC, KCS Health Center, and the Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies (MECCA), our goal is to enhance referral pathways, improve transitions between care, and create a more integrated system of care and recovery to support youth with substance use disorders. In the short-term, we want to keep young people alive by reducing the number of opioid related overdose deaths for youth ages 12-24.  To do that, we need to come together as partners to educate youth, parents and families, educators, medical and behavioral health providers and community members about the deadly risks of opioid use and ensure people know where to get evidence-based treatment when they need it and how to reverse an opioid overdose when it’s happening.

Primary Contact:
Name: Jennifer Brya
Position: Director of SUD and Community Suicide Prevention Initiatives
Agency: Mind OC
Email: Jennifer.brya@mind-oc.org
Phone: 480-299-5909

Materials and Resources:

• MindOC Project
• Drugs On Your Brain Flyer
• How to Talk to Your Teen About Drugs Flyer
• Learn the Facts About Drugs Flyer
• Preventing Opioid Overdose Flyer
• The Truth About Opioids Flyer
• What is MAT? flyer
• Students On Their Journey
• MECCA video library

Partner Agencies (Subcontractors): Lake Count Family Resource Center (Lake), Humboldt County Public Health (Humboldt), Petaluma Health Care District (Sonoma); Aldea, Inc. (Sonoma)

Project Description: PHC is the Medi-Cal managed care plan for 14 northern California counties. The PHC YOR grant focused on three specific areas to address youth OUD. The first goal was to increase SUD programs’ capacity to serve youth in communities served by PHC and enhance their use of evidence-based curriculum and/or promising practices. The second goal iwas to increase the capacity of the PHC network of medical providers to effectively address youth OUD using MAT and effective referral to community resources. Informational publications and webinars were the primary mechanism for achieving this goal. The third goal was to increase youth engagement in four of the counties served by PHC through media and outreach activities aimed at youth who are at risk for an OUD. The use of technology and social media is a primary conduit for disseminating the information.

Primary Contact:
Name: Wendy Millis
Position: Program Coordinator II
Agency: Partnership Healthplan of California
Email: wmillis@partnershiphp.org
Phone: (530) 999-6918

Website: www.partnershiphp.org/Pages/PHC.aspx