YOR IV Project Name:Â Youth Opioid Prevention, Education, and Response Program
Project Description: Neighborhood Healthcare believes we are Better Together and partners with multifaceted community-based partners to address the complex needs of youth at risk or using opioids and/or stimulants. Neighborhood’s YOR Community Health Worker (YOR CHW) is integrated with local high schools and Neighborhood’s Harm Reduction, Street Medicine, and Enhanced Care Management teams. Project activities include screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment. Additionally, YOR CHW provides outreach, peer support, prevention education, harm reduction education, and products (including naloxone kits and fentanyl test strips), care management, and linkage to social and recovery services. The YOR CHW works closely with our Addiction Services to provide medication for assisted treatment assessment and services with supportive substance use disorder psychoeducation weekly groups. Neighborhood engages youth through trauma informed practices; meeting youth where they are, providing nonjudgmental information, fostering mutual respect, and seeking to empower youth to make healthy decisions through informed decision making.Â
Partner Agencies: Interfaith Community Services, Mc Alister Institute, Escondido Unified High School District, Mental Health Systems, TURN Behavioral Health Services
Primary Contact:
Name: Wendi Vierra
Position: Director of Operations Behavioral Health
Email: wendi.vierra@nhcare.org
Phone:Â 833-867-4642
Website: www.nhcare.org