Objectives

With an increasing understanding that substance misuse is both a chronic disease and a public health issue that impact the members of the ACC community, the proposed project has the following four objectives:

Objective 1: To mobilize and organize community members into a multi-stakeholder collective impact initiative (The ANCHOR Coalition) and empower them to support the implementation of culturally and linguistically appropriate evidence-based programs that focus on establishing a continuum of care for OUD/SUD (from primary prevention through remission), using data cascade to assess quality, identify gaps and disparities in service while adapting to changing conditions and ensuring sustainability.

Objective 2: To enhance ACC residents’ ability to access SUD/OUD prevention services by improving awareness, screening, prevention workforce and community resources for SUD/OUD prevention including overdose prevention, treatment, and reversal.

Objective 3: To increase access to SUD/OUD treatment services for ACC residents by training and coordinating a diverse team of providers to support integrated treatment, screening community members at risk of OUD/SUD and establishing linkage and seamless referral to care.

Objective 4: To expand and enhance recovery services to patients with SUD/OUD in ACC including developing recovery communities, peer workforce programing and discharge coordination.