These mentor sites were selected on the basis of several criteria, including:
- Advocating for the value of peer support services within the larger context of behavioral health, recovery-oriented systems of care, criminal justice, and child welfare.
- Leveraging the uniqueness of peer status in program design.
- Using sound, evidence-supported practices and policies.
- Focusing on outcomes and using data to assess program efficacy.
- Having strong collaborations with first responders, law enforcement, courts, jails, prisons, and community corrections to help persons with substance use disorders to achieve and maintain recovery from addiction.
ARMING MINORITIES AGAINST ADDICTION & DISEASE (AMAAD) INSTITUTE
Los Angeles, California
ARMING MINORITIES AGAINST ADDICTION & DISEASE (AMAAD) INSTITUTE
Los Angeles, California
Arming Minorities Against Addiction & Disease (AMAAD) Institute was
designed to engage, motivate, and strengthen communities of color in
South Los Angeles through peer-driven recovery and essential
services support. AMAAD provides support services, community
support, and resources around specialized, strength-based management
and leadership development, with a focus among LGBTQIA+ people of
color.
https://www.amaad.org
https://www.amaad.org
HOPE COALITION
Hendersonville, North Carolina
HOPE COALITION
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Hope Coalition supports the development of comprehensive, locally
driven responses to opioids, stimulants, and other substances, in
partnership with law enforcement, through the expansion of
supervision, prevention, and PRSS to improve access to and quality
of supports countywide for the purposes of providing diversion and
reentry support.
https://elementsofhope.org/
https://elementsofhope.org/
HOUSTON EMERGENCY OPIOID ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM (HEROES) AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
Houston, Texas
HOUSTON EMERGENCY OPIOID ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM (HEROES) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
Houston, Texas
Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System (HEROES) at the
University of Texas is a recovery community organization that
provides comprehensive clinical and behavioral health treatment
services and assertive outreach, to include PRSS, at no cost to
individuals seeking long-term recovery from opioid use disorder, to
parents who are involved in the child welfare system, and within
sober high schools in Adolescent Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care.
https://sbmi.uth.edu/heroes/
https://sbmi.uth.edu/heroes/
LATAH RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
Moscow, Idaho
LATAH RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
Moscow, Idaho
Latah Recovery Community Center, Inc. is an established nonprofit
rural recovery community organization (RCO) with 7 years’ experience
providing volunteer and professional peer recovery support services.
Though they live in an ultra-conservative area in Idaho, Latah RCO
has been able to develop a program that includes peer recovery
coaching; a 24/7 behavioral health crisis center; a harm reduction
program that includes naloxone distribution and safe syringe
exchange; outreach and free case management services to their local
jail, specialty court, university, and veteran populations; and a
housing program with Oxford House—and they provide over 25 group
meetings per week.
https://latahrecoverycenter.org
https://latahrecoverycenter.org
OKLAHOMA CITIZEN ADVOCATES FOR RECOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION
ASSOCIATION (OCARTA)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITIZEN ADVOCATES FOR RECOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION ASSOCIATION (OCARTA)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Citizen Advocates for Recovery and Transformation
Association (OCARTA) is an established recovery community
organization (RCO) that has provided PRSS for over 20 years. OCARTA
is the only Council on Accreditation of Peer Recovery Support
Services (CAPRSS) accredited RCO in Oklahoma and was the seventh in
the nation to become CAPRSS accredited. OCARTA’s Sister 2 Sister
program provides peer mentoring and recovery support services for
women and women with children who are seeking or are in recovery,
and their Wellness Hub program provides peer support services for
anyone else.
https://www.ocartaoklahoma.org/
https://www.ocartaoklahoma.org/
RIMROCK FOUNDATION
Billings, Montana
RIMROCK FOUNDATION
Billings, Montana
Rimrock Foundation currently has the largest PRSS team in the state.
Their programs are Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities (CARF) accredited, and they have developed one of the
only state-approved peer support specialist (PSS) training
curriculums in Montana. Rimrock’s PSSs work directly with the
Billings Police Department, provide services for six local treatment
courts, and work with families at risk of losing their children due
to substance use. They also serve local hospitals and the
Yellowstone County Detention Facility to offer reentry support,
their Homeless Outreach Team, and the Community Crisis Center.
https://www.rimrock.org/
https://www.rimrock.org/
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, BIRMINGHAM (UAB)
Birmingham, Alabama
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, BIRMINGHAM (UAB)
Birmingham, Alabama
University of Alabama, Birmingham Department of Psychiatry,
Substance Abuse Division is partnering with the Jefferson County
Sheriff’s Office to expand peer recovery services to pretrial
supervision participants and provide evidence-based treatment,
including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), to individuals at
high risk for overdose. The program seeks to address persistent
poverty, serve a region that has been disproportionately impacted by
substance use, reduce recidivism rates, and increase treatment
admission rates.
https://www.uab.edu/medicine/psychiatry/patient-care/substance-abuse
https://www.uab.edu/medicine/psychiatry/patient-care/substance-abuse
WELLBEING INITIATIVE, INC.
Lincoln, Nebraska
WELLBEING INITIATIVE, INC.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Wellbeing Initiative, Inc. is a peer-led nonprofit organization that
partners with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Division of Public Health in the implementation of the Overdose
Prevention and Intervention (OPI) Program, which provides peer
recovery services in hospitals, treatment courts, jails, and
treatment centers. Wellbeing Initiative, Inc. also provides
technical assistance to behavioral health and integrated health
centers, with a focus on transition-age youth experiencing
homelessness and providing peer recovery services for tribal
populations.
https://necoalitionforpeers.org/wellbeing-initiative-inc/
https://necoalitionforpeers.org/wellbeing-initiative-inc/
WINTHROP POLICE DEPARTMENT, C.L.E.A.R. (COMMUNITY AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED RECOVERY) PROGRAM
Winthrop, Massachusetts
WINTHROP POLICE DEPARTMENT, C.L.E.A.R. (COMMUNITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED RECOVERY) PROGRAM
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Winthrop Police Department, C.L.E.A.R. Program is a law enforcement
and public health department multidisciplinary partnership that has
developed into a nationally recognized program that assists
individuals in keeping hope alive through acknowledging recovery as
an achievable goal for anyone through recovery-oriented community
policing.
https://winthropclear.com
https://winthropclear.com
