Apr 10, 2019
Health Management Associates (HMA) provided a learning collaborative (LC) to build local patient-centered, evidence-based, sustainable and integrated practices across treatment and recovery ecosystems by: improving access to MAT; enhancing and expanding residential treatment services; and meeting the needs of persons with co-occurring SUD and mental illness.
To accomplish its objectives, each of the three focus areas had a mentor who coordinated all activities and ensured teams had expert coaching and other resources necessary to succeed. Teams mapped all services and funding, identified gaps, and studied the most effective models and practices from around the nation that addressed equitable access to SUD care. Teams crafted local system improvement projects or enhancements that built on current collaborative efforts and improved access and outcomes in these focus areas.
Throughout the project, the mentors and project team convened six LC sessions to provide guidance on developing plans, skills, and tools to implement county or agency-specific improvement activities as well as measures to track project outcomes. Coaches met regularly with each team, providing customized support to meet the participants’ needs. Participants shared best practices, successes, and failures to learn from each other and fully benefit.
This project received funding from the State Opioid Response (SOR) grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This project concluded in September 2024.
Apr 10, 2019
The Substance Use Disorder Workforce Summits were held in 2019 and 2020 throughout California. This project has concluded as of 2021. These summits brought together registered and certified substance use counselors and other disciplines of the behavioral health workforce to provide education and resources pertaining to MAT, tools to address and reduce stigma, and ways the workforce can join California’s current efforts to address substance use disorder emerging epidemics.
Apr 10, 2019
The California Academy of Family Physicians led a collaboration of California residency programs (Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, ObGyn and Psychiatry) to improve education, outreach and treatment for patients with substance use disorder disease, including stimulants and opioids, with a focus on medication assisted treatment options.
The learning collaborative enhanced training for resident and faculty physicians, while encouraging creative and innovative approaches to meet local program and community needs. Projects identified methods to improve or advance the standard of care for these patients, demonstrated how to best implement those methods, and evaluated the outcomes of those efforts.
This project received funding from the State Opioid Response (SOR) grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This project concluded in September 2024.
Apr 10, 2019
California’s Narcotic Treatment Programs (NTPs) play a pivotal role in expanding access to the full array of medications available to treat opioid use disorder. Through expanded and enhanced collaboration with community clinics, outpatient treatment programs, corrections departments, hospitals, and primary care providers, NTPs are continuing to move California closer to its goal of dramatically increasing the availability of all opioid use disorder treatment medications throughout the state.
The NTP REACH project was designed to support NTPs in this endeavor by providing funding for collaboration, infrastructure, and personnel development within these programs, as well as improving regional coordination and capacity building. This project concluded in 2021.
Project Lead
Kathleen West
Apr 10, 2019
This project supported the expansion of the mentored learning project led by the California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM). This project has concluded as of 2021. While the project has ended, CSAM continues to offer mentored learning opportunities for physicians to learn about treating addiction.
