The cook inlet tribal council, INC., (citc) project will expand its capacity to connect reentrants with substance use disorder (SUD) and CO-occurring disorder (COD) treatment and recovery services,…

The Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. (CITC) was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838) by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance. The 3-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will enable CITC to expand its capacity to connect reentrants in the Anchorage, Alaska metropolitan area with substance use disorder (SUD) and co-occurring disorder (COD) treatment and recovery services, as well as provide them with reentry support. Key activities include completing a feasibility study on recovery and reentry housing, conducting outreach, providing case management and linkage to treatment, and delivering reentry counseling and supportive services. Over the grant period, CITC aims to link 120 adult and youth reentrants to SUD and COD treatment and recovery services, and provide reentry services to 120 unduplicated reentrants.

The cook inlet tribal council, INC., (citc) project will expand its capacity to connect reentrants with substance use disorder (SUD) and CO-occurring disorder (COD) treatment and recovery services, while also providing them with reentry support as they return to the community. The project will decrease the prevalence of substance use, overdoses, suds, and cods among reentrants who reside and/or are released in the anchorage metropolitan area. The project incorporates 8 activities that will complement the existing behavioral healthcare continuum. Those activities include completing a feasibility study on recovery and reentry housing in the anchorage metro area, conducting outreach in residential reentry and correctional settings, providing case management to participants, linking participants to SUD and COD treatment and recovery services, providing citc wrap-around services, referring to external wrap-around services, providing reentry counseling, and providing supportive services to participants. The citc will link 120 adult and youth reentrants to SUD and COD treatment and recovery services over 3 years and will provide 120 unduplicated adult and youth reentrants with reentry services over 3 years. The citc will completea feasibility study on reentry and recovery housing, an outreach plan for residential reentry and correctional settings, renew the memoranda of agreement between citc and each of its residential reentry and corrections partners, and develop a housing catalogue of recovery and reentry housing options. The service area includes the anchorage metropolitan statistical area, which includes the municipality of anchorage consolidated city-borough the intended beneficiaries are persons over the age of 12 who have or are at-risk of suds or cods and are reentering the community following incarceration.