The point: providing opportunity for women's recovery (POWR) fills a critical GAP in cabell county, WV recovery support services by building a recovery focused community for women seeking to…

The point: providing opportunity for women's recovery (POWR) fills a critical GAP in cabell county, WV recovery support services by building a recovery focused community for women seeking to achieve/maintain recovery and for drug impacted families by opening a recovery cafe in the overdose capitol of america: huntington, WV (1). POWR provides free transportation & childcare, peer recovery support, case management, referrals & pro-recovery socialization. WV had the highest 2017 age-adjusted overdose state death rate (57.8/100K WV; 21.7/100K US) (2). Over 20% of 2017 WV overdose deaths were in cabell county (most in WV). 20% of babies born at cabell-huntington hospital were exposed to drugs/mat in vitro. WV child protective services (CPS) named cabell a crisis county. Target clients suffer from high levels of traumatic experiences & lack of recovery maintenance supports in a high-need area, multi-generational addiction & system barriers such as poverty, stigma, and lack of transportation, health care & child care. POWR will serve 75 women seeking to achieve/maintain their recovery in year 1, 100 in Y2, & 125 in Y3, & 150 in Y4, & 200 in Y5 for a total of 650 unduplicated clients over the project period. At a cost of $2,308 per client served, just four days in detox (@ $575/day), exceeds the per client cost of POWR. POWR's goals include: 1) increase capacity for cabell county women to access peer recovery support services (PRSS) by implementing evidence- based programs/services leading to long term recovery; 2) demonstrate positive outcomes & durability of POWR (measured by gpra baseline VS. 6 & 12-month follow-up); 3) create a network of services to fortify support for families of those with substance use disorder/CO-occurring substance use and mental illness (SUD/COD); 4) increase capacity of recovery point WV (RPWV) to integrate PRSS into community partner care models to improve target client whole person health; 5) expand opportunity for women in recovery to become peer recovery support specialists & 6) sustain POWR services post grant funding. POWR's measurable objectives include: initiating a recovery cafe; increasing capacity to & providing women with trauma informed, evidence-based case management and PRSS; referring clients to an ever expanding network of community partners; following up on referrals to ensure barriers to service are removed; providing free transportation and child care; reducing community stigma via client participation in an annual community service activity; ensuring clients have identification (driver's licenses/state IDS/ birth certificates); improving client performance measures; supporting SUD/COD impacted families via education, service navigation, referrals & referral follow-up; assisting clients with technical aspects of family reunification; providing required therapy for mat clients, integrating POWR referrals into community partner referral processes; expanding RPWV's relations with veteran providers; enhancing access to RPWV's recovery coach class & sustaining services post grant funding. Cabell county women have a drug problem. POWR is the solution.