Healthy liferesidential, treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women, including recovery support, harm reduction, medical care coordination, mat, with a collaboration of providers. - to…

Healthy liferesidential, treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women, including recovery support, harm reduction, medical care coordination, mat, with a collaboration of providers. - to ameliorate barriers to service access for substance-using minority pregnant and postpartum women in the memphis area, serenity recovery centers' healthy life project will capitalize on a unique citywide coalition to expand residential substance abuse treatment for low-income pregnant and postpartum women with an emphasis on increasing access to african american women and their minor children. This project is a collaborative effort drawing on and expanding, the substance abuse treatment expertise of the lead agency, serenity recovery centers, with culturally congruent linkages to women's health services provided by TRI-state community health center (medical, obstetrics, and gynecological services, prenatal, postpartum, and pediatric health care for children. Alliance mental health will collaborate with serenity to provide a care coordinator to coordinate the provision of mental health services, medical detoxification, provision of mat for pregnant mothers struggling with opioid use disorders, and wrap-around case management. Serenity will refer mothers and/or family members to alliance health care for crisis stabilization as needed. Christian counseling and consulting will provide evaluation, assessment, clinical services, and case management for all children. Linked hearts and systems will provide counseling and wellness for fathers and/or partners. Serenity's treatment options will include referral to shelby county health department for smoking cessation programs. Participants will have access to a full array of medicated assisted treatment options through referral to the west tennessee hub and spoke model of care as apart of the state opioid response programming through the tennessee department of mental health and substance abuse if appropriate for services. A betor way will provide harm reduction services and education to all participants. A hallmark of the program involves the delivery and implementation of key services to provide a full recovery-oriented system of care designed to the specific needs of pregnant women and their children, with emphasis on african american women who use substances. These efforts will be coupled with wrap-around case management services designed to increase access and engagement with a full continuum of culturally appropriate gender-specific substance abuse and trauma-based services that are inclusive of detoxifications, residential, outpatient, specialized CO-occurring disorders, and transitional housing programs. Current evidence-based substance abuse treatment efforts will be dramatically enhanced to meet the needs of the population using nurturing parent, strengthening families, motivational interviewing, hazelton CO-occurring disorders curriculums, and special programming for fathers and partners of the children and mothers. Expansion efforts will serve approximately 144 members of the target population with residential treatment services over the five-year life of this project; approximately 306 newborns, minor children, and partners will also benefit from enhanced support services.