Building communities of recovery through peer recovery support services and the art of advocacy - phoenix house's brooklyn community recovery center is proposing to implement an evidence-based program…

Building communities of recovery through peer recovery support services and the art of advocacy - phoenix house's brooklyn community recovery center is proposing to implement an evidence-based program increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery support services for persons suffering from substance abuse disorders (SUD) and CO-occurring substance use and mental disorders (COD) new york city by supporting the expansion, enhancement and delivery of recovery support services (RSS) as well as promotion of and education about recovery using art. Bkcrc will serve a total of 450 unique individuals over the course of the performance period. A total of 100 individuals will be served in the first year; 150 in the second year; and, 200 in the third year. The proposed name of the project is building communities of recovery through peer recovery support services and the art of advocacy. The population of focus for the proposed project will be adults aged 18 years and older in recovery from SUD and COD within new york city, with a focus on brooklyn the goal of the proposed program is to expand and enhance recovery support service capacity within new york city through the provision of peer recovery support services (prss) for persons with SUD and CO-occurring COD and promote and provide education about recovery through art. The proposed project aims to implement and achieve activities that will support eight objectives required to achieve the project goal. The objective of the project are: (1) objective 1: provide prss to an additional 100 unique individuals in year one; 150 unique individuals in year two; and, 200 additional unique individuals in year 3; (2) objective 2: provide recovery support services (RSS) to an additional 100 unique individuals in year one; 150 unique individuals in year 2; and, 200 additional unique individuals in year 3; (3) objective 3: develop memorandum of understanding with regional and local harm reduction partners to provide harm reduction services to referred program participants by quarter one of the performance period; (4)objective 4: refer at least 20 individuals per year in need of harm reduction services to regional and local harm reduction partners; (5) objective 5: provide opioid naloxone education and distribution (oend) to 25 program participants every year; (6) objective 6: host a yearly art festival in the fourth quarter of the performance period in collaboration with friends of recovery - new york and onpoint NYC to educate the public about recovery and reduce discrimination and negative attitudes concerning people with addiction and in recovery, reaching at least 1,000 persons annually; (7) objective 7: develop a feature length documentary on recovery by quarter two of year 3 to educate the public about recovery and reduce discrimination and negative attitudes concerning people with addiction and in recovery, reaching at least 1,000 persons annually; and, (8) objective 8: provide access to peer recovery coach training for 20 individuals per year in efforts to increase the peer recovery specialist workforce in new york city.