Building the capacity for EMS clinicians to provide culturally-relevant, trauma-informed, recovery based care for substance use disorder and behavioral health emergencies in sandoval county, new mexi
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- H79TI087127
- Recipient
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County Of Sandoval UEI HE28C55EHNM4
- Awarding agency
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SAMHSA Division of Grants Management
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $632,442
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance
- Completion date
- Funding agency
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Department of Health and Human Services
- Place of performance
- New Mexico, USA
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Description
- Abstract
- Substance-use and mental health disorders are a significant burden to sandoval county and the limited healthcare system resources available in the mostly rural county. EMS encounters provide a vital opportunity in the continuum of care to identify the need for and facilitate referral to substance use or mental health disorder services and ancillary supports, especially since at least 20% of opioid overdoses refuse transport to the hospital. However, most EMS clinicians lack the training and education to capitalize on these opportunities and there is a lack of standardized systems to connect patients to services. To develop the foundational skills and capacity of EMS clinicians to respond to substance use or CO-occurring disorders this project will employ a community-wide approach to training and education, developing community resources, developing protocols for EMS treatment and referrals, developing evidence-based quality measure to define a standard of what good care is in the prehospital setting and implement a quality improvement model for sustainability and continuous improvement in pre-hospital behavioral health care. Sandoval county, new mexico is a predominantly rural/frontier county in north-central new mexico encompassing 3700 square miles. The community of approximately 44,000 people outside of the RIO rancho metro is predominantly aian and hispanic and the prevalence of negative social determinants of behavioral health such as poverty and lack of health insurance are common. The burden of substance abuse and undertreated behavioral health conditions (or the combination thereof) are often evident as either primary or secondary pathology on emergency medical services (EMS) calls throughout the county. Sandoval county fire rescue (SCFR) is a combination paid-volunteer fire department providing EMS care throughout the most rural areas of the county. The funding support to combat the often-catastrophic consequences of substance use and CO-occurring disorders will be used to increase the capacity of EMS clinicians to provide culturally relevant, trauma-informed, recovery-based care. SCFR will achieve this through the following objectives: train 100% of the 50 career and 75% of the 200 volunteer EMS personnel on a core curriculum of trauma-informed, culturally-relevant, recovery-focused care for patients experiencing behavioral health emergencies through training resources provided by samhsa and local behavioral health collaborators, identify and train 7 EMS clinicians to serve as substance use and behavioral health patient care champions, increase harm reduction efforts and access to emergency opioid reversal agents and long-term medication-supported opioid abstinence through community outreach and benchmarking similar programs, partnering with the county hospital's behavioral health division to develop a behavioral health field response team, develop the capacity to refer EMS patients directly to community support resources, and develop and implement EMS quality improvement measures related to substance use disorder and behavioral health emergencies that will be implemented within our EMS system and will be disseminated nationally through a partnership with the national EMS quality alliance (NEMSQA).
Transactions
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Quick answers
Who received award H79TI087127?
H79TI087127 was awarded to County Of Sandoval by SAMHSA Division of Grants Management (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) on September 30, 2024.
How much is award H79TI087127 worth?
$632,442 has been obligated on H79TI087127.
Which agency awarded H79TI087127?
SAMHSA Division of Grants Management (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) awarded H79TI087127, with funding from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Department of Health and Human Services).
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