Together we recover: building and enhancing a recovery community in northeast minnesota - the proposed project is a collaboration between the MN sixth judicial district, recovery alliance duluth,…

Together we recover: building and enhancing a recovery community in northeast minnesota - the proposed project is a collaboration between the MN sixth judicial district, recovery alliance duluth, svalja yoga, and center for alcohol and drug treatment. The project will focus on improving outcomes of treatment court participants through a recovery-oriented system of care offering peer recovery support, creating an alumni program, offering trauma-informed yoga, and supporting approximately 200 participants annually in achieving their treatment goals in northeast minnesota. Goal 1. Increase the recovery capital and decrease return to use by individuals with substance use/misuse and CO-occurring mental health issues. 1.1. Recovery alliance duluth (RAD) certified peer recovery specialists (CPRS) will provide staffing and support to 5 MN 6TH judicial district treatment courts (TC) by january 1, 2025, expand to 7 in Y2, and add the final TC in Y3. 1.2. RAD and TCS will increase recovery capital and decrease return to use for 200 TC participants and graduates through planning and implementing a 6TH district TC alumni program by the end of Y1 and revising the program annually based on evaluation. 1.3. RAD and TCS will contract with svälja yoga, who will offer in-person and virtual trauma-informed yoga classes to TC participants and other recovery community members by december 1, 2024, and ongoing. 1.4. Based on ongoing evaluation, RAD and TCS will add access to other mindfulness activities offered by svälja yoga (i.e. other types of yoga, qigong, melt, flow) by mid-year 2 and ongoing. Goal 2. Build an inclusive recovery community by providing cross agency community education forums and anti-stigma campaigns and regular, free recovery community social events. 2.1. RAD and cadt will table* at each other's events and organizations 5 times annually to increase access to information about services to people in recovery by january 2025 and ongoing. 2.2. RAD, cadt, and the TC alumni group will provide semiannual community education and antistigma events/education campaigns. 2.3. By february 1, 2026, RAD, cadt, and the TC alumni group will plan and host activities for alumni and current TC participants every other month. Goal 3. RAD and the grant steering committee will successfully manage the grant (personnel, fiscal, project workplan, required activities, evaluation, and reporting requirements) to achieve intended outcomes and meet funder expectations. 3.1. Establish and maintain the project, including finance, personnel, and project deliverable. 3.2. RAD, TC, and cadt create a steering committee and meet monthly for project planning, oversight of project implementation, and sharing data for required reports to guide program development and dissemination of information. 3.3. Ensure that project personnel are supported with education and consultation to assure successful completion of required and optional activities. 3.4. Project director and other grant staff will meet funders' expectations such as meetings and programmatic and financial reporting throughout the life of the project. 3.5. The project evaluator will complete the projects' process and outcome evaluation (planning, data collection, and analysis) and contribute to 6 month and annual reports and other dissemination activities. 3.6. The project team and steering committee members will disseminate information.