The University of Kentucky Research Foundation has been awarded a $444,826 federal Project Grant under the National Institutes of Health's Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to develop and evaluate an innovative, trauma-informed intervention for reducing overdose risk among women re-entering the community from prison.
This 2-year research project, titled "An Innovative, Trauma-Informed Approach for Reducing Overdose Risk Among Women Re-entering the Community from Prison", will focus on adapting and pilot testing a trauma-based relational intervention (TBRI) that addresses substance use disorder, trauma, and overdose risk. The R61 phase will adapt TBRI by incorporating prison group sessions and re-entry recovery support. The subsequent R33 phase will then evaluate the effectiveness of the adapted TBRI-Women's Reentry Approach (TBRI-WRA) intervention across four in-prison substance use treatment program sites, using a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation design.