Services

 Take-Home Naloxone Program

The specific objectives of this intervention approach are to:

  1. Increase public and kinship caregiver knowledge of how to administer Narcan
  2. Increase the number of individuals who have a Narcan nasal spray kit
  3. Increase awareness of the after effects of an overdose event and provide specific guidance on next steps in interacting with the individual who overdosed
  4. Motivate kinship caregivers to engage in behaviors that support children in the care to reduce trauma

Initially the take-home Naloxone education program will target existing kinship caregivers affected by opioid misuse and on training peer recovery supporters in the region. This project partners with the Public Children Services Associations (PCSAs) that will help identify and assist with recruitment of current child welfare kinship caregivers. CompDrug will use their pharmacy providers to conduct these trainings. As the project ramps up, the Community Action Board (CAB) and the program manager will identify additional providers within the intervention counties who can provide the trainings.

Additional components of the take-home Naloxone program will be to provide education to families and friends about:

  1. Opioid use and misuse
  2. Effects of opioid use on the brain
  3. How to recognize an overdose
  4. How to administer Narcan and what after effects there may be
  5. Developing boundaries with substance-affected family members
  6.  How to speak to children about addiction
  7. Trauma implications that children may have experienced

Peer Recovery Supporters

As part of the Ohio START and ECI interventions, peer recovery supporters are major components and assist families by:

  1. Improving caregiver’s access to substance use treatment
  2. Decrease time children spend in out of home care
  3. Increase the odds of reunification
  4. Decrease maltreatment recidivism

This intervention will recruit members of the local recovery community to participate in and complete the training and certification process through the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS). Once trained and certified, these peer supporters will be matched with our child welfare families.

Connecting Parents with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) to Evidence-Based Treatment

We will build upon current efforts within the communities to work with families involved in the child welfare system. These efforts include, early screening for substance use that will allow us to provide evidence-based treatment earlier. The treatment includes access to naloxone administration training and peer recovery supporters, with the goal of reducing relapse and overdose deaths.

Integrated Services

CompDrug

Education on Trauma and Overdose and Naloxone Administration

Our child welfare partners have reported many families are buying naloxone in the event their children, relatives, or friends who have a substance use concern, overdose. In particular, grandparents who have custody of their grandchildren because of parental abuse or neglect are purchasing naloxone

Narcan Q&A

Opioid Overdose Family Support Toolkit

A printable version of the Toolkit can be found here

Help for children who witnessed overdose infographic

See the Evaluation page the discusses how we will assess the effectiveness of these additional training components.