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RECOVERY EPIDEMICHow Our Movement Has Arrived and is Spreading Hope

National Perspective

2018 Support for Patients and Communities Act• Reauthorizes funding from the Cures Act, which put $500 million a year toward the opioid crisis, and

makes tweaks to hopefully give states more flexibility in using the funding.

• CAREER Act (Section 7183) - Improves resources and wrap-around support services for individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder who are transitioning from treatment programs to independent living and the workforce;

• Ensuring Access to Quality Sober Living (Section 7031) - Develops and disseminates best practices for operating recovery housing to ensure individuals are living in a safe and supportive environment;

• Building Communities of Recovery (Section 7151, 7152) - Awards grants to recovery community organizations to provide regional training and technical assistance in order to expand peer recovery support services nationwide;

• Improving recovery and reunifying families (Section 8082) - Provides $15 million to HHS to replicate a “recovery coach” program for parents with children in foster care due to parental substance use;

• Peer support enhancement and evaluation review (Section 1008) - This provision directs the GAO to study and submit a report on how Medicaid covers peer support services, including: the types of services provided; payment models; states’ experiences providing peer support services; and how states measure the extent to which peer support services improve costs and outcomes for beneficiaries.

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Georgia Perspective2018 General Assembly

• 11 positions in the GBI to expand drug taskforces statewide & 1 toxicologist

• Governor’s Commission on Children’s Mental Health (790,801)

• Substance abuse recovery programs for evidence-based service delivery through community service boards and local partners ($4,000,000)

• Establish & launch a neonatal intensive care unit peer recovery coaching progam($250,000)

• Increase in Hepititis C surveillance

• Prescription Drug Monitoring Program ($626,545)

• Health Care Access & Improvement – allocations to DCH for FQHC in rural areas

• Healthcare Facility Regulation – support annual inspections of NTPs

Addiction Recovery Support Centers (ARSC)

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Kickoff!The Mosaic Place – Cedartown

RCFF The Connection – Cumming

Divas Who Win Freedom Center - Athens

Jeffrey Dallas Gay, Jr. Recovery Community Center –Gainesville

Peers Living in Recovery (PLR) – Athens

Navigate Recovery Gwinnett –Safe Harbor –Lawrenceville

Peers Empowering Peers – Atlanta

R2Ise - Decatur

Change Center – Albany

RISE UP – Dublin

Face to Face – Jesup

Susan Ford RCO - Statesboro

Coweta FORCE – Newnan

iHope – Warner Robins

Better Living RCO – Columbus

Recovery Community Development Team

People support what they

help to create

• Gene Conroy

• Emily Ribblett

• Brian Kite

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2018/19

• 585 CARES to date

• 6 CARES Academies

• CARES MAR – one academy filled with people who use(d) medication to support their recovery –March ‘19

• 3 CARES Connects

• 12 Monthly Webinars

CARES Team!

Jay HughesKaren DanielLaree Jones

• Workshops across the State

• Focus groups at MAT centers

• 6! Academies

• CEU Opportunities

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2019 Addiction Recovery Awareness Day

SAVE THE DATE – Thursday January 17, 2019

• New Location!! – Freight Depot

• $500 Sponsorship – name on back of t-shirt

• Volunteer opportunities – see Laurisa or Shaunell

• Tickets available on-line for LUNCH – coming soon!

• Music by Caroline Aiken

Peer Recovery Support CALL or TEXT

1-844-326-5400

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THANK YOU! Neil Campbell, Exec. Director2310 Parklake Drive, Suite 540Atlanta, GA 30345neil@gasubstanceabuse.org

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