Addiction Treatment Starts Here: Equity-Centered Community Learning Collaborative | Invitation to Apply
Made possible by the California Department of Health Care Services
Curriculum Topics
The curriculum has been designed by state and national experts and is based on lessons learned from CCI's previous MAT collaboratives. Content will address clinical and operational issues associated with MAT equity, including but not limited to:
● Health equity foundations, strategies for identifying health inequities, and implementing a practical health equity program
● Expanding primary care MAT program models, including community partnerships with community-based organizations and/or involving peer support workers, to reduce SUD treatment, access, and health outcome disparities
● Patient identification, selection, and outreach
● Staff training and education for MAT, especially addressing equity and relationships with community partners
● Assessing levels of care and building strong referrals pathways to specialty care when appropriate
● Strategies to reduce barriers to care – specifically racism, discrimination, stigma, and trauma – by actively embracing health equity practices
● Harm reduction
● Trauma-informed care
● Tools and approaches to address stimulant use disorder and manage co-occurring SUDs, such as alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine, tobacco, and/or benzodiazepine use
● Systems practice tools to support building partnerships and collaborations across care transition points, such as with acute care hospitals with emergency departments, sobering centers, behavioral health programs, schools, and the justice system
CCI designed a mix of program activities that have proven effective in enabling teams to expand access to MAT. Program activities include:
● 3 Learning Sessions: A mix of virtual and in-person learning sessions to share and learn from peers and experts
● 2 Webinars: To orient teams on the program requirements, evaluation, and data collection
● Site Visits: (Optional) Learn from sites with mature MAT programs, that center equity and racial justice. Site visits are likely to include virtual and in-person options
● Half-day training addressing a specific topic (e.g., equity, harm reduction)
● 1:1 coaching to support your team. Coaches' expertise include MAT clinics, health equity, systems practices/community partnerships, and quality improvement
● Virtual role-based peer forums, e.g., one group for nurses, another for prescribers, or SUD counselors, etc.
● Online community to share resources and communicate
● Grants of $75,000 to help offset the costs of participating in program activities, support community linkages and community partnerships, regularly submit data, and/or expand and sustain a MAT program
Installments are typically released to participants within two months of deliverable due dates.
1. $30,000 for meeting Deliverable No. 1: Participation by your team, including a senior leader, in the February 28, 2023, kick-off webinar and submission of baseline data on the measure set and the capability assessment (both due April 30, 2023).
2. $20,000 for meeting Deliverable No. 2: Submitting three quarters of data, the midpoint capability assessment, a progress update, and participating in learning sessions 1 and 2.
3. $25,000 for meeting Deliverable No. 3: Submitting two quarters of data, the final capability assessment, a final progress update, and attending learning session 3.
Organizations in California that provide comprehensive primary care services to underserved populations are eligible to apply. Organizations must be non-profit and tax-exempt under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code or a governmental, tribal, or public entity. This includes:
● Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and FQHC look-alikes.
● Community clinics, rural health clinics, and free clinics.
● Ambulatory care clinics owned and operated by local jurisdictions such as public hospitals.
● Indian Health Services clinics.
Applicants should not be 'new' to MAT, in other words they should have an established MAT program that has been in operation for not less than one year, with more than one active prescriber working within a multidisciplinary team (e.g., nurse, SUD counselor, peer support worker, other behavioral health practitioner).
We encourage applicants to apply who already have, or have begun to, develop partnerships with key stakeholders in their community (e.g., health department, schools, needle exchange, justice, etc.). We are also welcoming applicants who are just starting out with community linkages to propose other entities/organizations within their community with whom they aim to develop strategic partnerships.
CCI will accept applications from multiple clinic sites within the same organization. Up to three clinic sites per organization can apply. Project team members may overlap, but each site must define the team responsible for its MAT program and their site-specific goals. Each site selected will be eligible for a grant of up to $75,000.
If you have questions about whether you qualify, please email Briana Harris-Mills, program manager, at briana@careinnovations.org.
The Addiction Treatment Starts Here Learning Collaborative runs from February 2023 to June 2024. Key dates include:
● Request for Applications Released: November 9, 2022
● Informational Webinar: November 15, 2022
● Application Deadline: December 12, 2022
● Cohort Announced: February 15, 2023
● Program Start: February 28, 2023
● Kick-Off Webinar: February 28, 2023
● Measure Set & Capability Assessment Office Hours: March 2023
● Learning Session 1: 2-day in-person session: May 2023
● Learning Session 2: Virtual session: September 13, 2023
● Learning Session 3: 2-day in-person session: March 2024
● Program End: June 30, 2024