Agenda 12-12-23; 6-a - Opioid Advisory Committee Settlement Use Recommendations and Approval of Budget Amendment #4-B

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52 Planning(WRAP). For those who successfully complete these two programs, Offer House will assist them in obtaining the status of NC Certified Peer Support Specialist(CPSSs)'. Offer House will also assist CPSSs in their annual recertification. CPSSs will be the foundation of TSRC programming. 2. Creating Additional Peer Support Trainers. Success While In Transition (SWIT)will prepare persons with lived experience of incarceration as additional SWIT trainers.There will be cross-training for all TSRC trainers to become NC Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSSs) and thus able to lead groups of participants and serve as one-on-one mentors. 3. Reentry/Transition Workshops. TSRC partner, SWIT, will engage TSRC participants in 22 structured workshops covering 21 key principles/topics. The locally developed course includes subject matter that is deemed key by those with long-term success in reentry and transition.This training, using a continuous improvement process, is being developed by a SWIT Curriculum Team with lived experience of substance use disorders, incarceration, and successful reentry, and assisted by a Doctor of Public Health.The training is designed to increase participants' individual and collective capacities for success in treatment, harm reduction, addressing comorbidities and reentry into the community. (See Sample Training Module, attached) 4. One-on-One Reentry/Recovery/Harm Reduction/Transition Mentoring. Wounded Healers of NC (WHNC) will engage TSRC participants in One-on-One Peer Mentoring using a Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) model that will focus on successful transition and reentry, and recovery and/or harm reduction. WRAP is a personal mental health recovery plan designed to: a) decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors; b) increase personal empowerment; c) improve quality of life; and d) assist mentees in achieving their own life goals and dreams. Mentors will provide specific support to those in treatment programs and engaged in harm reduction, will address comorbidities, and will also support those who are grappling with reentry into the community. Mentors will also attend SWIT reentry trainings with TSRC participants and work with participants to integrate WRAP goals, learnings from SWIT trainings, life experiences, and community engagement. 5. Reentry Housing. Reentry House Plus (in Hillsborough) will each prioritize enrolling its residents into TSRC programming as well as accepting TSRC participants as residents.The house will strongly encourage residents to participate in all TSRC programming and to create a culture consistent with belonging to a Reentry Community. More, broadly,the houses will serve as a TSRC programming venue for non- residents of the house as well. Goal and Objectives. Goal:To provide the target population with support sufficient to enhance their capacities for successful harm reduction/recovery, reentry, and desistance (that is, adoption of a law-abiding identity), and therefore, harm reduction, reduce return-to-use, rearrest, and recidivism. In doing so,this initiative will work with the full constellation of community organizations and government entities to address comorbidities, socio-cultural transformation from incarceration norms to those of a healthy community, and to satisfy participants' basic needs for healthy living(e.g.,jobs, training and basic income, affordable and accessible housing, healthy community reintegration, etc.). S Memorandum Of Agreement,Exhibit B.B2,p 4. Provide the full continuum of care of treatment and recovery services for OUD and any cooccurring SUD/MH conditions,including supportive housing,peer support services and counseling,community navigators,case management,and connections to community-based services. 6