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48 <br /> Overarching Goal and Its Achievement.TSRC seeks to make its direct service, reentry support <br /> programming broad and robust enough to make a difference in the success in the transition of those <br /> persons recently released from incarceration, especially as it relates opioid-related substance use <br /> disorders and comorbidities. To that end,TSRC employs strength-based approaches that promote <br /> reduction of harm and desistance (that is, adoption of a law-abiding identity).TSRC's program theory is <br /> that multiple intensive peer support interventions, when structured, systematic, networked, and <br /> provided with sufficient length and intensity, can improve adoption of recovery and harm reduction <br /> living, as well as a successful transition to the community, and reduce recidivism and post-release <br /> morbidity and mortality.TSRC will collaboratively supplement and support existing SUD and related <br /> services for persons with opioid disorders, related substance use disorders, and comorbidity. <br /> Success in these areas is intimately tied to other aspects of successful transition and reentry: housing, <br /> financial stability, community embeddedness and engagement, and psycho-social-cultural transition and <br /> support. While not providing this full array of services,TSRC will be a force for broad integrative <br /> collaboration among all Orange County service providers. TSRC will leverage its own programming with <br /> other interventions such as professional SUD treatment to reinforce and increase the longevity and <br /> effectiveness of all reentry support systems. TSRC's aim is neither to duplicate nor compete with others' <br /> services, but to enable returnees from incarceration to experience the constellation of support as <br /> consistent, holistic, cohesive, community-based and deeply infused with the wisdom of lived experience. <br /> In the long term,TSRC seeks to create a sustainable collaborative capable of expanding over time in both <br /> programming scope and geographical footprint. <br /> Target Population.The Transition Support and Recovery Collaborative's (TSRC) target populations <br /> comprised of persons who have experience with opioid use disorders and related substance use <br /> disorders and comorbidities who are preparing to return, are transitioning, or who have recently <br /> returned from incarceration to the Orange County community.This includes those in, or returning from, <br /> incarceration from Orange County Detention Center, Orange Correctional Center, and the North <br /> Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Most participants will be Black/African American and male <br /> though we anticipate substantial percentages will European American and female. According to the <br /> Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), "approximately 17 percent of <br /> people incarcerated in state prisons and 19 percent of people incarcerated in jails report regular opioid <br /> use." Further, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, nearly half of those in prison (44.5%) are there <br /> related to "drug offenses." <br /> The National Institute on Drug Abuse states, "85%of the prison population has an active substance use <br /> disorder or were incarcerated for a crime involving drugs or drug use." (2020) <br /> 2 <br />