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MOUD Treatment in JAILS

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) prescribed in correctional facilities are critical to saving patients’ lives. Stratis Health offers practical implementation strategies to integrate addiction services into primary care settings. Our work in jail settings helps organization work towards integrating MOUD efficiently and effectively in their addiction medicine services.  

Actions: 

We provide an interactive learning session:  

  1. Assessment & Maturity matrix to measure your progress in obtaining your goals.8-14-month engagement period that includes:
  2. Monthly online planning and technical assistance sessions with subject matter experts.
    • Education – a 4-hour in person virtual learning series including breakout sessions by roles within the county jail, plus weekly OUD-focused virtual learning series. 
    • Support – monthly follow-ups to review progress on maturity matrix, successes, and barriers. Access to evidence-based tools that enable front-line county jail correctional health care team clinicians to identify and assess the needs of people with addiction. Thus, enabling them to effectively prescribe utilize MOUD.  
  3. Access to evidence-based tools that enable front-line county jail correctional health care team clinicians to identify and assess the needs of people with addiction. Thus, enabling them to effectively prescribe utilize MOUD.  

Benefits of attending the interactive learning session: 

  • You will improve recognition of OUD/SUD in people with addiction. You will be equipped with tools and data to describe different treatment 
  • The interactive learning session will provide your team with critical information that you will learn to help reduce stigma related to OUD. You will learn how to engage leaders and community partners to implement MOUD. 

We make lives better by… 

  • Improving timely recognition of opioid use disorder in people who are incarcerated. 
  • Determining next steps and/or plan on how to implement or advance MOUD programming in jail. 
  • Defining the intersection of mental health and opioid use disorder. 
  • Enabling correctional facilities to understand the basic neurobiology of addiction and what makes it a chronic health condition. 
  • Educating jails on how to implement Buprenorphine (MOUD) treatment as a standard of care. 
In Support Of
Correctional staff, community partners, peer recovery specialists.
Contact

Erin Foss
Clinical Subject Matter Expert, Addiction Medicine
952-853-8561

Alona Jarmin
Program Manager
952-853-8556

 

Timeline

8-14-month engagement period

Testimonials

The Mille Lacs County Sherriff’s Office described their situation and the assistance which Stratis Health provided:

“We are a 148-bed facility serving 26,000 rural central Minnesota residents along with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. To say that our area has a drug problem is an understatement. We continue to fight the battle that many rural counties face when it comes to drug use. Our focus as a facility is bettering and furthering resources to rural Minnesota. Our jail population struggles with many of the resources and available options that metro areas have. We have limited transportation, which is one of the major reasons our population struggles with meeting most of the demands of the courts, probation and even their own medical needs. Our partnership with Stratis Health can bridge that gap where we can start more effectively addressing addiction in the facility and give our population a community-based resource that is in our area. We want to ensure that we are not just a “holding facility” but truly a place where we are making a difference in our community by addressing many needs while incarcerated and making sure our population is set up for success when they walk out the door.”

The Dakota County Sherriff’s Office shared these statements about working with Stratis Health:

“Stratis Health has kept us up to date on all new findings and education. They are readily available, via phone, to answer any questions in an emergent or non-emergent situation. They have provided us with education that is easily interpreted by anyone and therefore very helpful to pass on to patients. Monthly meetings to touch base on any new issues or questions were conducted and very helpful. Stratis Health’s expertise and guidance aided our team in expanding and improving MOUD services to justice-involved individuals. I’m grateful for their evidence-based and person­ centered approach to care.”

Solutions

Redesigning Care Delivery

Building Bridges Between Health Care and Community

Stratis Health Opioid Addiction in Rural (SOAR) Project ECHO

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Midwest Tribal ECHO

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