Research Projects, Program Evaluations, and Infrastructure Projects

The Pathways Partnership Platform (P3) is an interagency cooperation and tribal partnerships for effective and innovative youth risk mitigation.

This study will characterize care transitions among patients within a large integrated health system that have a need for substance use disorder care and examine patient and clinician experiences with care transitions.

The goals of this diversity supplement to the JEAP Initiative are to (1) Conduct a systematic review of recovery capital measurement...

Phoenix Recovery Support Services will implement a 15-bed recovery housing program in Cook County, Illinois. Utilizing a Low Barrier Recovery Home Model (LBRHM), the program will prioritize providing stable housing to individuals regardless of their substance use.

This project will develop knowledge that will assess the problem of undertreatment of alcohol use disorders in older adults by examining access to care among Medicare Advantage enrollees.

PATH (Peer Advanced Training in Harm reduction) is a workforce intervention that uses virtual education and case-based learning approaches to support PRSSs who deliver HR services.

Community Care Coordinators will screen, refer to services, and coordinate treatment services for participants in two detention centers.

The primary objective of our proposed study is to determine the barriers and facilitators to an emergency department (ED)-based heart failure (HF) screening program. This qualitative work will be used to help guide the development and implementation of an intervention.

This SBIR Phase II study continues to evaluate Sonara, a HIPAA-compliant web-application (app) with 2-way text messaging between patient and clinical team (counselor, nurse), that is designed to facilitate methadone take-home monitoring for two cohorts: 1) a group of long term clients who have plateaued at weekly take home (1 clinic visit per week with 6 days of take-homes) for 6 months or more and 2) a group of new clients as they first go onto weekly take home (with 1 or 2 clinic visits per week).

This is part of the National Media Campaign to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking and Other Substances – STOP Act, and provides expert input into training and dissemination materials as part of the TTHY campaign.

This project tests the effectiveness of a supervision coaching strategy to promote workforce stability and START implementation while also creating conditions for strategy sustainment in Ohio’s child welfare system.

The purpose of SOR-IV is to address escalating opioid misuse, opioid use disorder (OUD), and opioid-related overdose across Illinois.

The purpose of the project is to enhance and expand comprehensive treatment, early intervention, and recovery support services for adolescents (ages 14-18) and their families with substance use disorders and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders.

Pilot study to identify effective policies and practices for working with criminal legal system (CLS) clients who are receiving medicatin for opioid use disorder (MOUD) through a qualitative comparative case study of four recovery residences that are effectively and safely serviing the target population.

The overarching objective is to investigate a scalable service that can be used in rural communities called Launch. Launch is an innovative adaptation of current evidence-based services for emerging adults (EAs; 18-26 years old) with polysubstance use, with a particular emphasis on increasing EA’s recovery capital. Recovery capital is the resources available to promote substance use recovery (e.g., vocational/educational skills, recovery-supportive community).

The purpose of Haymarket’s MAI-HRP program is to increase engagement in care for racial and ethnic medically underserved individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and/or co-occurring SUDs and mental health conditions (COD) who are at risk for or living with HIV.

The purpose of SOR-III is to address escalating opioid misuse, opioid use disorder (OUD), and opioid-related overdose across Illinois.

This project’s goal is to increase the availability of user-friendly, relevant data to inform local decisions and policies across Oregon to ultimately connect individuals to a continuum of substance use services, prevent overdoses, and improve substance use policies.

Haymarket SEP program intends to engage 238 adult Chicagoans over 5 years to overcome undertreated mental health and substance use disorders. Haymarket SEP will be data-driven and results-oriented, using the evidence-based Individual Placement and Support intervention model of Supported Employment and clinical interventions.

The objective of this project is to evaluate a youth problem gambling prevention curriculum designed by Chestnut prevention staff.

This pragmatic trial addresses a critical scientific and public health gap: How can we intervene to address barriers to treatment among patients who are interested in seeking care for substance use disorders (SUDs)? This study will generate some of the first evidence to guide the implementation and effectiveness of care navigation interventions for SUD in routine practice.

Emerging adults (16-25) are particularly affected by the opioid crisis.

Cook County Health’s MAT-PDOA program aims to increase and expand Medication-Assisted Treatment services for individuals diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD) by implementing a rapid access, low barrier, and high-capacity bridge clinic on Illinois Medical District Campus in Chicago.

This study evaluates how effectively the Just Care program helps parents involved in the child welfare system reduce their use of opioids or methamphetamines and improve their mental health.

Cook County Health has been funded to train, deploy, and engage community health workers to work with target populations in Suburban Cook County. The goal of the program is to strengthen community resilience to fight COVID-19 by addressing health disparities in priority populations.

Haymarket GBHI project will expand substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and comprehensive services to 300 unique adults who are experiencing substance use disorder (SUD), serious mental illness (SMI), and homelessness.

Horizon Behavioral Health received funds to serve homeless adolescents and their families in Virginia by providing trauma-informed outreach and engagement, screening and assessment for substance use and mental health disorders, substance use and mental health treatment, medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, case management, and peer recovery support services.

Haymarket TCE-Special Project aims to assess adults with an opiate use disorder (OUD) and a co-occurring mental disorder by the expansion of MAT and intensive medication management by a team of direct care nurses. The TCE-Special Project intends to address medication noncompliance as part of a strategy to temper opiate and mental health treatment crises.

In response to the public health emergency of opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose, the NIH intends to deliver as quickly as possible the results of NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative research so communities and providers can make evidence-based decisions...

The purpose of this study is to identify data-driven interventions to reduce rates of community violence in high-risk populations.

This project aims to support groups deciding which evidence-based interventions and other innovations to implement in their communities and service systems.

The new program, Multidimensional Family Treatment and Recovery (MDFTR), works with parents/caregivers who have substance use disorders both to address their SUD directly and indirectly to prevent or reduce child maltreatment and out-of-home placement for children under age six (prenatal through 5 years inclusive).

The purpose of the project is to develop and test a software application that seeks to improve delivery of mental health services and reduce suicide risk in adolescents transitioning out of the juvenile justice system.

This project will compare the effects of two SAMHSA grant mechanisms (i.e., financing strategies), which supported the adoption of an EBP for adolescent SUD through either organization-focused or state-focused granting of funds.

The goal of Haymarket’s CORC program is to reduce opioid-related overdoses by 1) expanding outreach visits to 500 persons; 2) expanding treatment, including using MAT; and 3) expanding comprehensive recovery services to 250 participants.

Emerging adults (EAs; 18-25) have the highest rates of substance use disorders and are particularly affected by the opioid crisis. They also tend to drop out of treatment more frequently and use services less than other age groups, leading to worse outcomes like continued substance use, incarceration, and overdose.

The primary objectives of this project are to (1) evaluate the Cook County Recovery Learning and Action Network (LAN) as a community coalition with a goal for actionable change and (2) conduct an implementation feasibility evaluation of a real-time recovery housing inventory.

LI will develop a web-based cloud application to provide a self-screening and referral management service to people referred by the “Talk. They Hear You.” (TTHY) mobile application and national media campaign.

The JEAP Initiative will advance research on the efficacy/effectiveness of peer recovery supports and recovery residences for public-system involved emerging adults...

The purpose of this program is to expand and/or enhance substance abuse and mental health treatment and related recovery and reentry services to female adult offenders returning to the community from incarceration for criminal offenses.

Horizon Behavioral Health received funds to expand its Family Treatment Drug Court (FTDC) in Bedford County, Virginia. It is hypothesized that FTDC participants will show decreased rates of substance use, mental health problems, and engagement in illegal activities between intake to FTDC and 6 months post-intake.

The Consortium on Addiction Recovery Science (CoARS) is funded by NIDA and coordinated by Dr. Aaron Hogue (PI).

Juvenile justice serves over a million cases annually and is a primary source for substance use and behavior treatment referrals

The ultimate aim of this research program is to improve provision of evidence-based practices (EBPs) to emerging adults (EAs) with substance use (SU) problems and criminal legal system (CLS) involvement. To that end, this project investigates if using similar-aged paraprofessional coaches can effectively engage this underserved community in SU services.

Jails provide an optimal setting for intervening with individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD), given the high volume of offenders with OUD, and their high risk of relapse to opioids following their release to the community. It is imperative that individuals with OUD are linked to community-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) upon their re-entry, as well as receive support for their ongoing treatment retention and recovery.

This Hybrid Type II effectiveness-implementation trial examines the effectiveness of an evidence-based program – Families Actively Improving Relationships (FAIR) when adapted for upstream prevention (PRE-FAIR) of opioid and or methamphetamine use disorder.

The purpose of the project was to develop and test a software application that seeks to improve delivery of mental health services and reduce suicide risk in adolescents transitioning out of the juvenile justice system.

Emergency responders, including paramedics, fire fighters, and police, routinely come into contact with individuals who have overdosed and play a critical role in administering naloxone to reverse opioid-related overdose. However, mechanisms to link these individuals to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) following an overdose are lacking. This study targets individuals in Chicago who have received naloxone administered by first responders within the past week to reverse an overdose, but who have not entered into MAT.

Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) in primary care for risky adult alcohol use has been demonstrated effective in reducing use among heavy alcohol users. While the process also identifies 5-10% of the patients who have substance use disorders (SUD) that require referral to alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment, the most recent meta-analysis indicates that the procedures had little to no effect on actual treatment linkage and utilization.

In 2014, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of Justice Services (OJS) created the Diversion to Re-entry Division (DRD) within the Tribal Justice Support (TJS) Directorate to address the need for reducing criminal recidivism in tribal communities through identification of need and risk, referral, treatment, re-entry and tracking offenders along a cascade of justice services.