Sierra Health Foundation Center For Health Program Management

Medications for addiction treatment access points project the medications for addiction treatment (mat) access points project is supporting organizations throughout california to address the opioid and substance use epidemic. In partnership with the department of health care services, funding supports community-based organizations, tribal health programs and organizations, and federally or non-federally recognized tribes to address opioid and substance use disorder through prevention, education, stigma reduction, treatment and recovery services, and expanding access to medications for addiction treatment. In 2024, the center supported 177 projects in 46 california counties. Funded partners trained nearly 53,000 individuals in overdose prevention and other substance use disorder topics, referred over 17,000 individuals to substance use disorder treatment and recovery support services, and supported over 4,400 new patients' direct access to medications for addiction treatment.

Behavioral health recovery services project the behavioral health recovery services project (bhrsp) supported 102 californian nonprofit organizations to expand access to mental health and substance use disorder recovery services through a health equity approach designed to remove barriers to care for communities of color, two-spirit/ lgbtq+ people, people with disabilities and others who have faced discrimination and unequal access to behavioral health care systems. The program is funded by the california department of health care services. From the program's inception in 2024, bhrsp partners have served more than 65,000 unique individuals, of whom 80% were medi-cal eligible and 26% unhoused. Two-thirds of those served by bhrsp projects were people of color, and black and native american people were significantly overrepresented compared to their proportion of california's population. Bhrsp supported 2,190 staff positions across nearly 600 full time equivalent, including 241 peer staff. Services and health education materials were delivered in at least 18 languages.

California state opioid funding programthe state opioid funding program addresses the opioid epidemic by supporting the department of health care services (dhcs) in implementing various projects of dhcs' opioid response program, including creating expanded substance use disorder (sud) treatment infrastructure, addressing the needs of communities of color and vulnerable populations that are disproportionately impacted by sud, diversion of people with sud from the justice system into treatment, and interventions to prevent drug addiction in vulnerable youth. These projects include expanding mat in state-licensed facilities and/or certified sud and mental health facilities, increasing mat access points, and the increase of medication through mobile narcotic treatment programs and medication units. Through this $113,799,996 contract with dhcs, the state opioid funding program dispersed $20,063,213.60 to 39 organizations in 2024.california overdose prevention and harm reduction initiativethe california overdose prevention and harm reduction initiative (cophri) is a partnership between the center at sierra health foundation and the california department of public health that supports low-barrier, nonjudgmental, public health-focused harm reduction services through 68 community-based nonprofits, clinics, and local health departments throughout the state. To date, cophri has awarded $36,659,694 to promote health and safety for people who use drugs, including safer drug injection and smoking services, overdose prevention education and naloxone access, hiv and viral hepatitis services, access to medications for opioid use disorder and other substance use disorder care, and a wide range of social and health care services. Youth suicide prevention media and outreach campaign program youth suicide prevention media and outreach campaign program is a statewide program focused on youth suicide prevention. With funding from the california department of public health (cdph) from may 2023 to june 2025, our 33 program partners worked to prevent suicide among some of california's most marginalized youth who are disproportionately impacted by suicide and self-harm behavior. This includes american indian and alaskan native, hispanic and latinx, and african american/black youth, as well as intersectional populations such as youth with mental health conditions and/or substance use issues, those impacted by the foster care system, and two-spirit/lgbtq+ youth. Funded partners hosted 5,131 activities and events, accumulated over 114,000 program interactions with youth, delivered 5,886 messages via mixed media, and had 2.6 million campaign-related social media impressions. Additionally, the center hosted three partner convenings that cumulatively gathered 273 community-based organizations and youth attendees. The center team also facilitated 23 technical assistance webinars and completed 15 partner site visits. Black child legacy campaignthe black child legacy campaign is the community-driven movement established by the steering committee on reduction of african american child deaths in 2015. The campaign focuses on reducing african american child deaths across the top four causes of preventable death: deaths related to child abuse and neglect, third-party homicides, deaths related to perinatal conditions, and infant sleep-related deaths. In 2024, funded partners provided intensive case management to 1,141 african americans, and 3,630 youth participated in black child legacy campaign activities. The black child legacy campaign is funded by the county of sacramento, first 5 sacramento, and the board of state and community corrections and is managed by the center.