Western Maryland Area Health Education Center

Access-ssp - reduce substance-related morbidity and mortality by optimizing services for people who use drugs and deliver services for people who use drugs using a harm reduction framework and approach.

Msmets - program to support the general operation of the area health education center in education, recruitment, retention and development of health professionals in the region in and around western md.

Pos ahec - to recruit health care professionals to fill workforce gaps and increase health career education in public and private schools.ggait - the geriatric assessment interdisciplinary team (gait) project provides university system of maryland health professional students an accessible and affordable clinical training experience in geriatric healthcare.ggear - supports professional education and resource development for personnel providing care and services to the elderly in western maryland.maryland deptartment of health and mental hygiene - to assist the rural area health centers (ahecs) by providing funds to enhance training, recruitment, and retention of medical providers in rural areas.rural community opioid response - provide education on opioid and addiction-related stigma to the general public and healthcare workforce, include advocacy for harm reduction programs, expand access to prevention, treatment and recovery services, promote development of stable housing and other services for those in recovery, provide targeted services for families affected by opioid and substance use disorders. Program includes healing allegany which seeks to reduce illness and death in allegany county, maryland related to opioid and substance use disorders and neonatal abstinence syndrome which seaks to enhance family-support services in allegany and garrett counties related to neonatal syndrome (nas), in which children are born affected by maternal drug use.allegany recovery peers (oocc peers) - provide a peer support specialist to assist participants in the drug court, pre-trial diversion, and jail reentry programs in allegany county.power peers - recruit, train, and provide adequate supervision to peer support workers.march - expand the number and diversity of healthcare professionals with abortion care training by increasing physician and apc students and practitioners' access to abortion education, increase the racial and ethnic diversity among healthcare professionals with abortion care training, through the expanation of providers to include physician and apc students and practitioners, support the identification of clinical sites in need of training, and expand contraceptive and abortion care access for women throughout maryland.healthy teen network - provide project management and training and technical assitance to implementation partners for implementing evidence-based programs with youth ages 13-19 intending to reduce rual maryland county teen birth rates, rural maryland county youth sti rates, and racial disparities in maryland rural county teen birth and sti rates.