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Through the Peer and Recovery Organization Sustainability, Planning, Equity and Research (PROSPER) project, Recovery People will expand its social impact network across peer and recovery organizations (PROs), payers, and stakeholders to develop sustainability models and a statewide strategic plan that is data driven and affirmatively furthers health equity for marginalized communities. Using a multilateral approach, PROSPER will engage the social impact network to identify policy, knowledge, and capacity strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) that will in turn inform the development and implementation of multidirectional solutions; including advocacy and awareness campaigns coupled with educational materials, courses and technical assistance. PROSPER will strengthen the capacity of peer and recovery organizations to drive state, local and organization policies, to access a more diverse set of revenue streams, and to advance the integration and provision of recovery support services across coordinated state and local recovery-oriented systems of care. Goals are: 1) Weave a cross-sector, social impact network of PROs, payers and stakeholders committed to peer and recovery organization sustainability, planning, equity and research (PROSPER); 2) Develop a coordinated, data-informed, statewide strategic plan to expand access to PRSS delivered by PROs; 3) Address knowledge gap and infrastructure barriers across and between PROs, payers and stakeholders; 4) Address policy gaps and barriers by empowering the voice of PROs and lived experience; and 5) Affirmatively further health equity for marginalized communities. Objectives are: 1) Annually (re)establish 50 network membership agreements with PROs, payers and/or stakeholders; 2) Annually (re)establish an advisory committee with at least 50% of the members identifying as having lived experience in recovery; 3) Annually collect qualitative or quantitative research from 50 PROs, payer and/or stakeholders; 4) Annually provide training and/or technical assistance (T/TA) to (Y1: 200; Y2: 250; Y3: 300) unduplicated individuals; 5) Annually average 80% or higher satisfaction and usefulness ratings from participants on content provided in training and technical assistance (T/TA) events; 6) Annually lead 4 advocacy campaigns or initiatives; 7) Annually support 5 peer workforce instructors serving marginalized communities; and 8) Annually increase the number of payers by 1 that contract with PROs.

The geographic catchment area of the Prevention Links' (PL) Recovery Community Services Program- Statewide Network (RCSP-SN) is the entire state of New Jersey. The project will be driven by PL's New Jersey Coalition for Addiction Recovery Support (NJ-CARS), New Jersey's only statewide recovery community organization. Training and technical assistance recipients will fall into two categories: (1) specialty and general healthcare providers and stakeholders and (2) peer recovery support service providers and stakeholders. With regard to specialty health care providers, a specific emphasis will be place on training and technical assistance for infectious disease treatment providers and harm reduction providers.

Through this funding opportunity, CRCC will offer the Recovery United project to support individuals, families, and recovery institutions and community-based organizations, including harm reduction organizations, in Illinois impacted by SUD and COD in Illinois. CRCC's Recovery United project aims to: improve organizational/structural changes for 102 recovery-oriented institutions and community-based organizations in Illinois' 102 counties over three years to enhance the long-term viability of RSS in Illinois and develop linkages for RSS organizations to eliminate fragmentation, duplication of services, increased costs, and interruptions in care. CRCC will achieve this by working with five regional partners across the state who will be members of a Recovery Leadership Steering Committee (RLSC). The RLSC will work together to identify and recruit recovery-oriented institutions and community-based organizations in their area to participate in a statewide task force (TF). Through the task force, the RLSC will provide capacity-building support and technical assistance for TF members by providing trauma-informed culturally competent training to enhance the delivery of PRSS and system-wide workforce development to serve people of color more effectively, individuals involved in the justice system, returning veterans, etc.; providing support to plan and implement practical and innovative approaches in local service delivery; developing fundraising and donor strategies for PRSS costs that Medicaid doesn't cover; and providing public relations and communications training to enhance awareness and communications about RSS services and gaps. The RLSC will work together to promote and educate about using PRSS in integrated primary care for 12 providers to meet Illinois's demand for the peer workforce to grow and become more sustainable. Finally, CRCC will also collaborate with Live4Lali, a statewide harm reduction organization, to support local and regional Harm Reduction community partner efforts related to RSS to improve statewide harm reduction collaboration and strategies. Through this project, CRCC will annually improve the capacity of and build linkages for 34 recovery institutions and community-based organizations across Illinois; promote and educate about the use of PRSS in integrated primary care and within more recently developed community behavioral healthcare models for 12 providers; and collaborate with local and regional Harm Reduction community partner efforts to improve harm reduction strategies and better address the needs of individuals with OUD/SUD by expanding naloxone training to individuals and families with OUD/SUD (four per year), and providing capacity-building support and TA to harm reduction stakeholders through the task force.