i ABSTRACT Project Title Utah Rural Opioid Healthcare Consortium - South Central (UROHC-SC) Requested Award $1,000,000.00 Applicant Utah Center for Rural Health (UCRH)/Southern Utah Area Health Education Organization Center (AHEC) at Southern Utah University (SUU) Address/Facility Type 351 W Univ Blvd., Cedar City, UT 8472-2415; Institute of Higher Learning Project Director Kasey Shakespear, Program Manager, UCRH/SU-AHEC/SUU Contact Information (435) 879-4364, kasey.shakespear@suu.edu EIN/DUNS Number Exception Request: N Learned of Funding HRSA News Release Consortium Members Total: UCRH/SU-AHEC at SUU, Aspire 365, Scriptyx, Kane County Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, Wayne Community Health Clinic Prior/Current RCORP FY 2018 RCORP-Planning (G25RH32477)-Applicant Org Grant Recipient? FY 2019 RCORP-Implementation (GA1RH33544)-Applicant Org Target Population Of the total 17,127 individuals in the HRSA-entirely-rural target 4-county: ● 4.85% are unemployed ● 13.3% live below the poverty line ● 1.35% are American Indian/Alaska Native ● 22.5% are over age 65 This project does not specifically target tribal populations, but is in close physical proximity to San Juan County, served predominately by Indian Health Services and Utah Navajo Health Services All counties in the target service area are in the bottom least populated counties (of 29) in Utah Target Service Area County State Rural HRSA Eligibility Fully-Rural Counties Garfield Utah HRSA-designated entirely rural Kane Utah HRSA-designated entirely rural Piute Utah HRSA-designated entirely rural Wayne Utah HRSA-designated entirely rural In 2017, 650 Utahns died from drug overdose (or 22.3 deaths per 100,000 people, compared to the U.S average of 19.8), most of which involved opioids.1 This outpaces deaths by firearm, homicide, diabetes, or kidney disease.1 For some of most rural counties lacking SUD/OUD health services, UROHC-SC will treat Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)/Substance Abuse Disorder (SUD) as a chronic disease, specifically through prevention (marketing campaigns, community events, Naloxone training, medication disposal, school activities, coalition partnerships, clinical referrals, and SUD screening expansion), treatment (increasing DATA-2000 providers, improving the healthcare workforce, implementing telehealth, improving coding reimbursement, engaging families, and creating a resource database), and recovery (creation of a community map, staffing of Peer Recovery Coaches, and implementing evidence-based practices on engaging family members in the recovery process) We request funding of $1,000,000 to formalize a consortium and attain project objectives Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017) 2017 Stats of the State of Utah www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/utah/utah.htm