Health Institute. Long spearheads the nonprofit’s effort to strengthen the substance use
infrastructure in 14 rural, southern New Mexico counties, especially regarding opioid use
disorder.
“I’ll be aiding all the rural counties in New Mexico south of Interstate-40,” said Long, a resident of Mesilla, NM.
Long’s efforts focus on Catron, Chaves, Cibola, De Baca, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, and Socorro counties.
The three-year project is funded by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) as part of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP).
The funding implements plans created by the communities to strengthen and expand services for substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD) prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts by the rural counties.
By The Center for Health Innovation
• Dec 14, 2020
Credit NM Department of Health The Center for Health Innovation received additional federal funding to transform the efforts of New Mexico’s rural southern counties’ opioid response planning efforts into actions thanks to a grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA).
New Mexico’s Public Health Institute, the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) was recently awarded the HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Implementation grant.
Totaling $1 million in funding over a three-year period, CHI received New Mexico’s only RCORP implementation grant of 90 awarded in the nation this year. The funding will strengthen and expand services for substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD) prevention, treatment, and recovery.