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Conduct targeted outreach to disconnected communities to connect people to existing resources, coordinate care, and provide navigation support throughout the continuum of care.
Human Services Agency, Housing and Homeless Services: $1,067,720
Street Outreach
1/1/2026-6/30/2028
This project aims to 1) conduct street outreach to unsheltered people in Washoe County who are opioid impacted or at risk of using opioids 2) build rapport, facilitate referrals to treatment and housing and 3) maintain support once clients are housed and/or engaged in treatment to ensure they stay housed. HHS will conducted a Request for Proposals to determine the contracted partner, Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada.
Expand housing services to support people with OUD across the continuum of use that include comprehensive wrap-around and tenancy supports
Northern Nevada HOPES: $985,626.93
Hope Springs- Bridge Housing and Recovery Services for Unhoused Opioid Users
7/1/2026-6/30/2028
Northern Nevada HOPES’ (HOPES) Hope Springs (HS) tiny home, transitional housing program will utilize a Housing-First and Behavioral Health Focused model to provide unhoused persons who use opioids with on-site individual/ group behavioral health (BH) treatment (TX), case management (CM), Peer Support Services (PSS), workforce development, financial coaching, and wrap-around services that help them access/sustain housing.
Provide mobile health care clinics that include comprehensive health and dental care for people who use or are at risk of using opioids.
University of Nevada, Reno - Orvis School of Nursing
StreetReach - Mobile Health in Action
7/1/2026-6/30/2028
StreetReach–Mobile Health in Action (StreetReach-MHiA) is a nurse-led mobile health initiative designed to expand access to low-barrier, integrated health care for unhoused persons who use or are at risk of OUD. Services include preventive care, primary care, chronic disease management, behavioral health care, substance use treatment, laboratory and diagnostic services, and linkage to dental care.
Use a multidisciplinary approach to providing overdose prevention outreach and education, inclusive of under resourced communities, such as BIPOC communities, in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner (organizations, media, churches).
Reno Initiative for Shelter and Equality: $523,403
Building Communities of Support
10/1/2024-9/30/2026
The Reno Initiative for Shelter and Equality’s (RISE) Building Communities of Support (BCOS) program will address the needs of people who use drugs (PWUDs) in Washoe County through comprehensive harm reduction strategies, community engagement, and advocacy, led by the expertise and leadership of individuals with lived experience. BCOS will embed Harm Reduction Outreach workers who have lived experience in communities to provide targeted outreach, safer use supplies, and overdose education (including rescue breathing) and Naloxone distribution (OEND) to PWUD, develop an advisory council of PWUD to guide program activities, outreach, and education, provide community education on OEND, drug checking supplies, and engage families and communities in developing a destigmatizing and supportive environment for PWUD.
Join Together Northern Nevada: $250,000
Partnership for Prevention
10/1/2024-9/30/2026
Join Together Northern Nevada will provide outreach to people who are unhoused and use opioids and develop a media campaign. The outreach to unhoused people who use opioids will include connecting people to care through Uber Health rides. The media campaign will focus on increasing awareness of harm reduction and the Good Samaritan Law, decreasing stigma, and educating the public on access to and use of Naloxone.
The Life Change Center $499,840.78
Community Overdose Prevention and Engagement +
7/1/2026-6/30/2028
COPE+ is a street-based outreach and access program designed to reduce barriers and expand access for high-need, high-risk populations. The program conducts proactive outreach in geographically targeted, high-vulnerability areas, engaging individuals with opioid use disorder in the community, completing intake in the field, and providing immediate linkage to harm reduction supplies, same-day or next-day MOUD, peer recovery support services, Medicaid enrollment, and naloxone.
Implement child welfare best practices for supporting families impacted by substance use.
Human Services Agency, Adult Services: $2,353,104.18
CrossRoads Families
10/1/2024-6/30/2028
HSA’s CrossRoads Families project will establish a facility where parents reside with their children to engage in recovery together. The project addresses the needs of families impacted by opioid use disorder (OUD) through a comprehensive, family-centered approach implementing child welfare best practices to support family stability, promoting family reunification, and preventing child removals. CrossRoads Families offers a holistic environment where families can rebuild relationships, receive comprehensive support, and transition to independent living together – thereby reinforcing the family unit and interrupting the cycle of trauma and OUD. Utilizing a Therapeutic Community model that leverages the community as an agent of change and a family-centered approach, recognizing that the recovery of an individual is closely linked to the well-being of their family. Holistic support services will address the physical, psychological, social, and economic needs of both parents and children, thereby enhancing recovery-oriented outcomes and promoting.
Evaluate the effectiveness and outcomes of existing programs and services for people who use substances
DNA Global: $299,767.13
Evaluation CrossRoads
7/1/2026-6/30/2028
DNA Global will conduct a formative mixed-methods evaluation of the CrossRoads Program designed to support continuous quality improvement, shared accountability, and strategic learning across CrossRoads and Washoe County Human Services Agency (HSA).
Increase detoxification and short-term rehabilitation program capacity.
Bristlecone Family Resources: $952,381
Medical Detox Building
10/1/2024-9/30/2026
Bristlecone Family Resources will Establish a 20-bed detox center in Reno, focusing on equitable access to care, improved continuity of care, and the availability of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services. Building the detox center provides essential infrastructure to support individuals needing immediate medical intervention for opioid use disorders, ensuring a safe environment during withdrawal. Equitable access is facilitated by accepting Medicaid, utilizing current funding through grants, and providing comprehensive services to uninsured and low-income populations.
Ensure funding for the array of opioid use disorder treatment services for uninsured and underinsured Washoe county residents.
Northern Nevada HOPES: $984,002
Opioid Treatment Expansion Project
10/1/2024-9/30/2026
Northern Nevada HOPES (HOPES) will create an opioid treatment program at its new East 4th Street Clinic. The clinic is in a high needs and under resourced area, directly adjacent to the homeless shelter. The addition of opioid treatment at this new site will provide at-risk community members with easily accessible and low-barrier treatment options, thus filling a gap in services in our community. HOPES will utilize health insurance revenue to sustain the program with minimal ongoing funding needs after the grant period.
Ridge House LLC: $30,000
OUD Outpatient Services
10/1/2024-9/30/2026
Ridge House will provide OUD outpatient services to justice-involved individuals including intensive outpatient programming, group therapy, individual therapy, individual counseling, peer support, case management, family therapy, couples counseling, and aftercare. The OUD Outpatient Services project will provide services to Washoe County residents who are uninsured and underinsured.