The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has announced a three-year, $1.35 million grant will be awarded to the New Mexico State University (NMSU) School of Nursing to fund a project to expand the number of professionals in New Mexico who are trained in interprofessional settings to prevent and treat opioid-use and substance abuse disorders in community-based practices.
This project is a collaboration between the NMSU College of Health and Social Services and the College of Education. It will support interprofessional faculty and community health provider training in the prevention, treatment, and recovery of opioid and substance abuse disorders, part of HRSA’s Opioid Workforce Education Program.
Shelly Noe, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing and director of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, will serve as the project director. She tells newscenter.nmsu.edu, “NMSU will leverage its current academic-practice partnerships to develop planned clinical training experiences in the delivery of OUD and SUD prevention, treatment and recovery services.”
NMSU faculty from three departments will participate in the project through 2021 – the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, the PhD Counseling Psychology program, and the Master of Social Work program.
According to the New Mexico Department of Health, New Mexico reported a rate of 24.6 deaths per 100,000 people due to drug overdose in 2017, higher than the overall US rate of 21.7. The outcomes of this project will help achieve a long-term goal to transform integrated behavioral health teams to effectively prevent and treat opioid and substance abuse disorders in New Mexico’s medically underserved communities.
To learn more about the $1.35 million HRSA-funded grant awarded to the NMSU School of Nursing to help prevent and treat opioid and substance abuse disorders in New Mexico, visit here.
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