FUNDING AWARDS

September 30, 2024 – September 29, 2027

To support the integration of opioid treatment services and other harm reduction activities into existing syringe service programs to sustain sites where opioid use disorder treatment services are available, increase the number of syringe service program participants engaged in treatment, and offer related supportive services such as case management and peer support.

The MAT Access Points Project is funded through the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) State Opioid Response (SOR) IV grant and is administered and managed by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation.

Access Support Network

Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties
$742,500.00
To continue and expand comprehensive mobile outreach services to include low-barrier MOUD,
wound care, HIV/HCV testing, HCV treatment to Syringe Services Program participants throughout
Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties.

Any Positive Change

Lake County
$742,462.00
To continue to provide an easily accessible low barrier Buprenorphine program for PWUDs who do
not feel welcomed by traditional medical providers and people newly released from carceral
institutions who are maintained on BUP while incarcerated in Lake County.

Bay Area Community Health

Alameda and Santa Clara Counties
$1,485,000.00
To provide harm reduction needle exchange services that reduce barriers to OUD treatment, MAT,
behavioral health interventions, linkages and referrals, and other OUD support services in
partnership with the Santa Clara County Harm Reduction Program (SCC HRP) to high-need,
medically underserved clients in southern Alameda and Santa Clara Counties.

Bienestar Human Services

Los Angeles County
$742,500.00
To provide low-barrier MAT services, wrap around medical, physical and mental health services,
and street outreach, with a special focus on Syringe Service Program participants, at all 7 agency
centers and mobile sites in Los Angeles County.

Clinica Sierra Vista

Kern County
$742,500.00
To increase access to syringe exchange, harm reduction education and supplies, wound care, and
MAT services for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in Kern County.

Drug Abuse Alternatives Center (Center Point)

Sonoma County
$676,983.00
To provide accessible, stigma-free treatment options such as medication-assisted treatment,
harm reduction resources, and linkages to supportive services to those at high risk, aiming to
reduce opioid related harm and promote recovery within vulnerable communities in Sonoma
County.

County of Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz County
$786,375.00
To enhance services that facilitate easier access to MOUD by increasing mobile shifts, building
staffing capacity and strengthening collaboration at county clinics for those ready to seek help in
Santa Cruz County.

Crossroads Recovery Center

Alpine, Inyo, and Mono Counties
$787,500.00
To provide culturally responsive, no-barrier access to medication for opioid use disorder, wellness
services, harm reduction, and housing support for tribal communities in Inyo, Alpine and Mono
Counties.

Face to Face

Lake, Marin, Solano, and Sonoma Counties
$716,024.00
To scale up mobile services, strengthen community engagement and collaboration around low-barrier treatment and harm reduction, and support the health and dignity of people who use drugs in Lake, Marin, Solano and Sonoma Counties.

Family Health Centers of San Diego

San Diego County
$742,500.00
To support and sustain the low-barrier mobile opioid treatment program – MAP-to-go – which will be
deployed alongside the existing mobile syringe services program, serving 360 San Diegans with
trauma-informed, culturally competent medications for addiction treatment services.

Glide Foundation

San Francisco County
$742,500.00
To reduce the total number of deaths attributed to overdose by successfully connecting clients
with real-time medical care and on-the-ground medications for addiction treatment in San
Francisco County.

Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego

San Diego County
$786,179.00
To expand efforts to support PWUD in San Diego County in a more impactful and sustainable
capacity to address disparities in health equity and access for MOUD and MAT.

Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County

Santa Cruz County
$742,500.00
To extend MOUD treatment accessibility to community members who are unhoused or unstably
housed, people who use or used drugs, and sex workers through casual, non-coercive relationship
building and establishing trust from peer-led experience in Santa Cruz County.

HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County (HEPPAC)

Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
$724,766.00
To expand access to MAT by increasing the workforce with individuals with lived experiences to
serve as substance use navigators in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

Homeless Health Care Los Angeles

Los Angeles County
$742,500.00
To provide low barrier MAT services geared toward reducing overdose occurrence, withdrawal, and
other health complications experienced by unhoused community members who use drugs in the
Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles.

Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction (HACHR)

Humboldt County
$742,500.00
To expand low-barrier treatment services by building staffing capacity and increasing mobile
outreach efforts, case management and MAT services in Humboldt County.

MCAVHN Care and Prevention Network

Mendocino County
$731,304.00
To continue low barrier services through access to MAT to all persons who have been impacted
and/or are experiencing severe trauma, substance use, homelessness, mental health disorders,
incarceration and physical and sexual abuse in Mendicino County.

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition

Butte County
$770,290.00
To provide and increase low-barrier access to MAT and recovery resources for individuals seeking
harm reduction services through direct and timely connection to MOUD, resource navigation, and
community building in Butte County.

Safer Alternatives through Networking and Education (SANE)

Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, and Yuba Counties
$742,461.00
To provide a low-barrier buprenorphine program for persons in need of medication for opiate use
disorder in Sacramento, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and Yuba Counties.

San Joaquin Valley Free Medical Clinic and Needle Exchange

Fresno, Kings, Madera, and Tulare Counties
$780,935.00
To remove geographical barriers in accessing MAT through the continued availability of telehealth
services for individuals with substance use disorders throughout the Central San Joaquin Valley.

Special Service for Groups

Los Angeles County
$792,000.00
To provide low-barrier MAT to people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County in multiple
encampments and interim housing sites, including comprehensive follow-up services to assist
with transitioning back into housing and a sustainable and safe lifestyle.

Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc.

Los Angeles County
$658,845.00
To provide low-barrier MAT services for Syringe Exchange Program clients at six street-based
locations throughout the San Fernando Valley by addressing common barriers, such as stigma and
transportation in Los Angeles County.

The Sidewalk Project

Los Angeles County
$742,394.00
To serve the predominantly Black and Brown residents of Skid Row in Los Angeles, including people
who use drugs, seriously mentally ill residents, reentry populations, residents with mobility
impairments, the medically indigent, and sex workers, with safe and failure-free harm reduction
and MAT access in a place specific community of care.

VelNonArt Transformative Health

Los Angeles County
$780,392.00
To continue providing harm reduction education, training, and support, MAT/SUD screening and
referrals to treatment, assessing and linking individuals to supportive services, and conducting
outreach to underserved communities within Los Angeles County.

Yuba Harm Reduction Collective

Nevada County
$670,610.00
To enhance accessibility and eliminate barriers to MAT for people with opioid use disorder in
Nevada County, including providing access to telehealth MAT services, facilitating transportation
and expanding support networks in a trauma-informed manner.