450+ Community Partners
56 California Counties
$118+ Million Dollars
The Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Access Points Project is supporting organizations throughout California to address the opioid and substance use epidemic.
The project creates a community of practice that lifts up and makes available racially and culturally responsive population-based and place-based approaches for California’s most underserved communities.
MAT uses medications with counseling to treat the whole person. It is considered the gold standard of care for opioid use disorder. If you are looking for treatment, please visit ChooseChangeCA.org to find a treatment provider near you.
Funding opportunity: Low-Barrier Opioid Treatment at Syringe Service Programs
The California Department of Health Care Services is utilizing available federal grant funding to support syringe service programs to implement projects offering low-barrier access to treatment of opioid use disorder, as well as related supportive services such as case management and peer support. Applications are due by Dec. 19 at 1 p.m.
Application materials:
Request for Applications (.pdf)
Funding overview webinar recording (YouTube.com)
Funding overview webinar presentation slides (.pdf)
Questions and answers (.pdf)