Increasing MAT Services within
DHCS-Licensed SUD Facilities

2023 Awards

Cache Creek Lodge

Sacramento, Solano and Yolo counties
$350,000
To develop a continuum of opioid use disorder care from street or prison through residential treatment and on to outpatient buprenorphine MAT services, through clinician recruitment and training, staff culture change and MAT education.

Center Point, Inc. – Manor

Marin Count
$350,000
To break down MAT access barriers and implement integrated MAT services within its residential facilities, providing participants with a whole-person care approach to treatment and will allow for clients to receive MAT services on-site, practitioner recruitment and training.

Center Point, Inc. – Village

Marin County
$350,000
To break down MAT access barriers and implement integrated MAT services within its residential facilities, providing participants with a whole-person care approach to treatment and allow for clients to receive MAT services on-site, as well as practitioner recruitment and training.

Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

Los Angeles County
$179,277

To recruit a qualified prescriber at Via Avanta, a residential treatment facility for women struggling with substance use, mental illness, domestic violence and poverty, and expand MAT services to Spanish-speaking clients.

Inland Valley Recovery Services

San Bernardino County
$545,958
To expand existing MAT services, increasing utilization of onsite MAT and the capacity of prescribers onsite by adding a full-time Physician Assistant and part-time Nurse, providing comprehensive staff training.

Janus of Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz County
$841,401
To mentor other SUD providers in developing integrated medical and behavioral health MAT models of care.

Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (L.A. CADA)

Los Angeles County
$550,000

To expand MAT for adults with opioid use disorder or OUD and stimulant use disorder in the agency’s residential Allen House program by increasing the expertise of the current MAT prescriber and expand MAT services.

Progress House Inc. – Camino Women and Children’s Perinatal Facility

El Dorado County
$350,000
To implement MAT services with the Progress House Camino Women and Children’s Perinatal facility.

Progress House Inc. – Men’s Residential Coloma

El Dorado County
$350,000
To implement MAT services with the Progress House Men’s Residential Coloma facility.

Progress House Inc. – Men’s Facility Garden Valley

El Dorado County
$350,000
To implement MAT services with the Progress House Men’s Facility Garden Valley facility.

Sacramento Recovery House, Inc. – dba Sacramento Recovery House for Men

Sacramento County
$350,000
To improve the treatment outcomes for individuals struggling with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) by adding comprehensive MAT services to both of our residential programs so as to provide whole-person care, decrease the stigma and myths associated with MAT, and educate our staff and all referred clients with OUD on the benefits of utilizing MAT.

Sacramento Recovery House, Inc. – Gateway House for Women

Sacramento County
$350,000

To improve the treatment outcomes for individuals struggling with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) by adding comprehensive MAT services to both of our residential programs so as to provide whole-person care, decrease the stigma and myths associated with MAT, and educate our staff and all referred clients with OUD on the benefits of utilizing MAT.

Social Model Recovery Systems, Inc. – Women’s Residential Program

Los Angeles County

$206,719
To increase MAT services at our women’s residential program to patients in levels 3.1, 3.2 and 3.5 by including the ability to prescribe buprenorphine and other controlled substances for withdrawal management to those who would benefit from it.

Social Model Recovery Systems, Inc. – Men’s Residential Program

Los Angeles County
$229,467

To increase MAT services at our men’s residential program to patients in level 3.1, 3.2 and 3.5 by including the ability to prescribe buprenorphine and other controlled substances for withdrawal management to those who would benefit from it.

Social Science Services, Inc., dba Cedar House Life Change Center

San Bernardino County
$267,550
To promote healing and wholeness for individuals, families and communities by expanding to a full continuum of care with a complete MAT services program on site.

Southern California Alcohol and Drug Programs, Inc. – La Casita

Los Angeles County

$350,000

To improve access to MAT services at La Casita, a residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment program for women in the perinatal period of pregnancy, by recruiting and hiring a Medical Director/Doctor, Registered Nurse Practitioner and support staff to provide MAT to participants with SUD, and purchase the necessary equipment and tools to establish a medical office on the program site.

Southern California Alcohol and Drug Programs, Inc. – Positive Steps

Los Angeles County
$350,000

To improve access to MAT services at Positive Steps, a 47-bed men’s residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment program by recruiting and hiring a Medical Director/Doctor, Registered Nurse Practitioner and support staff to provide MAT to participants with SUD, and purchase the necessary equipment and tools to establish a medical office on the program site.

The Friendship House Association of American Indians

Alameda and San Francisco counties
$550,000
To develop more robust and sustainable MAT services for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) adults at our residential SUD facilities in San Francisco and Oakland by expanding access to our MAT services that have been developed using community-defined best practices and based on long-standing experience in providing culturally informed MAT through our residential SUD treatment program.

Veterans Alcohol Rehabilitation Program Inc. – Gipson House for Women

San Bernardino County
$525,000

To save lives by partnering with our patients as they restore their health, relationships and purpose in life and return to contributing to their communities and society as a whole by offering MAT on-site.

Veterans Alcohol Rehabilitation Program Inc. – Gipson House for Men

San Bernardino County
$525,000

To save lives by partnering with our patients as they restore their health, relationships and purpose in life and return to contributing to their communities and society as a whole by offering MAT on-site.