Better Choices: Better Futures

LIFT Community Action Agency, Inc. proposes to develop a program of services for youth and families impacted by opioids and/or substance use within Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha Counties in southeast Oklahoma. The initiative will (1) implement coordinated prevention and intervention responses that work together to identify and address needs/challenges stemming from opioid and other substance misuse impacting youth, families (parents/primary caregivers, pregnant and postpartum women), and communities; (2) reduce the involvement of children, youth, and their families in the foster care system due to opioid and other substance misuse; (3) implement integrated services to support parents and children together through treatment and recovery; and (4) support the juvenile and criminal justice systems in addressing the needs of children/youth who are or have been impacted by opioids and other substance misuse.