Project Link is an interagency, community-based collaborative program designed to coordinate and enhance existing services to help meet the extensive and multiple needs of women and their children whose lives have been affected by substance use. Through the use of innovative linkages, Link seeks to provide a full continuum of care by integrating prevention, early intervention, and treatment services with healthcare and other human and supportive services.
By coordinating community resources, Project Link seeks to reduce barriers to services for substance using women and their families. Project Link’s goals include
- Improving communication on behalf of participants
- Enhancing the knowledge and skills of service providers
- Augmenting existing service to address participants’ special needs
Project Link offers a variety of services:
- Intensive case management
- Group therapy
- Intensive Outpatient Program (Trauma-informed and Nurturing parenting Curriculums included) which meets 3 times a week for 9 hours total
- Outpatient (relapse prevention skills) which meets 1 to 2 times a week
- Fatherhood Parenting & substance use program
- WINGS Perinatal group (pregnant, up to 1 year post-partum)
- Individual therapy on a limited basis
- Medication Assisted Treatment program for opioid use disorder
- Permanent Supportive Housing (limited slots and certain eligibility requirements)
- Peer recovery support services which includes linkages to community supports
- Nursery services available for participants during appointments at BRBH