Address: 1501 N. Campbell Avenue | PO Box 245017 | Tucson, Arizona 85724 Grant Funds Requested: $489,934 in Y1 and $594,993/year in Y2-4 | Total: $2,274,916 Funding Preference Requested: Funding priority and preference is requested in Attachment 11. Brief Overview: The University of Arizona will implement an Opioid-Impacted Family Support Program to provide an opioid-impacted children and family training program. It is projected to enroll 100 and graduate 90 behavioral health paraprofessionals over the four-year project period. Graduates will join the behavioral health work force, with a minimum of 45 graduates further completing the Level II Apprenticeship program. The University will partner with a total of 13 experiential sites in a rural (Santa Cruz) and a primarily urban (Pima) county in southern Arizona that are hard hit by the opioid epidemic and are medically-underserved. The project will be led by Todd Vanderah, PhD, who is the head of the Department of Pharmacology in the College of Medicine and Director of the Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center (CPAC). The project is an interdisciplinary initiative between the colleges of Public Health and Medicine, CPAC, the Center for Rural Health, and the Workforce Development Program at the University of Arizona. Specific Measurable Objectives: The program goal is to increase the number of behavioral health paraprofessionals who are prepared to work with children and families impacted by OUD and other SUDs. Specific objectives are to: Objective 1: Implement a pre-service (Level I) educational program to train paraprofessionals to serve families impacted by OUD/SUD. By September 1, 2020, implement a six-month, 192-hour simultaneous didactic and experiential learning certificate program to train behavioral health paraprofessionals as Parent and Family Support Specialists under the existing certificate program with an enhanced curriculum focus on children and youth. By September 1, 2020, confirm the Level I experiential field training partnerships with 5 behavioral health organizations at 13 high need sites. Objective 2: Develop an in-service training registered apprenticeship program that places paraprofessional trainees in OUD/SUD-related behavioral health positions. By March 31, 2021, develop a child and family support, behavioral health apprenticeship training program with the Arizona Department of Economic Security. By March 31, 2021, register the apprenticeship with 5 community-based behavioral health organizations to provide 2,000 hours of behavioral health paraprofessional apprenticeship training. This will be the only active, behavioral health paraprofessional apprenticeship program in the state of Arizona. Objective 3: Provide financial support to trainees via tuition/fees, supplies, and stipend support. Beginning September 1, 2020, enroll 25 individuals in the Level I, Pre-service Program with a full, $3,000 scholarship and a 6-month, $5,000 living stipend. Beginning March 31, 2021, enroll at least 50 percent of graduates into the 12-month Level II in- service, apprenticeship program. Objective 4: Increase training positions by a minimum of 10 percent in year one and maintain that level each year. This is a program that will enroll 25 individuals in Level I training programs each year, a substantial increase over the baseline of eight. Maintain or increase this level of enrollment in each year of the program. 1