MOUD Expansion in Rural Colorado

Improving MOUD Delivery and Reducing Disparities in Rural Colorado. Rural counties are disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic across America, having limited services. Positive results from a 2017 pilot project to expand MOUD services into rural areas led to coordination of service expansion across rural Colorado through funding from Senate Bill (19)-001. This presentation will focus on lessons learned from both the pilot and expansion efforts from 2017-2021 including techniques used to pinpoint common themes among rural sites and subsequent development of novel interventions, technologies, and strategies for improving MOUD services for clients. The collective impact model utilized by the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and the role of the University Of Colorado College Of Nursing in influencing change in frontier communities will be discussed. Presented by Aimee Techau, MSN, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP; University of Colorado College of Nursing & Jennifer Place, MA, LPC, LAC; Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention on 19-Aug-2021.