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11. Provide training and development of procedures for government staff to <br />appropriately interact and provide social and other services to individuals with or <br />in recovery from OUD, including reducing stigma. <br />12. Support stigma reduction efforts regarding treatment and support for persons with <br />OUD, including reducing the stigma on effective treatment. <br />13. Create or support culturally appropriate services and programs for persons with <br />OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, including but not limited to new <br />Americans, African Americans, and American Indians. <br />14. Create and/or support recovery high schools. <br />15. Hire or train behavioral health workers to provide or expand any of the services or <br />supports listed above. <br />C. CONNECT PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP TO THE HELP THEY NEED <br />CONNECTIONS TO CARE <br />Provide connections to care for people who have —or are at risk of developing—OUD <br />and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions through evidence -based or evidence -informed <br />programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, those that: <br />Ensure that health care providers are screening for OUD and other risk factors and <br />know how to appropriately counsel and treat (or refer if necessary) a patient for <br />OUD treatment. <br />2. Fund. Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment ("SBIRT") <br />programs to reduce the transition from use to disorders, including SBIRT services <br />to pregnant women who are uninsured or not eligible for Medicaid. <br />3. Provide training and long-term implementation of SBIRT in key systems (health, <br />schools, colleges, criminal justice, and probation), with a focus on youth and <br />young adults when transition from misuse to opioid disorder is common. <br />4. Purchase automated versions of SBIRT and support ongoing costs of the <br />technology. <br />5. Expand services such as navigators and on -call teams to begin MOUD in hospital <br />emergency departments. <br />6. Provide training for emergency room personnel treating opioid overdose patients <br />on post -discharge planning, including community referrals for MOUD, recovery <br />case management or support services. <br />7. Support hospital programs that transition persons with OUD and any co-occurring <br />SUD/MH conditions, or persons who have experienced an opioid overdose, into <br />clinically appropriate follow-up care through a bridge clinic or similar approach. <br />4 <br />