Great Rivers

Great Rivers helps with the coordination and implementation of the following resources available to health care or community-based organizations.

Community health education and prevention promotes healthy behaviors throughout your community using health education and health communication.

Harm reduction uses an evidence-based approach to help individuals who are not able or willing to abstain from illicit/illegal injection drug use and provides an opportunity for individuals to make positive choices that will protect their health and the health of others in the community.

Naloxone administration training is offered weekly at the local health departments in Cabell and Kanawha counties and is available to the public, upon request, in the counties we serve free of charge. Upon completion of the training, attendees will understand the signs and symptoms of an overdose, strategies to prevent overdose, how to administer naloxone properly, reporting requirements related to the use of naloxone in West Virginia and local resources for addiction counseling and treatment.

Project Engage promotes screening patients for opioid use disorder (OUD) to allow staff to provide comprehensive care, including preventing withdrawal. The use of certified peer recovery coaches offers opportunities for counseling and referral to treatment and recovery programs, if desired by the patient.

Provider Response Organization for Addiction Care & Treatment, or PROACT, is a single service hub offering comprehensive care for individuals with substance abuse disorder. It brings together addiction and recovery services, primary care, social services, spiritual care and under one roof.

Quick response teams combine emergency medical services, law enforcement and recovery coaches/clinicians to act as a referral system for recovery care. Our model follows up with individuals who have overdosed within 24-72 hours to offer treatment and recovery options in a low-pressure environment.