A best practices clinic for pregnant women with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) was identified by the Perinatal Substance Use Collaborative as an action, that when combined with other actions in our community, has a reasonable chance of making a difference in perinatal substance use in our community. This is a new program in our community.

The priority population/customers for the best practices clinic are pregant women with SUD, and the clinic aims to make a difference at the individual and environmental levels. Implementation will take place in a clinical setting.

2020 Update:

The Perinatal Substance Use Collaborative continued discussing the possibility of bringing a Project CARA satellite clinic to Haywood County.  Project CARA serves pregnant women with SUD in the westernmost counties.  The clinic would be a satellite location to serve Haywood County residents.  The Project CARA site is 30 minutes away, which is challenging for women without adequate transportation.  

The partners for the best practices clinic for women with Substance Use Disorder include:

Evaluation Plan:

We plan to evaluate the impact of best practices clinic for pregnant women with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) through the use of Results-Based AccountabilityTM to monitor specific performance measures. We will be monitoring How Much, How Well and/or Better Off Performance Measures. [The Performance Accountability Worksheet is a guide to program performance monitoring and improvement efforts. It will help you in clarifying program customers, developing performance measures, and identifying "headline" measures.] Our evaluation activities will be tracked in the Work Plan table, above. [Guidance: If you do not use the activity tracking table in the Work Plan section, you will need to add a written description of your plan to collect, monitor and respond to changes in your performance measures in this section.]

Sustainability Plan:

The following is our sustainability plan for a best practices clinic for women with SUD: 

• Sustainability Component [insert number if applicable, e.g. 1, 2, 3]:
  • [Briefly describe how you will plan to achieve this component of your sustainability plan.]

[Guidance: Examples of sustainability plan include: using program performance measures to ensure ongoing effectiveness and demonstrate successes to funders and other key stakeholders, communicating and engaging diverse community leaders and organizations, identifying champions who strongly support the program, establishing a consistent financial base for the program, providing adequate staffing, increasing community awareness on the issue and demonstrating the value of the program to the public, etc.]