Mobile Opioid Outreach and Treatment

Pierce County is proposing the Mobile Opioid Outreach and Treatment project for Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program (COSSUP) category 1a funding serving suburban and rural Pierce County.  The Mobile Opioid Outreach and Treatment program will deliver evidence-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment to include medication-assisted treatment (MAT), harm reduction activities, wound/basic health care, and telehealth services, including both medical and behavioral health professionals, supplied in a mobile van. The van will be fully equipped to provide the appropriate medical and counseling services for individuals seeking treatment for OUD.

Pierce County expects this project to increase patient treatment plan compliance, and decrease opioid overdoses, opioid-related emergency response calls, and opioid-related deaths in the communities the mobile van will serve with opioid outreach and treatment services.

Mobile opioid treatment services will be provided in suburban and rural areas of Pierce County with transportation barriers to accessing site-based services which are all in the Tacoma urban core.