Options Recovery

ACPD intends to partner with Options Recovery, an established, outpatient SUD and MAT program in Alameda County that offers a housing component. Options Recovery will be a vital partner in this proposed pivot plan to provide treatment and safe and drug free recovery housing for the reentry population. Clients will have access to day and evening programs that include peer support groups, counseling, relaxation training, anger management and more while receiving SUD and MAT services.  Clients will be able to gain additional independent living skills, self-sufficiency and address their individual dietary needs and restrictions as they prepare their own meals with food provided by Options Recovery.

To date, ACPD has had 17 clients referred to the program. If the Scope Change is approved ACPD is expecting to continue serving clients in any of the nine Options Recovery residential houses in Alameda County available to referred clients. Options Recovery serves all genders, which differs from the male only Home Bridge program.  With this change, we anticipate that the number of actual clients served may be higher than the expected 12 in the original grant narrative given the higher bed availability with Options Recovery. Program enrollment will proceed according to the timeline outlined in Table 1. The approval of our proposed Scope Change request is critical to ACPD’s ability to provide clients with the proposed treatment and housing services that we know are severely limited, but essential to reentry success.

ACPD’s Research and Evaluation Unit will complete a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Options Recovery program as well as data previously obtained from La Familia. The evaluation will consist of the collection of client-level program performance and outcome data that will be used to report through the Performance Measures Tool and produce the required final report. The Research and Evaluation Unit will work in partnership with Options Recovery to ensure that client-level data on program enrollment, status and completion are correctly entered into the ACPD’s case management system that is used to track probation client progress through referred services.