About ATR
A Presidential initiative, Access To Recovery (ATR), provides clients who are involved with Child Welfare Services and in need of treatment for drug and alcohol abuse with vouchers to pay for a range of community-based assessment and recovery support services. The vouchers promote the individual client’s choice by expanding access to care, including access to faith- and community-based programs that are culturally relevant, and increasing the range of available recovery support services. ATR offers individualized, self-directed recovery for individuals with substance abuse disorders.
In Hawaii, on the Island of Oahu, just over $8 million has been awarded for three years and is expected to assist over 2,700 individuals, particularly those struggling with methamphetamine addiction, to connect with treatment and engage in recovery support services. See http://www.atr.samhsa.gov for more information on the Access To Recovery grants.
ATR Mission
The ATR Mission is to use Recovery Support Services to affect positive recovery outcomes for substance abuse clients committed to the recovery process, on the Island of Oahu within the Child Welfare System.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (ADAD) is the State agency that has been designated as the division of the Hawaii State Department of Health with the responsibility to administer Federal funds for implementing the Access To Recovery Project.
The Mission of ADAD is to provide the leadership necessary for the development and delivery of quality substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment services for the residents of the State of Hawaii. The Division will plan, coordinate, provide technical assistance, and establish mechanisms for training, data collection, research and evaluation to ensure that statewide substance abuse resources are utilized in the most effective and efficient manner possible.
Hawaii ATR Vision Statement
The Vision of the Hawaii Access To Recovery (ATR) Project is to strengthen, heal, and reunify shattered families. Hawaii ATR envisions a system where individuals with substance abuse issues are treated with dignity and respect, and that access to treatment and recovery support services are maximized and expedited wherever possible. Hawaii ATR promotes self-care at the most fundamental levels, including empowering clients to select their service providers and to be actively involved in decisions affecting their life, care, and treatment.
Hawaii ATR Goal Statement
The Goals of ATR are to (1) support client choice; (2) expand capacity and access to a wide range of Recovery Support Services; and (3) partner with providers, particularly faith and culturally based providers, who have not traditionally been inclined to work with government funding in the past.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Vision and Mission
“To build resilience and facilitate recovery“ offering “a life in the community for everyone.“
Proposed Approach
Hawaii ATR will be a catalyst to expand the continuum and profusion of Recovery Support Services available and utilized within the community.
Hawaii ATR will build on current initiatives, such as child welfare services, prisoner re-entry, family drug courts, child-family reviews, and methamphetamine treatment.
Hawaii ATR will expand services to Hawaiian Native and Asian Pacific Island populations.
Hawaii ATR will provide Client choice among substance abuse recovery support service providers.
Hawaii ATR will expand access to a comprehensive array of recovery support options (including faith-based and culture-based programmatic options).
Hawaii ATR will increase substance abuse Recovery Support Services capacity.
Target Area
The Hawaii Access To Recovery Project’s targeted service area is Oahu, city and county of Honolulu. Oahu has the largest metropolitan area in the state of Hawaii, as well as diverse rural and isolated populations of drug addicted homeless.
Target Populations
Hawaii ATR serves individuals who are involved, voluntarily or court ordered, with Child Welfare Services, and in need of treatment for substance abuse, or who are within their first six (6) months of recovery following treatment for substance abuse.