Newly awarded grants target peers, paraprofessionals to grow workforce

Two new recipients of grant support from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) will be tackling separate but equally compelling subsets of the substance use disorder treatment workforce. The national homeless services provider HELP USA Inc. will use its grant assistance to offer peer support training at three New York City shelter sites, while the Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy will use its funding to create a framework for developing and sustaining a paraprofessional workforce.