UVM CORA’s baseline needs assessments explore substance use disorder (SUD) treatment needs and barriers in our rural service area. We surveyed healthcare practitioners and community stakeholders about topics including concerns about substances, comfort treating patients with SUDs, barriers to treatment, beliefs about treatment, impacts of COVID-19, and resource preferences. Our Vermont assessment also included qualitative interviews with people and families affected by opioid use disorder (OUD).
Our Vermont baseline needs assessment included a statewide survey of healthcare practitioners and community stakeholders (2020) as well as qualitative interviews with people and families impacted by OUD (2021-2022).
Our New Hampshire baseline needs assessment, conducted in partnership with the New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative, included a statewide survey of healthcare practitioners and community stakeholders (2020-2021).
Our Maine baseline needs assessment, conducted in partnership with the University of Southern Maine Substance Use Research and Evaluation Unit, included a statewide survey of healthcare practitioners and community stakeholders (2021).
In addition to our state-specific baseline needs assessment data reports and briefs, we have completed regional analyses that include survey data from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
This baseline needs assessment report, completed in August 2023, includes a survey of healthcare practitioners in rural Northern New York counties.
