Project Save Lives: Hospital-Based Peer Program Overview

Project Save Lives is a collaborative, citywide, substance use disorder and co-occurring program, based in six (6) emergency departments across the city of Jacksonville. A comprehensive approach to engage overdose survivors and substance abusing and co-occurring patients being medically stabilized in local emergency departments employing Peer Support Specialists (PSS) to assist in transitioning immediately into a treatment setting. This city-wide partnership creates a seamless, innovative, collaborative, stabilization and treatment solution. Participants are identified as they enter the emergency room by hospital staff and peer support specialists (individuals who have battled and survived addiction and co-occurring challenges themselves) to help these patients begin their journey to wellness and recovery.