Holly Dye Receives Over $1 Million to Expand Medication-Assisted Treatment to Postpartum and Early-Parenting Women
Holly Dye, MRC, director and transformation manager for Beyond Birth, recently received a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant entitled “EMATTA: Expanding MAT Access through a Team Treatment Approach.”
Opioid-use and addiction continues to be a national crisis; Kentucky and Appalachia in particular have been deeply affected by epidemic.
In partnership with the Chrysalis House here in Lexington this three year, $1,572,347 award will focus on expanding an existing multispecialty opioid-use disorder (OUD) treatment program to provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to an additional 240 postpartum and early-parenting women in KY.
Holly Dye serves as the Director of the Beyond Birth program at the University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Perinatal Research and Wellness Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Holly Dye has worked in the addiction treatment field developing interventions for individuals and families through work with foster children, in-patient and out-patient drug treatment settings. She received her Master of Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Kentucky, College of Education. She has authored numerous publications many specific to substance use disorders and child development for children with prenatal and environmental substance exposure. She is the recipient of the 2012 Bluegrass Alliance for Women, Impact Award; 2011 Department of Homeland Security Service Award; 2008 Victim Impact Program Service Award; 2006 Champion for Children Award, presented by Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, and the 2007 Recognition Award by the Federal Medical Center for work done for the Victim Impact Program. She was featured A&E Special A Question of Life or Meth which received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special, June 14, 2007.
