LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A program in Clark County is bringing support directly to pregnant women in recovery, meeting them at their doorstep to help them stay on track.
Sydney Beasley is pregnant with her second child.
She is one of the first patients with Roseman University’s Empowered program to have in-home visits.
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With a clinician, medical students, and a peer recovery specialist at her side, the team gets an up-close look at Sydney’s home life and how it shapes her recovery.
“There are multiple things in my life that make me think about using or drinking, and having that support and their wisdom really helps me stay on the right track,” Beasley said.
From clinic to home
Roseman University College of Medicine’s Empowered program supports pregnant and postpartum individuals recovering from substance use disorders.
Through the traditional program, patients receive therapy and doctor visits at the main campuses.
Through a $50,000 grant from Molina Healthcare of Nevada, Empowered launched Empowered Home (+), bringing recovery support directly into clients’ homes.
Beasley said there was a time when staying on track seemed impossible. She was using methamphetamine, a drug she once thought she’d never leave behind.
“In my addiction, I was using all day. Every day, pretty much. Going on binders and being up for days, not eating,” Beasley said.
She stopped when she found out she was pregnant with her first child, and that’s when she was introduced to Empowered.
Now with her second child on the way, the new home visits are another layer of support, one that goes beyond clinic walls.
“I was nervous for everyone to come over, but it was nice for them to come out to me,” Beasley said.
Jason Roth, vice president of communications at Roseman University, said the whole purpose of the program is to help mothers as caregivers.
“What we like to say is, we are helping them from recovery to stabilization to resiliency,” Roth said.
For medical students, the experience is just as powerful.
“You see who they really are and what makes them that was really inspiring because medicine is about the person and not the symptoms,” said Jennifer Chuang, a medical student.
Andrew Ritter, another medical student, said seeing who patients are beyond their conditions has been meaningful.
“Really seeing who they are and not their conditions, their experiences, everything they have been through,” Ritter said.
Beasley said recovery is possible.
“Five years ago, I wasn’t thinking there was going to be a Sydney in five years,” she said.
Even after Beasley gives birth, she will still be in the program until her child is 2 years old.
The Empowered program at Roseman University currently sees about 100 pregnant or postpartum women.
The program is starting the home visits for all of them.
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