The Colorado Attorney General's Office provides funding for the Colorado Opioid Model to Advance Treatment (CO-MAT) project through the Opioid Abatement Innovation Challenge.  The goal of the CO-MAT project is to help Colorado counties and organizations expand opioid treatment and care coordination.  At the heart of this project is the hub and spoke treatment model, an evidence-based approach that improves care coordination and services for individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).

Using the hub and spoke model, CO-MAT has three aims:

• To assess the current state of referrals, expertise, and access to OUD treatment services within Colorado.
• To provide proactive technical assistance for Colorado correctional care settings to enhance Medication-Assisted Treatment provision and care coordination post-release.
• To use assessment results and the expertise of Denver Health and Colorado Opioid Synergy Larimer & Weld (CO-SLAW) to develop a hub and spoke model toolkit to implement customizable models across Colorado.