Our team is winding down from last week's convening and feeling energized moving into the final phase of the Accelerator Program. This final phase of the program will focus on coalition sustainability, which will be a recurring theme in your coaching calls and the focus for the regional workshops we are hosting this Fall. We are also kicking off our national webinar series in partnerships with Dialogue4Health called "No Wrong Door for Opioid Safety." More than 450 people across the country have registered for our first webinar on October 8 (register), which will be followed by an Accelerator-only web discussion on October 29 (register). See below for more information regarding both of these program offerings.
The Accelerator Program will come to a close in February 2020 with a final statewide convening that will include culminating presentations from each of your teams (date TBD). More details to come soon on the next program we will offer through COSN, Accelerator 2.0, which will launch through COSN in March 2020.
There are lots of exciting things to come. Make sure you stay in the loop by visiting the soft launch of our new website, www.californiaopioidsafetynetwork.org.
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Onward,
Carmen Rita Nevarez, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Health Leadership and Practice
Vice President, External Relations and Preventive Medicine
Public Health Institute
www.californiaopioidsafetynetwork.org
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No Wrong Door for Opioid Safety: How to Build an Effective Response in Your Community
Webinar on Tuesday, October 8, 12:00-1:00 PM PST
We all have a role to play in preventing addiction and stopping overdose deaths in our communities. How can different sectors work together for a coordinated response? Join the California Opioid Safety Network (COSN) for the first web forum in our series: No Wrong Door for Opioid Safety: How to Build an Effective Response in Your Community. This web forum series is produced by Dialogue4Health, a program of the Public Health Institute. During this first web forum, we will hear from a law enforcement official in New Jersey, a respected national advocate, and an emergency department physician in rural California–three people who are making a difference by building partnerships across sectors in their community. The session will explore the approach each leader is taking to foster new connections, how they overcome pushback, and resources that you can apply to your own work going forward.
Accelerator Web Discussion: How to Build Partnerships for an Effective Community Response
Webinar on Tuesday, October 29, 10:30-11:30 AM PST
Dr. Matt Willis will facilitate a follow-up discussion after the national webinar on October 8. This session is exclusive for Accelerator teams, and will provide an opportunity to reflect and discuss themes around partnership development. We encourage you to join the live session on October 8 prior to this session, or watch the archived recording we will provide.
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[Save the date] For three upcoming regional convenings on sustainability
- Northern (Lake County): Wednesday, October 30
- Central (San Benito County): Wednesday, November 6
- Southern (Los Angeles County): Wednesday, November 13
September Convening resources, materials, and evaluation
- This folder includes the following items to bring back to your Accelerator teams: slides, handouts, MAT partner contacts, responses to the system of prevention and treatment exercise, and the VISTA data stories and coalition success stories. Let us know if you have trouble opening the link and we can send them to you as attachments.
- If you attended the September Convening, please take 5-10 minutes to complete our evaluation. Your feedback is incredibly helpful as we design future events.
New COSN website
Please check out and share the soft launch of our new website: ww.californiaopioidsafetynetwork.org
Western States Opioid Summit: Getting to Zero Overdoses: A Shared Vision of Best Practices
November 7-8, 2019 at the Westin San Diego
During this summit, experts in the field of substance use prevention, treatment, research, health, policy and law enforcement will be discussing strategies to combat drug use and abuse. Click for more information and to register.
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We encourage you to share the videos we played at the September Conveing on the history of the war on drugs and the Choose Change California MAT campaign. We also encourage you to work with your Accelerator team to integrate equity into your team’s original Big Picture using the prompts in the equity worksheet we provided at the convening.
You can also pull data and build customize maps that provide contextual data for your Big Picture and conversations with your coalition members. The slides include a list of free online resources to dig deeper into the data, which will inform the prompts on the equity worksheet. To get started, you can customize this map by entering your county in the ‘location’ box in the top right, and customize data layers for poverty, education, and other variables. Feel free to reach out with questions or for support.
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- California Opioid Safety Coalitions Request for Applications (RFA) (CDPH) Apply for funding for your coalition! Applications are due October 10.
- Naloxone Distribution Project (DHCS) Ongoing application process.
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(WBUR)
"When a child is living with a parent who is addicted to drugs, they are likely experiencing a lot of emotional, or even physical, trauma and stress, says Kendra Cram, who was hired by the Minford school district last year to teach elementary school kids about trauma. 'When that's happening, they're not able to access their prefrontal cortex, which allows them to retain information and gain new information. So they're not able to learn math or reading or writing during that school day,' Cram says. 'They're thinking about survival skills and getting enough food to eat or having their basic needs met. So the trauma is affecting their academic outcomes and their development.'" Read more.
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