Dear <<First Name>>,
Registrations are coming in for the final Accelerator statewide convening on February 26! If you haven't already, please register here and check out the agenda.
Each team will provide a short, culminating presentation within breakout groups to showcase your team's journey through the program. Connect with your team to review the presentation instructions and sample template. Handouts are due to our office by Friday, February 14 so we can review and print them for the convening. Feel free to email Amy Max, amax@healthleadership.org, with any questions.
We hope you will stay in Sacramento for our COSN event and national launch the following day, February 27 (register here). This will be an exciting opportunity to hear how we will expand our statewide learning community and build a national movement around overdose prevention. Please join us!
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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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Request: Sample Public Opinion Poll
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The Northern Sierra Opioid Safety Coalition is designing a public opinion survey on attitudes and beliefs regarding harm reduction, MAT and other opioid related issues. Have you developed a similar survey in your community? If so, please reach out to Amy Max at amax@healthleadership.org so she can share it with Northern Sierra and other interested coalitions in our network.
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Register for the February 2020 Statewide Convenings in Sacramento
- Tuesday, February 25, 2020: VISTA-only day (registration links will be emailed directly to VISTAS)
- Wednesday, February 26, 2020: Final Accelerator Program Convening with culminating team presentations (register here)
- Thursday, February 27, 2020: California Opioid Safety Network (COSN) convening and national launch (register here)
*New* Congratulations to new CDPH Awardees!
CDPH recently awarded funding to 23 Opioid Safety Coalitions to reduce opioid and other drug-related overdoses and deaths in California. A number of coalitions serve northern rural counties with the highest rates of non-fatal and fatal overdoses. Coalitions are using a data-informed approach to implement multiple objectives and prevention strategies at the local level, including activities around expanding access to medication assisted treatment, developing/adopting local policies and procedures, and increasing access to care for high-risk populations. For more information and the list of awardees, visit the CDPH website.
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The Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Workforce: Recovery and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Summit
Multiple Locations
The Substance Use Disorder Workforce: Recovery and Medication Assisted Treatment Summit brings together certified substance use disorder counselors and other disciplines of the behavioral health workforce to provide education and resources pertaining to MAT, tools to address and reduce stigma and ways the workforce can join California’s efforts to address SUD emerging epidemics. Registration is complimentary, with CEUs available. Register here.
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- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Surveillance Project from The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Applications due January 21, 2020.
- Behavioral Health Integration Incentive Program for Medi-Cal Providers Application from the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), due January 21, 2020.
- Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Adult and Family Treatment Drug Courts from the Department of Health and Human Services. Applications due February 4, 2020
- Youth Substance Use Disorder Prevention Program from the Center at Sierra Health Foundation. Applications due February 6, 2020.
- Naloxone Distribution Project (DHCS) Ongoing application process.
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Take a look at this excellent interactive piece that visualizes the three waves of the opioid epidemic.
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