I'm curious as to who else is attending

Veronica G Hernandez, Community Health Worker Substance Use Disorder Program, veronicah@borderregion.org; Border Region Behavioral Health Center, Laredo Texas

Ed Cunningham - Chief of Police in Elizabethtown (PA).

Sue Hansen, County Commissioner Montrose County CO

Allison Monteiro, RI Department of Corrections, Planning and Research Unit

Terri Harmala, Health Officer, Shawano-Menominee Counties Health Dept. (Wisconsin)

Hi Christina- I am not sure that there is a way to show you who is here. I can tell you that there is a large number of mayors, city officials, business leaders and law enforcement that are joining us today.

Danielle RN at Ste. Genevieve County Health - Missouri

Gilbert Villanueva Eguia, Mayor City of Dilley, Texas

Jason Bridges - Fairwinds Counseling Center, Executive Director, Nantucket Island

Clintonville WI City Alderman Tammy strey-hirt

Alyssa Olson, Community Health Worker & Emergency Medical Technician

Christina Veselak, LMFT, CN. Eating protein Saves Lives, Inc. www.eatingproteinsaveslives.org. Wayne, WV

Nick Mau, Assistant Health Officer, Shawano-Menominee Counties Health Dept. (Wisconsin)

April Ray-Berry- Community Outreach Coordinator for the Campbell County Mayor's Office in Campbell County

Tennessee

Scot McDonald, Chief of Police in Port Dickinson NY.

Greta Johnson, Assistant Chief of Staff, Summit County, Ohio

Buffey Bourassa, Program Administrator Mendocino County Behavioral Health & Recovery Services, California

Chase Stephens - Red Shield Coordinator - Manhattan, KS

Jamie Whaley - Harm Reduction/Peer Support Specialist - Buffalo Trace District Health Department in Maysville Ky.

Tim Phillips CADC Director of Westmoreland Drug Overdose Task Force tphillip@co.westmoreland.pa.us

Lewis and Clark County, Montana

Tim Pierson, DFC Coordinator, Drug Free Wayne County Partnership. Richmond, Indiana.

Inv. Orlando #146 Niles (IL) PD Special Operations Group

Michael Kobbe

Troy L. Agney Shelby County, Shelbyville, IL. EMA Coordinator,

Alyssa Olson, Community Health Worker & Emergency Medical Technician, Brookings South Dakota

Carole Innes, City Councilor Pendleton, OR- community volunteer

Anne Gass, candidate for the Maine House, District 104

Sally Pyne, Normal (Illinois) Township trustee

Fire Chief and EMA Coordinator New Castle, PA

April Rebeiro-Green Wayne Metro SHHS Coordinator

will this presentation (ppt. slides) be available?

Christine Sotmary State Advocacy to get services covered and Training Providers and Community Chronic Pain Navigators ano-dun-os.com

Marilyn Rogers, Adams County Wisconsin Medical Examiner

Megan Scott, Summit County Public Health, Akron, Ohio.

Jodie Sorenson - Waunakee Community Cares Coalition (DFC Funded) - Waunakee, WI

MA - Norfolk County Sheriff's office, Community Affairs Coordinator.

Arlene Hosea, Normal (IL) Township Trustee

Jaycie Blanford, Johnson County Health Department, Franklin, IN

Community Corrections Officer, Substance Abuse Education, Orange County (FL) Corrections

Steven Masone - Torrance Police, CA. - Narcotics Detective / Task Force Officer

Richard Taylor eTransX - software for community coordination to address the Opioid Crisis Nashville TN

Anthony Bruni, Chief of Police, Kennedy Township, PA, small Suburb of Pittsburgh.

Phil Lombardo, City Councilman, Akron OH

Just getting into a more formal learning and movement, I have HEARD one of the reasons people turn to opiods is that they have poor pain management from providers (the message that they will get hooked and not believing they are truly in pain) Thoughts?

P/O Bret Wagner West Orange P.D. NJ

Sergeant Daniel Vazquez- Torrance Police Department, CA. Narcotics Team / Special Investigations Division

Bozz Salizzoni, Councilman Logan Oh and EMA Director for Hocking County Oh

It is good the pill mills are mostly gone, but regular everyday people who have pain issues have been cut off from their doctors and then they turn to the street.

Just wondering what I can do to steer teenagers or adults away from opioids (on a local level)?

John Swenson, Lieutenant for Virginia, MN Police Department. I'm a community outreach officer in charge of a Crisis Response team and Opioid crisis response.

Deal with this on a regular basis. Pain medication is one way but what we see the most of is mental health issues and a way to cope is start with medication then go heroine.

Tony Bertram - Police Social Worker Niles Police Department Niles, IL.

This is frightening! Many chronic pain patients are seriously suffering, because good alternatives have not been developed or communicated.

Juanita Fonseca,

City Secretary, City of Dilley

David Guerrera Deputy Police Chief, CIT Coordinator Cortland, NY.

What can I do as a community leader to help? There are so many struggling in my community and there is no resources.

Hillary Lima, Councilwoman, Coventry, RI

Chief Paul Sandy City Of Cortland Police

Sonia Perez, Director of Youth & Family Services, Bloom Township Center Chicago Heights IL

As a treatment provider we also need to ask what is missing in addiction and mental health treatment such that the relapse rate has remained so high.

Nola Goodrich-Kresse, Public Health Educator / PIO Orleans County Health Dept., Albion, NY

Ashley Thomas

Ashely Thomas- Team Lead. Thaddeus Herback- Case Manager with Youth Services Systems. New Martinsville, WV

County local public health director, Minnesota

Nicole DuPont, Director of Strategic Development, Community Mental Health Authority - Calhoun County, Michigan

https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Opioids-Prescription-Liberating/dp/1946633321

Corissa Cygan - Police Officer - Johnstown Police Department, Johnstown Colorado

Very few pain management providers know how to teach their clients very powerful and effective psycho-social pain management skills. These skills exist, but very few physicians are learning about them or teaching them.

Would love to see resources for these powerful and effective psychosocial pain management skill, Christina...do you have some evidence based and reliable resources?? Thank you, for sharing~

Part of this problem is that addiction is recognized as a BIO-psycho/social-spiritual disorder, BUT the ONLY biochemical tools offered people are MORE medications. We do know however, the feeding the brain what it needs to function optimally helps people learn and access all sorts of skills, including recovery. This is why we feed children in schools. Adults also need well-fed brains. Let's add optimum nutrition to the prevention and recovery conversation.

Would love resources and guidance on settlement spending opportunities and programming.

For pain management resources, see Dr. Joe Tatta, The Las Vegas Recovery Center with Dr. Mel Pohl, and others. Please contact me directly and I will gather other resources for you. 303-888-9617. christinaveselak@gmail.com

Thank you, Christina!

Semper Fi, sir!

For prioritizing Pharma Settlement money - the Chief Tom had it right - the solution needs to be data driven - so investing in the right information systems is critical for implementing your solution and tracking progress - this is a system going beyond the HIDTA Maryland overdose tracking system

Yes indeed!

Chief Synan, do you have recommendations on how to approach this conversation with law enforcement. We hear from several our local law enforcement partners that see harm reduction strategies as enabling the addict. We know we can address this complex without L.E. support!

we can't***

In February 2021 in response to the recently introduced Police and Criminal Justice Reform Bill, Chairpersons and Faculty of Oakton Community College collaborated with members of the Niles Police Department to build the Mental Health and Crisis Response for Public Safety Certificate.The goal of this Certificate is to provide training for police officers and other public safety professionals, aligned with the required training needs for police officers articulated in the bill.This program provides the knowledge to understand the neuroscience of addiction, medication-assisted treatments, community-reintegration, mental health and substance use disorders and the associated stigmas so that public safety persons can be collaborative partners in creating positive community outcomes.

Melissa S. Adams, Homeless Liaison Officer, Wheeling, West Virginia.

YES. It's not always just getting them 'sober'. how can we expect someone to be successful if we tell them treatment is only residential or only 8-5 so now they have to quit their job. and where do their kids go while they're gone? etc etc.

Robust recovery is a several year journey.

Such a powerful message, Chief Synan. Thank you!

Diversion Drug Courts are a huge piece of this plan. Team effort between LE, Prosecutors Offices and Public Defenders

In our area, we are lacking therapists and councilors for everyone who needs them. We have no beds available, no matter if we had funding.

Thank you Chief Synan for talking about this mindset! We are doing something very similar here in Lancaster County PA called the SecondChancePA program.

Thank you Chief Synan! Amazing work you are doing. Very inspiring.

Kevin Ballard I agree about the drug court.

Nick Mau I am the Chief of Police in Saline MI however I came from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office previously. I can share what we did at the county around harm reduction. One big piece you need to remind the officers is that harm reduction isn't perfection. We partnered with community mental health peer support specialist. Feel free to reach out if you would like to chat more. mradzik@cityofsaline.org.

What was the date/time of the next Project Opioid Webinar?

Rochelle Schlusser-PRSS at FMRS health Systems-rschlusser@fmrs.org 304-731-6903

Thank You chief for all you do and everyone else also

Here is the link to the next webinar. Please join us. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iF6dlTqSSk2E9e_a9rFdVg

Also, some additional information on Project Opioid's national expansion. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j054nowr10gkrd3/Project%20Opioid%20-%20Partnership%20Packet.pdf?dl=0

Chief, I work in similar small community outside of Pittsburgh, similar background (Army) and 30ish years of service. I agree with many of your comments. I do see mental health being a major issue. And yes keep on putting the users in jail definitely do not help. Need to get our local elected officials on board.

will your sides be available

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iF6dlTqSSk2E9e_a9rFdVg

Where does Project Opioid's funding come from? You mentioned you are a nonprofit -- are you a 501(c)(3)?

Are we able to access the slides from the presentation for the purpose of having the statistics that you have referenced therein?

Yes, we will send the slides out after the webinar. If youhave specific questions about the data just let me know!

Project Opioid is a registered 501(c)3

fantastic. thank you!

Our community has a leave behind program for placing Narcan in homes where we have responded to a drug overdose or a suspected drug overdose. My hope is that this will result in destigmatizing the use of this lifesaving drug. Next--training for administering it. My city council gets the training next month!

Awesome, thank you

Do you have a link to the 4/28 webinar for police chiefs?

Great presentation thank you

I do not have the 4/28 link right now. Please email me and I will get it to you

thank you

Kendall@projectopioid.org

It’s a great pleasure to welcome all of the talented and compassionate professionals to this vital community conversation. The Project Opioid team thanks you for lending your voices to advancing strategies and solutions to end overdose. Everyone will receive a copy of this entire webinar. We look forward to becoming better acquainted with everyone and deepening this national conversation! Thank you to our featured guests Harry Nelson and Chief Tom for your leadership!

Thank you for your time and the vauable info

Thank you all! Darcie Miller Commissioner Orange County NY Departments of Mental Health and Social Services

Excellent. Thanks

thank you all for the presentation

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you for this

great info! thanks!

Thank you! This is God's work.