Alcohol

Reporting Cycle Summary

FY24 Q2 Engagement Activities

Met or corresponded with grantee 3 times between January - April, 2024 2/8, 2/15, 2/20, 2024 in addition to invites to participate in grantee cohort call

Summary of Successes

Relationship with the Sheriff

Jail Cooperation

Inclusion of Lived Experience

Program Structure

Focus on Relationship Building

Professional Relationship Development

Participant-Driven Content

Summary of Challenges

Intervention Design and Implementation

Relationship Building

FY24 Q3 Engagement Activities
Met or corresponded with grantee times between April - July, 2024 on 4/9 ,2024 2024 in addition to invites to participate in grantee cohort call
Summary of Successes

None identified
Summary of Challenges
1. Involvement with the Mentoring Initiative
2. Support in improving officer buy-in and expanding collaborations
3. Enhancing data collection and evaluation efforts
4. Expanding knowledge on Deflection Pathways
Summary of Resources
Housing support

Met or corresponded with grantee 3 times between January - April, 2024 on, 3/8, 3/14, 3/19 in addition to invites to participate in grantee cohort call

Summary of Successes

strong leadership buy-in,
supportive and progressive city council and
an understanding of systemic issues affecting homelessness and behavioral health.

FY24 Q3 Engagement Activities
Met or corresponded with grantee times between April - July, 2024 on 4/1, 4/9, 4/30, 5/10, 5/30, 7/11, 2024 in addition to invites to participate in grantee cohort call
Summary of Successes

Summary of Challenges
1. Involvement with the Mentoring Initiative
2. Support in improving officer buy-in and expanding collaborations
3. Enhancing data collection and evaluation efforts
4. Expanding knowledge on Deflection Pathways

FY24 Q2 Engagement Activities
Met or corresponded with grantee 5 times between January – April on 3/4, 3/7, /15, 3/18, 3/25, 2024 in addition to invites to participate in grantee cohort call
Summary of Successes
• None identified

Summary of Challenges
• Determine if they need a data evaluator to join the team, temporarily; and
• If the data they are capturing is telling the "stories" that will help get buy-in.
• Create program sustainability through identifying key performance measures

On June 27th, 2024, Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) held their annual convening of community partners and data evaluators. The CHJ TA coach for the grantee spent the morning meeting their community EMS partner to discuss their mobile integrated health initiative. They then met with the behavioral health community provider and spoke with their recovery coaches about their community outreach and post overdose response strategy.

Description: Community paramedicine through fire and emergency medical services departments are playing a pivotal role in addressing the opioid crisis through post-overdose outreach initiatives that respond to individuals after a nonfatal overdose. Efforts to prevent overdose fatalities through proactive engagement and community-based resource connections, called deflection, have increasingly included the use of community paramedics and have also been providing critical lifesaving intervention in the form of medications for opioid use disorder.

The Deflection Mentoring Initiative provides communities interested in starting deflection programs the opportunity to learn from established or innovative programs that have shown success in meeting the treatment needs of individuals with a substance use disorder, and in some cases an overdose. During site visits, mentors will provide opportunities for observation and peer-to-peer exchanges, including opportunities to observe the law enforcement/first responder diversion or referral program in action and allowing mentee sites to engage with program personnel.

The Deflection Mentoring Initiative provides communities interested in starting deflection programs the opportunity to learn from established or innovative programs that have shown success in meeting the treatment needs of individuals with a substance use disorder, and in some cases an overdose. During site visits, mentors will provide opportunities for observation and peer-to-peer exchanges, including opportunities to observe the law enforcement/first responder diversion or referral program in action and allowing mentee sites to engage with program personnel.

Requestor was connected with CHJ by a EMS Chief in North Carolina. The request is below, emailed 12/12/23