Policy

During the listening session, we will discuss common challenges to facilitating and sustaining multi-stakeholder partnerships; systems collaborations and promising practices; innovative programs that may be ripe for replication and evaluation; priority resource needs and prospective partners; issues and unknowns of program implementation and impact; available program data; and other topics related law enforcement and first responder diversion programs.

This meeting will allow East Region PDMP Administrators to share their experiences, best practices, and lessons learned through their individual grant-funded projects; discuss new innovations; review proposed legislation; and review the 2019 PDMP Training and Technical Assistance Survey. This meeting and the work of this group supports the Attorney General's priority of fighting the opioid epidemic.

Overdose fatality reviews are an effective method of data sharing for strategic planning, improving service provision to people at risk, and strengthening community-based responses to the opioid epidemic. Multi-disciplinary teams pool information on individuals who have experienced an overdose to identify ways to improve cross-system care. Through this comprehensive information sharing and discussion, review teams develop and implement program and policy recommendations.

The meeting strives to reduce overdose deaths, reduce recidivism, & increase engagement in evidence-based OUD treatment by developing a continuum of care for individuals in jail & in the community post-release. Implementing MAT in jails and enhancing collaboration between jails and community providers are required to change the course of the opioid epidemic, but these are not easy tasks for local jurisdictions. The purpose of the project is to help communities take advantage of this opportunity to treat some of their most vulnerable residents with OUDs.

This meeting will allow select rural chiefs to share and discuss barriers in rural communities related to the opioid epidemic, programmatic interventions/implementations, evidence based treatments, use of naxolone, program sustainability,and build a network of rural chiefs combating the opioid epidemic in their respective communities. It will also facilitate interaction with various Federal agencies that offer tools and resources to assist local agencies combating the opioid epidemic.

This panel will convene experts for a second time to review the survey instrument (law enforcement and first responder diversion programs survey), survey mode, marketing plan, and contact strategies. The panel will consist of persons familiar with the operational models of law enforcement/first responder programs in the United States. They will provide feedback, which will be incorporated into the final drafts of the questionnaire and the survey contact strategy.

On December 18, 2019 the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) hosted an online task force welcome and project orientation call for the 7 BJA grantees from the Category 2 FY2019 Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) BJA/OVC-funded human trafficking task forces.

COAP Webinar Series: New Resources for Behavioral Health & Justice Professionals to Help Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Build Recovery Capital: Health Technologies

COAP Webinar Series: New Resources for Behavioral Health & Justice Professionals to Help Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Build Recovery Capital: Health Technologies

COAP Webinar Series: New Resources for Behavioral Health & Justice Professionals to Help Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Build Recovery Capital: Health Technologies