About: This 60 minute webinar will focus on explaining how the opioid settlement money is being distributed and the categories of allowable spending. Each category will highlight a local example of what that might look like for Yamhill County, Oregon.
Learning objectives:
- Opioid Settlement Context: The National MOU and Exhibit E
- Prevention
- Overdose Prevention/Harm Reduction
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Criminal Justice
Presenters:
JK Costello, MD, MPH, develops population health plans for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery. Inspired by the ongoing explosion of substance use and overdose, he works across medicine, public health, and community organizations to create a community of recovery. His work covers all parts of the continuum from prevention and stigma reduction to clinical workflows. He has extensive experience developing clinical programs for opioid use disorder treatment, having worked with more than a dozen clinics, syringe access programs, and jails. He has worked with numerous jails across our region on their medication programs for opioid use disorder. He has advocated at the legislature for better treatment in carceral facilities. As a physician in recovery himself, he understands both the health care system and community recovery. But perhaps the most powerful work he does is sharing his story of recovery as a person in recovery who has found his purpose in helping other people navigate the treatment and justice systems. \
Rhiannon Streight, MPH currently leads the facilitation of six different Opioid Settlement Regions in Colorado including both rural and urban communities. This work requires extensive subject matter expertise in the National Opioid Settlements, the numerous evidence based strategies that exist to combat the opioid epidemic, and the public administration and coalition building and group management required to effectively move the work forward. In addition, Rhiannon leads the first collaborative strategic planning effort among city and county in Kansas, supporting Sedgwick County and Wichita respectively. Rhiannon is particularly knowledgeable regarding prevention, harm reduction, and recovery based opioid programming.