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Check in with Morgan Kramer at IIR regarding OFR TTA
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Presenting Workshop with UT Health Houston, at the Texas Addiction Professionals Conference
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Call with Kelly Firesheets Regarding Podcast Recording
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Met with Philip Campbell to Discuss Podcast Episode
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Met with BJA to Discuss Advisory Board Listening Session
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Grantee Franklin County Sheriff's Office in Massachusetts contacted COSSUP for TTA. The request detailed the need for a second in-person support to hold a 1-2 day meeting with members of their CONNECT deflection team. They wanted to convene the group to create shared agreements to address the complex intersection of law enforcement, child welfare, and peer recovery in our post-opioid overdose response.
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TASC’s Center for Health and Justice (CHJ) has been providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to the Minneapolis Fire Department (MFD) Minnesota Addiction Recovery Initiative (MARI) program since 2022. This includes facilitating bi-weekly program meetings and support for grant management, program design, planning, and implementation.
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Met and corresponded with grantee 8 times between October and December of 2024 on 10/1, 10/2, 10/3, 10/22, 11/5, 11/19, 12/3, and 12/17
Summary of Successes
3 staff members from CHJ conducted an on site visit from 10/1-10/3 with the grantee during which they conducted street outreach and facilitated a strategic meeting with agency leaders to discuss future planning and direction of the program. Staff visited potential fire stations with Minneapolis Fire Department (MFD) to expand the MARI program to.
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FY24Q4 Engagement Activities
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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. Mentee match is pending.