Prescription Drugs

The meeting will discuss the public health frameworks for case review, the critical role of different team members, and the ethics of case review, along with covering the nuts and bolts of an effective Overdose Fatality Review Program.

The meeting will discuss the public health frameworks for case review, the critical role of different team members, and the ethics of case review, along with covering the nuts and bolts of an effective Overdose Fatality Review Program.

• During this reporting period, IIR staff members provided complete logistical support to the following meeting:
o Reaching Rural Meeting: Advancing Collaborative Solutions—April 23–25, 2024

• Planning is underway for new subpages on community interventions; community corrections/supervision; evidence-based treatment; coroners, medical examiners, and forensics; and researcher-practitioner partnerships.

• From January 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024, the COSSUP Resource Center website had:
o 27,722 unique users.
o 41,815 user sessions (the period a user was actively engaged with the COSSUP Resource Center website).
o 88,112 page views.

• IIR staff members continued to post content to the COSSUP Facebook and Twitter pages. Between January 1 and June 30, 2024, IIR issued 142 Facebook posts and 169 tweets/retweets. COSSUP social media posts were shared by BJA; the National Institute of Justice; the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence; the National Treatment Court Resource Center; the Council of State Governments Justice Center; and the ATTC Network, among others. Highlights included the following:

The following activities occurred during this reporting period:

• Supported access to the IIR OFR Data System on the REDCap server for four new OFR sites.

• Hosted next-of-kin interview training for 57 professionals (June 2024).

• Hosted an in-person one-day post-conference Facilitation Skills Training for 27 OFR facilitators in Atlanta, Georgia (March 2024).

• Hosted virtual half-day Facilitation Skills training for 15 OFR facilitators (May 2024).

• Hosted state infrastructure planning calls with eight states (January – July 2024).

• IIR developed and facilitated a webinar hosted by the National Association of Counties on “Insights from the Reaching Rural Initiative - Navigating Leadership, Innovation and Community Impact in Addressing Substance Use Disorder in Rural Communities.” This event featured three former Reaching Rural fellows who shared information about how their communities are working to address SUD, lessons learned through the Reaching Rural Initiative, and suggestions on how other rural communities can effectively build partnerships and resources to improve prevention, treatment, and recovery.

Discuss the challenges being faced by tribal communities when it comes to successful reentry and reintegration post-treatment and post-incarceration such as economic disparities, poverty, unemployment, and limited access to essential resources. Explore how geographic isolation affects access to services and opportunities. Examine initial strategies to overcome these barriers, including ways to leverage community-based services that engage tribal leaders, elders and communities in support of culturally relevant responses and programs.

Quarterly collaborative call with all TTA Providers and BJA.

"BJA is seeking applications to respond to illicit substance use and misuse to reduce overdose deaths, promote public safety, and support access to treatment and recovery services in the criminal justice system, and strongly encourages tribal communities to consider applying under Category 1c.

This webinar will provide more information about the solicitation and how tribal communities may benefit from this program."