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Opioid Recovery

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OPIOID RECOVERY

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CCI Lunch and Learn with Jose Esquibel (6.23.2023)

2023 Opioid Abatement Conference

Over 200+ community leaders attended in-person, representing the entire state, and attendees are now returning to their communities with additional tools, resources, and connections to maximize the impact of the opioid settlement funds in their communities. 

2022 Opioid Abatement Conference

Over 200+ community leaders attended in-person, representing the entire state, with an additional 80-100 individuals attending virtually over 2 days. Attendees heard from over 45 speakers sharing best practices on opioid response.

For more information, please contact Opioids@coag.gov

Opioid 201 for County & Municipal Government Officials

Preparing for the Use of Opioid Settlement Funds

Hosted: September 17, 2021 | 3:00pm–4:00pm

Presenters: Dr. Rob Valuck, Professor of Pharmacology and Executive Director of the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Jose Esquibel, Associate Director of the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention

Description: 

  • Who’s responsible for the opioid crisis?
  • How doctors were trained and are now trained with regard to prescribed opioids.
  • Patient expectations in pain management.
  • Colorado’s Coordinated Response to the Opioid Crisis: Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention (Prevention, Harm Reduction, Safe Disposal, Provider Education, Treatment, Recovery Supports and more).Consortium External Relations Staff, Regional Opioid Settlement Governance Committees and Local Coalition Work
  • How to use the Colorado Opioid Crisis Response Blueprint
Opioid 101 for County & Municipal Government Officials

Preparing for the Use of Opioid Settlement Funds

Hosted: September 2, 2021

Presenters: Dr. Rob Valuck, Professor of Pharmacology and Executive Director of the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention

Description: 

  • Opioid Pharmacology 101: How they work, benefits and risks, the role/place in medicine
  • The Opioid Crisis: How we got into this mess and how people get into a cycle of misuse and addiction with the risk of overdose and death
  • Evidence-based strategies for addressing the opioid crisis (prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery)
  •  Introduction to the Colorado Opioid Crisis Response Blueprint: A Guide for Opioid Settlement Investments.
Colorado Opioid Settlement Framework & Announcement

On August 26, 2021, Attorney General Phil Weiser, alongside local government leaders, announced the framework for Colorado’s Opioid Settlement

Colorado Opioid Settlement Update

During CCI’s late-summer district meetings, Heidi Williams, Director of Opioid Response for the Attorney General, provided updates to County Commissioners on the progress of the opioid settlement and framework. 

Negotiation Progress

ARPA Housing Task Force Listening Session – Friday, August 6th

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CCI congratulates Summit County Commissioner Tamara Pogue for her recent appointment to the American Rescue Plan Affordable Housing Transformational Task Force. This task force is charged with developing recommendations on how best to use the $550 million allocated through HB21-1329. As the group kicks off its work in the next few weeks, Commissioner Pogue would like to hear from you on local housing priorities and challenges to help inform task force recommendations.

Please join us for a listening session this Friday, August 6th from 3-4PM to provide feedback on how best to use this significant injection of housing funds. Zoom details below.

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ARP Affordable Housing Task Force

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ARP AFFORDABLE HOUSING
TASK FORCE

CCI congratulates Summit County Commissioner Tamara Pogue for her appointment to the American Rescue Plan Affordable Housing Transformational Task Force. This task force is charged with developing recommendations on how best to use the $550 million allocated through HB21-1329.
Colorado's Task Force & Sub-Panel:
White Paper on Local Government Priorities
for ARPA Funding

Locally elected leaders are acutely aware that housing challenges remain a top issue affecting every community across Colorado. The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated what was a growing problem due to a combination of factors--including sky-rocketing population, labor and commodity scarcity, a booming short-term rental and second-homeowner market, and years of under-building--for which there is no easy or single solution.

Colorado's strategies addressing our housing crisis must be thoughtful and locally tailored to ensure ARPA funds address immediate impacts of the pandemic, but do wo with a view to how these investments can lay a foundation for broader systemic impact on this challenging issue.

CCI’s ARPA Housing Task Force Listening Session – Recording, Takeaways, Next Steps:

Last Friday, August 6th, CCI hosted a listening session with Summit County Commissioner Pogue to discuss local housing priorities and challenges. This session was organized to help inform Commissioner Pogue’s participation in the ARPA Housing Task Force responsible for making recommendations on how best to use the $550 million allocated through HB21-1329.

If you weren’t able to make the session, you can find the recording here. Additionally, if you weren’t able to participate and have ideas (not listed below) on how to spend these dollars, please reach out to Daphne Gervais.

Here are some of the priorities and challenges we heard from various counties:

  • Workforce housing development
  • Flexible funding with an emphasis on AMI restrictions
  • Infrastructure – water, sewer, road development/horizontal development costs
  • Behavioral health resources, including homelessness prevention resources, support for human services, child welfare, and workforce development
  • Support for regional project coordination, public/private partnerships, non-profit developer support
  • Capacity building, operations support, administrative support
  • Land acquisition/banking
  • Expanding modular development
  • Rental assistance

The Task Force kicks off its work next Thursday, August 19th. CCI will continue to host listening sessions as recommendations are being developed by the Task Force. Stay tuned for our next meeting date!

About the Task Force:

ARP Behavioral Health Task Force

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ARP BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
TASK FORCE

CCI congratulates Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas and Logan County Commissioner Byron Pelton for their recent appointments to the American Rescue Plan Behavioral Health Task Force. This task force is charged with developing recommendations on how best to use the $550 million allocated through SB21-137.
Colorado's Task Force & Sub-Panel:
CCI Letter to Task Force on County Priorities

Colorado has the opportunity to invest $450 million in transformational behavioral health strategies. Via survey counties identified their top 5 investment priorities from a list of 27 options

CCI & CHSDA Letter on High Acuity Crisis in Serving Children

CHSDA & CCI’s letter on the High Acuity Crisis in serving children to Directors Barnes & Bimstefer. 

Feedback from CCI's 8/27 Behavioral Health ARPA Task Force Listening Session:

Last Friday, August 27, CCI hosted a listening session to gather county feedback for the Behavioral Health ARPA Task Force conversations that are underway.

Attached HERE is a high-level summary of the investment ideas/strategies that were offered for the $450 million.

Updates from Mental Health Colorado:

Our state has a historic opportunity to make strategic transformational investments to improve access to care, improve transparency and accountability, and end discrimination.

The state has set aside 450 million dollars for one-time investments in behavioral health from the American Rescue Plan Act for use by December 31, 2026.

The Behavioral Health Transformational Task Force and corresponding subpanels ­are convening the next couple of months to discuss what investments and policy changes need to be made to transform the behavioral health system in Colorado – this includes both mental health and substance use.

To fill out a survey with your suggestions for the state, listen in on meetings, or sign up to receive updates, please go to:

https://www.mentalhealthcolorado.org/taskforce/

We want to make sure all voices are heard and that we are aligned in our efforts to achieve healthier minds across the lifespan for all Coloradans.

–Vincent Atchity, President & CEO of Mental Health Colorado

Updates from the Task Force:
About the Task Force:

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