{"id":122,"date":"2024-11-30T02:38:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T02:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/injurycenter.umich.edu\/sos-toolkit-kent\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2024-12-16T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:23:35","slug":"community-outreach-response","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/injurycenter.umich.edu\/sos-toolkit-kent\/community-outreach-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Outreach Response"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This section of the toolkit was developed using information gathered through interviews and focus groups with community outreach and prevention stakeholders, who represent organizations involved in overdose outreach work such as community naloxone administration, housing support, and harm reduction services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you will find the promising overdose response strategies identified by outreach and prevention stakeholders in Kent County. Each promising strategy is numbered, along with stakeholder identified barriers to accomplishing the proposed strategy and how the System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (SOS) may assist stakeholders\u2019 ability to accomplish each promising strategy.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Promising Strategy 1: Targeted Overdose Response<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Community outreach stakeholders identified the ability to target specific locations with overdose response resources as a promising strategy to enhance their outreach and prevention efforts in Kent County. Through identification of locations with a greater occurrence of overdose, community outreach stakeholders can more efficiently distribute available resources and more effectively tailor response efforts to each location.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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\u201cIf we notice that a particular area is having a high number of overdoses, we can help\u2026to get naloxone to that area, do some education with some of the businesses because we stop and develop relationships with them, as well, and educate them on what to watch for.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barriers to Targeted Overdose Response<\/h3>\n\n\n\n