Tracy. That's awesome.
No, I keep an automated spreadsheet. Very specific.
All right, I have 10 o'clock, so I guess we're going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order, and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance, please. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. If we just have everybody please turn your cell phones to the vibrate, silence or
offsetting. The opioid abatement funding advisory board allows any person to speak regarding an item on the agenda. The speaker is limited to two minutes and unless otherwise determined by the chairperson to allow sufficient time for all speakers. Speaker shall refrain from abusive profane remarks, disruptive outward protest or other conduct which interferes with orderly conduct of meeting upon completion of the public comment period. Discussion is limited to the board
members and questions raised by the board. Do we have any speakers signed up? No, ma'am. We have no speakers signed up. Okay. Thank you. All right. First item that we have on the agenda is has everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes from the previous meeting for March 31st. Do I have a motion to accept the minutes? Motion made. Do I have second? All approved. I I oppose. same sign. Um, so next we have the opioid budget review. All right. So it looks like we got our
last um funding allocation in January 28th, 2025. So we won't get another one of those until the beginning of 2026. Our current balance for this year to be able to award is 1 million670,54.89. 89. Okay. Does anyone have any questions? Okay. Um the reporting on community notice
of funding availability award awardees. So we're going to start with the Escambia Escambia County EMS core team. Hello. Hi. So, we have been very busy this year. Extremely. In fact, uh currently we have had a total of 447 patients since we began uh into the program. We have successfully transitioned 384 of those patients. We in looking at the number have had only 16 relapses who
have then returned to the program. Uh which is considered a huge win by the state. Um this year uh we have already had 1450 dosing appointments. Um those are patient contacts. Uh that already surpasses our entire year total from 2024. So it's been a very very positive very very good year. uh to be able to help a lot of folks. We we did notice a huge uptick at the start of the summer
and we have remained steady. We currently have eight uh going at last week we were up to 19. Wow. So people the a lot of times while we get a lot of folks from the EMS field um word of mouth from patients to patients has been huge. Um which for us means that we do what we say we're going to do and and and that's the most important thing for these people. We have their trust.
Absolutely. That's that's awesome. number is only 16 that you've had to have back. That's great. Great percentages. Great work. Does anybody have any questions? Just a quick question. Any excuse me, are you seeing any particular patterns uh or shifts in terms of who you're serving or drug of choice or that sort of thing? It's not that there's a particular pattern. Um we we do notice that there's a lot of poly substance a lot of u meth uh that was tainted with fentanyl as a lot how a lot of folks have somehow become
addicted to to fentanyl. That is one thing we have noticed. We've also seen not as much of the unhoused population um and we've also started seeing a few more uh pregnant females as well. I do have one other question. Um, do you provide the substance abuse treatment part of that or just med management or is it still a combination of both of those? We we do a combination. Okay. Um, in light social work, but we're not really social workers, but we do know
who to connect like our pregnant females with the the services that they're going to need. um who to contact at DCF before they deliver uh to ensure that they don't have problems afterwards because the goal is to make sure that mom and baby get to stay together. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Oh, go ahead. Uh next we have Community Health Northwest Florida.
Good morning. Good morning. Thank you, board. um, Community Health Northwest Florida. Um, so our numbers, um, to date, we've got, uh, 256 current and active patients in the core program. Um, if you reference that 276 number from EMS that came to us, that shows about a 92.7% retention rate. Um, so we're we're doing pretty good on that. We're we're what we've really focused in on is when people start dropping off um or they miss a couple of appointments,
reaching back out to them and trying to really re-engage. Um we've got a tool so if we've got a bad phone number or don't necessarily know where they're at, um we can find their new cell phone number um and try to locate them and we've been really successful with that and that's just a testament to our clinical staff and and building that relationship kind of judgment free. Um, we've got 165 current patients with diagnosed opiate use disorder on Matt. Um, so that's a pretty significant number. Again, we've been in operation for close to three years now,
coming up on three years. So, building that impanelment out. Um, and then I know this isn't Escambia County, but we've got the contract in place for Santa Rosa Corps. And so, um, we're really excited because that's going to be kind of a a regionwide, uh, addressing of the issues. um because we do factually have people who have since moved to Santa Rosa County since engaging in core um but are having to transit come back over to Escambia for services. Um we recently got one of our internal staff fully licensed as a peer support specialist. Um she also
um her name's Tracy Peterson. She also does all of our affordable care act chip um Medicaid. Um, so having her as both a peer support specialist as well as somebody who who understands insurance and can really case manage and support um is really beneficial, especially with a lot of the changes um that are happening right now with insurance. So any questions? I'm glad to see that you're moving to Santa Rosa County because actually we I have a participant in another program that is um going through the core program as well. So that's that's great. It'll be
a great So and we'll be actually setting up a clinic at our Caroline Street location there. So we're uh we actually just posted a few jobs. Um so if you know anybody who's looking for a job that's that's licensed or in that that space, um Northwest Florida Health's been great enough. They're going to give us six months to ramp up so that we can really train shadow with EMS um and really hit the ground running with that team. So that's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. All right, next we have Ministry Village at Olive.
Good morning, Drayton Smith with Ministry Village. Uh, as our report does not change much in recent time, uh, we're still dealing with building issues, civil engineering, and those kind of things that everyone else is dealing with. Uh with that happening, the cost has gone up as well. So, uh we're still working with that and it's just a slow process. Um I'm kind of a microwave person, not a crock-pot person. So, it's tough for me to sit on these waiting events. Uh currently
with Caris House, we are at full capacity. We do have a waiting list of about 10 ladies right now current. Uh so, we've had contact this year alone with over 190 that uh have either been declined or waiting on coming in. So, this addition will be greatly uh used and we need it soon. Uh we do have um a new bid out for more buildings since the cost has gone up. Uh so, still just dealing with those issues. Currently, like I say, we have a full capacity and we are
uh looking at our our numbers up to this point. We have a 80% after uh seven years success rate. So, that means ladies are sober up to seven years. as far as we can track right at the moment. So, seven years, 80% of our ladies that graduate our program are staying sober and we have over a 90% reunification with family and children. Any questions? How far along are you uh what what's your added cost for building? It's going to be about 25%.
Cost of metal, cost of copper, all of those type of things, cost of labor. Since we talked last, huh? I'm sorry. since we talked last. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So, what does that make your total cost now? Uh, we'll be well over a million dollars. Okay. Okay. And so, you guys are you're in like funding search now or like Yes, we currently are seeking other grant opportunities as well as individual donors and companies and things of that nature. So, with the funding that you have,
how many buildings are you looking at putting up? This will be one building to house uh up to 30 more ladies. Okay. It's only one. Okay. I was thinking like it was like two two. Yes. For our property total, we have three projects going on right now for Caris House. It will only be one building. We do have our Tinder Tender Hearts Caring Hands property uh that will expand our homeless and indigent care underserved unhoused community. Totally two separate things though. Okay. Okay. So, with the funding that you do have, is it possible to move those other
projects along or are you just trying to you just holding this funding for that one building? This funding is strictly for the car's house. Okay. Yes, sir. All right. Roger that. Thank you. One more question. Dr. Are you still considering looking for an existing building to rehab? Um, not at this point. We did uh we actually had a pretty good deal on a uh house That was a very large house in the Molino area. Uh but just the regular upkeep for that facility, it was 30 acres,
uh a 15,000 foot house that we could move 20 ladies in there immediately, just put beds in it. Uh but logistics and then some other reasons for just a regular maintenance on that facility and then getting our ladies back and forth for jobs and appointments, uh we decided not to go that route. Um, so I think since we spoke last, the property that we had already allocated for this project, uh, had some old buildings on it. Those buildings have been removed and again, we're just waiting on civil. We we have our tentative plan for civil engineering and it's at
permitting now to come back to civil. So no, we're not looking at another facility. I mean, unless there's one that's ready available and we can move into, which is the same issue that waterfront's having as well. So, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next, we have Waterfront Mission. How are y'all doing? Mark Isbel with Waterfront Mission. Um, I just want to give y'all a couple
of numbers real quick. Uh, we actually have not released these publicly yet, but we will be doing that this week. As far as Waterfront as a whole, um our numbers have increased significantly uh the first half of this year over last year. In fact, number of nights of shelter and meals served has increased 34% overall over the first six months of last year. In fact, we have um through the end of June provided over 43,000 nights of shelter and served over 106,000 meals at Waterfront. Um, and part of that is, uh, due to us opening up women's services and women's shelter
overnight. Uh, we provide over 6,000 nights of shelter just to women alone the first half of this year. Uh, but specifically in regards to our recovery program, uh, in May, we had our largest graduating class of our recovery program. Uh, we actually had 10 gentlemen graduate and we have a graduation every quarter. Uh right now we have 43 individuals that are in our nine-monthlong recovery program. And so that goes towards the increase that we need for housing. We are still shopping. Uh in fact, we uh last month got outbid on a house unfortunately that we had looked at. Uh
we looked at three additional last week. One that we are very interested in. So our search is still going forward to be able to house the increase that we're seeing at Waterfront. So that's any questions? Yeah, just for clarification. So are you looking for individual houses to be part of the program that you have? Yes, sir. Uh so the third phase of our recovery program is where um our they will live in transitional houses. Right now we currently own four um and we're
looking at purchasing another one that we can house eight additional men in that house. So, this is the very last portion of our recovery program before they graduate and transition out. Any other questions? No. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Next, we have Lake View Center cat program. Good morning, Patty Hyde for the Catame program.
Um we are up and running. I'd like to introduce Trisha Morrison as our therapist. An interesting um composition of Lake View is not only do we help our clients grow, but we help providers in the community grow. So Trisha started out on MRT and came to me as a MSW uh intern last year and has graduated and now she's returned to our program and is on her clinical license for social work. I just wanted to point that out. We work at different levels. Um we have a BTEC and hire
process. Uh we have had barriers to hiring an RNCA manager. So we have requested to you uh to replace that with just a case manager. Sometimes it's easier to find that um position hiring position. Um, we have a uh group starting next Monday night with uh seven. We've got seven people on the list right now. We had nine and we're down to seven so far. So, uh we've also been networking and
sending out our flyers and our brochures uh across the the county. Um we those groups will not only have substance abuse education but they will have um skill building for employability for our older kids uh as well as care coordination back to school in some form if it's the GED. Um so we do a lot of that in our um groups every week and we also work on family conflict. Um we are
um in also in the reapplication program for next year. Do you have any questions? Yes. The the age group that you're you're is this your first group that you all are since you've kind of gotten started your first group that you're you're moving through right now? Yes, sir. We just uh finished hiring at least for Trisha. Okay. Awesome. That's great. That's great to know. So your your age group of this particular group is from what to what for the program itself
it's from 5 to 18 and the purpose of that is to be able to help families where substance abuse has impacted substance abuse in that home has impacted a child's ability to function across systems like school. Um that part we won't have five-year-olds in that group. So uh in my experience and in the past that group has consisted from uh the age of about 13 to 18. It's it's more the um the older youth. Okay. And so these youth would have ex I guess take they would actually have
experience with substance abuse or would they be experiencing uh situations from the parental substance abuse? All of it. All of the above. Yes sir. And how do they like if a child or a person how do they become part of your program? Is it court ordered or they have is it all is it all uh it have to be through a legal situation or you know or someone have a child could they just
come to you all and say hey um my child is going through this they need help or do they have to actually go through the legal system in order to get referred to the legal system we take networks I mean we take uh referrals across networks they don't have to be in the legal system. The group that we have coming now is through DJJ for the most part. Um they're referred sometimes by their JO, sometimes by the judge for uh substance abuse education. Um we take referrals for uh
from individuals from family members uh may have heard about the CAT team working with somebody in in their sphere and um are reaching out either to them or to us directly. the uh CAT teams. Um we work with their clients as well. That's the CAT and the AIM. Um we uh take school referrals. Um we take referrals. Basically, we're looking for um the criteria would be any kind of interaction with the acute stabilization unit. Um, so if they've had any baker acts that um may have been either
from an overdose or um getting caught up with the wrong people at the wrong time. Um um schools, uh the counselors may notice somebody really struggling, especially some of the younger kids really struggling in class and and and kind of read it back to the family issues. So we're not structured to just take one type of referral. Awesome. And now that you got your staff together and you've gotten your hiring, how how so do you guys meet with these clients weekly, daily,
monthly? How does that work? How um they will have at least one group weekly and then we'll have the uh CA case manager do care coordination with them around school and employability. So they'll meet with them um an additional time a week and then if they're working on conflict resolution skills with their parents, the um Btech will go into the home and roleplay some of those um some of those skills. And so those skills will be based on their initial support plan. when they come in, we get a
support plan around what conflict looks like, what got them into trouble, and start just on day one start teaching some of those uh deescalation techniques, especially to parents on how to walk away and don't engage. Awesome. And uh last question, at your staffing capacity right now, how many people I mean, how many kids are you actually capable of taking on right now? Like right now, we're at our limit with just one person. Um we would um we're looking for at least 15 each um
uh 90 days. Um that's usually a good portion for a group. Any bigger than that and it's not real effective. Um uh as well as the individual needs that they may have for their care coordination. Um Trisha is so experienced that she can handle all of those different areas. Um so mainly right now we will be focusing on the groups. Okay. until we get some more hires your program well the the um I can see the the desire for people for your program not as it's activated and you got staff I can see
that the need to is going to explode like once the word you know that the words gets out and people will know that there's something because for a long time the adolescent situation or the under 18 situation you know has not been in existence for for a while and you know in a major capacity. So, I can definitely see that uh your phone is going to start, you know, getting really active. So, God bless. Congratulations to you. Thank you so much. We do hope to uh expand in the next couple
of years. We're doing again the reapplication process right now, which will refine a few things and then perhaps next year. We had a 10p person team um uh two years ago, a year and a half ago. And so we really would like to expand um to meet uh more people's needs. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And last but not least, Lake View Center Opus Program.
Good morning. I'm Cindy Mclofflin. I'm the program manager for the Opus program and I brought the Opus team with me today of Maria Thompson. she's the program coordinator. Vakara Blackman, she's our environmental strategies coordinator. Kirby McMillan, she's our peer educator. And Dorothy Moore, she's our education specialist. Um, for the second quarter of this year, the team has had 176 contacts. Um the most requested items that they distribute
during outreach have been Narcan of course, um fentanyl test strips, um wound management kits, uh and they have uh conducted uh 19 HIV tests, 16 hepatitis C tests, and provided um their um prevention education, the overdose and infectious diseases education sessions at three separate locations. And those are four class series. Um, so 12 sessions total. Um, Escambia County Jail and two of Lake View's programs, our lodges unit and our SRT unit. Um,
the um the major challenge I guess for the program right now is that we're still having some issues with the uh software program for our harm reduction vending machines. So, um trying to get the um the um manufacturers for the machine to get us some technical assistance to get that software corrected so that it's it's distributing properly. Uh that's that's what we're working on right now. Uh one of our machines actually got vandalized unfortunately.
They uh they will cut cables to to get copper out of the wires. Um so we also waiting for a technician to come out to to replace those cords. Um but the ladies mostly are distributing things now when they do street outreach sessions uh in the community and um they have several sites that they see now and they just added a site which is uh Warrington Village. Um so kind of spreading our our boundaries a little bit and that's our highlights. Any questions?
No. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, the next item on the agenda is to review and approve the revised Lake View Center cat scope of work. And this item, you guys do have something in your backup um on the Lake View letter head there for this particular thing. And they did mention it a little bit when they were up here. Um but they've had some difficulty hiring an RN case manager. So, they would like to replace that position with just a regular case manager to bring on. Um,
this will require a vote. If you guys do approve them to switch out this position, it will return um almost 32,000 back to our pool of of funding and we can open it up to any questions. They're here if you have them. Just one question. So if it's regular from RN case manager to a regular case manager um I know the need not having an RN designation to be a case manager is there. So
um would that you know you know would that give challenges in the what and well my question I guess is why was it why was the need for an RN case manager in the beginning versus a regular case manager. Uh we were trying to model it on the CAT model which does include an RN and our last substance abuse program for adolescence was modeled on that as well and had an RN. We found it very helpful um to provide some of that substance abuse education, not just that but hygiene and um
um issues around human trafficking as well uh for a lot of our girls that we had in that program. Um we we can part of the care coordination that we do with our uh case managers would be to uh coordinate with their uh primary care physician and get them back into that routine of physicals and dental work. Uh and so the the case manager is more critical to that piece. Um, and the other piece that the RN we were hoping would be able to incorporate, we uh also do outreach to uh
different um agencies in the community to come in and do education around vaping, around tobacco, um around uh Narcan, um we we distribute Narcan and we don't have to have a nurse to do that. Um, so it it really w it won't make any difference in the services that we offer for sure. Um, I like having a nurse. I like having that holistic perspective, but again, we will very much still be uh linking
them to their uh PC and providing transportation for those um appointments if needed. Okay. So, it wasn't like for regular RN how they able to distribute medicine and stuff like that. No sir. No sir. We don't distribute medicines. We don't hold medicines. Uh we make those appointments for them to um schedule those. Okay. So it's basically more just like for educational person that has you know like a little bit more but okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you. I move approval of the
request. Second. Second. All approved. I I oppose. Same sign. Motion approve is passes. The next item on the agenda is to review and approve the EMS core stipen as proposed. And I'm actually going to have the EMS core team come up and talk a little bit about this and why they think they need it. Good morning. Christopher Stevens EMS. Within the program, we've identified some some issues where
we could do a little bit better. one of which is direct oversight and communication up the chain through administration and also through our community partners. Um so we we're going to ask for a for a lead nurse position. This also lays the foundation for future growth. We've somewhat mirrored this within operations and it's streamlined our process and become very effective for us and we believe it's going to do the same for the program here. So this would be a stipen given to an existing employee for the additional or
the change in responsibilities. Yes sir. And just for your knowledge this was run by our HR department even though it's paid through different funding. Um and it does we do have a policy for it too. So it is in line with what we have done with other things before. Thank you. I move we approve the request. Second. All approved. It's on vote. Sorry. Yes. Opposed. Same sign. The the motion. The motion approved
is approved. Um the next item. Do we have any new business that needs to be discussed at this time? Do you guys want a quick update on who attended the pre-application meeting for this NOFO year? Sure. So, we did um hold the Wednesday, July 9th optional pre-application meeting. Um the community partners that attended that was BreitBridge Ministries, Re-entry Alliance Pensacola, Community Health, Waterfront Mission, and Ministry Village at Olive. And then we did
have two additional community partners reach out for the recording just to see what took place on the meeting and that was United Way and Hope Above Fear. So last year I believe we had one community partner attend this meeting. So it's definitely getting out there um lots of new faces that didn't apply last year which is exactly what we wanted. Um this also was an optional meeting so even if they didn't attend they can still apply. This just kind of gives you an idea of what partners are out there actually looking at this particular funding source
this year. So, I'm anticipating we get quite a few more applications than we did last year. After BreitBridge, was it who who else was it? Uh, Breitbentry Alliance Pensacola. So, Reap. Okay. Community Health Waterfront Mission and Ministry Village. And then the two that reached out uh were United Way and Hope Above Fear. And I know that Hope Above Fear didn't qualify last year just because they hadn't reached that two-year mark. Um but they actually
really focus in our schools and our adolescence. Um so that one will be a good one to look for for sure. Great. Thank you for the work on that. Any other items for the new business portion? We need to schedule our next meeting. Do we need to make that for September
or October? So, just looking at our notice of funding applications, the applications are actually due on September 12th. So, if you'd like an update at your next meeting for who actually applied, I would do anytime after September 12th. Okay. Thank you. How does everybody look for September the 15th? I'm good.
Will that work? Okay, we'll schedule the next meeting for September the 15th. Thank everybody for coming and the meeting is adjourned.