Together, we can tackle the serious problem of heroin and prescription drug addiction in Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region of Massachusetts.
Please join us for our Building a Resilient Community Workgroup, a project of OTF's Education & Prevention Committee. For more information on how to participate, please contact Karen Carmona, Program Associate at karen@opioidtaskforce.org.
More of our community members have become housing insecure or unhoused in the last year, an unfortunate trend that is occurring across the country. Join representatives from Community Legal Aid as they discuss their new grant-funded effort to prevent homelessness in our rural area. Featuring: *Jennifer Dieringer, Managing Attorney *Jennifer Albert, Staff Attorney, Greenfield Office […]
Spring into action and learn how to save a life at an upcoming virtual Overdose Prevention and Narcan training facilitated by Tapestry. It will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, from 2 PM to 3 PM. You can register using the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkf-ysqTItGN3571ei9cRM1ueF7JV4ShCi Participants will learn the answers to these questions: -What is an opioid overdose? -How do […]
Please join us for our Harm Reduction Workgroup meeting, a project of OTF's Treatment & Recovery Committee. For more information on how to participate, please contact Tiarra Fisher, Operations Coordinator/CONNECT at tiarra@opioidtaskforce.org.
Please join us for our Education & Prevention Committee meeting. For more information on how to participate, please contact Karen Carmona, Program Associate at karen@opioidtaskforce.org.
Please join us for our Treatment & Recovery Committee meeting. For more information on how to participate, please contact Tiarra Fisher, Operations Coordinator/CONNECT at tiarra@opioidtaskforce.org. (Note: This meeting is scheduled a week later than usual because of the July 4th holiday weekend.)
Please join us for our Healthcare Solutions Committee meeting. For more information on how to participate, please contact Tiarra Fisher, Operations Coordinator/CONNECT at tiarra@opioidtaskforce.org.
Please join our monthly meeting to discuss the emergency needs of unhoused individuals in the Franklin County and North Quabbin Region. To learn more about how to participate, please contact Kristen Pease, Program Associate and Project Manager/ARISE Initiative, at kristen@opioidtaskforce.org.
Don't let the summer go by without learning how to save a life at an upcoming virtual Overdose Prevention and Narcan training facilitated by Tapestry. This is a reminder that this training will be held tomorrow, Thursday, July 18, 2024, from 2 PM to 3 PM. You can register using the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf-2trTstGN1gFk54JLB9DhGJ65vSY0Nb. Can't make it? We have two other sessions […]
Launched in 2019, the HEALing Communities Study was a bold experiment. Part of its approach was to invest 343.7 million dollars in 67 communities across the four states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio to reduce opioid-related fatalities using various strategies to implement three goals: 1) increasing naloxone distribution and overdose prevention education, 2) […]