Please join SIG, CHOSEN, and the HEALing Communities Study team for a webinar on June 27th from 4 - 5:30pm to discuss innovative and impactful community partnerships with the criminal legal system that aim to reduce opioid overdoses. Learn about the Sequential Intercept Model, which details how individuals with mental and substance use disorders come into contact with and move through the criminal legal system, and concrete examples of community partnerships with law enforcement, community coalitions, social workers, peers, medical providers, and other key stakeholders. Register now.

An estimated 65% of the US prison population has an active substance use disorder (SUD) and another 20% did not meet the criteria but were under the influence at the time of arrest. Over 49% of incarcerated individuals in New York State prisons have a SUD. Research has shown overdoses to be the leading cause of death among people recently released from incarceration and a lack of correlation between incarceration rates and states’ drug related problems. 

Increasing overdose education and access to naloxone, along with linking and retaining people in care with medications for opioid use disorder, are hallmarks of the Opioid-overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach in the Communities That HEAL intervention which was implemented during the the HCS from January 2020 to December 2023. Community partnerships within the criminal legal system – also referred to as the criminal “justice” system – are a vital component of these programs and saving lives. 

Speakers:

• Commissioner Rabiah Gaynor, Associate Commissioner for Division of Criminal Justice, NY State Office of Addiction Services and Supports

• Sheriff James Quattrone, Chautauqua County

• Hon. Charles Tailleur, Greene County Court

• Ryan Caldwell, CRPA, Peer Recovery Coach

• Chief Steve D’Agata, Liberty Police, Sullivan County

• Patricia Dunne, Supervisor, Probation Opioid Unit, Erie County

• Julianah Abimbola Ogundimu, MSW, MBA, Opioid Use Disorder System Specialist & Team Lead, ORACLE, Ulster County Sheriff's Office

• Lieutenant Chad Storey, Ulster County Sheriff’s Office

• Moderator: Juanita Hotchkiss, Director of Community & Incarcerated Services, Ulster County Sheriff's Office; HCS Consultant

• Moderator: Timothy Hunt, PhD, Associate Director, SIG; Associate Director, CHOSEN; Intervention and Community Engagement Investigative Lead, HCS