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County mental-health office launches naloxone availability map and schedules sensitivity and prevention events
Summary
The county’s social services and mental-health office announced a publicly available naloxone map showing distribution sites, a sensory-sensitive film screening and ongoing suicide-prevention trainings and outreach; naloxone kits include QR-code trainings and will be added to parks and campus locations as supply allows.
Lacey Trimble, commissioner of social services and mental health, updated the committee on outreach and harm-reduction efforts, citing a new publicly available naloxone (Narcan) availability map and expanded distribution points.
Trimble said the naloxone map shows where kits are available in Orange County and that while kits are not yet in every community they are being placed in more public locations, including some parks and campus sites such as SUNY Orange. She said the boxes include a QR code linking to a brief instructional video — “about three minutes” — that shows how to administer naloxone.
Trimble also highlighted upcoming and recent community mental-health activities: a sensory-sensitive screening of the film The Unbreakable Boy at the Paramount Theater hosted by Think Differently, monthly suicide-prevention trainings (with extra events during September Suicide Prevention Month), a social-media safety training offered by the Welcome Orange Training Institute and continuing psychological-first-aid training for disaster and mass-casualty response. The department has also been tabling at National Night Out events and is working to expand satellite clinic coverage in schools, with plans to recruit clinicians to fill summer gaps.
Trimble said the department is working with community partners to place naloxone kits and to restock free kits supplied by the state and encouraged committee members to request kits for offices or community events. She also noted that some departments maintain accessible boxes that any community member can take from and that the program is intended to increase broad access to opioid-overdose reversal medication.
