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OnTrack Anti Drug Coalition outlines prevention work, surveys and distribution efforts across eastern Hardy County region
Summary
Amy Cardo, OnTrack coalition coordinator, presented prevention activities, distribution of SafeRx containers and drug-disposal packs, and plans to use student surveys to focus prevention work across Hardy and neighboring counties.
Amy Cardo, coalition coordinator for OnTrack Anti Drug Coalition, told the Hardy County Commission the organization is expanding prevention work and technical supports across multiple counties in the region.
“We do prevention work for substance use and misuse and abuse,” Cardo said, describing educational campaigns, billboards promoting safe medication disposal, distribution of Deterra medication-disposal packs and SafeRx lockable pill containers, and school-based outreach. Cardo said OnTrack serves Hardy, Grant, Pendleton, Hampshire and Mineral counties and operates in part under a SAPT grant.
Cardo said the coalition has already sponsored school surveys—historically called PRIDE surveys and being updated to ISA surveys—to provide anonymous, school-climate data the coalition can use to target prevention efforts. She said the surveys can satisfy school climate survey requirements if the board adopts them and that Mineral County has awarded OnTrack funding, including an initial $6,000 and a subsequent $20,000 allocation, for local prevention activities.
Cardo described hands-on outreach such as a “hidden in plain sight” trailer for parental education, anti-vaping educational visits to schools, and provision of promotional materials and lockable pill containers at community events. She said the coalition distributes resources and emphasizes upstream prevention: “We want all voices at the table as well,” she said.
Commissioners asked which counties are in the regional grouping; Cardo listed the five counties. One commissioner said prevention dollars can be magnified by partnering with existing local programs, naming Big Blue in the Wardensville area as a local partner the commission has supported.
Cardo requested that the commission consider prevention funding from opioid crisis response money, noting the coalition’s existing infrastructure and its goal to focus on prevention rather than “recreating the wheel.” No formal funding request or motion from the commission was recorded during the presentation.
