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Council advances community advocacy panel plan, approves quality director and dashboards work
Summary
The council reviewed a proposed community advocacy panel to bring lived-experience input, heard updates on data dashboards and predictive modeling, and approved creation of a quality director position and funding for members to attend the Rx Summit.
The Opioid Abatement Council advanced a plan to form a community advocacy panel, approved a permanent quality director position for the OAC office and endorsed staff work on public dashboards and overdose-prediction modeling.
Elizabeth (program director) presented a proposal for a 14-member community advocacy panel composed of two members from each of the department's seven regions plus two affiliate organization representatives (for example NAMI and Tennessee Voices). She described a selection process using affiliate referrals, virtual quarterly meetings, orientation and training for volunteers, a designated web page, and a recruitment timeline running September 2024 through August 2025.
Council staff and the SAS team demonstrated dashboards under development that show county-level disbursements, allocation and spending percentages, community-grant payment timelines and a community-grants dashboard with project strategy filters. Joseph (SaaS lead) said the team is finalizing predictive models for fatal and nonfatal overdoses using public datasets (Tennessee Health, American Community Survey, CDC) and plans a council preview.
The council also approved creating a quality director role to manage outcomes reporting and performance measures for community grantees; the motion carried by roll call. Members approved funding for two council members and one advisory panel member to attend the National Rx Summit in Nashville in April.
