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Shawnee County health department launches public overdose dashboard, seeks KFA grants and outlines CHNA priorities
Summary
The Shawnee County Health Department unveiled a public overdose surveillance dashboard showing ~5,200 suspected overdoses since 2020, 462 naloxone administrations and 42 fatalities; staff also described two Kansas Fights Addiction grant applications, harm‑reduction options and priorities from a 3,816‑response community health needs assessment.
The Shawnee County Health Department presented several public‑health tools and initiatives at the Board of Health convening on Dec. 9, including a new public overdose dashboard, two grant proposals to expand harm‑reduction and prevention work, a community mural project and results from the county—s latest community health needs assessment (CHNA).
"This is what the dashboard looks like," said Britney Blattner, epidemiologist, who walked commissioners through an overdose surveillance dashboard that covers Jan. 1, 2020 to the present and is updated monthly. Blattner said the dashboard shows approximately 5,200 suspected overdose occurrences, 462 naloxone administrations and 42 overdose fatalities in that span.
Blattner described primary data sources that populate the dashboard: ODMAP (Overdose…
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