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Jefferson County public‑health partners update outreach, approve naloxone distribution policy and fund library project
Summary
The coalition reviewed outreach spending, scheduled training, and approved distribution of higher‑dose naloxone under the state opioid response grant; members also increased a library funding item to $3,000 and announced upcoming public presentations.
Local public‑health partners used the meeting’s first hour to cover outreach, prevention and small program grants.
Susie Drish and other community partners reviewed expenditures for outreach materials and reported the group had “quite a bit of money,” with informal tracking of expenses for t‑shirts and event booths. The group confirmed follow‑ups on invoices and agreed that Darcy would total expenditures for recordkeeping.
Attendees discussed prevention programming: a Strengthening Families training coordinated with Iowa State University will begin training local facilitators in August with sessions for families starting in October. Tobacco and vaping trends were raised by Kamara, a prevention specialist at Community and Human Resources, who described rising vaping use among youth and offered to make tobacco‑prevention materials and Quitline referral information available to the county.
The meeting also approved a $3,000 allocation to support the library’s Road to Recovery shelving and outreach (an increase from a prior $1,000 allocation). Alex McCunas was listed on the agenda to discuss the library request but did not attend.
On opioid response supplies, the Board of Health recently approved a policy to permit distribution of a higher‑dose naloxone formulation (referred to in the meeting as “Clozado”) under the State Opioid Response grant. "It's basically a higher dose of Narcan," said Abby, noting the county can distribute both standard and higher‑dose doses and will only ask for ZIP codes for tracking purposes.
Organizers highlighted upcoming public events, including a Grid Shock presentation on human trafficking scheduled for Friday, July 25 at Hotel Manning, and tentatively scheduled the coalition’s next meeting for Aug. 12 at 9:00 a.m. Members agreed to present program updates to the Board of Health on Sept. 11 if desired.
Participants closed the session with assigned follow‑ups — billing and invoice confirmations, coordination on presenter scheduling, and plans to update a community resource booklet before the school year.
