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Grant County Health Council reports expanded behavioral-health, overdose-prevention and transportation outreach
Summary
The Grant County Community Health Council summarized quarterly activities including suicide-prevention and overdose-prevention trainings, transportation-resource mapping and an opioid-safety handbook update; the council noted growing community concern over fentanyl and will meet July 23 (online/in-person) to continue local coordination.
Emma Eileen McKinley, director of the Grant County Community Health Council, gave a quarterly update on July 7 highlighting prevention and outreach work across the county.
McKinley said April–June activities included multiple suicide-prevention (QPR and Question-Persuade-Refer) and adult mental-health first-aid trainings, overdose-prevention sessions for restaurant staff and law enforcement, and distribution of a transportation resource guide informed by a local survey. She noted the council has updated and solicited community input for an opioid safety handbook and is coordinating with the statewide Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act efforts.
Why it matters: McKinley said community concern about fentanyl is rising and described recent community trainings and partnerships intended to expand local response capacity. "Community members are incredibly concerned. Community members are grieving," she said. The council also emphasized outreach to seniors and completion of several health-fair events.
Key upcoming items: McKinley said the council will move its meetings to a lunchtime schedule (11 a.m.–1 p.m.) and will host a July 23 meeting at the Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center with the Opioid Remediation Collaborative and a Presbyterian managed-care organization representative to discuss Medicare and transportation resources. She invited commissioners and the public to the online and in-person meeting and offered to add items to the agenda.
Ending: The council said it will continue convening community partners and share grant and training opportunities; commissioners thanked McKinley and noted the county’s recent vote to join the Opioid Remediation Collaborative.
