For Immediate Release: August 23, 2021 Operation 2 Save Lives (O2SL) & QRT National, a United States-based firm operating within the pre-arrest diversion (PAD), deflection field and The Global Network for Community Safety (Global Network), a Canadian-based firm that focuses on innovations to improve Community Safety and Well-being across Canada and in the U.S., announce their partnership to provide states, provinces, counties, and communities with comprehensive, collaborative solutions in addressing issues of marginalization, including poverty, victimization, substance use (SUD) and mental health disorders (MHD). Through the O2SL and QRT National – Global Network partnership, these two organizations can work cross-border to collectively provide multi-agency community responses to address issues of marginalization, for pre-crisis identification and crisis interventions, while creating pathways to care and support. Their combined expertise and suite of services – based on internationally recognized best past practices – can help provide communities with tailored responses to meet their
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O2SL & QRT National Partner with The Global Network for Community Safety to Bring the Situation Table Model to the U.S.
O2SL and QRT National is pleased to announce its partnership with The Global Network for Community Safety to bring their combined expertise to bear to provide states, counties, and communities comprehensive, collaborative solutions to address issues such as substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health disorders (MHD) impacting the U.S. Together these two firms assist local communities in mobilizing a multi-agency community response to help vulnerable populations at acutely elevated risk by intervening to connect them to a tailored suite of comprehensive services within 24-48 hours, thereby reducing their overall risk. These collaborative solutions are presented in the form of the Situation Table or HUB model (from out of Canada) with representatives from multiple human services sectors. This model also serves to help communities identify service gaps and areas in need of reform. Since 2010, this model has been implemented in over 100 communities across the U.S. and Canada.
O2SL and QRT National Trains West Virginia Police on the Impacts of Trauma
Operation 2 Save Lives & QRT National instructors spent Monday and Tuesday of this week training law enforcement partners in several counties in West Virginia, educating seventy law enforcement responders on the impact of trauma on their service to the community. O2SL and QRT National’s Trauma-Informed Care Training expert, Edward Jacoubs, and Director of Operations, Daniel Meloy, spent the past two days with leaders and officers from nine police departments alongside partner Beth Bailey, Project Director of the Rural Health Opioid Program, Community Connections, Inc., based in Princeton, West Virginia. Director Bailey oversees the Quick Response Teams (QRT) in this region, made up of law enforcement professionals and mental health and recovery community professionals in Mercer, McDowell, and Wyoming counties. Jacoubs, M.S.W., who has the past 42 years of experience in the juvenile justice and forensic mental health field, led the two-day training alongside Director of Operations Meloy, working with
O2SL and QRT National Team Prepare for August 9th and 10th Training With West Virginia Partners
On August 9th and 10th, O2SL and QRT National’s Director of Operations, Daniel Meloy, along with our trauma-informed response subject matter expert, Edward Jacoubs (MSW), will be training law enforcement partners from the Pineville and Princeton, West Virginia regions. Retired Chief Meloy and Beth Bailey, Project Director of the Rural Health Opioid Program, from Community Connections, Inc., continue to collaborate to provide opportunities to share best practices and educate Quick Response Teams and law enforcement responders, including this upcoming training about the impact of trauma on law enforcement’s service to the community. Learning About the Impact of Trauma Trauma’s impact on those that they serve in the community but also the impact of trauma on first responders themselves. O2SL and QRT National’s team of subject matter experts focus on supporting pre-arrest diversion, deflection, while understanding the impact of trauma on those that they serve, as well as the impacts of
Hear From O2SL and QRT National’s C.O.O. Scott Allen in 2021, COPS Office and PERF report: “Policing on the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis
Read the Office of COPS and PERF report here, Policing on the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis (usdoj.gov) Hear Retired East Bridgewater, Massachusetts Chief of Police and current O2SL and QRT National’s Scott Allen discussing How Police can Effectively Manage their Multiple, Sometimes Conflicting Roles of Emergency Response, Public Safety, and Law Enforcement” See pages 51, 56, 73, 77 for direct quotations from Retired Chief Allen.