FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY — Operation 2 Save Lives (O2SL) & QRT National will work to create new Quick Response Teams and Situation Tables across Kentucky thanks to $750,000 in grant funding from the Office of Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Commission.
The $750,000 grant will enable O2SL & QRT National to assess, evaluate, and train new Quick Response Teams (QRT) across the state, implement new Situation Tables to existing sites that QRT has been working with for several years, as well as implement a communication platform for the teams in the field to track outcomes and measurables.
O2SL & QRT National are partnering with Cordata, which will support O2SL & QRT National in deploying technology to sites across Kentucky.
QRTs are pre-arrest diversion programs that involve interdisciplinary overdose follow up and engagement with survivors to link individuals to treatment during the critical period following overdoses. QRT’s monitor local overdoses and reach out to survivors to link them to treatment and services shortly after an overdose has been experienced.
A Situation Table is a unique, risk-based rapid triage model that brings together multiple human service providers to address situations where individuals and/or families are facing a specific threshold of Acutely Elevated Risk. Situation Tables are comprised of representatives from public safety agencies, public health agencies, service providers and other community partners in participating communities.
Through the model, an individual or family at Acutely Elevated Risk would be referred to the Situation Table for consideration of possible intervention before a crisis occurs. The Table participants will collaborate and discuss the identified risk factors and possible services. Upon reaching a consensus, the Table would identify a team of agencies to attempt to locate the individual or family and connect them to services.
The grant funding is part of $13.9 million in opioid settlement funds that Attorney General Cameron and the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Commission distributed on Monday at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. O2SL & QRT National are among 34 organizations across Kentucky to receive grant funding.
Scott Allen, of O2SL & QRT National, and Michael Brooks, senior vice president for operations at Cordata, attended the press conference.
Local governments will receive half of the nearly $900 million Kentucky has received from settlements with drug companies, and the other half is being distributed to organizations across the state by the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission.
“We are pleased that this grant funding will enable us to expand our work across Kentucky in collaboration with Cordata,” said Chief Operating Officer Scott Allen. “I would also like to thank Cordata for their crucial partnership.”
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