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Board of Health for Madison and Dane County Resolution #2021 - 04
Authorization to Accept Additional Funds from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to Support the Overdose Fatality Review Team
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Public Health Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) proposes the acceptance of additional funding from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to support efforts to reduce the rate of drug overdose death in Dane County. These funds allow PHMDC to facilitate a multidisciplinary Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Team, which examines individual drug-involved overdose death cases in order to develop systems-level recommendations for preventing drug overdose deaths. Specifically, these additional funds will be used to promote the launch of the Dane County Behavioral Health Resource Center, provide medication lock boxes across Dane County, allow members of the OFR Team to attend the Wisconsin Opioid, Stimulant & Trauma Summit, and design outreach materials for an Overdose Spike Alert Response System.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County may accept grants with the approval of the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County (IGA, VII, F, 1-3).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County on behalf of Public Health-Madison and Dane County authorizes the Director of Public Health, or their designee, to accept the amended consolidated contract funding in the amount of $14,000 in the 2021 budget.
Drafted by: Julia Olsen
Introduced: 1/22/2021
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