Description
The Northern Ontario Toxic Drug Crisis Response CoP brings together public health practitioners from Northern Ontario to identify strategies and solutions to address the opioid poisoning crisis.
Goals
- To establish and strengthen partnerships between health units, respective community drug strategies, and relevant regional committees and working groups.
- To facilitate knowledge transfer, expertise development, and application of new knowledge.
- To share expertise and capacity for planning and response, and to coordinate access to data and resources.
- To ensure regular reporting on agreed-upon metrics for accountability and strategic and situational awareness.
Co-chairs
- Sherry Price, Manager, Mental Health and Substance Use, Public Health Sudbury & Districts, prices@phsd.ca
- Hilary Cutler, Manager, Community Wellness, Algoma Public Health, HCutler@algomapublichealth.com
EENet Knowledge Mobilization Community Liaison
Kaye Leatherdale, kaye.leatherdale@camh.ca
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