Description
The Northern Ontario Toxic Drug Crisis Response Community of Practice (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 Community Liaison
- Leah Green, Senior Knowledge Mobilization Community Liaison, Provincial System Support Program (PSSP), CAMH, Leah.Green@camh.ca
Check out the rest of EENet's CoIs/CoPs here: https://kmb.camh.ca/eenet/communities.