October AC4C Roundtable

Items for the Roundtable are due to Jodee by the 20th of each month. The Roundtable will go out at the beginning of each month.

October 2016

From the Director's Desk...

At our most recent retreat, we spent a significant amount of time brainstorming. We heard from our partners what is happening throughout the state around the opiate issue. Collectively, the Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative, the CRUSH Chapters, the Iowa Pharmacy Association, and the Iowa Pharmacy Board shared the actions that are being taken to address the emerging trends. It is obvious the work of the local communities is making an impact on these initiatives.

The Office of Drug Control Policy has been working with AC4C to identify and map the local drug take back boxes. AC4C members have been of assistance to identify where there is a local need. The Iowa Pharmacy Association has agreed to join this effort by providing a controlled substance drug take back box in a pharmacy willing to host one - for free! All they have to do is ask. Through these efforts, by the end of the year all 99 counties will have a solution to properly disposing unused controlled substances.

Together we decided what could be done by AC4C to support the efforts around opiate abuse. We conducted a consensus workshop and discovered it was important for us to do a "Data Dive" which will "Increase Capacity" and "Create a Public Toolbox" to "Support the Healthcare System". The documents that were created around this activity are available in our drop box. In Iowa, we are ahead of the epidemic other states are seeing. T ogether we will provide a unified effort to limit the impact this emerging trend has on the country.

Thanks for all you do!

Angie

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Election Season is upon us!

AC4C will hold their annual virtual meeting on November 15th at 3:00 via GoTo Meeting. Anyone is invited to attend this meeting as the board will conduct monthly business and hold an annual election of officers. Voting members are invited to attend this meeting to cast their vote OR if you are not able to be present, please submit your votes prior to the election. The information for this meeting can be found at this link

Please submit your ballot at vote link. Let me Jodee know if you have any questions or issues with the link.

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Policy Committee Update

The policy committee has been working on public service announcements concerning marijuana and is starting to plan the Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Day on the Hill, which is February 23, 2017. The committee is also working towards evidence-based alcohol policies by participating with the Governor's committee revisiting the Chapter 123 code governing alcohol policies. This code has not changed in over 30 years. If you would like to hear more about the work being done, please join us during our next GoTo Meeting, October 24th @ 2:30. The login information is located in this roundtable under Policy Work Group.

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Capacity Committee Update

Current responsibilities at this time:

Look for outside funders to improve sustainability
Advocate that Best Practices are followed and shared
Focus on Evaluation by the creation and capture of Success Stories and
lessons learned,
Build the partners at the table.

The potential strategies for building capacity to focus on at this time were:

Need short term indicators - may need to develop into an evaluation committee.
Seek partnerships that can share state level data for evaluation purposes.
In year 6 evaulation, show cooperation and how we have partnered.
Revisit circles of involvement to identify growth and gaps
Look for additional funding
Hold a conversation of how committees connect.

We are looking for success stories!

Some ideas of what a Success Story might contain:

Being valued as a resource
Increasing successful partnerships
Demonstrating shared leadership
Having meaningful youth involvement
Providing examples of creating change
Sustaining environmental change
Achieving successful outcomes.

If you have something share email Kathy at [email protected]

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Membership forms available on website

We are asking our new and current partners to please update the information on our membership forms. If you are a new member, please go to our website and click on this link to fill out the membership form. If you would like to update your current form or have any questions, please contact Jodee at [email protected]. Thanks for your assistance!

Coalition Resources

Brochures available for coalitions

It is important to get the general public up to speed on what we know regarding safety issues with marijuana and Rx drugs in particular. AC4C has worked with state partners to produce 10,000 brochures for statewide distribution. The funds were provided through a ODCP-JAG Diversion grant. and are available upon request. You can also download the links below to access these brochures.

Limited quantities can be mailed by emailing us at [email protected]

Marijuana brochure

Prescription Drug brochure

Upcomin g Training & Events

Check out the trainings on our partner sites:

Iowa Board of Certification

Training Resources

Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center (ISAIC)

University of Iowa Center for Child Health Improvement & Innovation

Jackson Recovery

SAVE THE DATES

Iowa Prevention Conference