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Northern Colorado Collaborative for Addiction and Recovery NoCO CAReS
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Community stakeholders across Larimer and Weld counties recognized the devastating impacts of the opioid epidemic in our region and came together to urgently address it in 2017. The Northern Colorado Collaborative for Addiction and Recovery Support (NOCO-CAReS) was launched as a community network to bring together stakeholders, including those in behavioral health, criminal justice and law enforcement, primary care and hospital systems, policy-makers, and community members impacted by the opioid epidemic, to find solutions. The steering committee has completed a strategic planning process and identified the below four focus areas:
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
Steering Committee Organizations
Butler Institute
Front Range Clinic
North Colorado Health Alliance
North Colorado Health Network
North Range Behavioral Health
SummitStone Health Partners
United Way of Weld County
Queen’s Legacy Foundation
Weld County Department of Public Health
Partners across the region
Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County
Aspen Ridge Recovery
Banner Health
Behavioral Health Group
Butler Institute
Centennial Area Health Education Center (CAHEC)
City of Fort Collins
City of Greeley
City of Loveland
Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Colorado State University
Colorado Treatment Services
Evans Police Department
Front Range Clinic
Harmony Foundation
Health District of Northern Larimer County
Homeward Alliance
Imagine Zero Coalition
Johnstown Heights Behavioral Health
Larimer Court Support
Larimer County Behavioral Health Services
Larimer County Department of Public Health and Environment
Larimer County Sheriff’s Office
North Colorado Health Alliance
Northern Colorado Health Network
North Range Behavioral Health
Northpoint Recovery Behavioral Health
Poudre School District
Queen’s Legacy Foundation
Ram Recovery
Rocky Mountain Health Plans
SAFE Project (Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic) Project
Salud Family Health Centers
Signal Behavioral Health
SummitStone Health Partners
Sunrise Community Health
UCHealth
United Way of Weld County
University of Northern Colorado
Veterans Affairs
Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment
Northern Colorado Collaborative for Addiction and Recovery NoCO CAReS
Questions? Email: mjorgensen.alliance@nocoha.org
Northern Colorado Harm Reduction Alliance
NoCO Harm Reduction Alliance (NoCO HRA) previously the Naloxone Champions was established in 2017 and is a working group that came out of the harm reduction priority area of the Northern Colorado Collaborative for Addiction and Recovery (NoCO CAReS). The NoCO HRA working group is a network of cross sector service providers including but not limited to community based organizations, harm reduction agencies, behavioral health providers, public health organizations and criminal justice partners. The objectives of the NoCO HRA are to:
- Reduce the impacts and harms of drug use and overdose.
- Promote the availability of support by increasing timely access and availability of naloxone and addiction resources
- Improve equitable access – free of stigma to disproportionately impacted and/or service naïve and/or resistant populations
Harm reduction strategies are best practice to support individuals using substances both acutely and chronically. It is critical that the community learn about and have access to harm reduction strategies and practices including Naloxone, Fentanyl Testing strips, Syringe Access Programming, Medication assisted treatment and peer to peer connection.
Project Strategies, activities and deliverables:
The working group realizes its objectives through the following four identified priority areas:
- Education, Outreach and stigma reduction,
- Expanded access to Peer Recovery & Peer to Peer network and profressional development, and
- Policy and Advocacy
- Increased access to Harm reduction strategies
Meets every month over Zoom.
Questions? Email: mjorgensen.alliance@nocoha.org
Treatment Access Group
The NoCO Treatment Access Group has worked to engage our systems across sector to ensure that individuals have rapid access to treatment that is aligned with their needs and current situation.
This has resulted in the Colorado Opioid Synergy of Larimer and Weld (COSLAW), MAT & Treatment access with the criminal justice system and protocols with our emergency departments across the region to ensure induction and continuation of Medication Assisted Treatment and effective transitions of care.
The objectives of this group are to:
- Improve rapid treatment access
- Improve transitions of care across systems
- Improve equitable access to disproportionately impacted populations
These objectives are realized through the following strategies:
- Continuing to expand and improve the COSLAW care coordination treatment access network
- Improving system to system communications & referral processes to provoke rapid entry
- Building culturally attuned and affirming services
Meets every month over Zoom.
Questions? Email: Wroybal.alliance@nocoha.org
Northern Colorado Recovery Working Group:
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Northern Colorado Prevention as Connection:
NEW, meeting frequency to be determined
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