City of Wellington
Implementation Plans
FY 2024-2025 Plan
Wellington is focused on providing services that will assist families, youth, and adolescents at risk for OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions. Their strategy includes: utilizing evidence-informed programs or curricula to address mental health needs of young people who may be at risk of misusing opioids or other drugs; funding evidence-based prevention programs in schools or evidence-informed school and community education programs and campaigns for students, families, school employees, school athletic programs, parent-teacher and student associations; and connecting schools to community agencies such as Living Skills in the Schools, DATA, Hanley Foundation and the Coalition to provide these programs in schools and community centers.
Wellington wants to engage non-profits, faith-based communities, and community coalitions to support people in treatment and recovery and to support family members in their efforts to support the person with OUD in the family. The local staff wishes to implement youth-focused programs or strategies that have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing drug misuse and seem likely to be effective in preventing the uptake and use of opioids. The work with the Village of Wellington to create Alternative Activities is aimed at teens. The work models the Iceland Model (an environmental approach in which parenting, parental supervision and organized leisure time activities, together with increased normative pressure (curfew hours and encouragement of joint family dinners) play a central role in reducing alcohol and drug consumption among young people).
Additionally, Wellington plans to:
- Purchase automated versions of SBIRT and support ongoing costs of the technology.
- Fund SBIRT programs to reduce the transition from use to disorders.
- Provide SBIRT services to pregnant women who are uninsured or not eligible for Medicaid.
- Reach out to physicians, hospitals, and organizations working with pregnant women in Wellington to learn and utilize SBIRT in their practices.
- Engage non-profits and the faith-based community as a system to support outreach for treatment and encourage faith members to have trained volunteers utilize SBIRT.
- Support efforts to discourage or prevent misuse of opioids through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, the following:
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- Public education relating to drug disposal.
- Drug take-back disposal or destruction programs. Engage Village of Wellington in yearly National Take Back Day.
- Funding for media campaigns to prevent opioid use.