The Communities of Practice for Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (COP-RCORP) Consortium was created in 2018 when Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs (OU-VS), together with backbone organizations from Fairfield and Ashtabula counties, and the Pacific Ins
The mission of our consortium is to develop or enhance essential evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, recovery and re-entry Substance Use Disorder or Opioid Use Disorder services by shrinking or eliminating the behavioral and medical healthcare gaps and barriers for those needin
The target population (which includes people in the contiguous region of Northeast TN and Southwest VA) is an underserved population that is statistically older, more rural, and has lower household incomes compared to respective state and national averages.
The InROC consortium brings together a multi-disciplinary team of law enforcement, healthcare providers, policy drivers, universities, media organizations and more to address the opioid crisis in our 14-county target area of Indiana. The goals of the project are as follows:
The strategic plan for this project seeks to address current gaps in services/access to care within Chautauqua County as identified through the consortium’ s assessment process, including:
• the need for even wider distribution of naloxone to prevent even more opioid overdose deaths;
This project is addressing treatment prevention and long term recovery in North Central West Virginia. Specifically, the counties of Lewis, Braxton, Upshur and Southern Harrison.
To reduce morbidity, mortality and harm associated with opioid misuse and overdose in our communities by increasing immediate access to prevention, treatment and sustained recovery services.
