So actually he's got a position posted. In almost every. No longer covered by. I just
recently did something like. That and. And so. And what did you do that was just, I just.
Heard this. I'm forcing them out of their comfort zone. Yes, yes. He said, I don't I'm going
to be speaking when I get to the Pace center for girls. No idea what you just said. I said,
sure, probably not. Yeah, he did a great job. Good. I'm glad you take your first. So I
appreciate that. So. Great. It's amazing to treat it right, right. We're going to go ahead
and call the meeting to order. We'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance, please. Pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it
stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. As we go
forward, please turn your cell phones to the vibrate, silent and offsetting the Opioid
Abatement Advisory Board allows any person to speak regarding any item on the agenda. The
speaker is limited to two minutes, unless otherwise determined by the chairperson,
to allow sufficient time for all speakers. Speakers shall refrain from abusive, profane
remarks, disruptive outward protest and other conduct which interferes with the orderly
conduct of the meeting. Upon completion of the public comment period, discussion is
limited to the board members and questions raised by the board. Was the meeting properly
advertised? Madam chair, this meeting was advertised and this can be of some press on July
30th and August 6th. Thank you. Did everybody have an opportunity to review the
minutes for the meeting? Yes I did. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved.
Second. All in favor I next we have public speakers. Do we have anyone signed up to speak
this morning? There are no speakers. Okay. The next item on the agenda is the budget
review. Good morning. Right now for the opioid abatement funding, we have obligated
$6,379,095.59. Of that. 829,000 was for the core emergency management team, which are two
years out. So I'm not going to count that. So for this notice of funding availability period,
we have $1,854,560.87 to allocate. And then once the end of the year for the fiscal year
2526 ends, any funding that any organization has remaining will just go back into the pool of
funding. Perfect. Thank you. So we have a number eight on the agenda, the project amendment
request for the YMCA to add bright House ministries, and we'll have them come up and
talk about this. So there is no additional funding request for this. They're simply asking to
add another partner to the program. Okay, great. Oh yes. Anything you want to add? No.
Yeah, that's pretty much pretty much sums it up. Okay. Do we need to vote on that then as
well? Okay. Do I have a motion? So moved and a second. Second. All in favor. Aye, aye. And the
and motion passes report and wrap up for the 2425 funding availability awardees. Ministry.
Village at Olive. Good morning. Drayton Smith with Ministry Village. We are well underway
with getting all of our permits and moving forward. The tractors are on the ground to
dig the holding pond and also do all the site work at this moment. That's good news. Got
movement? That's great. All right. Are there any questions? Thank you. The next report that
we have is from 2526 funding availability, awardees, EMS Corps. Do you have anything for
us to. Our mobile van clinic slash I guess everything is already in production. We're
expecting to take possession of it in November. We have already received our Zole Xenix monitor,
which is for the internal inside of the truck that will be used for vital signs, EKGs,
etc. everything else. We're still going strong. We're over 738 patients transitioned.
We've also seen a significant decline in overdoses in Escambia County this year. To
date, we're over 450 versus last year. We were at, I think, 1700. So we this community and
the work that everybody's doing has definitely made a dent. That is incredible. That's
great. Great news. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. Bright bridge, do they have any
updates? Health and hope. Hope above fear. Oh, sorry. Health and hope. Didn't give you time,
did I? Good morning, good morning, good morning. So we are currently doing well. One
of the things that I'd like to point out to this group, we've had a 27% increase in our life
recovery support group. Those classes are held every Tuesday, and we have 57% increase in
patient attendance. That group is open to not only our clinic patients, but also open to the
community as well. We currently also have a great partnership going with both Reap and the
CARES House for their participation in our reclaiming Hope support Group. Our mobile
outreach team is going strong with our Narcan distribution, as well as our outreach events
and our screenings. And we're continuing. We did participate in Hope day to both sites, and
that was a great opportunity with our community. And then from a emergency room
perspective, we're continuing to follow up on all of our patients that are seen in the
emergency room. We have three of our behavioral health team members that have completed
their substance peer certification training, and we currently have our mental
health director that is in the process of getting eMDR training completed as well. And
then we completed our internal family systems training and continuing to offer our CPR,
BLS, as well as our hands off, hands off CPR with our community members and our
patients and our health and wellness classes. We also have added about 23 classes
conducted last month and then offering with our translation for our Spanish community,
being able to participate in the health and wellness activities as well. And last
month we conducted or distributed 180 boxes of Narcan and provided education. Along
with that, in addition to 97 of our behavioral health and social determinants of health
screenings and 167 counseling appointments. So we are doing very well and super excited.
And thank you. You're doing a lot. And congratulations on the peer certification. That's a
big thank you as well. Thank you, thank you. Anyone have any questions? Okay. Hope above
fear. Good morning. Good morning. Let's see. So I think. Did your questions. No I'm
going to do just like what was just done and just explain everything to you. Right? Yeah.
So I think right now our biggest program over the summer was our teacher story. And so
to date in 2026, so far, we've hosted 18 experiences. We've had 200 teens register of that,
236 attended more than or between 2 and 16 times. So we had a significant increase in
our repeat students. And then 46 new registrations came through. And so we over the
over the summer, we hosted one every single week. And now that school is back in, we'll go
back to twice a month. And our diversion program has launched its new branding. So our the
new name is reset and that our first class begins in two weeks, and then we will be having new
orientations every. I think it's I think it's scheduled out for every two weeks. That is in
partnership with all of the high schools in Escambia County. And then we have began the
discussion on having students referred to us also through justice involved students
referred to as from JPS as well. So. That's good. Thank you. Do you have any questions? Next we
have Ministry Village. Oh I'm sorry, do you have anything else you need to add? We're
almost at full capacity so we do need this new building quick, great offensive. Good morning.
Brad Bishop with offensive. So July July held a lot of of of new things that we're really
excited about right here. These are the first legal xylazine test strips being distributed
in our community. A little over a month ago, these were illegal. And I wrote a bill that was
sponsored by Rep Salzman and Senator Gates and signed into law July 1st that
decriminalized these. So now we can detect this in our supply before it shows up in the
medical examiner's report. So if anybody would like any. We've got plenty. So we'll
start off with that. Last week we had our big O Street forum. We had quite a bit of our
community partners here participate Escambia County Court. We had a speaker, Wendy
Shine, from Cor Shoe. She spoke as well as she was on our panel, Denise with Ccdc. She was there,
made the comment, Denise is the only data center I would vote for in Escambia County. So
thank you all for participating. Unmasked our Resocialization program. So we just completed
eight weeks. We're handing out certificates today. This is to overcome the barrier of
communication and relationships. So once we've got mental health stabilized, once we've got
substance use stabilized, there's still a barrier of communication and navigating
society as we do on a regular basis. So that's focused on teaching offense mechanisms and
managing defense mechanisms. So we've reached eight weeks on that, and we're about to start
it again. On this second round, we're going to be doing two versions. One is going to be at
camp and one's going to be open to the public. Also last week this was a big deal to me. I
met with Sergeant Burkhart at the sheriff's department. He's the lead for the Co-responders
unit. After a long talk, he he he agreed to bring us in and give us a two hour block at
their crisis intervention training. So originally it started out as 30 minutes. But
as I got to tell them about it, he's like, well, I'll give you two hours. This is something
that was funded by the opioid abatement funds. And so now not only did we get it started, but
now we're now we're becoming a regular part of the crisis intervention training with
hopes to get into the academy. And to explain what Xylazine is so they'll understand the
importance of the. Okay. So. Xylazine. Xylazine, we're actually a little bit behind
the curve now because now there's Medetomidine as well. But what we're talking about is
veterinarian tranquilizers, sedatives that are being added to fentanyl to make fentanyl
last longer, like it's heroin, but it's really two different things. Fentanyl is fast acting.
It's in and out. So adding these tranquilizers extends the half life. And they're kind of
not really, but it just makes it last a little bit longer to what they know. Right. But it
comes with a whole lot of other side effects. Xylazine has these skin wounds that they
take years to heal. But, you know, if they're not treated, you know, it looks like an
alligator took a bite out of somebody's limb, right? So that's in it. Medetomidine.
It's a, it's another version of it. It doesn't come with all the wounds and everything, but
it's still a veterinary tranquilizer. These things are being added to the fentanyl
here in America. It's not something that's coming across the border. It's black market
veterinary deals that that's taking place that that is getting this into our our
community. And it's showing up in the medical examiner's report. Xylazine at a high rate
and Medetomidine also. But up until now, we couldn't test for it out in the streets like we
do with the fentanyl test strips. And we're able to identify fentanyl and all this
other stuff. The Xylazine test strips now allow us to detect the xylazine that's in the
system. Next will be Medetomidine. One thing to note about these two things that are
being added is they do not reverse with naloxone, and currently there is not a
reversal agent for humans for this. For these two things there is for animals so far. So
I don't know, hopefully coming soon. But so yeah, that's a little background on those
things. Thank you so much. Anybody have any questions? Thank you, thank you thank you.
Next we have three. Good morning. Vinnie Whibbs, Executive director, Reentry
Alliance, Pensacola, reporting on our particular program. Some some good news. We have both a
men's and a women's house. Each of them now only have one space available for them. We've
quickly learned that the benefit of peer support specialist. And so now we have
one completely certified peer support specialist and another one that is in the process of
getting that certification, which will be expected within the next 30 days, kind of a
deal. We also actually had our first graduate come through the house, had been in our program
for about three months, complied with all the, you know, the restrictions, requirements,
the training and stuff like that secured a permanent position and job working full
time. We have actually followed up a couple of times since they left our program. So so we're
very excited. Keep moving forward. No particular problems that we're aware of. Basically
our budget right now, we've we've expended about 25%. We would anticipate some some of
the, some of the items that we had listed in the in the budget. Medically assisted treatment,
some some funding for that and some funding for computer printer kind of a deal. We
probably do not anticipate using that. We don't know whether or not the process for
transferring the funds that were allocated for that. If we could use that, we're certainly
going to be short on funding for our housing. Both the utility costs have gone up and
the residential costs, so we would probably submit a request for transfer those funds. But
nothing, nothing important. Thank you. Questions? No. Congratulations on The graduate.
Thank you. We're we're excited about the program. We're working well. Lakeview AIM.
Quite a weekend of gardening. Patty Hyde for Lakeview Adolescents in Motion. We are
fully staffed now. It's taken us a little while to get there. Our groups, we're holding them
every week. The attendance is anywhere from 6 to 9 people, adolescents. And so we're
hoping now that we're fully funded to go up to at least 15 per week. And we're that's
about it. We're in the middle of reapplication for our salaried people. Great
questions. No thank you, thank you. And the YMCA. As of right now, we put the program on hold
because we wanted an increase to core patients and non core patients. I think now that we
have it approved, we can definitely get started with Bright Bridge and attending it
there and Northwest Florida as well. Thank you. Next we have the 2627 opioid Abatement
Notice of funding availability update. So as of right now, the it has been advertised, the
application has been released. We had our pre-application meeting on July 9th in which we
had eight nonprofits participate. So we're seeing an increase every single year with
who, who shows up to these meetings, which is very, very, very promising. The application
due dates are September 11th, and then we will go through the evaluation performance
committee process, and it should be brought back to you guys on the gosh, the next
meeting, October 12th, October 12th. So we will bring forth the applicants that we've
received for this funding year, for you guys to have a chance to review it, talk to them, ask
questions, and then hopefully get another round of funding out the door. Great. Thank you.
Is there any new business? All right. Our next meeting is scheduled for October the 12th
at 10:00. The meeting is adjourned.