[0:10] So actually he's got a position
posted. In almost every. No
longer covered by. I just
[0:44] recently did something like.
That and. And so. And what did
you do that was just, I just.
[1:20] Heard this. I'm forcing them
out of their comfort zone. Yes,
yes. He said, I don't I'm going
[1:34] to be speaking when I get to
the Pace center for girls. No
idea what you just said. I said,
[1:43] sure, probably not. Yeah, he
did a great job. Good. I'm glad
you take your first. So I
[1:55] appreciate that. So. Great.
It's amazing to treat it right,
right. We're going to go ahead
[2:44] and call the meeting to order.
We'll start with the Pledge of
Allegiance, please. Pledge
[2:53] allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to
the Republic for which it
[2:59] stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. As we go
[3:12] forward, please turn your cell
phones to the vibrate, silent
and offsetting the Opioid
[3:17] Abatement Advisory Board allows
any person to speak regarding
any item on the agenda. The
[3:22] speaker is limited to two
minutes, unless otherwise
determined by the chairperson,
[3:28] to allow sufficient time for
all speakers. Speakers shall
refrain from abusive, profane
[3:34] remarks, disruptive outward
protest and other conduct which
interferes with the orderly
[3:40] conduct of the meeting. Upon
completion of the public
comment period, discussion is
[3:44] limited to the board members
and questions raised by the
board. Was the meeting properly
[3:52] advertised? Madam chair, this
meeting was advertised and this
can be of some press on July
[3:57] 30th and August 6th. Thank you.
Did everybody have an
opportunity to review the
[4:05] minutes for the meeting? Yes I
did. Do I have a motion to
approve the minutes? So moved.
[4:13] Second. All in favor I next we
have public speakers. Do we
have anyone signed up to speak
[4:20] this morning? There are no
speakers. Okay. The next item
on the agenda is the budget
[4:29] review. Good morning. Right now
for the opioid abatement
funding, we have obligated
[4:46] $6,379,095.59. Of that. 829,000
was for the core emergency
management team, which are two
[4:59] years out. So I'm not going to
count that. So for this notice
of funding availability period,
[5:09] we have $1,854,560.87 to
allocate. And then once the end
of the year for the fiscal year
[5:24] 2526 ends, any funding that any
organization has remaining will
just go back into the pool of
[5:29] funding. Perfect. Thank you. So
we have a number eight on the
agenda, the project amendment
[5:41] request for the YMCA to add
bright House ministries, and
we'll have them come up and
[5:46] talk about this. So there is no
additional funding request for
this. They're simply asking to
[5:52] add another partner to the
program. Okay, great. Oh yes.
Anything you want to add? No.
[6:00] Yeah, that's pretty much pretty
much sums it up. Okay. Do we
need to vote on that then as
[6:07] well? Okay. Do I have a motion?
So moved and a second. Second.
All in favor. Aye, aye. And the
[6:17] and motion passes report and
wrap up for the 2425 funding
availability awardees. Ministry.
[6:27] Village at Olive. Good morning.
Drayton Smith with Ministry
Village. We are well underway
[6:42] with getting all of our permits
and moving forward. The
tractors are on the ground to
[6:47] dig the holding pond and also
do all the site work at this
moment. That's good news. Got
[6:53] movement? That's great. All
right. Are there any questions?
Thank you. The next report that
[7:02] we have is from 2526 funding
availability, awardees, EMS
Corps. Do you have anything for
[7:09] us to. Our mobile van clinic
slash I guess everything is
already in production. We're
[7:25] expecting to take possession of
it in November. We have already
received our Zole Xenix monitor,
[7:32] which is for the internal
inside of the truck that will
be used for vital signs, EKGs,
[7:39] etc. everything else. We're
still going strong. We're over
738 patients transitioned.
[7:46] We've also seen a significant
decline in overdoses in
Escambia County this year. To
[7:53] date, we're over 450 versus
last year. We were at, I think,
1700. So we this community and
[8:02] the work that everybody's doing
has definitely made a dent.
That is incredible. That's
[8:07] great. Great news. Thank you so
much. You're very welcome.
Bright bridge, do they have any
[8:17] updates? Health and hope. Hope
above fear. Oh, sorry. Health
and hope. Didn't give you time,
[8:28] did I? Good morning, good
morning, good morning. So we
are currently doing well. One
[8:36] of the things that I'd like to
point out to this group, we've
had a 27% increase in our life
[8:42] recovery support group. Those
classes are held every Tuesday,
and we have 57% increase in
[8:49] patient attendance. That group
is open to not only our clinic
patients, but also open to the
[8:55] community as well. We currently
also have a great partnership
going with both Reap and the
[9:01] CARES House for their
participation in our reclaiming
Hope support Group. Our mobile
[9:06] outreach team is going strong
with our Narcan distribution,
as well as our outreach events
[9:11] and our screenings. And we're
continuing. We did participate
in Hope day to both sites, and
[9:17] that was a great opportunity
with our community. And then
from a emergency room
[9:25] perspective, we're continuing
to follow up on all of our
patients that are seen in the
[9:28] emergency room. We have three
of our behavioral health team
members that have completed
[9:33] their substance peer
certification training, and we
currently have our mental
[9:38] health director that is in the
process of getting eMDR
training completed as well. And
[9:44] then we completed our internal
family systems training and
continuing to offer our CPR,
[9:50] BLS, as well as our hands off,
hands off CPR with our
community members and our
[9:57] patients and our health and
wellness classes. We also have
added about 23 classes
[10:03] conducted last month and then
offering with our translation
for our Spanish community,
[10:08] being able to participate in
the health and wellness
activities as well. And last
[10:12] month we conducted or
distributed 180 boxes of Narcan
and provided education. Along
[10:19] with that, in addition to 97 of
our behavioral health and
social determinants of health
[10:24] screenings and 167 counseling
appointments. So we are doing
very well and super excited.
[10:30] And thank you. You're doing a
lot. And congratulations on the
peer certification. That's a
[10:35] big thank you as well. Thank
you, thank you. Anyone have any
questions? Okay. Hope above
[10:42] fear. Good morning. Good
morning. Let's see. So I think.
Did your questions. No I'm
[10:58] going to do just like what was
just done and just explain
everything to you. Right? Yeah.
[11:02] So I think right now our
biggest program over the summer
was our teacher story. And so
[11:09] to date in 2026, so far, we've
hosted 18 experiences. We've
had 200 teens register of that,
[11:18] 236 attended more than or
between 2 and 16 times. So we
had a significant increase in
[11:25] our repeat students. And then
46 new registrations came
through. And so we over the
[11:35] over the summer, we hosted one
every single week. And now that
school is back in, we'll go
[11:39] back to twice a month. And our
diversion program has launched
its new branding. So our the
[11:48] new name is reset and that our
first class begins in two weeks,
and then we will be having new
[11:58] orientations every. I think
it's I think it's scheduled out
for every two weeks. That is in
[12:04] partnership with all of the
high schools in Escambia County.
And then we have began the
[12:10] discussion on having students
referred to us also through
justice involved students
[12:17] referred to as from JPS as well.
So. That's good. Thank you. Do
you have any questions? Next we
[12:26] have Ministry Village. Oh I'm
sorry, do you have anything
else you need to add? We're
[12:36] almost at full capacity so we
do need this new building quick,
great offensive. Good morning.
[12:53] Brad Bishop with offensive. So
July July held a lot of of of
new things that we're really
[13:03] excited about right here. These
are the first legal xylazine
test strips being distributed
[13:11] in our community. A little over
a month ago, these were illegal.
And I wrote a bill that was
[13:19] sponsored by Rep Salzman and
Senator Gates and signed into
law July 1st that
[13:26] decriminalized these. So now we
can detect this in our supply
before it shows up in the
[13:31] medical examiner's report. So
if anybody would like any.
We've got plenty. So we'll
[13:40] start off with that. Last week
we had our big O Street forum.
We had quite a bit of our
[13:47] community partners here
participate Escambia County
Court. We had a speaker, Wendy
[13:53] Shine, from Cor Shoe. She spoke
as well as she was on our panel,
Denise with Ccdc. She was there,
[14:01] made the comment, Denise is the
only data center I would vote
for in Escambia County. So
[14:08] thank you all for participating.
Unmasked our Resocialization
program. So we just completed
[14:16] eight weeks. We're handing out
certificates today. This is to
overcome the barrier of
[14:23] communication and relationships.
So once we've got mental health
stabilized, once we've got
[14:29] substance use stabilized,
there's still a barrier of
communication and navigating
[14:34] society as we do on a regular
basis. So that's focused on
teaching offense mechanisms and
[14:42] managing defense mechanisms. So
we've reached eight weeks on
that, and we're about to start
[14:48] it again. On this second round,
we're going to be doing two
versions. One is going to be at
[14:55] camp and one's going to be open
to the public. Also last week
this was a big deal to me. I
[15:06] met with Sergeant Burkhart at
the sheriff's department. He's
the lead for the Co-responders
[15:13] unit. After a long talk, he he
he agreed to bring us in and
give us a two hour block at
[15:21] their crisis intervention
training. So originally it
started out as 30 minutes. But
[15:27] as I got to tell them about it,
he's like, well, I'll give you
two hours. This is something
[15:32] that was funded by the opioid
abatement funds. And so now not
only did we get it started, but
[15:39] now we're now we're becoming a
regular part of the crisis
intervention training with
[15:45] hopes to get into the academy.
And to explain what Xylazine is
so they'll understand the
[15:59] importance of the. Okay. So.
Xylazine. Xylazine, we're
actually a little bit behind
[16:08] the curve now because now
there's Medetomidine as well.
But what we're talking about is
[16:13] veterinarian tranquilizers,
sedatives that are being added
to fentanyl to make fentanyl
[16:20] last longer, like it's heroin,
but it's really two different
things. Fentanyl is fast acting.
[16:29] It's in and out. So adding
these tranquilizers extends the
half life. And they're kind of
[16:38] not really, but it just makes
it last a little bit longer to
what they know. Right. But it
[16:43] comes with a whole lot of other
side effects. Xylazine has
these skin wounds that they
[16:50] take years to heal. But, you
know, if they're not treated,
you know, it looks like an
[16:55] alligator took a bite out of
somebody's limb, right? So
that's in it. Medetomidine.
[17:04] It's a, it's another version of
it. It doesn't come with all
the wounds and everything, but
[17:10] it's still a veterinary
tranquilizer. These things are
being added to the fentanyl
[17:14] here in America. It's not
something that's coming across
the border. It's black market
[17:19] veterinary deals that that's
taking place that that is
getting this into our our
[17:24] community. And it's showing up
in the medical examiner's
report. Xylazine at a high rate
[17:31] and Medetomidine also. But up
until now, we couldn't test for
it out in the streets like we
[17:37] do with the fentanyl test
strips. And we're able to
identify fentanyl and all this
[17:41] other stuff. The Xylazine test
strips now allow us to detect
the xylazine that's in the
[17:46] system. Next will be
Medetomidine. One thing to note
about these two things that are
[17:52] being added is they do not
reverse with naloxone, and
currently there is not a
[17:58] reversal agent for humans for
this. For these two things
there is for animals so far. So
[18:06] I don't know, hopefully coming
soon. But so yeah, that's a
little background on those
[18:10] things. Thank you so much.
Anybody have any questions?
Thank you, thank you thank you.
[18:20] Next we have three. Good
morning. Vinnie Whibbs,
Executive director, Reentry
[18:30] Alliance, Pensacola, reporting
on our particular program. Some
some good news. We have both a
[18:38] men's and a women's house. Each
of them now only have one space
available for them. We've
[18:48] quickly learned that the
benefit of peer support
specialist. And so now we have
[18:52] one completely certified peer
support specialist and another
one that is in the process of
[18:57] getting that certification,
which will be expected within
the next 30 days, kind of a
[19:01] deal. We also actually had our
first graduate come through the
house, had been in our program
[19:09] for about three months,
complied with all the, you know,
the restrictions, requirements,
[19:14] the training and stuff like
that secured a permanent
position and job working full
[19:21] time. We have actually followed
up a couple of times since they
left our program. So so we're
[19:28] very excited. Keep moving
forward. No particular problems
that we're aware of. Basically
[19:32] our budget right now, we've
we've expended about 25%. We
would anticipate some some of
[19:41] the, some of the items that we
had listed in the in the budget.
Medically assisted treatment,
[19:46] some some funding for that and
some funding for computer
printer kind of a deal. We
[19:54] probably do not anticipate
using that. We don't know
whether or not the process for
[20:00] transferring the funds that
were allocated for that. If we
could use that, we're certainly
[20:04] going to be short on funding
for our housing. Both the
utility costs have gone up and
[20:09] the residential costs, so we
would probably submit a request
for transfer those funds. But
[20:16] nothing, nothing important.
Thank you. Questions? No.
Congratulations on The graduate.
[20:22] Thank you. We're we're excited
about the program. We're
working well. Lakeview AIM.
[20:34] Quite a weekend of gardening.
Patty Hyde for Lakeview
Adolescents in Motion. We are
[20:43] fully staffed now. It's taken
us a little while to get there.
Our groups, we're holding them
[20:48] every week. The attendance is
anywhere from 6 to 9 people,
adolescents. And so we're
[20:56] hoping now that we're fully
funded to go up to at least 15
per week. And we're that's
[21:06] about it. We're in the middle
of reapplication for our
salaried people. Great
[21:14] questions. No thank you, thank
you. And the YMCA. As of right
now, we put the program on hold
[21:36] because we wanted an increase
to core patients and non core
patients. I think now that we
[21:43] have it approved, we can
definitely get started with
Bright Bridge and attending it
[21:48] there and Northwest Florida as
well. Thank you. Next we have
the 2627 opioid Abatement
[22:04] Notice of funding availability
update. So as of right now, the
it has been advertised, the
[22:12] application has been released.
We had our pre-application
meeting on July 9th in which we
[22:20] had eight nonprofits
participate. So we're seeing an
increase every single year with
[22:25] who, who shows up to these
meetings, which is very, very,
very promising. The application
[22:30] due dates are September 11th,
and then we will go through the
evaluation performance
[22:39] committee process, and it
should be brought back to you
guys on the gosh, the next
[22:44] meeting, October 12th, October
12th. So we will bring forth
the applicants that we've
[22:50] received for this funding year,
for you guys to have a chance
to review it, talk to them, ask
[22:55] questions, and then hopefully
get another round of funding
out the door. Great. Thank you.
[23:02] Is there any new business? All
right. Our next meeting is
scheduled for October the 12th
[23:11] at 10:00. The meeting is
adjourned.