About CARP
The Clermont County Addiction and Recovery Partnership (CARP), formerly the Clermont County Opiate Task Force (OTF) recently changed its name to reflect a broader focus on substance misuse in general versus opioid misuse.
The mission of the CARP is to minimize substance misuse, distribution, addiction, overdose, and deaths in Clermont County.
The vision of CARP is to create a healthier community by reducing unintentional overdose fatalities and community trauma associated with addiction through collective multi-sector efforts that focus on prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery.
CARP provides a structure for community response to substance misuse; engages our community to develop and pursue a unified goal; coordinates and facilitates local prevention and educational training for our community; and evaluates the effectiveness of the response to the overdose epidemic.
Co-Chairs:
Denny Moell, Associate Director, Clermont County Mental Health and Recovery Board
Greg Moran, Captain, Clermont County Sheriff’s Office
Accomplishments
Since its inception in 2013, CARP (formerly the Clermont County Opiate Task Force) has accomplished many of its goals. Here is a summary:
Prevention Efforts
- Development of an Opiate misuse Fact Sheet to educate public
- Development of an Opiate Overdose Risk Factor wallet card to educate public about signs of overdose and what to do to assist the person
- Involvement in Clermont Chamber of Commerce education efforts
- Education to prescribers regarding the addictive nature of opioids
- Community presentations and town halls
- Implementation of school-based drug prevention programming
- Various educational campaigns (billboards, CTC bus decals, movie theaters, flyers, PSAs, letters to editors)
- A website with a one-stop information
Treatment Efforts
- Increase in access to treatment, including Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
- Community-based Recovery Coaches at agencies to help people get into treatment
- Increased access to recovery housing
- Recovery housing for women and men located in Clermont County
- Availability of outpatient and inpatient detoxification services
- Increase in access to residential treatment programs
- Increase in treatment providers in the County
- Development of countywide Resource Guide
- Improved awareness of services through County hotline: (513) 528-SAVE (7283)
- Implementation of CASC (Clermont Alternative Sentencing Center in the Clermont Jail) for women and men
- County-wide Quick Response Teams (QRT) partnerships with local law enforcement and Fire/EMS to connect individuals surviving an overdose to treatment
- Connection to community-based treatment services for individuals prior to release from the Clermont County jail
- In-reach to inmates with a substance use disorder for connection to treatment services upon release from jail
Demand and availability efforts
- Promotion of federal prescription drug drop-off events
- Promotion of Monitor, Secure, and Dispose Campaign
- Increase in the number of permanent prescription drug drop-off boxes in the County
- Promotion of permanent prescription drug drop-off boxes
- Promotion of Narcotics Hotline: (513) 625-2806
Harm Reduction Efforts
- Increased awareness of opioid addiction as a community health concern
- Access to Narcan kits for the community through Project Dawn
- Access to Narcan for first responders
- Prevention Coordinator hired at Clermont Public Health to focus on unintentional
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