Brian: WELCOME BACK GOOD TO
HAVE YOU ALONG, AS ALWAYS YOU'RE
WATCHING OZARKS TONIGHT.
I AM DAVID OLIVER.
YOU HAVE HEARD US IN THE NEWS
REPORT A LOT ON THE OPIOID
CRISIS, NOT JUST IN THE OZARKS
BUT ACROSS OUR NATION.
AND A LOT OF LOCAL ENTITIES ARE
DOING WHAT THEY CAN TO TRY TO
HELP FIGHT BACK, GET PEOPLE SOME
HELP.
THE COXHEALTH FOUNDATION
RECENTLY RECEIVED A
1 MILLION-DOLLAR GRANT THAT'S
GOING TO HAVE THE FOUNDATION AND
VARIOUS PROVIDERS TO GET SOME
MORE OF THAT HELP INTO RURAL
PARTS OF THE OZARKS.
WE WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
HOW THAT GRANT MONEY IS GOING TO
BENEFIT PEOPLE SUFFERING HERE IN
THE OZARKS SO WE INVITED BRANDY
VAN ANTWERP, THE GRANTOR
MINISTRY FOR THE COXHEALTH
FOUNDATION.
REGGIE CANNON GOOD TO SEE YOU.
GOOD TO SEE YOU.
TIM MCNIFF WE HAVE DONE SOME
REPORTING ON THIS GRANT.
IT'S A FEDERAL GRANT, $1 MILLION
FIGURE HE WROTE THE PROPOSAL THE
GRANT FOR THIS.
TOMIC HOW DO WE OBTAIN THIS
MONEY FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI?
SURE.
WE HAVE A LOT OF PARTNERS
THROUGHOUT OUR SYSTEMS.
YOU KNOW COXHEALTH IS A LARGE
HEALTH SYSTEM.
WE HAVE POPPERS IN BRANSON, ONE
IN MENET, AND ONE IN ONE HOUR --
LAMAR AND ONE NUMBER KNOWS ABOUT
IN SPRINGFIELD.
BUT WE DID WAS WE SAW THIS GRANT
COME ABOUT AND WHEN WE HEARD
ABOUT IT WE REACHED OUT TO ALL
OF OUR PARTNERS IN THOSE AREAS.
THIS GRANT TOUCHES BARTON COU
COUNTY, BARRY KEMAR LAWRENCE
CRESTONE AND TANEY COUNTY.
Brian: OKAY.
WHAT WE DID IS PUT TOGETHER A
CONSORTIUM AND SAID, WHAT DO WE
HAVE VAST RESOURCES IN OUR
COMMUNITIES RIGHT NOW AND WHAT
GAPS DO WE HAVE IN OUR
COMMUNITIES RIGHT NOW TO HELP
WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE BATTLING THE
OPIOID CRISIS MUSCLE OPIOID USE
DISORDER SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.
Brian: SURE.
AND SO WE WENT THROUGH
DISCOVERY PROCESS WITH THOSE
AGENCIES AND 15 TOTAL PARTNERS
IN HEAVEN THIS GRANT.
THROUGH THAT DISCOVERY PROCESS
WE'VE IDENTIFIED KEY AREAS WHERE
WE KNOW WE COULD DO MORE.
SO THIS GRANT ITSELF ACCESS TO
DO THREE KIND OF PRONGS.
SO FOCUSING ON PREVENTION, AND
TREATMENT AND RECOVERY.
COXHEALTH IS AN ENTITY WE ONLY
DO ONE SEGMENT OF THAT, RIGHT.
WE TYPICALLY ARE SEEN IN THE
INTERIOR.
BUT WE WANT TO DO AS AN AGENCY
WAS TO REACH OUT TO THOSE
PARTNERS AND DETERMINE, WITH
THIS MONEY BE USEFUL IF WE ALL
SPREAD OUT AMONGST THOSE FIVE
CATS, AMONGST THOSE 15
CONSORTIUM MEMBERS TO DETERMINE
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR THOSE KEY
AREAS.
Brian: SO THOSE PARTNERS ARE
GOING TO HELP YOU WITH THE
PREVENTION AND RECOVERY
COMPONENT WHICH YOU ALL AGAIN
ART NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE
TREATMENT USUALLY.
AND EVEN ON THE TREATMENT
SIDE, WE HAVE PARTNERS LIKE
JORDAN BERRY JUST JORDAN BELL
AND BURRELL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH,
SO DEPENDING WHAT COUNTIES WERE
TALKING ABOUT, WE HAVE PARTNERS
IN TAKING ON EACH AND EVERY ONE
OF THESE COMPONENTS.
SO WE WORK WITH COUNTY HEALTH
ABUTMENTS IN ALL FIVE COUNTIES
ON THE EDUCATION SIDE AND
THEY'RE WORKING ON SCHOOL-BASED
AND REMEDY-BASED EDUCATION ON
THE PREVENTION PIECE, WHICH IS
EXTREMELY HELPFUL.
AS WE KNOW WE HAVE SEEN A SPIKE
IN OPIOID USE AND SUBSTANCE USE
IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
AND SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN DO
IS TAKE THE CURRICULUM THAT THEY
HAD EXISTING, THAT'S TRUE, AND
LIKE A WELL-KNOWN TYPE OF
CURRICULUM THAT THEY ARE
UTILIZING, BUT ALLOWED THEM AN
EXPANSION OF THAT.
ALLOWED THEM TO PAY FOR PART
SELLERS FOR THOSE STAFF MEMBERS
AFTER HEALTH DEPARTMENTS TO
INCREASE THE EDUCATION AND THOSE
COMMUNITIES.
WE REALLY HOPE THAT PREVENTING
FOR YOUTH BEFORE THEY EVER
EXPERIENCE ANYTHING TO DO WITH
SUBSTANCES BUT WE ARE ALSO
HELPING ADULTS WHO MAY COME IN
CONTACT WITH OR HAVE COME IN
CONTACT WITH THESE SUBSTANCES
BEFORE.
I MISSING IS YOU ARE
PREPARING THIS AND WRITING THIS
GRANT GOING INTO THIS MONEY FOR
THE FOUNDATION, OBVIOUSLY THERE
WAS A FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
THAT WE HAVE AN ISSUE THAT
NEEDED ADDRESSING IN THOSE RURAL
AREAS.
YES.
Brian: MAYBE THEY AREN'T
GETTING AS MUCH ATTENTION AS THE
METROPOLITAN AREAS, LIKE GREEN
COUNSELORS SAY.
RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT THE GOAL OF THIS WA
WAS, TO HELP THOSE IN RURAL
COMMUNITIES.
SO THE YEAR PRECEDING THE
GRATIFICATION WE DID OUR
RESEARCH AND FOUND THERE WERE
FORCES BETA AND 14,159 FATAL
OVERDOSES IN ALL THESE FIVE
COUNTIES COMBINED.
SO THOSE ARE REPORTED.
WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE ARE
WORKING WITH ON THE BACK END OF
HEALTHCARE TOO TO DETERMINE
SOMETIMES THERE ARE DEATHS THAT
OCCURRED THAT MAY HAVE A PRIMARY
CAUSATION THAT IS ACTUALLY
REPORTED ON THE DEATH RATHER
THAN THAT SECONDARY CAUSE WHICH
MAY BE DRUG RELATED.
Brian: SURE.
SO IF YOU LOOKING AT THAT AND
LETTER TO THE MILITIA OF
HEALTHCARE, BUT IT IS THE IS A
COMMUNITY EFFORT.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE SAW A NEED
FOR IT TO AND MEAN OF AN AGENCY
THAT COXHEALTH COULD PUT OUR
NAME TO THIS BUT ALSO WORK WITH
ALL THESE WONDERFUL PARTNERS
THAT WE HAVE TO TRY AND BRING
MONEY INTO THIS REGION TO HELP.
Brian: BEFORE GLEN ST. MARY
YOU AND I WERE TALKING.
IS INTERESTING IF WE ALL STOP
AND THINK ABOUT US, YOU ARE A
GRANT WRITER AND YOU ARE WRITING
THIS GRANT.
TWENTY YEARS AGO THESE TYPES OF
GRANTS WEREN'T EVEN HEARD OF.
RIGHT.
Brian: WEREN'T EVEN NECES
NECESSARY.
IT'S INTERESTING HOW THINGS HAVE
EVOLVED AND NOW THIS IS SUCH A
MAJOR ISSUE, NOT JUST IN
MISSOURI BUT ALL OVER THE PLACE.
RIGHT.
Brian: I MEAN, IT'S A
EPIDEMIC OBVIOUSLY.
IT REALLY IS A EPIDEMIC.
AND BRIEFLY BELIEVED THAT THESE
EFFORTS WILL HELP WITH IT AND IT
TAKES A CONCERTED EFFORT.
AND ALSO TAKE THAT COLLABORATIVE
EFFORT OF THESE AGENCIES.
WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH THIS
GRANT, WE HAVE A GRANT
COORDINATOR WHO WAS HIRED TO
THING HIS PROGRAM AND MAKE SURE
THE TUTOR SEEMED TO THE BUDGET
IS SPENT HAS PROMISED TO THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
BUT HE IS ALSO MEETING WITH OUR
REGIONAL COORDINATORS OUR
REGIONAL GROUPS THAT SUBSIST
WITHIN THESE COUNTIES COULD AND
HE IS MAKING SURE THAT THEIR
ACTIVITIES ARE TAKING PLACE.
Brian: SURE.
SO THESE KIDS COME TOGETHER
AND HAVING THEIR OWN MEETINGS.
AND THEN WE HAVE QUARTERLY
MEETINGS TO THE LODGE CONSO
CONSORTIUM.
AND WE TRY TO DO THEM IN PERSON.
SO FAR WE HAVE HAD ONE AND WE
HAD A PRETTY GOOD SHOWING OF
EVERYBODY FROM ALL FIVE OF THE
COUNTIES TOGETHER.
SO IT IS REALLY ALL ABOUT
INCREASED COMMUNICATION AND
INCREASED COLLABORATION.
WHEN SPIKES OCCUR, WHICH WE HAVE
SEEN IN THE AREA RECENTLY OF
OVERDOSES, WE NEED TO KNOW KIND
OF WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM,
AND HAVE THAT COLLABORATION AND
MEDICATION AMONG THE AGENCIES
CAN REALLY HELP TO PINPOINT WHAT
IS CAUSING THAT SPIKE IN
OVERDOSES.
Brian: RIGHT.
SO ALL OF OUR AGENCIES WANT
TO WORK TOGETHER TO TAKE CARE OF
THIS ISSUE.
Brian: HAVE ABOUT 20 SECONDS
LEFT.
WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER ONE HOPE
THAT WE ACCOMPLISH THROUGH THIS,
PERSONALLY?
OPEN GOOD IS, IF WE COULD SEE
HAD TO STOP -- SEATTLE
VERSTAPPEN OVERDOSES, I THINK WE
DO A GREAT SERVICE FOR OUR
COMMUNITY.
Brian: I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT
ON DOWN.
AGAIN THE ONE-MAN DOLLAR GRANT
FOR COXHEALTH BATTLING OPIOIDS
IN RURAL AREAS AND CERTAIN
COUNTIES THAT WILL BENEFIT FROM
THE PROGRAM THAT WILL FOCUS ON
PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND
RECOVERY.
SO BRADY RAN ENTERPRISE THANKS
FOR BEING HERE, WE APPRECIATE I
IT.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE
ABOUT THIS GRANT, WE HAVE DONE A
LOT OF REPORTING ON IT AND