​​Catskills Addiction Coalition Oct. 30, 2019 Meeting Minutes and Followup
​​Thanks to everyone for coming to the Oct. 30 meeting of the Catskills Addiction Coalition, held at the Margaretville Hospital Classroom, 42084 Route 28, Margaretville, NY 12455. Here is a summary of what we discussed and the action items we agreed on. 
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​​Watch a video of the entire meeting here: 
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​​https://youtu.be/e-9bEvSY7Jc

​​Attendees

​​Diana Mason, facilitator, Catskills Addiction Coalition
​​Rina Riba, National Alliance on Mental Illness and Catskills Addiction Coalition steering committee
​​Kimberly Lacey, Administrative Assistant, Catskills Addiction Coalition, Rural Communities Opioid Response Program
​​Kali Murphy, Delaware County Substance Use Task Force, Department of Public Health
​​David McNamara, Samadhi Recovery Community Outreach Center
​​Linda Webb Varian, clinical social worker, Catskills Addiction Coalition steering committee
​​Karen Driskill, Catskills Addiction Coalition steering committee
​​Mary Rosenthal, Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council of Delaware County
​​Arnie Schwartz, Catskills Addiction Coalition steering committee
​​Amy Smith, Margaretville Hospital Education Coordinator
​​Tom O’Brien, Superintendent of Roxbury Central School
​​Jonathan Gross, Mountaintop Cars/Mountaintop Advocacy Coalition
​​Drew Brenner, community member, prevention work with teens
​​Randy Moore, Pharmacist, Margaretville Hospital Pharmacy
​​Judy Williams, Infection Control/Employee Health, Margaretville Hospital
​​Judy Green, Utilization Review, Margaretville Hospital Quality Assurance
​​Carol Bouton, Case Manager, Margaretville Hospital
​​Chad Storey, First Sergeant, Ulster County Sheriff’s Office, Police Chief, Town of Shandaken
​​Rebecca Manning, Director, Catskills Recreation Center
​​Kayliegh Riordan, Program Manager of the Delaware County Recovery Center
​​Scott Tyree, Mountaintop Advocacy Coalition
​​Mica Gonzalez, Community Development Specialist, Central Region Prevention Resource Center Prevention Network 
​​Megan Walradth, Central Region Prevention Resource Center, Prevention Network
​​Emily Taggart, social worker, O’Connor Hospital
​​Jessica Vecchione, filmmaker, created of “Smacked” documentary
​​Susan Linn, Grants Manager for HealthAlliance/Westchester Medical Center Health Network
​​Joe Damone, photographer, CAC steering committee
​​Scott Burrows, Coordinator, Delaware County Treatment Court
​​Kurt Govenberg, MD, Addiction medicine, Suboxone provider, Ulster County Medical Examiner
​​Kenneth Oclatis, Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health Services at Westchester Medical Center Health Network
​​Mark Pohar, Executive Director, Margaretville Hospital
​​Julia Reischel, Project Director, Catskills Addiction Coalition, Rural Communities Opioid Response Program

​​Agenda

​​1. Welcome, introductions, review of agenda and check in (10-10:10 – Diana)
​​2. Opportunity presented by the hospital grant and its implications for CAC (10:10-10:15 Julia and Diana)
​​3. Brief group discussion of shared values for consortium, consensus decisionmaking, ground rules of engagement with each other (attention, respect, and commitment to consensus) — (10:15 - 10:30) Diana and Julia
​​4. January Summit (including it leading to the April grant) (10:30-10:40 Julia and Diana) —save-the-date, sectors and outreach (10:30 – 10:40)
​​5. Committee reports
​​a. Recovery Coaches -- meeting with Friends of Recovery, Recovery-Friendly Businesses (10:40-10:50 Julia and Joyce or Kayliegh?)
​​b. Medication Assisted Treatment -- collaboration and capacity building in the Catskills, suboxone and counseling with local providers (10:50-10:55 Julia and Joyce?)
​​c. Transportation -- grassroots campaign for Delaware County Public Transportation (11:00-11:05 Julia)
​​d. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion — collaborating to respond to bail reform (11:05-11:10 Joyce and Julia)
​​e. People in recovery leading our work -- outreach to folks in recovery, focus groups, people in recovery panel at summit, school 11:10-11:15 Kayliegh and Julia)