Join us on July 7th to engage with local stakeholders and community champions at all levels to educate them on the benefits of implementing harm reduction strategies that also provide essential pathways to treatment and recovery. Amid the ongoing addiction and fatal overdose crisis, vending machines that supply overdose reversal medications are an important tool for communities to embrace. The Reach Impact Institute, in partnership with Fund Recovery, is continuing to expand its vending machine campaign model to ensure greater availability and low-barrier access to “free” life-saving overdose reversal medications is commonplace, while also dramatically heightening public awareness of its benefits.
AGENDA
10:30AM-10:35AM Welcome Remarks: Mr. Primus Wheeler - Executive Director, Jackson Medical Mall Foundation
Community Meeting Room
10:35AM-10:40AM Initiative Overview: Ryan Cain, Fund Recovery / George Massengill, Reach Impact Institute / Roy Hart, CEO, MSPHI
Community Meeting Room
10:40AM-10:45AM Tackle Overdose Ambassador: Jeffery Simmons (intro by Ryan Cain)
Community Meeting Room
10:45AM-10:48AM Remarks: Wendy Bailey - Executive Director, MS Department of Mental Health
Community Meeting Room
10:48AM-10:50AM Panel Session Speaker Introductions: Jan Dawson, MSPHi /
Anna Stewart, RII
Community Meeting Room
10:50AM-11:15AM Educational Panel Session
Community Meeting Room
Speakers:
Chief Michael Kelly - Public Health & Safety Specialist, MSPHi
Ruth Ann Rigby, CRS - Chief Development Officer, Capstone Wellness and Co-founder, First Responders of Mississippi
11:15AM Guests Move to New Vending Machine Area (next to Media Room)
11:20AM New Vending Machine Ribbon-cutting / Photos & Media
11:30AM Networking / Light Food & Refreshments
12:00PM Program Concludes