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The Northeast Substance Use Response Coalition was recognized at the Rural Communities Health Connections Summit in Washington, DC, as an RCORP Champion. Implementation II & III Project Director KaSandra Hanshaw; and Implementation IV Project Director Carla Terry spoke to over 700 other grantees from 48 states and 3 territories on the work being done through the RCORP Implementations grants in our region.
Matthew Porter, MA, joined the Northeast AHEC in September 2022 as an Educational Assistant for Health Careers Promotion and as of today (Feb. 20, 2023) has accepted the position of Outreach Services Coordinator for the Northeast AHEC and the Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition.
Morehead, KY – Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center has been named Kentucky’s 2022 Community Star, the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) recently announced.
St. Claire HealthCare, on behalf of the Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition, is pleased to announce they have been awarded a $300,000 Core Priorities Grant by the Pallottine Foundation of Huntington, West Virginia. SCH and the Coalition were the only recipients of this grant in Kentucky and only one of four recipients between Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will distribute $1,000,000 to St. Claire HealthCare (SCH) through the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP), on behalf of the Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition. SCH is fiscal agent for, and one of eight members of, the coalition.
The Local Lens is a podcast sponsored by Kentucky Opioid Community Healing (from the Kentucky RHIO) and the Powell County Health Department, that takes a deep dive into the community's experience with the drug epidemic.
Effective June 13, Luke Stapleton began serving as the new director of the Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition.
With the launch of their new website, the Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition is also unveiling a new video series which highlights their member organizations.
Their presentation was an overview of how fellow grantees could join forces with their own local detention centers, and how the Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition started doing so with their First Day Forward program.
The Northeast Kentucky Substance Use Response Coalition has been awarded a second round of funding by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)
On July 2, David A. Gross, KaLeigh Hemminger, and KaSandra Hensley presented at the 2021 National AHEC Organization Biennial Conference.
The Coalition was selected because of its grant-funded projects and partnerships focused on addressing substance use disorders within 18 northeastern Kentucky counties.
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