CMRPC Legislative Breakfast€¦ · • 8:30 Welcome, Meeting Overview, Legislative Affairs Committee Progress Report – • Adam Gaudette, Spencer , Town Administrator • 8:40

CMRPC Legislative Breakfast December 5, 2014

Program Agenda •

• 8:00 Registration, Networking, Light Breakfast

• 8:30 Welcome, Meeting Overview, Legislative Affairs Committee Progress Report –

• Adam Gaudette, Spencer , Town Administrator

• 8:40 Overview of Public Health in Central Massachusetts

• Trish Settles, Principal Planner, CMRPC

• 8:45 Presentations on Substance Abuse, Addiction, Tobacco, and Regionalizing Public Health Services

• Edward Schreiber - Director of Addiction Treatment Services - Carson Center at Valley Human Services • Kate Christiansen - Clinician Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program for Addictions • Karyn E. Clark - Chief of Community Health, City of Worcester • Derek S. Brindisi - Director of Public Health, City of Worcester

• 9:35 Legislator Response, Questions, and Comment

• 9:45 Audience Response, Questions, and Comment

• 10:00 Closing remarks

An Event of the CMRPC Legislative Affairs Committee

Legislative Affairs Committee Tom Gregory, Commission Delegate, Shrewsbury Sherry Patch, Commission Delegate, Hardwick James Bates, Commission Delegate, Upton Robin Craver, Town Administrator, Charlton Tim McInerney, Town Administrator, Grafton Adam Gaudette, Town Administrator, Spencer Leon Gaumond, Town Administrator, West Boylston

Staff Support -Trish Settles, AICP, Principal Planner

CMRPC Legislative Affairs Committee

• The Committee shall monitor actions of the Legislature as they

pertain to concerns of the CMRPC and shall convene semi annually, as appropriate, with municipal officials and the central Massachusetts legislative caucus for the purpose of seeking and providing relevant information of interest.

• “The Committee may, at any time, recommend to the Executive

Committee that CMRPC should take a position in regard to any matter under the Committee’s study, by a majority vote of those

Committee members present and voting.” NEW!!

Request for Review/Action by the CMRPC Legislative Affairs Committee • If you would like to request a review and possible action related to

a legislative matter by CMRPC's Legislative Affairs Committee, please complete the online questionnaire.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/reqlegxn • This will provide us with background information for the

committee's consideration on how to best proceed. • Once completed, please email Trish Settles that the form was

completed. She will follow-up with you regarding next steps in the process for review and possible action.

Regional Planning & Public Health: What’s the connection?

• Impacts on Municipal Budgets, School Budgets, Health Budgets

• Increased need for Police, Fire, EMT Services • Impacts on vulnerable populations: Elderly or Low Socio-

Economic Populations • Potentially easier to address regionally than on an individual

municipal scale • Regional correlations between economy, transportation

access, housing availability, etc.

Examples Basic Data Research and Analysis with Visualizations, Graphs, Maps etc. • US Census • MADPH • MA CHPS • Central Mass Datacommon Surveys - PVPC has announced an online Hampden County community health survey and invites the public to participate • This community health assessment will aid in identifying unmet

health needs which can be addressed by municipal public health boards and other health initiatives occurring within the region.

• The assessment focuses on community health conditions, as well as health care access issues, and is organized around five prevalent health sectors- Chronic diseases, Infectious diseases, Environmental and occupational health, Health-related behaviors, and Injury and violence

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North West Corner of Woo Cty demonstrates the top 80% percentile with other small pockets in Warren, Southbridge, Spencer, Worcester, Fitchburg, Clinton, Leominster, Webster, and others!

Mobile Addiction Resource Team Carson Center at Valley Human Services Edward J Schreiber, LADC1 Coordinator - 413-967-6241 ext. 133 [email protected]

Training and Education for Schools and Organizations

Why Is This Happening? The Opiate Crisis What We Can Do

The Larger Picture The Brain and Addiction

What Families Need to Know In response to the Public Health Emergency we have created education and training programs that bring forward critical information about the cause, nature and solutions to the problem we are facing. We invite you to contact us to explore hosting an education and training symposium program for your organization or school.

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell said of his experience of viewing Earth from the moon:

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles and say, ‘Look at that……….’”

If there is one lesson I’ve learned from my family’s experience and from praying my way to try to make sense of it, it’s that the shadow is us. What we hide hides us. What we fear creates fear. What we fail to love in ourselves makes it impossible for us to love in others. Happiness can come only when the shadow is revealed, welcomed, accepted. There is no other route. Shining a light on the shadow is the only way. Timothy Kennedy Shriver Fully Alive – Discovering What Matters Most

GROWING PERCEPTION The brain and addiction Stigma, Stigma, Stigma Why the pain? 5% and 80% Giving a fraction of care to a diabetic - 3 examples