Substance Abuse Treatment Task Force
While over the past four years systematic efforts have been made to enhance prevention and treatment services in communities across Vermont and partnerships have been engaged between the agency of human services, courts, community providers, and schools, substance abuse presents a major health challenge to Vermonters and their families.
Goals of Task Force
- Work with staff to analyze the population projected to be in need of treatment services and will create a design for the services needed in communities by level of care, and to support long-term recovery. This plan should be based on the Blueprint for Health chronic care approach.
- Agency of Human Services field directors and district health directors shall map local services across the continuum of care and across the sectors from health to criminal justice. These maps will inform the task force’s analysis of the services and supports that are currently available.
- The analysis shall be evidence-based and project numbers of people that can be diverted from more expensive and crisis-oriented services if we build a more continuous, recovery-based system of supports. Of particular interest is savings that can be realized in the department of corrections.
- The analysis shall also look at workforce preparation and what needs to be done to develop a mechanism for clinicians to be certified to treat co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.
- The Department of Health shall prepare and submit a report and plan by January 15, 2008, to the house and senate committees on appropriations.
Next Meeting
November 8, 2007, noon - 3 p.m., Best Western, 45 Blush Hill Road, Waterbury, Hearth conference room
Meeting Agendas
Meeting Minutes
- 07/18/2007 Minutes
- Substance Abuse Treatment Presentation (Powerpoint, 7/18/07)
Workforce Development
Resources by County
- Addison
- Bennington
- Caledonia/Essex
- Chittenden
- Franklin/Grand Isle
- Lamoille
- Orange
- Essex/Orleans
- Rutland
- Washington
- Windham
- Windsor