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8. Support crisis stabilization centers that serve as an alternative to hospital emergency departments for <br />persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions or persons that have experienced an <br />opioid overdose. <br />9. Support the work of Emergency Medical Systems, including peer support specialists, to connect <br />individuals to treatment or other appropriate services following an opioid overdose or other opioid - <br />related adverse event. <br />10. Provide funding for peer support specialists or recovery coaches in emergency departments, detox <br />facilities, recovery centers, recovery housing, or similar settings; offer services, supports, or <br />connections to care to persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions or to persons who <br />have experienced an opioid overdose. <br />11. Expand warm hand-off services to transition to recovery services. <br />12. Create or support school-based contacts that parents can engage with to seek immediate treatment <br />services for their child; and support prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery programs focused <br />on young people. <br />13. Develop and support best practices on addressing OUD in the workplace. <br />14. Support assistance programs for health care providers with OUD. <br />15. Engage non -profits and the faith community as a system to support outreach for treatment. <br />16. Support centralized call centers that provide information and connections to appropriate services <br />and supports for persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions. <br />D. ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF CRIMINAL -JUSTICE -INVOLVED PERSONS <br />Address the needs of persons with OUD and any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions who are involved <br />in, are at risk of becoming involved in, or are transitioning out of the criminal justice system through <br />evidence -based or evidence -informed programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, <br />the following: <br />1. Support pre -arrest or pre -arraignment diversion and deflection strategies for persons with OUD and <br />any co-occurring SUD/MH conditions, including established strategies such as: <br />a. Self -referral strategies such as the Angel Programs or the Police Assisted Addiction Recovery <br />Initiative (PAARI); <br />b. Active outreach strategies such as the Drug Abuse Response Team (DART) model; <br />c. "Naloxone Plus" strategies, which work to ensure that individuals who have received <br />naloxone to reverse the effects of an overdose are then linked to treatment programs or other <br />appropriate services; <br />d. Officer prevention strategies, such as the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) <br />model; <br />e. Officer intervention strategies such as the Leon County, Florida Adult Civil Citation Network <br />or the Chicago Westside Narcotics Diversion to Treatment Initiative; or <br />