Emerging Issues Task Force
The Emerging Issues Task Force is a dynamic group of community advocates, law enforcement, community leaders, private citizens, and healthcare professionals dedicated to addressing substance use/abuse trends that emerge in our community.
The task force addresses community level change through community surveillance, information sharing, and prevention initiatives, while helping to focus community resources for prevention, enforcement, intervention, treatment, and recovery.
Currently the task force is exploring the following emerging issues:
- Poly-substance Abuse Issues
- Ecstasy, Methamphetamine, and User Groups
- Escalating Heroin Consequences
- Sexually Transmitted Infections and Drug Behavior
- Co-occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues
- Medical Marijuana and the impact of the Potential Legalization of Marijuana in other parts of the US
Overall Goals:
- To convene consumers, clinicians, law enforcement, educations, private citizens and other community members in the efforts to address emerging substance use/abuse issues in South Florida.
- To be the centralized forum in our community for information and education about South Florida emerging substance use/abuse problems.
- To be an active participant in coordinating statewide meth initiatives and leader in epidemiological reports.
- To support consumers struggling with substance use/abuse, and their family members, by creating recovery support groups with our community partners.
Our Task Force Mission:
Engage a community process for identifying and responding to:
- Specific substance abuse/mental health issues, and
- Specific targeted populations impacted by them.
Our Task Force Vision:
Promote an informed community actively addressing specific behavioral health issues as well as population-level wellness.
Contact:
Angela Ventura
SARG Coordinator / Hispanic Outreach
Phone: 954-760-7007 ext.212
email
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