 Hey everyone, it's been easy or your community outreach specialist and today I'm bringing you a very Important special video. I realize that I'm pretty sure I say that in every single intro But this one is definitely going to be a long one There's a lot of information that's going to be thrown at you guys so we are here at Pasco ASAP and ASAP actually stands for the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention of Pasco So we're going to be meeting with three women from that work with this coalition And we're going to be talking about the substance abuse issue not only in Pasco But how you could take the same information to your own community if you recognize that this is something that you know You do need to bring to the forefront and how you can go from there So if you guys learn anything today one or two things All they've done my job for the day I am here with Chrissy and Monica from ASAP Pasco That's how you say it correct ASAP Pasco, which actually stands for the Alliance of Substance Abuse Prevention Kill them in the game. Okay, so they actually do a lot for ASAP Pasco But they're both going to kind of talk to us about what they do in the county our partnership You know with Pasco Sheriff's office and just give us the rundown so that you guys if you're looking or you have anyone Family that you you know may want to try to help out or you just want the information that you can do so whether or not You're local or out of state this could benefit all of you so sure Yeah, so well first things first for a coalition Which basically means that we're a group of people who come together to solve our community's biggest problems as it relates to Substance use substance misuse and substance use disorders So we rely on community partnerships, which is why we love hanging out with the Pasco Sheriff's office so often So from teachers the school board share of Sophist youth Parents you name it when everyone comes together to solve some of our biggest issues So that's a little bit of a breakdown of what ASAP does in the county So I know you guys have different programs and whatnot like I know I've actually Dealt with a couple of your members before because as you guys know I was a CPI So I used to investigate child abuse and childhood like and I know that you guys do work with a lot of parents You do work with a lot of kids as well. How are you? Let's just start how are you working with kids in the county like how because I mean a lot of times You don't think that kids will have a substance abuse problem Whether or not they're born dependent or if they just you know get older and just fall into that sort of crowd What's the role that you guys can play that kind of help or do or how would you you know? Do you so I would say we play multiple roles one of the Our strongest components of the coalition is the safe teens against drugs so our stand initiative where we're really I'm building leadership skills of teens and building a coalition of youth leaders that are working with their community in their school to make Their community level change or school level change of what they see as an issue So that's one of the ways that we're building up our children and our perspective They are kind of piggyback off of that in the last year and a half our stand youth has have really evolved So in the past they were really the youth leaders who wanted to get ahead of this issue You know seeing their peers and seeing their community becoming More and more disrupted by substance use and in the last year and a half We've had a lot of students who are in recovery themselves or have struggled with addiction themselves And really brings to light this this huge issue that there are not a lot of resources for young people with addiction a lot of the times as parents we think that Kids are going through a phase and we don't recognize it or hold it to the same severity as an adult who's struggling with the substance use disorder So they really brought that to light You know they don't feel like they can go to the same 12-step meetings as adults because they're not taken seriously even young adults people Who are 20 21 don't feel like they can go to an AA meeting and say I'm an alcoholic because people who are 45 60 say What you know like you know Even within yeah, even within the within with that Though that support system they feel stigmatized. So and that's called the stand program. Yeah stand. Okay, so Guys throughout this video just flashed an information at you There will be information about the stand program as well. Hopefully I am obviously in different counties across, you know America wherever you are watching this video. I'm sure you may have a program like it I don't know if stands is just a local for us It's not like a Cross-state lines type of program. It's not but there are use coalitions and coalitions like ours or similar to ours Across the state of the United States. So we can definitely send information on how to find those We'll help you guys out with that as well. What other kind of programs do you guys have? I know you guys do a lot. We do a lot Well and to kind of stay on the topic of youth, you know, Chrissy And I don't know if we want to bring in Missy to kind of talk about substance exposed newborns Before we switch ears. You guys want us to bring in Missy? Let's bring in Missy. Give us away Missy! Boom! We've added another. We have Missy with us and Missy, what's your role with ASAP? So I am actually a Committee chair for the substance exposed newborn committee. Okay, and Basically, we're a group in the community that's come together With different community partners, whether it would be we have some law enforcement. We have other facilities That actually specialize in substance abuse or treatments Just across the board. We have many community partners. Okay, like would one be Would one be Baycare? Okay, okay. I was like, okay. Okay, just so that we can so for those of you that don't Baycares When we have any individuals or when you guys watch tweet alongs and an individual is being Baker acted and they're Transported to Baycare. That's the facility that I just was referring to just to get an idea. Yes, definitely So Baycare plays like a big role in you know, assisting with treatment and stuff and the community because we do have funding for people who have no insurance or Stuff like that. That's awesome though. We still need substance abuse care so our substance can newborn committee we meet like monthly and one of the things that we've actually composed is a quick reference guide for pregnant women and Who are actually on methadone and it's like the need to know Okay, they need to know things they can expect whenever and before they deliver and why they're pregnant and after so I'm gonna take my engaging parents and to Treat the treatment and recovery and also what to expect if the CPI is called if DCF does get involved So that's one of the big things is you know helping them be prepared They're already, you know, going to be having lots of anxiety and stuff about childbirth, but whenever They want to ask for treatment if they are, you know, using a substance and to prepare them and stuff, you know for what may come and Just really to give them information guidance along the way. So is it more so for the parent and not for because if you if you have a mother that's on methadone gets pregnant, it's isn't it almost All the time that the baby's gonna be dependent So any any opioid that the mother is taking the risk is high Having a child being born dependent to it's the the goal is to make sure that mother feels comfortable Asking for that treatment help and not being so scared and continuing to use illicitly Okay, that is her method of choice because that is very very risky So by being able to encourage people to ask for help and get treatment We can reduce that risk and make sure that there are the least amount of complications possible. Oh awesome. Okay So how do I this may be completely Left-field how do individuals find ASAP is it through like different If they is it I don't think ASAP is not like a like a part like something that a judge will require like someone to Okay, no, that's not really a we're like a planning group. So okay So we we're a community strategy group or just people who come together look at data See what's the biggest trends in the in the area then we look to evidence-based strategies on and what we can do What what evidence-based strategies can we deploy as a community to reduce risk and really change these statistics that we're seeing? So we don't really provide direct services. I mean we put we provide a lot of information We do a lot of service in the community, but nobody's going to be referred to ASAP for that you okay Okay, quite like that. We do have community partners like they care like base like YFA Yes, okay, but to get back to your question how do people hear about us I mean we started 11 years ago as a grassroots kind of program So people just kind of know about us word of mouth and Exactly, which is great What a mouth I feel like will always top social media, but I still love my social media