Spotlight: Greenfield Health Department: Harm Reduction Vending Machines

Name: Spotlight:%20Greenfield%20Health%20Department:%20Harm%20Reduction%20Vending%20Machines
Uploaded: 2023-08-28T21:11:01.734Z

Posted Aug 28, 2023 | Views 502

# Harm Reduction

# Vending Marchine

# Lindsay Fuss

# Spotlight

Joseph Porcelli

Global Public Agency & Disaster Preparedness & Response Lead @ Nextdoor

Joseph joined Nextdoor in May 2014 and serves as Global Public Agency & Disaster Preparedness & Response Lead. In his role, Joseph manages local, state, and federal relationships and Crisis Response in the US and Canada. He also serves as an internal partner to global public agency teams and country managers.

Before joining Nextdoor, Joseph established the Community Engagement consulting practice at GovDelivery (now Granicus) and created and managed National Preparedness Community (Community.FEMA.gov) on behalf of FEMA. Joseph also served as the nation's first Community Engagement Strategist for the Department of Homeland Security and worked for the Boston Police Department.

You can connect with Joseph on Twitter at @JosephPorcelli and Nextdoor at @Nextdoor.

Joseph received a BA in Marketing and Business Management at Saint Michael's College and a Nonprofit Management and Leadership certificate at the Questrom School of Business and com and participated in Havard's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and serves as a global ambassador for the initiative.

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SUMMARY

In June of 2022, the SAFE Greenfield Health Collaborative began identifying innovative approaches to Naloxone distribution. In partnership with Waukesha County, Waukesha County and Greenfield became the first two pilots in Wisconsin.

As of June of 2023, Greenfield has seen tremendous success with this program. They have had 1,500 Fentanyl Test strips and 528 doses of nasal naloxone (Narcan) distributed within and around the City of Greenfield.

Watch this interview with Lindsay Fuss from the GreenField Health Department to hear how the program is going and for lessons learned.

To learn more, visit www.safegreenfield.com or listen to this interview on NPR -> https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1187175721/wisconsin-is-trying-a-novel-approach-to-reducing-death-by-drug-overdose

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