Newsletter
Our Stories: Into the Light
This year, we will launch an aggressive anti-stigma campaign. Complementing the work of local groups like The Hope Shot and emulating national players like Shatterproof, we will highlight stories of hope and recovery, and make room for those of loss...
Support Our Work
Our success depends on us redoubling our efforts from the first 9 months, forging new alliances, and supporting those who have been professionally and personally fighting this battle for years. Help us expand our initiatives through a financial gift. Give to...
2022 Florida Legislative Session Review – March 15
2022 Florida Legislative Session Review - March 15Controlled SubstancesProfessional Counselors Licensure CompactMental Health and Substance Use DisordersDrug-related Overdose PreventionMental Health Professional LicensureSubstance Abuse Service...
Letter from the Executive Director
For the past year, the Project Opioid Tampa Bay initiative has been building a foundation. We have compiled research and reports on the impact of the opioid crisis on our region, cultivated a coalition of leaders and stakeholders to guide our work, and created the...
Our Stories: Into the Light
Chelsea is a person in recovery. She talks about her experience at Grace House in Pasco, the challenges of stigma, and the simple, but profound joys of being in recovery. Listen to Chelsea's...
Letter from the Executive Director
We begin 2022 with new resolve. We kicked off the year with our Joint Strategic Planning Session, bringing together leaders from across the Tampa Bay region to create a roadmap for reducing the number of opioid overdose deaths by the end of 2025. As we look over...
Our Stories: Into the Light
Bianca Talarico is Clinical Program Manager at Riverside Recovery of Tampa. As someone whose recovery journey took multiple years and attempts, she emphasizes the importance of not giving up on people. Even when the odds are stacked...
Did You Know?
2022 Legislative Preview - WHAT BILLS ARE WE FOCUSED ON? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cGWoXDHBV8...
As We Grow
2022 Strategic Priority Preview Participants in our Joint Strategic Planning Session cumulatively contributed over 180 hours, and we still have many more strategies they generated. Below is a sneak preview of our 2022 Strategic Priorities. We are continuing to...
Letter from The Executive Director
As we close 2021, we feel the weight of what we know about the opioid crisis, but we also feel gratitude and hopeful for our work in the coming year. We know that the U.S. exceeded 100,000 overdose deaths this year for the first time in history. That the number of...
Our Stories: Into the Light
Danielle is a life coach working with women in recovery at Grace Recovery House in New Port Richey, FL. The way we talk about recovery too often focuses on simply not using rather than healing. When we think of and support each other as whole people,...
As We Grow
We see that fewer than half of facilities for OUD in the Tampa Bay region provide educational support, transportation assistance, and medications for psychiatric disorders as wraparound services. This is in contrast to emerging behavioral health studies showing...