Peterborough Drug Strategy
www.peterboroughdrugstrategy.com
Citizens, prevention, enforcement, treatment and
harm reduction organisations, working together to
reduce the negative impacts of substance use.
Why a Four Pillar Approach?
• Substance use is a population-wide issue
• Impacts are felt at the local level
• Integrates fragmented responses
• Provides a framework for decision making
• Promotes inter-sectoral collaboration
• Local level: traffic collisions, poverty, crime, poor health
outcomes, use of shelters, sense of safety in the downtown.
Prevention
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Refers to interventions that seek to prevent or delay
the onset of substance use as well as to avoid
problems before they occur.
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More than education, prevention involves
strengthening the health, social and economic
factors that can reduce the risk of substance use,
including access to health care, stable housing,
education and employment.
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Examples of prevention include mentoring
programs, municipal alcohol policies, and limiting the
sale of alcohol.
Harm Reduction
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Refers to a range of pragmatic and evidence-based
public health policies designed to reduce the harmful
consequences associated with drug use.
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An integrated approach that includes harm reduction
ensures that people who use injection or inhaled
drugs are at lower risk for the transmission of HIV,
Hepatitis C and associated health risks
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Harm reduction includes blood alcohol limits, safe
injection equipment and condom distribution,
counselling and referrals, etc.
Treatment
• Refers to the programming provided to people already
dealing with a substance use issue, with services ranging
from a philosophy of total abstinence to one that focuses on
managing use.
• People present for help along a continuum of problems
related to their substance use.
• Creating a community that is integrated in its messages and
response to substance use concerns has the opportunity to
intervene early and appropriately.
• Examples of treatment include residential withdrawal
management (“detox”) and outpatient treatment, counselling,
and substitution therapies (e.g., methadone maintenance
therapy).
Enforcement
• Refers to interventions that seek to strengthen
community safety by responding to the crimes and
community disorder issues associated with legal and
illegal substances.
• Enforcement includes the broader criminal justice
system of the courts, probation and parole, etc.
• Examples: R.I.D.E. programs, investigating the sale
and distribution of illegal substances, enforcing the
Liquor License Act, community policing initiatives,
and court diversion programs.
Focus 2009 - 2010
• Prescription opioids
• Raising public awareness
• Improving relationships
• Tangible, observable
projects
Resource and Partnership
Development 2011
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Expanded mandate to include
all substances (alcohol, illicit
drugs & medications)
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Established web presence and
materials
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Secured two year funding
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Expanded Steering Committee
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Compiled known data into
Discussion Document
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Film showings
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In-service training
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Resource and prevention
development with local
students
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Speakers and info sessions
for parents and educators
Raising Awareness
Youth Outreach
• Project Frontline – Increased police presence in schools
with focus on diverting youth in contact with the law to
John Howard Society programming. [2009-2010]
• Peterborough Youth Partnership - $20,000 from Ministry
of Community Safety and Correctional Services to employ
a Coordinator to Work towards local youth intervention
initiatives.(2011)
• CBC Program (2010-2013)
Supportive Environments
• Medicine Clean Out Campaign
- spring 2010-2013
• Medical Planning Group on
Opioid Safety - sharing
information and developing
strategies
• Co-location of staff
• Community Support Court
Community Partners
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The local agencies represented in the first stages of
the conversation were:
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Peterborough County-City Health Unit (Prevention)
PARN – Your Community AIDS Resource Network
(Harm Reduction)
Four Counties Addiction Service Team (Treatment)
Peterborough Lakefield Community Police
(Enforcement)
Peterborough Social Planning Council
Centre for Addictions and Mental Health
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Community Partners
• Ontario Provincial Police
• Peterborough Social
Services
• Kawartha Pineridge District
School Board
• Peterborough Catholic
School Board
• John Howard Society
• Canadian Mental Health
Association
• Park Place for Youth
• Fleming College
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Youth Emergency Shelter
The Bridge Youth Centre
Champions for Youth
Park Place for Youth
Whitepath Consulting
KLM Counseling
CAST Canada
Peterborough Native
Friendship Centre
• Hiawatha First Nation
• Lakefield Youth Unlimited
Getting to a Strategic Plan
• Funding - Ontario Trillium Foundation 20112012
• Literature Review and Consultation
PlanCommunity consultationAnalyze the
dataResearch and evidenceCompile and
produce reportPrioritize and implement
• Implementation and evaluation – 2012 &
beyond.
Current Projects
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Youth Engagement
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Life UnLeashed
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PotTalks
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CBC
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Film Making
Current Projects
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Strengthening Families
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Pilot in 2012/13
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Fund and partnership
development
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Proceeds of Crime
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6 sessions in 2013/14
Current Projects
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Peterborough Overdose
Prevention (POP)
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Multi-partner engagement
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Broad base training
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Peer engagement and
multi stage overdose
prevention training
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Naloxone 911
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Take Home Naloxone
info@peterboroughdrugstrategy.com