Collaborating with Vancouver Coastal Health and the Canadian Mental Health Association to create the Sunshine Coast Overdose Outreach Team (SCOOT) and fund a pilot project to have a peer position join the outreach team.Monthly communications to inform and educate the public about overdoses and how the opioid crisis is impacting the community.Creating naloxone kits for overdose patients at the Sechelt Hospital emergency department.The videos are available to Sunshine Coast Division members through their Division website and some are in circulation with appropriate allied health providers. Developing a physician education video series discussing to safe supply and addiction services referral pathway information.The Task Force’s goal is managing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the community’s overdose crisis and destigmatizing opioid use through increased public awareness. | In June 2020, the Sunshine Coast Division of Family Practice established the Sunshine Coast Opioid Overdose Prevention Task Force using Shared Care Committee funding from their addictions project.

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