(Durham, N.C. – Durham County)
Through mutually respected partnerships between community organizations, community health workers and university faculty and staff, this project will develop and test an interactive toolkit for communities and local governments to address risk factors for opioid use and overdose and enhance community education on resources for addressing addiction and preventing overdoses.
Co-Principal Investigator, North Carolina Central University Opioid Abatement Coordinator Center
Dr. Dasherline Cox Johnson is a clinician, researcher, and author. She is currently the lead co-principal investigator for an opioid abatement project at North Carolina Central University. As a trained practitioner-scholar and researcher, Dr. Cox Johnson focuses on various topics, including reducing health disparities and acculturation issues. Motivated to promote social justice, she examines historical ongoing insidious trauma. She has experience working with individuals with dual mental illness and substance use diagnoses.
Co-Principal Investigator, North Carolina Central University Opioid Abatement Coordinator Center
Dr. Wanda Boone is the CEO and founder of Pinnacle Community Development Center Dba Together for Resilient Youth (TRY) 501(c)(3). TRY is a coalition of coalitions formed for the purpose of preventing challenges that occur as a result of trauma such as substance use (prevention through recovery) using a grassroots framework. The foundation of their work includes the strategic prevention framework, seven strategies for community change and environmental strategy tools delivered through education, mobilization and collective impact.