August 31, 2018 at 4:49 p.m.
HOPE Consortium holds its 2018 conference in Lac du Flambeau
HOPE Consortium holds its 2018 conference in Lac du Flambeau
The consortium was created in 2015 with funding from the state legislature and also uses national resources for people seeking and needing help with a mental health and/or a substance use disorder. Its coverage area includes Oneida, Vilas, Forest, Iron and Price counties and the Lac du Flambeau, Forest County Potawatomi and Sokaogon Chippewa tribes.
According to Dannielle Luther, community health manager for Marshfield Clinic Health Systems's Center for Community Health Advancement, the conference, held Aug. 23-24, was a way to bring treatment providers together "to play off of the resources each of them have."
"Some have counseling, a couple of the organizations provide medication assisted treatment ... bringing all these providers together to say that 'Each of you is successful or better at one area over the other,'" she said. "It's a way to bring everyone together because any door is the right door for someone seeking recovery."
Luther said it's very important for people to understand no one county or tribe is unique when it comes to drug abuse.
"The state of Wisconsin has an opioid epidemic," Luther said. "To say it's not happening here is not recognizing that there are people that need help and there are families that need help. Children that need help. So really, it's good that people are talking. That we need, something comprehensive."
That comprehensive approach, she said, should include prevention, treatment and recovery.
"Because we know that people can and do recover," Luther said. "It's a long road but we need the support from the entire community to be successful."
Brian Jopek may be reached via email at bjopek@lakelandtimes. com.
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