Overdose Fatality Review Teams – Tarrant County

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Networking: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Presentation: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Free CEUs and PDH's for all participants!

A virtual link will be sent out the morning of the presentation. For those attending in person, please check in at the 3rd Floor Conference Room and let the Admissions Team know you are there for the EAPA meeting. Networking before and after the meeting.

"Overdose Fatality Review Teams – Tarrant County"

- 3 Objectives:

1) Describe the epidemiology of the opioid epidemic nationally and in Tarrant county.

2) Characterize the structure and function overdose fatality review teams.

3) Examine recommendations from some previous OFR teams and goals for Tarrant County.

Director of Special Projects

In her role, Becky oversees public health partnerships and drives initiatives to combat opioid use across North Texas, including leading the Council’s Overdose Response Team. Becky has been with the Council since 2017. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Northwood University and a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Texas Arlington, with an emphasis on mental health and substance use. She is a certified prevention specialist and a licensed chemical dependency counselor. Becky launched the agency’s Overdose Response Team in Dallas, Denton, Plano, and Tarrant counties and the Overdose Fatality Review Committee for Tarrant County – the first in the state of Texas. Becky oversees the Council’s position as the public health partner for the Center for Disease Control’s Overdose Response Strategy program for the North Texas region, a partnership program with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program. She is also a contributing member on several opioid-focused task forces and work groups across the metroplex, including the City of Dallas’s Opioid and Fentanyl Strike Force, Tarrant County Public Health’s Overdose Workgroup, UNT Police Department’s Fentanyl/ Overdose Awareness Coalition, and Dallas ISD’s Substance Abuse Task Force. Becky is passionate about serving others, making community-level impact, and creating and leading programs that are aimed at reducing harm and making meaningful change.

Dr. Casey Green was born and raised in here in Fort Worth. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and graduated medical school from UTMB in Galveston. He completed his psychiatry training at JPS Hospital here in Fort Worth and is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine. He has been faculty for the UTSW with the addiction fellows and is currently teaching with the TCU school of medicine. He currently serves as the Physician Health and Wellness Co-Chair for the Tarrant County Medical Society and as far as he knows has helped start the first Overdose Fatality Review Committee here in Texas with Recovery Resource Council. He also serves as clinical faculty for Texas Health and Baylor Internal Medicine Programs and the JPS/UNTHSC child psychiatry fellows.In his free time Dr. Green does pickleball, hot yoga, coaches his kids sports teams and loves to travel and read sci-fi.

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