Partners

The Opioid Affected Youth Initiative is made possible through various partnerships with local organizations.

Addiction Services Board
The Miami-Dade County Addiction Services Board (ASB), established by ordinance in 1990 to improve coordination of substance abuse prevention and treatment services through partnership with the Miami Coalition For a Safe and Drug-Free Community and other public and private agencies, has partnered with the Miami-Dade County Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (OAYI) project to serve as the project’s task force.

Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County
The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) was established by the Florida Legislature in 1996; however, public health has its roots in Florida dating back to 1888 with the creation of the Florida State Board of Health. FDOH is an executive branch agency, established in section 20.43, F.S. It is led by a State Surgeon General, who serves as the State Health Officer and is directly appointed by Florida’s Governor, and confirmed by Florida’s Senate. FDOH is comprised of a state health office (central office) in Tallahassee, with statewide responsibilities; Florida’s 67 County Health Departments (CHDs); 22 Children’s Medical Services (CMS) area offices; 12 Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) regional offices; nine Disability Determinations regional offices; and three public health laboratories. Facilities for the 67 CHDs are provided through partnerships with local county governments. These 67 CHDs have a total of 255 sites throughout the state, providing a variety of services, and ranging from small to large in location size.

Hope for Miami
Hope for Miami nurtures children, youth, and families through effective programs to help them build positive, healthy futures. Hope for Miami has partnered with the Miami-Dade County Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (OAYI) project to provide consulting services on recruitment and outreach and engagement of youth, families, school-based personnel, youth-serving organizations, and afterschool programs in our project target areas.

Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership, Inc.,
Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is a broad-based, grass roots volunteer/parent organization that is affiliated with the National Family Partnership. Informed Families is an education, training and support center for parents, schools and communities to help raise safe, healthy and drug-free children. Informed Families has partnered with the Miami-Dade County Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (OAYI) project to deliver educational sessions to youth and families, train-the-trainer sessions to school-based personnel, and assist in the development of a mass media campaign focusing on the use, misuse, and abuse of opioids.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP) Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (OAYI) supports the efforts of states, communities, tribal jurisdictions, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to provide integrated services supportive of youth and their families. Through this program, OJJDP provides funding to states and communities to develop and implement effective, data-driven, and coordinated responses to opioid abuse-related challenges and other substance use disorders that impact youth and community safety.

The Village South, Inc
The Village South, Inc., founded in 1973, is a 501(c)(3) private, not-for-profit multi-service organization, providing a wide array of human and social services focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, intervention and education services, and residential/ outpatient substance abuse and behavioral health treatment services. The Village South has partnered with the Miami-Dade County Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (OAYI) project to deliver educational sessions to youth and families, train-the-trainer sessions to school-based personnel, and assist in the development of a mass media campaign focusing on the use, misuse, and abuse of opioids.