The NGA Center for Best Practices welcomed state teams from Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, and Missouri to Phoenix, Arizona on January 25 and 26 to kick off the Policy Academy on Overdose Prevention Across the Continuum.
Amie F. Bettencourt, Ph.D, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, led the research effort, which studied increases in call volumes at Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) programs in Maryland and Mississippi.