Action Items / Start Date / Lead Person / Status / Progress Notes
COMPLETE ON-SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SLIPPING NO SCHEDULE
Goal / Implement an efficient and effective problem gambling service delivery system for rural Oregon communities.
Enhance Current Activities / Action Items / Start Date / Lead Person / Status / Progress Notes
  1. Expand methods to better mobilize the rural communities to raise awareness and enhance availability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services.
/ Convene a rural PGS treatment work group to develop strategies to increase utilization of problem gambling treatment services through new innovative approaches. / March 2017 / Treatment Specialist / OS
Develop a subcommittee from the Prevention Advisory Committee to address rural prevention/awareness issues. / March 2017 / Roxann / OS
  1. Expand upon the use of program development consultants or another form of technical assistance for providers serving rural communities.
/ Develop strategies from the ideas and concepts from the rural workgroups and determine how to implement and provide needed technical assistance. / September 2017 / Roxann/Treatment Specialist / OS
  1. Continue to work with the Oregon Lottery on better meeting the needs of rural communities when developing and implementing problem gambling awareness campaigns.
/ Develop strategies from the ideas and concepts from the rural workgroups. / September 2017 / Roxann/Treatment Specialist / OS
New Initiatives / Action Items / Start Date / Lead Person / Status / Progress Notes
  1. Explore the expansion of a regionalized problem gambling treatment system in some rural regions of Oregon.
/ Develop standards and policies, billing codes for tele-counseling and community based counseling. / September 2017 / Greta / OS
Explore centralized provider system in select rural regions of Oregon. / September 2017 / Greta / OS
  1. Establish additional supports for rural problem gambling prevention and treatment providers, such as designated rural provider webinars and consultation group conference calls.
/ See new initiative c under Initiative 1: Collaboration and also the development of rural workgroup within this initiative. / September 2017 / Roxann/Treatment Specialist / OS
  1. Explore revisions to existing policies to allow for a more flexible approach to offering problem gambling services in rural communities.
/ See section below and develop or revise policies from the ideas and concepts generated from the rural workgroups. / September 2017 / Greta / OS
  1. When necessary, establish a set of policy exceptions or region specific policies for delivering services in rural communities.
/ Develop policies, etc. from the ideas and concepts generated from the rural workgroups / September 2017 / Greta / OS
  1. Explore developing the capacity to offer short-term stay treatment and/or respite care in Eastern Oregon, implement if deemed feasible.
/ Determine existing respite type facility that would be interested and able to provide problem gambling respite services to Eastern Oregon residents. / May 2016 / Greta / OS
  1. Explore and implement, when feasible, innovative intervention approaches designed to meet the needs of persons living in rural communities.
/ Explore the idea of providing a model of intensive treatment over a weekend period, bringing clients together from numerous regions. / July 2017 / Treatment Specialist / OS

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