PRESENT: Mauro Cantalamessa, Niki Frenchko and Frank Fuda
Commissioners:
⢠Acknowledged the need to replace Leslie Morris on the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board following her death;
⢠Approved a change order submitted by Marucci and Gaffney Excavating Company of Youngstown for the Pritchard Ohltown Road bridge replacement project, adding an additional $30,000, bringing the total of the project to $428,884;
⢠Approved an agreement with MS Consultants of Youngstown for professional engineering services for the county’s bridge inspection program, at a rate of $193,299 for 2021, $198,051 for 2022 and $202,923 for 2023, with a plus cost amount of $20,000 each year, on the recommendation of the Trumbull County engineer;
Jan 24, 2021
LIBERTY Recognizing the mental and emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Liberty Local School District has bolstered its support for students and families.
Using its school counselors and partnering with Cadence Care Network and the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board, the district brought a social worker into the schools and is using its therapy dog, Pawss.
“Pawss has provided a sense of normalcy from Day One and that has added a unique source of comfort that only a therapy pet can provide,” interim Liberty Superintendent Andy Tommelleo said.
While Pawss has been a school staple for nearly four years, her owner, Kristie Sallee, who also is the district’s PK-6 school counselor, knew she would play an even bigger role this year.
Jan 22, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, it seems news coverage and the general focus on accidental drug overdoses and the opioid epidemic have taken a back seat.
Sadly, though, the drug abuse problem has not gone away. In fact, increased isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted even more severely people with substance-use disorders, local mental health officials said recently. In Trumbull County, accidental drug overdose deaths increased in 2020 over data from 2019 and 2018. Thankfully, the number has not risen to the highs of 2017, according to data provided by local health officials.
Trumbull County had 90 confirmed fatal overdose deaths and 17 unofficial drug overdose deaths in 2020. If the unofficial tallies are confirmed, there will have been 107 overdose deaths in the county last year. In 2019, 92 accidental drug overdose deaths occurred, 76 in 2018 and 135 in 2017.
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Increased isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people with substance use disorders, local mental health officials said.
In Trumbull County, accidental drug overdose deaths increased in 2020, over data from 2019 and 2018, but the number has not risen to the highs of 2017, according to data provided by local health officials.
There were 90 confirmed fatal overdose deaths in Trumbull County in 2020, and 17 unofficial drug overdose deaths. If the unofficial tallies are confirmed, there will have been 107 overdose deaths in the county in 2020.
In 2019, there were 92 accidental drug overdose deaths, and there were 76 in 2018, and 135 in 2017. There were 879 overdose encounters in hospitals in the county in 2020, according to health data. The majority of the fatal and non-fatal overdoses were in the 44446 zip code in Niles and Weathersfield, and in the Warren / Howland / Champion ZIP codes of 44483, 44484 and 44485. The majority of the overdose dea
While Pawss has been a school staple for nearly four years, her owner, who is also the district’s PK-6 school counselor, knew she would play an even bigger role this year.