Director of Community Engagement
McCall Center for Behavioral Health
Torrington, Connecticut
Lauren, Director of Community Engagement at McCall Center for Behavioral Health, has served as the Litchfield County Opiate Task Force (LCOTF) Coordinator for the last few years. The LCOTF is a multi-sector community collaborative working to address addiction and its root causes in the northwest corner of Connecticut. Lauren provides oversight of LCOTF initiatives, including implementing and expanding a regional harm reduction program; engaging stakeholders and coordinating efforts in the development of an overdose spike alert response plan; overseeing the development and implementation of overdose outreach teams that partner police with community services; creating a multidisciplinary toolkit and training stakeholders statewide, including State Police Troopers, on developing a trauma-informed community; and coordinating regional multi-agency outreach and recovery coaching work. She serves as the Statewide Project Manager for Connecticut's COSSAP, Community and Law Enforcement for Addiction Recovery (CLEAR), and as Project Director for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) in Litchfield County. Lauren holds a master's degree in Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases from the Yale School of Public Health where she assessed the needs and barriers to care for people living with HIV with an emphasis in using epidemiological research methods to examine synergistic health and social conditions, including injection drug use. Lauren attained her bachelor's degree in Biomedical Science from Northern Arizona University where she co-authored research on the infectious disease melioidosis.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
