By no later than December 31, 2021, and every year thereafter, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, the Healthy Streets Operation Center through the Department of Emergency Management, and the Human Services Agency shall each submit to the Board of Supervisors a departmental policy describing how the department and its grantees that provide direct services to clients who use drugs will promote strategies to reduce drug overdoses (“Overdose Prevention Policy”), along with a resolution to accept transmission of the policy. Each departmental Overdose Prevention Policy shall, to the extent applicable to the department’s activities:
(a) Address how departmental programs will provide drug treatment and harm reduction programs and services;
(b) Describe where the department will post the following materials to ensure that they are available and accessible to all clients:
(1) Up-to-date information about the location and schedule of syringe access and disposal services; and
(2) Up-to-date referral information about naloxone access and the schedule of overdose prevention and naloxone distribution services;
(c) Include an onsite overdose response policy that describes the steps the department will take in the event that an individual overdoses on property managed by the department or in the presence of department personnel;
(d) Ensure that department staff who work with people who use drugs receive training in overdose prevention strategies; and
(e) Describe the process by which the department will ensure that grantees that manage property on behalf of the department and/or provide direct services to people who use drugs implement overdose prevention policies that contain the information required in subsections (a)-(d) of this Section 15.17 as applied to the grantee.
(Added by Ord. 84-21, File No. 210304, App. 6/25/2021, Eff. 7/26/2021)
(Former Sec. 15.17 added by Ord. 467-87, App. 12/3/87; amended by Ord. 337-99, File No. 992043, App. 12/30/99; repealed by Ord. 177-11, File No. 110809, App. 9/21/2011, Eff. 10/21/2011)