Community Partners

Community Partners are trusted individuals/organizations/entities within their respective communities. Our partners are essential to the functioning of CORA.

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While we are effective at producing educational modules and providing overdose response training, communities are less likely to listen to strangers give seminars on such an important topic as the opioid crisis. As a result, we depend on community partners to use our modules to educate their respective communities on the opioid crisis. Everything comes at no cost to the partners--the partnership is free.

 

In research we conducted, we found that Marylanders in most rural counties correctly answer less than 60% of questions relating to opioids (a failing score). This statistic has contributed heavily to the opioid epidemic, increasing the risk for opioid misuse and addiction, which can eventually lead to overdose.

 

By educating rural areas especially, where resources related to opioids are typically scarce, we can prevent further misuse, addiction, and ultimately overdose.