Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, Duluth, 232 Life Science, 1110 Kirby Drive, Duluth, MN, 55812-3003, USA.
Health and Human Performance Department, University of Wisconsin-Superior, 1402 Marcovich Wellness Center, 1810 Catlin Avenue, Superior, WI, 54880, USA.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2019 Dec;15(12):1406-1414. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2018.07.002. Epub 2018 Jul 4.
The opioid crisis is a major public health priority for most United States communities and requires multi-disciplinary and multi-pronged approaches. Despite this, there is considerable unfulfilled potential for engagement of academic pharmacy with community partners to form mutually-beneficial relationships.
This study sought to determine how an opioid-focused Engaged Department Initiative might increase partnerships with rural community members and positively impact faculty teaching, service, practice and research while addressing a critical public health crisis in northern Minnesota.
A multidisciplinary department at a College of Pharmacy participated in an 18-month Engaged Department Initiative focused on building community partnerships to address the opioid crisis in rural communities of northern Minnesota. This initiative included internal, departmental-specific components, as well as external components focused on meeting opioid-related needs in the community.
This initiative resulted in statistically significant increases in faculty understanding of and appreciation for community engagement, as well as the creation of impactful community-led programming focused on prevention and intervention of opioid use disorder. The community partnerships that were formed and strengthened throughout the Engaged Department Initiative have led to continuing opioid-related engagement activities with an ever-increasing number of surrounding communities.
An Engaged Department process allowed one department to bring a higher level of attention to community engagement to the entire College of Pharmacy and to incorporate goals and initiatives related to community engagement into a new collegiate strategic plan.
阿片类药物危机是大多数美国社区的主要公共卫生重点，需要采取多学科和多管齐下的方法。尽管如此，学术药学与社区合作伙伴合作形成互利关系的潜力仍未得到充分发挥。
本研究旨在确定以阿片类药物为重点的参与式部门倡议如何增加与农村社区成员的合作关系，并积极影响教师的教学、服务、实践和研究，同时解决明尼苏达州北部的一个关键公共卫生危机。
药学院的一个多学科部门参与了为期 18 个月的参与式部门倡议，旨在建立社区伙伴关系，以解决明尼苏达州北部农村社区的阿片类药物危机。该倡议包括内部、部门特定的组成部分，以及外部组成部分，重点是满足社区与阿片类药物相关的需求。
该倡议导致教师对社区参与的理解和欣赏以及创建有影响力的以社区为主导的预防和干预阿片类药物使用障碍的计划显著增加。在整个参与式部门倡议中形成和加强的社区伙伴关系，导致与周边越来越多的社区继续开展与阿片类药物相关的参与活动。
参与式部门流程使一个部门能够将更高水平的社区参与度带到整个药学院，并将与社区参与相关的目标和倡议纳入新的学院战略计划。
