Lake County Opioid Initiative

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2015

The Lake County Opioid Initiative was founded in December 2012. Lake County State's Attorney Michael G. Nerheim, Chief George Filenko of the Round Lake Park Police Department and Commander of the Lake County Major Crimes Taskforce, Chelsea Laliberte, Executive Director of Live4Lali, and Bruce Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of NICASA Behavioral Health Services came together to alleviate a growing opioid epidemic that has been affecting the Lake County area for far too long. The mission of the Lake County Opioid Initiative is to develop, implement, evaluate and sustain a multi-strategy county-wide effort to prevent opioid abuse, addiction, overdose and death.