This session will highlight the Public Health and Safety Team (PHAST) toolkit, which identifies successful strategies for reaching a shared understanding of opioid use disorder and the ways in which partners use language similarly or differently, and how rural communities have used these strategies to increase coordination and communication across systems and stakeholders.

• Sarisa Roe, PHAST Evaluation Coordinator, CDC Foundation
• Adam Sorensen, Director of Treatment and Recovery Services at the Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services Board, Logan County, Ohio
• John Hitchens, Executive Director of EMS, Star City Volunteer Fire Department, West Virginia
• Dr. Lee Smith, Executive Director, Monongalia County Health Department, West Virginia