Facente Consulting

Excited to be in Honolulu today and tomorrow training staff at the Hawai’i Department of Health about different strategies for collecting and using community-based data to drive planning of maternal and child health programs. It’s always a treat when consulting allows for travel, engaging with people doing such important work, AND the beach….😜🏝️🐠😎❤️

In collaboration with The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, Facente Consulting has developed a statewide landscape analysis and ten case study videos hosted on an interactive StoryMaps site (link in our bio!) highlighting how Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) save lives and strengthen communities.

California continues to face an urgent overdose crisis, with over 5,000 opioid-related deaths in 2024. MAT—such as methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone—is a proven tool that reduces overdose deaths and improves long-term care outcomes, and yet many communities still face barriers to access.

There is so much to digest, so keep your eyes open this week for key takeaways and video highlights. We’ll be featuring this project all week!

Facente Consulting is so honored to have been able to work with The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, Daigle Digital, and substance use providers around the state of California to create a series of short videos that highlight 10 different models of providing medications for addiction treatment (MAT) to support people with opioid use disorder.

On December 10 The Center at Sierra Health Foundation will be hosting a webinar with us from 12-1 PST, where people interested in learning more about these programs can join and ask questions of some of the amazing folks who've made it happen in their own sites!

Registration link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/uqGcpZRuQ8K6Py5ClrlujQ

Video series can be viewed here: https://facenteconsulting.com/work/mat-video-series/

If you're a substance use provider who already offers MAT or wants to start, please check it out! We'd love to have you join us.

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Quick jaunt to LA today for the California Hepatitis C Summit! Looking forward to a great day with movers and shakers committed to eliminating hepatitis C.

Are you at ? Come visit us in the Expo at Booth 1521!

Enjoying hearing the brilliant pitches of critical, innovative public health ideas as part of Springboard HealthLab’s first annual Pitch Day. Springboard raised over $100,000 to invest in supporting and incubating fledgling projects into powerhouse ideas that will change the world. This feels more important then ever in these tenuous times!

Facente Consulting is going to APHA’s 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo, November 2-5 in Washington, D.C.! Will we see you there? We’ll be in the Expo Hall (Booth 1521) and out and about in DC all week (staying through the 7th). We’d love to meet up — send us a message and let’s be in touch!

Facente Consulting had the greatest time last week learning to blow glass with Prax and Katie at the .hand.studio in Alameda - a fun way to hang as a team, learn a new skill, come home with a present (for self or others!), and find out a bit about our colleagues’ artistic personalities! ❤️😜

Facente Consulting was so pleased to be able to help Santa Clara County Public Health plan and host a beautiful event today in Roosevelt Park in San Jose in honor of International Overdose Awareness Day. It was an added treat to be recognized by the Board of Supervisors for our support of such an important community event!

Unexpected places to be: sitting in the front seat of a giant RV that’s been outfitted to provide methadone to people in the San Fernando Valley. has quite the operation and Facente Consulting is lucky to have a chance to support them in telling the stories of their success!

Today and met with Phoebe Olivera and the great team at Contra Costa Fire & EMS’s AMR ambulance crew to learn about their pioneering work offering suboxone to people during transport after they’ve received Narcan to reverse an opioid overdose. It’s always fun to get away from the computer and spend time in the field learning from people doing lifesaving work every day!