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86 <br /> Funding Recommendations <br /> OC-EMS Post-Overdose Response Team (PORT) <br /> • Option A, Strategy 8 (Post-Overdose Response Team) <br /> • Funding Period — January 1, 2024 — December 2026 <br /> • Funding recommendation - $244,020.00/1st year (Option 2 - x846,047.13 for a 3-Year Period) <br /> • Provider — Orange County Emergency Services <br /> • Description ofActivity — <br /> • Development and implementation of a PORT within the geographic constraints of <br /> Orange County, NC; funds will support staff salary, supplies and needed software. <br /> • PORTs are specialized teams that respond to opioid overdoses in real time or within 24-72 <br /> hours of the overdose event. Upon implementation, the OC-EMS PORT will meet individuals <br /> where they are at in their addiction by providing harm reduction resources, linkage to <br /> treatment services, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) induction and administration. <br /> • This service will be available to all eli ible individuals that OC-EMS interfaces with during EMS <br /> incidents and will be provided as a referral for collaboratin departments, emergency <br /> departments, organizations and the community at-large. PORTS have become the standard of <br /> care in post-overdose services nationally and locally, with 41 North Carolina counties currently <br /> having an active PORT in place. <br />