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Pasco opioid task force members named

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The Pasco County Commission has appointed some new members and reappointed some former members to the Pasco County Opioid Task Force.

The committee advises the county board on expenditure of any regional funding the county receives in its role as a qualified county from the national prescription litigation.

The 12 members who will each serve a two-year term are:

  1. Glenn Traiger, community paramedic, Mobile Integrated Health Program, will serve as the Pasco County Fire Rescue fire chief’s representative/designee;
    2. Michelle Hudson, MSW, supervisor of social work, will serve as the Pasco County superintendent of schools representative/designee;
    3. Capt. Toni Roach will serve as the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office representative/designee;
    4. Paula Baracaldo, support services director, will serve as the assistant county administrator for the Public Services Branch’s representative/designee;
    5. Derek Brewer, Zephyrhills police chief, will serve as the City of Zephyrhills representative/designee;
    6. Trang Chitakone, administrator of the Pasco County Health Department, will serve as the Pasco County Florida Department of Health representative/designee;
    7. Joseph Resnick, CEO of Premier Community HealthCare, will serve as the subject-matter expert in public health or addiction who is employed by a provider of opioid-
    related services in Pasco County;
    8. Tracey Kaly, director of clinical operations at BayCare Behavioral Health, will serve as the subject-matter expert in public health or addiction who is employed by a hospital
    system operating in Pasco County;
    9. The Hon. Judge Shawn Crane, chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court, will serve as the chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit’s designee/representative;
    10. Parnia Roghani Shareef, co-chair of the Pasco County Alliance for Substance Addiction Prevention (ASAP) Opioid Committee, will serve as the Pasco Alliance for
    Substance Addiction Prevention (Pasco ASAP) representative/designee;
    11. Art Rowand, retired Pasco County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, will serve as the subject-matter expert in public health or addiction, who is retired.
    12. Lauren Letona, deputy chief of the City of New Port Richey, will serve as the City of New Port Richey representative/designee

Published January 17, 2024