Substance Use Recovery Services Advisory Committee (SURSAC)
SURSAC includes a panel of individuals with lived experience, legislative representation, and subject matter expertise related to behavioral health community needs, harm reduction, outreach, treatment, and recovery support services. The committee provides policy recommendations to the legislature. View the roster.
Receive updates on SURSAC work and plan implementation.
Recommendation plans
Since 2023, SURSAC has recommended several measures, many of which were adopted per 2E2SSB 5536, to help individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) access outreach, treatment, and recovery support services that are:
- Low barrier.
- Person-centered.
- Informed by people with lived experience.
- Culturally and linguistically appropriate.
- SURSAC approved recommendations
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- Plan recommendation 1 (Recovery housing incentives and vouchers)
- Plan recommendation 2 (Legal advocacy)
- Plan recommendation 3 (LGBTQIA housing)
- Plan recommendation 4 (Training Foster Parents of Children with SUD)
- Plan recommendation 5 (Paraphernalia Law)
- Plan recommendation 6 (BHASO RNP data)
- Plan recommendation 7 (Health Hubs)
- Plan recommendation 8 (Education/Employment Support)
- Plan recommendation 9 (WRHL and asset mapping)
- Plan recommendation 10 (Diversion Referral programs)
- Plan recommendation 11 (Initial SUD Engagement and Measurement)
- Plan recommendation 12 (Stigma Reducing Outreach in Schools)
- Plan recommendation 13 (Data Infrastructure for Diversion, RNP, and Services)
- Plan recommendation 14 (Safe Supply workgroup)
- Plan recommendation 15 (Rural Access and Expansion of OTPs)
- Plan recommendation 16 (Recovery Housing Zoning)
- Plan recommendation 18 (Continuum of Housing) Provide a continuum of housing along the substance use and recovery spectrum, including people who use drugs. (NOTE: Significant changes were made to the subcommittee’s original recommendation following SURSAC discussion, and prior to committee approval, so the original draft is not hyperlinked here. Details of the approved recommendation are included in the Substance Use Recovery Services Plan).
Safe Supply Work Group (SSWG)
The primary objective of SSWG is to conduct a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the current situation, ultimately providing a preliminary report and recommendations to the governor and the relevant legislative committees no later than December 1, 2023.
A final report is expected to be submitted by December 1, 2024, encompassing the work group's conclusive findings and recommendations.
Meetings and materials
How to offer public comment during meetings
- If you want to provide feedback during the meeting, mention this in the chat at the beginning of the meeting.
- There will be designated time for public feedback in the last 5-20 minutes of the meeting, depending on how many people want to share
- Each person will have 3 minutes to provide their feedback.
- Non-committee members will remain muted during the meeting until it is time for them to share feedback, if requested.
- Feedback that is not provided during the meeting can be submitted via email.
2024 schedule
- SURSAC
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Date How to join Meeting materials May 6 Join Teams meeting June 3 Join Teams meeting July 1 Join Teams meeting August 5 Join Teams meeting September 6 Join Teams meeting October 7 Join Teams meeting November 4 Join Teams meeting December 2 Join Teams meeting - Safe Supply Work Group
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Date How to join Meeting materials April 25 Join Zoom meeting May 9 Join Zoom meeting May 23 Join Zoom meeting June 6 Join Zoom meeting June 20 Join Zoom meeting
Past meetings
- 2024
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Meeting Date Meeting materials SSWG April 11 SURSAC April 1 SURSAC March 4 SSWG March 3 SURSAC February 5
SURSAC January 8 - 2023
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Meeting Dates Meeting materials SURSAC December
No meeting was held in December 2023. SURSAC November 6 SURSAC October 2 SURSAC September 11 SURSAC July 10 SURSAC June 12 SURSAC May 1 SURSAC April 3 SURSAC March 6 SURSAC February 13 SURSAC January 9 - 2022
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