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The Snohomish County Jail data dashboard offers the public valuable insights into those booked into the facility, including data on fentanyl testing. On page five of the dashboard, you'll find the percentage of individuals testing positive for fentanyl at the time of booking. Every incarcerated person undergoes a urine screening upon arrival at the jail.
The jail has experienced a rise in the percentage of people testing positive for fentanyl. In the first quarter of 2021, 12.4% tested positive. By the third quarter of 2024, that number had nearly tripled to 38.9%, highlighting the increasing prevalence of fentanyl use among those entering the facility.
 Screen grab from the jail data dashboard showing the rate of people testing positive for fentanyl at booking.
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Join the Snohomish County Recovery Coalition and the Everett AquaSox June 13 for Spring Into Recovery 2. The event will feature a recovery resource fair earlier in the day featuring dozens of organizations, direct access to services, food and fun. The event will be capped by an evening of baseball as the AquaSox face the Tri-City Dust Devils. The goal of the event is to come together as a community to celebrate the gift of recovery and to offer hope for healing.
This is a Funko Friday Giveaway so all attendees will receive an AquaSox tote bag. General admission tickets to the game are available now for $12. There is also the option of donating a ticket for $8, allowing “our unhoused or income-restricted neighbors to attend the event and promote their recovery,” the coalition said on its webpage for the event. All tickets purchased will help to fund the overall event.
To purchase tickets, use the links above or to learn more about participating in the resource fair by visiting the Spring Into Recovery 2 Sign-up Sheet.
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A team in Snohomish County is working to carefully review overdose deaths and use that information to recommend actions that may prevent future deaths. At right is the annual overdose mortality rate in Snohomish County by year.
The purpose of Snohomish County’s Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) is to effectively identify system gaps and develop community-specific overdose prevention and intervention strategies. The OFR develops prevention and intervention strategies by bringing together a prevention-oriented, multidisciplinary team to review aggregate and case-level data and develop a timeline leading up to a fatal overdose. This review, occurring quarterly, helps gain a deeper understanding of missed opportunities for prevention and intervention. It also creates a space to help build organizational and interpersonal relationships among professionals working in the substance use and overdose prevention space. Findings from the OFR will be used to make recommendations, inspire action, and prevent future deaths.
To learn more about the group and how to get involved, please visit https://snohomishoverdoseprevention.com/overdose-fatality-review/
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Hundreds of people came to Snohomish County Youth Suicide Prevention Taskforce’s “You Are Not Alone” event in Mukilteo on March 1. The event, held at the Rosehill Community Center, focused on building resiliency and providing youth, families and community members the tools needed to prevent youth suicide.
The conference featured 40 resource tables, 12 workshops, over 60 volunteers, therapy dogs, music therapy, a collective art project to support healing, and a youth Rocket League tournament. The taskforce’s goal for the event was to provide support and skills, teach others how to identify suicide risks, and help reduce the stigma of mental illness.
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The event was hosted by the Snohomish County Youth Suicide Prevention Taskforce, Snohomish County Human Services, the City of Mukilteo, the Division of Behavioral Health & Veterans Affairs and numerous other community partners.
 Mukilteo police (above left) and therapy dog teams were among those who gathered March 1 for the 'You Are Not Alone' event.
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Three local nonprofits received Snohomish County surplus vehicles in the first use of an updated county policy that allows for vehicle donation.
The Washington West African Center, Holman Recovery Center, and North Counties’ Family Services each received a vehicle. Keys were presented at the McDougall Fleet Shop in Everett on March 7.
The Snohomish County Council passed an ordinance in October 2023 that allows for county-owned surplus vehicles to be donated. Previous policy allowed vehicles which reached the end of their useful life to be disposed of, including by auction, destruction or recycling, but did not allow donation. This is the first time since the policy change that eligible vehicles have come up as surplus.
“I’m proud to champion this program to help support the work nonprofits do every day. We know there are transportation barriers for nonprofit service providers and their clients,” said Council Vice Chair Megan Dunn, who joined Facilities and Fleet staff to help present the keys Friday morning. “These vehicles can do so much more good for the community with service providers behind the wheel than if the county auctioned the cars for pennies on the dollar.”
Learn more.
 Snohomish County Facilities and Fleet staff, Councilmember Dunn, and representatives from the Washington West African Center, Holman Recovery Center, and North Counties’ Family Services pose for a photograph in front of the donated cars March 7.
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Over the summer, Everett Fire Department launched an innovative pilot program that allows our paramedics to administer buprenorphine, also known as Suboxone, to individuals experiencing withdrawal symptoms after an opioid overdose. Since the pilot launched, two dozen people have accepted buprenorphine from paramedics. “Remarkably, 90% of these individuals have engaged with embedded crisis responders from the City of Everett's CARE Team,” the fire department said in a Feb. 18 Facebook post. Among the positive reported outcomes were connecting people to counseling and treatment options. A news release offers more details.
 Everett Fire Facebook post on buprenorphine pilot program.
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