Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD), Opioid Program, and The Program of Addiction, Research, Clinical Care and Advocacy (PARCKA) from the University of Utah Division of Epidemiology, joined in efforts to train family practice providers in the Salt Lake Valley in July 2018. Invitations were sent out through professional organizations: Utah Medical Association, Utah Nurse Practitioners Network, The Utah Academy of Physician Assistants, Utah Academy of Family Physicians, Association of Utah Community Health Centers, Utah Hospital Association, University of Utah (Community Clinics & Internal Medicine, Continuing Medical Education Office sent to all providers who have taken the online opioid training), as well as some local practices were reached out to.

SLCoHD received funding through a grant with the Utah Department of Health, the Community-Level Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Grant. One of the grant objectives is to coordinate with local health systems to schedule provider trainings on opioid prescribing issues, controlled substance database use and best practices for reducing unintended deaths from prescription opioids. This provided a perfect opportunity for SLCoHD and PARCKA to coordinate and collaborate. PARCKA coordinated with University of Utah Continuing Medical Education Office to provide AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM for those that attended the training.

SLCoHD was able to provide funds for meals and continuing medical education credit fees. The venues chosen for the trainings were Salt Lake County owned facilities so there were no fees. SLCoHD opioid staff coordinated the venues, lunches, registration, and assisted with advertising.