Isabelle Cisco

Isabelle is a Health Promotion Specialist with the Harm Reduction Program at Lincoln County Public Health, a rural health department on the central Oregon coast. She collaborates with regional Community Health Workers to expand access to outreach services such as naloxone distribution, syringe exchange, HIV & Hepatitis C rapid testing, and navigation into care. Outside of this primary role, Isabelle focuses on building capacity with community partners and key stakeholders to increase awareness about substance use and overdose, and to improve access to naloxone and syringe exchange services. In addition, she worked to create a regional database for tracking naloxone overdose reversals, contributing to the outlook of overdose trends in Lincoln County, allowing local and regional Harm Reduction Programs to identify clusters of overdoses more accurately.

Lincoln County Public Health works effectively with the Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention programs to build capacity between county and regional systems, providing more access to care and increasing community partner engagement. Funded through the Early Intervention Services and Outreach grant provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Harm Reduction program combines substance use & overdose prevention with communicable disease interventions to address the dynamic interaction of the HIV, Hepatitis C, and opioid epidemics. The Harm Reduction team conducts street outreach, providing no-cost services such as naloxone distribution, syringe exchange, navigation into alcohol and drug services, and rapid HIV & Hepatitis C screenings.