26B-8-233. Family outreach specialist.
(1) With funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose, the department shall provide compensation, at a standard rate determined by the department, to a family outreach specialist.
(2) The family outreach specialist shall: engage with relatives or the legal guardian of an individual who has recently died by suicide or overdose to better understand the circumstances that precede a suicide or drug-related death, including by: contacting next of kin; collecting information in an interview; assessing next of kin; and providing targeted bereavement care; and assist the medical examiner with suicide intervention, prevention, and postvention, including: mortality surveillance; research coordination; data management and analysis; and epidemiological surveillance.