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:
(a) 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:
(i) contacting next of kin;
(ii) collecting information in an interview;
(iii) assessing next of kin; and
(iv) providing targeted bereavement care; and
(b) assist the medical examiner with suicide intervention, prevention, and postvention, including:
(i) mortality surveillance;
(ii) research coordination;
(iii) data management and analysis; and
(iv) epidemiological surveillance.