This is CBS. I am the world. I am John Bachelors. FedGov today, Francis Rose, the host on Sunday

Morning's Channel 7 and the nation's capital. The story is the nation's capital has a

federal workforce that is extremely busy, and Francis is exploring the frontier of legacy

data and digital data that's now flowing to the cloud. All of these presentations involve

that underway, and yet there's also very smart programming here for we'll begin with

Megan Meacham, Director of the Rural Strategic Initiatives Division in the Federal Office

of Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS. Now,

the acronym itself would bend my ability to remember it, but in any event what Megan

does with her colleagues is something that is vital to the country right now. They

are dealing with rural America that is in the middle of a crisis, opioid crisis, and

abuse of drugs, chiefly fentanyl crisis, and Megan tells the story humbly one day in

2017 or 2018. They had a meeting about opioids and the number of deaths in America, and they

did something about it. What did they do, Francis? Good evening to you. Good evening, John.

Thanks for having me on the program. Well, what they did, the significance I think of

what they did was twofold. What they did was they said, is there a way that we can reach

out to these communities that are different from each other, every one of them different,

work with them in ways that are meaningful and sustainable in those communities to try to stem

the tide against the opioid crisis and the fentanyl crisis. And the reason that that is significant

in my mind is instead of what the government is stereotyped for doing, for the people think

that does regularly by saying here's the solution. Their goal was to find money that they could

give in the form of grants to local organizations that could demonstrate that they were going to

make a difference in the opioid and fentanyl crisis. And that's the reason that Megan and her

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