Caring for Women with Opioid Use Disorder: A Toolkit for Organization Leaders and Providers

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a public health crisis affecting women, men, children, and society.1 Women with OUD have unique care needs and require a broad range of medical, behavioral health, and social services to meet these needs. Care coordination is important to manage the array of services that might be delivered to women in different settings. Without care coordination, women with OUD might struggle to access the services they need to get treatment and maintain recovery.

This toolkit is a guide to help you and other health care and social service organization leaders and providers improve care coordination for women with OUD in HRSA-supported programs. The information in this toolkit may also apply to other settings of care.

• You may use all or some of the resources in the toolkit based on your organization characteristics, provider characteristics, and the characteristics of the woman with OUD that you are serving.
• Some of the resources in the toolkit may apply to your work with women with substance use disorder more broadly