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Posted 2/4/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
How States are Responding to the Opioid Crisis: An Overview Webinar Presentation and Materials
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This presentation discussed the evolution of North Carolina’s formerly siloed sectors: prevention, treatment, & recovery. The introduction of Recovery Community Center (RCC) funding helped to develop a network of community-based recovery support services. However, when one of NC’s strongest prevention coalitions received RCC funding, they took it to another level. Keeping strongly rooted in its prevention identity, they expanded their growth into authentic recovery support services and non-arrest diversion partnerships with local law enforcement and treatment providers. Implementation II grantee Wilson Substance Prevention Coalition illustrated some of its full continuum of care programming and how it has adapted to the pandemic’s challenges
Posted 5/5/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
We discussed the importance of engaging community influencers in your efforts to improve prevention, treatment, and recovery systems and services. We talked about how to identify and engage these key community stakeholders and why this strategic activity is vital to your consortium’s sustainability.
Posted 5/26/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
What is the importance of responsive leadership? The complex choices facing leaders at every level of an organization require inclusive assessments and innovative solutions. Leaders face questions about who should be sitting around the table and which two or three responses might work to address a community consortium challenge. The presenter will review interventions for engaging in complex situations and a new normal.
Posted 8/4/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Posted 6/8/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
A collaborative community process to define a town by what it offers the people who live there is the short way to describe the work of placemaking. This digital toolkit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Kentucky’s Community and Economic Development Initiative includes examples of rural placemaking projects along with technical assistance providers, funders, and guides to resources.
Posted 6/10/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
More people are dying from overdose now than at any point in history. Individuals learned about three innovative communication campaigns that challenge stigma, center people who use drugs, and build support for harm reduction as a lifesaving strategy to reduce overdose deaths.
Posted 4/25/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Wish lists for consortiums or coalitions often include words like “effective,” “engaged,” “productive,” “sustainable,” “powerful,” “growing,” and “motivated.”
Posted 9/25/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) now has the "Engaging Community Coalitions to Decrease Opioid Overdose Deaths Practice Guide" available, as a product of the HEALing Communities Study (HCS).
Posted 3/15/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
Clinical experts from the Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS) created the Substance Use Disorder 101 Core Curriculum for Healthcare Professionals. With the addition of two new module topics, the 23 modules in this 2023 curriculum provide an overview of evidence-based practices in the prevention, identification, and treatment of substance use disorders and co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions for a variety of populations.