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Posted 3/11/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
This is a resource for harm reduction programs and communities looking to establish new community advisory boards (CABs) or improve upon existing ones. Syringe Services Program Community Advisory Boards: A Framework offers structured recommendations to develop, convene, and sustain effective syringe service program CABs.
Posted 3/10/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) updated Overdose Prevention and Response Toolkit provides guidance to a wide range of individuals on preventing and responding to an overdose. It emphasizes harm reduction and access to treatment as essential aspects of overdose prevention.
Posted 4/5/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network has developed an Alcohol Awareness Toolkit to use during Alcohol Awareness Month. The Alcohol Awareness Toolkit will help you raise awareness about alcohol-related harms and the importance of strong alcohol policies. It also encourages engagement from prevention and public health stakeholders to strategically educate and inform decision-makers about effective alcohol policies by providing easy-to-personalize, templated opinion editorials, letters to legislators, and proclamations.
Posted 2/7/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing announced a toolkit, Public Safety-led Community-oriented Overdose Prevention Efforts (PS-COPE), which provides framework to use to enhance overdose prevention and response in the Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities. The toolkit provides tips, tools, and resources to help integrate this approach into existing overdose prevention and response efforts.
Posted 12/13/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the progress made since the release of the Overdose Prevention Strategy (Strategy) last fall. The new data shows treatment capacity, lives saved from overdose, and commitments to long-term recovery supports, as well as a hopeful trend of a decrease in overdose deaths.
Posted 11/1/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Last year, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) launched a resource meant to help local health departments (LHD) prevent or mitigate potentially traumatic events, known as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) allows LHDs to make an internal assessment of their capacity to address and prevent a still-growing public health issue.
Posted 11/1/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The webinar held by NASTAD on October 26, 2022, 4:00-5:30pm featured a dynamic discussion on integrating harm reduction principles and practices, including naloxone distribution, safe disposal, and harm reduction supply access, within the community health care setting. Health centers across the country that offer these services as part of comprehensive care shared their experiences and the ways that service expansion can contribute to engagement and care access.
Posted 11/24/2021 (updated 3/26/2024)
This webinar will provide participants with an understanding of the role of the medical examiners and coroners in the surveillance of drug overdose deaths, as well as the current efforts to strengthen the death investigation system. The webinar will also cover an overview of the overdose fatality review process and tools available for implementation.
Posted 9/8/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Jordana Latozas ACNP, President of Recovery Mobile Clinic, described the mobile medical model and discuss how they are growing and developing in the field
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the current scope of Mobile units focused on Addiction medicine
Recognize the lack of rural area SUD and MAT treatment
Identify difficulties with the Mobile Model
Identify Ways to bring the Mobile Model into mainstream SUD/OUD treatment
Presenter: Jordana Latozas ACNP, President of Recovery Mobile Clinic
Expanding The Circle of Care: A Practical Guide to Syringe Services for Tribal and Rural Communities
Posted 8/3/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
This guide presents practical information on establishing and maintaining syringe services in rural and tribal communities based on experiences of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.