Successful coalitions are prepared to engage the public, recruit allies for the cause, and get the message out to as many people as possible. A coalition fact sheet will help your coalition tell your story including your goals, strategies, and accomplishments. This template provides an outline with examples and prompts for developing a fact sheet that can be used when creating a coalition website, presentation, or other outreach materials.

This worksheet will help you outline why your coalition is choosing to continue an existing effort or beginning a new project. Make a strong case and approach partners with confidence for why you should continue to develop your coalition. Think about the benefits that your coalition provides to your community, who are you reaching, what are you accomplishing, and how are you promoting healthier lives.

Connections are powerful. They're assets - like money in the bank or social capital --to help us meet our goals of preventing death and disability from opioids. Mapping these assets and creating opportunities for them to contribute to your cause will expand engagement and impact. Use this worksheet to determine who your connections are, who you would like to connect with, and what connections might be missing. Make an action plan to connect with folks that could increase your social capital.

Connections are powerful. They're assets - like money in the bank or social capital --to help us meet our goals of preventing death and disability from opioids. Use this worksheet to figure out where your current connections are within the community, and where you are lacking. Think about connections that may help you sustain your efforts. You may not know the individuals within those groups you would like to make a connection with, but be as specific as possible where you can.

This presentation focuses on strategies to engage communities of faith in overdose prevention efforts, identifies potential barriers and facilitators to implement overdose prevention strategies among communities of faith, and the presenters discuss resources that can be used to empower faith leaders to address the opioid epidemic in their communities.

Strong partnerships are essential to the success of any coalition. Use this tool to map partners in your community.

This document outlines harm reduction principles and specific strategies you can bring into your coalition to deepen your work. 

This video is a call with the subject matter expert, who is a former law enforcement officer, Savannah O'Neill about her perspective for harm reduction strategies.

This webinar introduces you to powerful communication strategies to help focus attention on how COVID-19 is affecting your community and discusses how to use persuasive narratives to break through the clutter.

This session offers insights into how to think about the current moment as a way forward for your coalition. We offer strategies for managing change, and generate discussion on how to adapt your coalition in light of this shifting environment.

This workshop discusses the neurobiology of trauma, community trauma and inherent community resilience, how COVID-19 is impacting our levels of toxic stress, and how we can take tangible steps to heal ourselves individually and transform our organizations into trauma-responsive agencies.

Guidance for syringe services/harm reduction providers and safer drug use in the COVID-19 outbreak.