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Toolkits, guides, and other resources vetted by experts in overdose prevention.
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Faith-Based Partnerships in Opioid Overdose Prevention
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.
Health Equity Tool
Use this tool to organize your coalition or group’s big picture thinking around health equity.
Partnership Mapping Tool
Strong partnerships are essential to the success of any coalition. Use this tool to map partners in your community.
California Overdose Prevention Network Key Strategy: Naloxone Distribution
This document explains why naloxone is a key strategy to reduce opioid overdose deaths, as well as how to navigate the barriers of distribution.
Integrating Harm Reduction into Local Coalitions
This document outlines harm reduction principles and specific strategies you can bring into your coalition to deepen your work.
Managing Pushback to Syringe Exchange
This is a conversation about syringe exchange programs and how they can increase access to treatment programs.
Naloxone and Stigma Reduction Media Campaigns
This video presents examples of naloxone and stigma reduction campaigns.
Engaging with Law Enforcement on Harm Reduction Strategies
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.
Spotlight: Naloxone Distribution Plans
This video explains naloxone distribution strategies such as, engaging police, schools, pharmacies, jails, and the public. The accompanying infographic discusses the importance of creating a naloxone distribution plan and how to successfully put it into practice.
Naloxone Distribution Plans
This infographic discusses the importance of creating a naloxone distribution plan and how to successfully put it into practice.
Spotlight: Strategies to Prevent Overdose Deaths
This video explains trends in opioid overdose deaths and gives current strategies to combat those deaths such as, naloxone, safe injection sites, and needle exchanges.
Reducing Opioid Overdoses
This infographic discusses multiple approaches to reduce overdose deaths.
Colliding Crises: Using Persuasive Narratives to Tell the Story of Overdose Prevention
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.
Change Management Strategies: Adapting Your Coalition in the Era of COVID-19
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.
Harm Reduction and COVID-19: How to adapt your community strategies
This webinar features Savannah O’Neill from the Harm Reduction Coalition who addresses the impact of COVID-19 on people who use drugs, how to adapt your local programs, and available resources.
Trauma Informed Communities: How trauma impacts ourselves, our communities and our response to COVID-19
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.
Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) Fact Sheet
Syringe Services Programs aim to help stop substance use, reduce infection rates among those who inject drugs, and prevent overdose deaths by distributing naloxone to law enforcement.
Harm Reduction Coalition
Harm Reduction Coalition is a national advocacy and capacity-building organization that works to promote the health and dignity of individuals and communities who are impacted by drug use.
Harm Reduction 101
Harm reduction is a set of ideas and interventions that seek to reduce the harms associated with both drug use and ineffective, racialized drug policies.