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Substance Use Prevention Resources for Young Adults
CDPH has compiled a webpage with resources for young adults (ages 18–25) who may use drugs. The resources explain and understand substance misuse, substance use disorder, how to talk to friends who may be struggling with substance misuse, and how to get help.
Substance Use Prevention Resources for Adult Role Models
Adult role models have an essential role on the growth and development of youth. They help guide youth to make healthy and informed decisions. Positive role models are protective social factors that promote youth health and well-being, and may reduce the risk of youth substance use, including high-risk substance use. This website has a list of resources to support adult role models communicate with youth about the risks of opioid and other substance use.
College Opioid Overdose Prevention Messaging Toolkit
The CDPH Office of Communications has developed a toolkit to college opioid overdose prevention messaging. In the toolkit are overdose prevention messaging resources and examples that supports reducing stigma to protect the lives of college students in California.
Youth Friendly Fentanyl & Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
The CDPH Office of Communications has developed a toolkit to support fentanyl and opioid overdose prevention messaging. In the toolkit are overdose prevention messaging that supports reducing stigma to protect the lives of Californians.
Substance Use Prevention Communications Toolkit
The toolkit provides evidence-informed guidance for creating, delivering, and disseminating messages to prevent onset or escalation of substance use in youth aged 12-18 and build community support and readiness for substance use prevention.
SHARE: School Health Repository of Experiences March 2023: Resources to Address Youth Fentanyl Crisis
In this special edition, Safe Schools shares health and safety practices and experiences by and for California schools and local health workers to address the youth fentanyl crisis in California.
Taking Action on Racial Equity in Drug User Health Programs E-Course
This action-oriented e-course supports organizations to make racial justice and equity work part of their day to day values and practice designed specifically for organizations and providers working with people who use drugs.
Ruchika Tulshyan: Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging
In this fireside chat, Ruchika Tulshyan and Melody Barnes (Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions) discussed practices that can support and operationalize inclusive, equity-centered collaborative cultures. They also shared about the importance of elevating the voices of women of color and those historically underestimated within collaborative work.
Administering Naloxone Video in Spanish
The California Department of Public Health has created a video in Spanish that features information on administering naloxone.
Administering Naloxone Video in English
The California Department of Public Health has created a video in English that features information on administering naloxone.
Fentanyl Webpage in Spanish
The California Department of Public Health has created a webpage in Spanish that features information on fentanyl.
Naloxone Overdose Webpage in Spanish
The California Department of Public Health has created a webpage in Spanish that features information on naloxone.
List of California Participating Subdivision payments (as of March 2023)
Payments amounts available by city and county.
Working with Local Opioid Coalitions to Maximize the Impact of your Opioid Settlement Funds
In this recorded webinar, COPN was invited to present to the participating subdivisions of the California Opioid Settlement Funds about how to maximize the impact of their funds locally with the help of presenters from local overdose safety coalitions in Lake and Sacramento Counties and COPN Impact Coach Mary Maddux - Gonzalez.
DHCS Frequently Asked Questions: Janssen and Distributors Settlement Funds
This document is intended to answer frequently asked questions (FAQs) from California Participating Subdivisions receiving allocations from the California Abatements Account as part of the Janssen & Distributors (J&D) Settlements. A Participating Subdivision is a city or county eligible to receive or is receiving funds from one or both of the J&D Settlements.
DHCS’s Guiding Principles for Participating Subdivisions
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is tasked with oversight of California’s opioid settlement funds1 and monitoring use and expenditure compliance by Participating Subdivisions. DHCS has developed this resource to help Participating Subdivisions consider potential uses of opioid settlement funds and to promote the uptake of high-impact opioid remediation activities.
Duke University Opioid Abatement and Investment Tool
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Third Horizon Strategies (THS) launched the Opioid Abatement Needs and Investment (OANI) tool. This interactive resource, developed with support from the Elevance Health Foundation, aims to assist local, municipal and state level leaders working to address the opioid epidemic in their communities. The tool provides geographic-specific information on the potential need for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and recovery services and the locality’s capacity to meet that demand. The 1.0 version of the tool uses publicly available data at the county and state level and enables users to investigate a county’s potential need for OUD treatment and recovery capacity across the Healthy People 2030 Social Determinant of Health Domains.
DHCS Janssen & Distributors Settlement Funds Allowable Expenditures
On July 21, 2021, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the final settlement agreements with prescription opioid manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen (the Janssen and Distributors, or J&D Settlement) that will provide substantial funds for the abatement of the opioid epidemic in California. This document is intended to provide guidance for California’s cities and counties (Participating Subdivisions, listed in Appendix 1 of the California Janssen and Distributors Agreements) that receive funds from the J&D settlements. Allowable expenditures must include activities tied to the ending, reduction or lessening the effects of the opioid epidemic in communities and include prevention, intervention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery services.
Big Tobacco Settlement Lessons
This website provides information about the criticism of the 1990s Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. It notes how states continue to collect billions of dollars from the tobacco settlements, only a small fraction of those funds are spent on smoking prevention and cessation programs.
LGBTQ+, Family & Substance Use Resources
The Partnership to End Addiction has created multiple resources for parents or caregivers on how to show acceptance, support for LGBTQ+ youth who have substance use disorders..