Tools that can help you create equitable strategies, develop partnerships, measure impact, and reach your audience.
DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS
Strong partnerships are essential to the success of any coalition. Who’s at your table?
Use the partnership mapping tool to identify key partners and stakeholders in your community and develop a cross-sector strategy to address overdose.
ADVANCING EQUITY
Our country’s response to drug use is highly unequal across race and class. How will you ensure equitable outcomes in your community?
Use the Health Equity Tool to identify ways in which your strategy can address historical inequity and better meet the needs of vulnerable groups of people in your community.
USING DATA
Measuring impact is key to a successful overdose prevention strategy. How can data insights transform your work?
The COPN Guide to Measurement can help you use data more effectively, refine your strategy, craft compelling success stories, and gain support for work in your community.
MESSAGING GUIDE
Gaining support from the community is vital. How can you develop messaging that reaches your audience?
To support advocates and local leaders in their efforts to communicate effectively about substance use treatment and overdose prevention, we partnered with Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) to develop messaging and communication resources.
This messaging guide is updated for 2024 and reflects the current state of the overdose epidemic and successful strategies to focus your messaging, reach your audience, and gain support for your work.
Discover tools, guides, data sets, and other resources for overdose prevention.
