IOPSLL Newsletter
Implementing Overdose Prevention Strategies at the Local Level's Latest
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November 2023
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We are excited and proud to share the news that the Post Overdose Response Team (PORT) from Vinton County, Ohio was honored at their 317 Board Behavioral Health Awards for Athens, Hocking and Vinton Counties. The Athens-Hocking-Vinton Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Service “317” Board oversees a non-profit network of care that includes prevention, crisis, treatment, recovery, and resiliency supports. Each year, the Board presents awards to individuals in each of the three counties for their advocacy for and commitment to the community. This year, the PORT team, which was established with support from the IOPSLL grant, was honored for their beautiful work supporting community members who are at risk for or have recently experienced an overdose. NACCHO has been so inspired by the Vinton team’s thoughtful commitment to providing nonjudgmental and comprehensive support to their community – it is exciting to see them honored for this work. Congratulations to Melanie, Jodie, Nikki, and the entire PORT team! From left to right: Nikki Hire (Director of NursingCHD Director of Nursing), Ciara Fox (VCHD Health Commissioner), Jeff Woodrum (VCHD PORT responder, interim VC EMS director), Jodie Lucas (VCHD Overdose Prevention Coordinator and Hopewell Health Systems Addiction Therapist), Nancy Baur (Hopewell Health Systems, AOD supervisor), Melanie Carte (VCHD Post Overdose Response Coordinator), Tia Elliott (VCHD PORT responder), Seth Fannin (Hopewell Health Systems Peer Recovery Support) |
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Overdose Prevention Resources
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Kahuina Consulting and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene developed a short document describing considerations and resources for using ODMAP data in your overdose prevention and response work. This document is a great place to start if you are thinking through how to share ODMAP data with partners or considering how to examine ODMAP data in the context of other data sources. If you have feedback or additional ideas on this resource, please contact team@kahuina.com.
This is an updated toolkit of existing resources to support local health departments with overdose prevention efforts. Resources are sorted by the IOPSLL strategies.
This article describes the challenges of measuring naloxone distribution and the need to develop naloxone access metrics in order to drive effective overdose prevention efforts. The diagram in the article is also a really helpful framework for understanding the naloxone distribution pathways that exist.
This newly released resource can help advance the vital work of health departments. The resource guides health departments and their partners in using the CDC-supported Community-Led Suicide Prevention Toolkit to take a comprehensive, collaborative approach to addressing the shared protective and risk factors of suicide, overdose, and ACEs; strengthening support; and improving outcomes for people of all ages.
This valuable resource aims to guide county and city health officials through decision-making for the allocation and distribution of opioid settlement funds, highlighting health equity principles such as community engagement, oversight and accountability, and cultural humility. For any questions about this checklist or other resources related to integrating health equity into overdose prevention, please contact us at ivp@naccho.org.
In order to gain a greater understanding of existing Black feminist organizing against the drug war and bring Black feminist frameworks into the mainstream of drug policy work, Interrupting Criminalization, the Drug Policy Alliance, and the In Our Names Network hosted a two-day convening June 6-7, 2023, during the week Breonna Taylor should have been able to celebrate her 30th birthday. The gathering brought together dozens of Black feminist leaders and allies from drug policy reform, narco feminist, reproductive justice, and queer and trans liberation movements from 6 countries to explore the possibilities for a shared Black feminist vision and plan of action toward a world that centers bodily autonomy and self-determination in all forms. This document summarizes the key facts, statistics, and elements of Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War surfaced during this gathering.
The National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center (NHRTAC) provides free help to anyone in the country providing (or planning to provide) harm reduction services to their community. This may include syringe services programs, health departments, programs providing treatment for substance use disorder, as well as prevention and recovery programs.
CDC launched a new training for clinicians to learn how to apply the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline to effectively manage patients in the ED who present with pain or opioid-related adverse events, such as opioid use disorder.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) is the national nonprofit organization representing the US public health agencies. This article outlines strategies and policies that public health leaders can implement to respond to overdose in their jurisdictions.
This page features ASTHO’s legal mapping work to plot the legal landscape for public health priorities, beginning with policies intended to prevent overdose. This includes maps that show harm reduction and overdose prevention center laws.
This short video highlights the dangers of mixing drugs and alcohol and the importance of carrying naloxone.
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Events & Funding Opportunities
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Starting in October 2023 and running until February 2024, the National harm Reduction Coalition will be covering a series of queer harm reduction topics with the goal of creating a more inclusive movement. Descriptions and registration information can be found here.
Applications Due December 1, 2023 at 5:00 PM ET
NACCHO is pleased to offer a funding opportunity to help local health departments and their communities support high-risk families that are affected by substance use and overdose by sustaining and expanding existing evidence-based adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention programming. Sites will receive training and individualized technical assistance (TA) to help them infuse the HOPE framework into their current ACEs prevention program’s policies and practices. The HOPE framework builds on existing knowledge about ACEs and, using a strengths-based lens, promotes improving access to the building blocks of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) that support healthy development. Sites will take steps to implement changes at the programmatic level that align with the HOPE framework, bolstering the program’s potential to not only prevent and reduce the harms of ACEs, substance use, and overdose, but also to enhance and develop key PCEs in the community and to broaden the program’s reach and impact. Interested applicants can view a recording of the informational webinar here. Applications must be submitted using NACCHO’s online portal no later than Friday, December 1st, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Submissions after this deadline will not be considered. Applicants may pose individual questions to NACCHO at any point during the application process by emailing the Injury and Violence Prevention Team at IVP@nachco.org.
Applications Due December 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET
NACCHO is pleased to announce the Advancing Equitable Harm Reduction Outreach (AEHRO) program. AHERO (pronounced “arrow”) offers a six-month funding opportunity to organizations sustaining or expanding harm reduction services to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who use drugs. Through this funding opportunity, NACCHO will provide up to $85,000 to up to 15 organizations that currently distribute safer use supplies (this must include syringes or pipes in states where this is legal) to support their efforts to reduce drug-related health inequities at the local level. Please note that funds for this opportunity may not be used to purchase naloxone, syringes, or pipes. While we recognize these are critical harm reduction tools, they are not allowable under the terms and conditions of NACCHO’s federal award. Examples of potentially allowable costs include (but are not limited to):
- Materials for participants such as injection and smoking supplies other than syringes and pipes, wound care kits, test strips, store gift cards and snacks for participants (requires additional approval);
- Services such as holistic wellness programs and transportation; and
- Staff time for non-clinical services.
The project period will begin February 1st, 2024, and run through July 31st, 2024. Applications must be submitted using NACCHO’s online application portal no later than Friday, December 8th at 11:59 PM ET and selections will be made by Friday, January 5th, 2024. Interested applicants can view the recording of the informational webinar here and applicants may pose individual questions to NACCHO at any point during the application process by emailing the Injury Violence and Prevention Team at ivp@naccho.org with subject line “AEHRO RFP Question.”
Due December 31, 2023, 11:59 PM PT
The call for abstracts for the 2024 NACCHO360 Conference, to be held July 23–26, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan, is now open! The 2024 NACCHO360 Annual Conference invites public health professionals nationwide to showcase and share their research findings, best practice training models, tools, or other resources that advance the field of public health and healthcare. Additional information can be found here.
Notice of Funding Opportunity to be released in February 2024
The Drug-Free Communities Support Program provides community coalitions with grant funding and an extensive, national support system to mobilize local youth substance use prevention efforts. DFC coalitions gain access to:
- Funding of up to $125,000 a year for 10 years,
- Programmatic support,
- Technical assistance for research, data collection, and more.
CDC will release the FY24 Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) on www.grants.gov in February 2024. The forecast is published here. You can also subscribe to receive an alert when the funding announcement is posted. Please visit the DFC Webpage to learn more about application requirements and email questions to DFC_NOFO@cdc.gov.
April 11-12, 2024, Tuscon, AZ
The U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network will hold a two-day, in-person Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) and Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) summit titled Building Action and Power on April 11-12, 2024 near Tucson on the homelands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Indigenous leaders, Indigenous community programs, academics, policy experts, and other data actors and rights holders from across the nation are welcome to attend, both in person and virtually, to develop guidance around appropriate data governance structures that support Indigenous Peoples’ own IDSov initiatives. Additional information can be found here.
Application Due March 20, 2024
This RFA will act as a parent RFA for the HEAL initiative Translation to Practice Team, specifically encouraging translational dissemination and implementation research focused on addressing overdose deaths and the intersection of pain and OUD. This RFA will function in tandem with targeted NOSIs that announce more specific areas of focus. For FY23, this currently includes the Workforce NOSI (formerly an RFA) and the Violence and Trauma NOSI (also formerly an RFA). It has a companion R33 RFA and is expected to run for 2 years (FY23 and FY24). (RFA-DA-23-053 HEAL Initiative)
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