These educational resources offer specific guidance for delivering addiction medicine treatment within the context of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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COVID-Minds Website
Source: COVID-Minds Network
The COVID-Minds website provides updates on the development of COVID-19 studies throughout the world, promotes international collaboration of data analysis to understand the mental health effects of COVID-19 in different cultural contexts, and cultural differences, and disseminates findings from COVID-19-related mental health research.
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Peer Support Toolkit
Source: City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services, Achara Consulting, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health
This interactive toolkit is intended to support organizations that are hiring (or planning to hire) peers into new support roles. The toolkit discusses considerations for preparing the organizational culture for adding peer support services, recruiting and hiring peer staff, creating effective service delivery of peer support services, and supporting, supervising, and retaining peer staff.
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COVID-19 Culturally and Linguistically Competent (CLC) Recommendations for Organizations/Entities
Source: Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
This educational resource provides recommendations for organizations interested in offering culturally and linguistically appropriate services in the context of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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Building an Organizational Culture That Values Law Enforcement Diversion – Webinar Presentation
Source: Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP)
This presentation slide deck accompanied a COSSAP webinar on building an organizational culture that values pre-arrest diversion, which can be found at https://iir.adobeconnect.com/p75fqqupxzsw/?html-view=false&proto=true.
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Building an Organizational Culture That Values Law Enforcement Diversion
Source: Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP)
This 3 page guide discusses building an organization culture that values law enforcement diversion programs for individuals with substance use disorders. The guide defines 3 key elements for creating a culture within law enforcement agencies that supports and values pre-arrest diversion programs:
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State Policy Center for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Access
Source: National Academy for State Health Policy
The State Policy Center for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Access website, created by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), collects work NASHP has done to help states create “no-wrong-door” approaches to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment including tools and resources for policymaker use.
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Recovery Community Organization Toolkit
Source: Faces and Voices of Recovery
This toolkit discusses core principles and strategies for creating a recovery community organization, as well as providing examples of the development of existing recovery community organizations.
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Colorado’s Statewide Strategic Plan for Substance Use Disorder Recovery: 2020-2025
Source: Colorado Health Institute et. Al.
Colorado’s statewide strategic plan for substance use disorder recovery for 2020-2025 was developed after a review of the literature on evidence-based and promising practices in recovery and consultation with an advisory committee and stakeholder engagement meetings. The report defines and describes recovery as part of the continuum of care and outlines 3 objectives for building up Colorado’s capacity to support recovery:
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Supporting a Nation in Crisis: Solutions for Local Leaders to Improve Mental Health and Well-being During and Post-COVID-19
Source: de Beaumont Foundation
This guide is designed for local policymakers and civic institutions to improve mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes recommendations and strategies for the immediate crisis and the recovery phase based on the Well Being Trust’s framework.