Access a range of print and online resources developed by EDC to prevent substance misuse and related behavioral health problems. More resources coming soon!
| Resource Title | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| How Schools Can Support Students Affected by Opioids | Prevention Solutions@EDC’s Shai Fuxman and Julie Riordan have been examining what schools are doing to support children affected by the opioid crisis. In this podcast, they discuss how traumatic experiences can affect students and also highlight some programs that are making a difference. |
Podcast |
| Illicit Synthetic Opioids: Understanding Potential Risks for First Responders | This resource provides an overview of guidelines to protect first responders from being harmed by illicit synthetic opioids. |
T/TA Tool |
| Impact Norwood Engages Full Coalition in Setting Future Direction | When the Impact Norwood Prevention Coalition began considering what it wanted to accomplish for the remainder of its 5-year Drug-Free Communities grant, they brought in PS@EDC TA Specialist Jess Goldberg to assist in creating a strategic planning process that was participatory and collaborative. |
Service Spotlight |
| Implementing Post-Overdose Programs | Gary Langis discusses strategies that can play a significant role in keeping individuals alive in the days and weeks following an overdose. |
Podcast |
| Increasing Cultural Competence to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities | This collection of tools includes tip sheets and hands-on worksheets to help prevention practitioners better understand the important relationship between cultural competence and reducing disparities. |
T/TA Tool |
| Kentucky Logic Model Training Helps Practitioners Connect the Dots | Many states are requiring the counties they fund to incorporate logic models into their local substance use prevention plans. In January, PS@EDC spent two days training 80 substance misuse prevention practitioners from across Kentucky on how to do so. |
Service Spotlight |
| Key Features of Risk and Protective Factors | This resource presents four features of risk and protective factors related to substance misuse: they exist in multiple contexts, are correlated and cumulative, are influential over time, and affect people in different ways. |
Tool |
| Levels of Collaboration | Stakeholders can work together in many different ways, for many different reasons. This chart presents four levels of collaboration, ranging from simple to complex. |
T/TA Tool |
