OBJECTIVE The goal of this toolkit item is to provide incentives to overdose survivors for engagement in harm reduction services following the initial outreach visit. POST teams have found that many …
Program Supervisors
Facilitated Grief Group
OBJECTIVE Support After a Death by Overdose (SADOD), a statewide overdose grief organization, facilitated a grief group with frontline POST program workers. During this discussion, a hypothetical …
Program Planning with Public Safety
OBJECTIVE This infographic is intended to promote open discussion between public health and public safety partners about how post-overdose outreach services will be conducted. The aim of this toolkit …
Community Accessible Naloxone
OBJECTIVE Post-overdose outreach is mostly reactive; a person overdoses which triggers a team to respond to offer services. This toolkit item offers a proactive approach outreach workers can use to …
Tabletop Exercise
OBJECTIVE A Tabletop Exercise (TTX) is a tool used by emergency managers to assist communities in preparing for a variety of disasters, pandemics, or other catastrophic situations. Stakeholders from …
ONLINE REFERRAL TRAINING
OBJECTIVE Outreach teams do not need to wait for a 911-reported overdose to occur to provide valuable services to their community. Some programs have instituted online referral forms, where people …
ENGAGING FAITH LEADERS
OBJECTIVE Faith Leaders play an important role within communities. They can be particularly important partners in connecting with people from communities of color, communities where English is not …
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
OBJECTIVE This document identifies settings and sectors that post-overdose outreach programs can engage with in their communities to build partnerships. The toolkit item shows where cocaine or …