OBJECTIVE These trainings/videos provide an overview of cultural responsiveness, current insights around overdose in communities of color and youth populations in Massachusetts, and how culture …
Public Safety Partners
What do we know about the individual we are planning to reach today?
OBJECTIVE This infographic is intended for outreach staff and public safety partners to facilitate discussions about how outreach will be conducted. Pre-visit discussions can help teams customize …
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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 …
BROWN BAGS
OBJECTIVE Using generic, plain brown paper bags is a recommended approach to discreetly distribute harm reduction materials to overdose survivors. This method increases privacy for the overdose …
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 …