Search our resource library to access a wealth of information to support your substance misuse prevention efforts. Use the drop down menus to search by resource type and/or prevention topic, or type a keyword into the search bar. New resources added regularly!
Resource Library
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Generating, Managing, and Sustaining Financial Resources | Information on writing grants, preparing an annual budget, and planning for financial sustainability. |
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Guidance for Conducting Focus Groups for the MOAPC Grant | This tool provides guidance for conducting focus groups including planning, developing questions, and conducting the focus groups themselves. It also provides sample question for different audiences related to the issue of opioid misuse and overdose prevention. |
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Guidance for Conducting Focus Groups for the SAPC Grant | This tool provides guidance for conducting focus groups including planning, developing questions, and conducting the focus groups themselves. It also provides sample question for different audiences related to the issue of underage drinking. |
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Guidance on Communications After a Non-Concussion Sports Injury Fact Sheet | Recent legislation in Massachusetts requires that parents of middle and high school athletes and other adults such as coaches, athletic directors, athletic trainers, and school nurses receive educational materials on the potential dangers of opioid use and misuse. The educational materials shall also be distributed in written form to all students participating in an extracurricular athletic activity prior to the commencement of their athletic seasons. |
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Handbook for Community Anti-drug Coalitions | The Handbook for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions provides an overview of resources for and about community coalitions. It helps educate, inform and empower local coalitions and provides some of the basic tools needed to become effective and sustainable. |
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Health Equity and Prevention Primer | The Health Equity and Prevention Primer (HEPP) is a web-based training series for public health practitioners and advocates interested in achieving health, safety, and health equity through policy advocacy, community change, and multi-sector engagement. |
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Implementing Promising Community Interventions | Information on illustrative interventions using various strategies for change. |
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Implementing Social Marketing | This toolkit assists in developing a social marketing effort to promote adoption and use of innovations. |
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Improving Organizational Management and Development | This toolkit provides guidance for enhancing your organization's governance structure and improving communication. |
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Increasing Participation and Membership | This toolkit provides guidance for increasing participation and engaging stakeholders in change efforts. |
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Injury Management: A Key Component of Prescription Opioid Misuse Prevention Fact Sheet | Recent legislation in Massachusetts requires that parents of middle and high school athletes and other adults such as coaches, athletic directors, athletic trainers, and school nurses receive educational materials on the potential dangers of opioid use and misuse. The educational materials shall also be distributed in written form to all students participating in an extracurricular athletic activity prior to the commencement of their athletic seasons. |
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Leadership and Management | Information about the core functions of leadership, management, and group facilitation. |
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Local, State, and National Data Sources | This resource provides an annotated list of data sources that provide information on substance misuse and related behavioral health problems. |
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Locating Data on Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose | Practitioners working on opioid overdose prevention efforts can use this tool to: learn more about behaviors they know or suspect are contributing to opioid overdose in their communities, in order to better target their prevention efforts; identify new sources of data to supplement those with which they are already familiar; identify proxy measures (that is, data alternatives) for factors of interest (if, for example, specific types of data are not available at the local level); identify potential prevention partners (for example, local hospitals and emergency medical services) who regularly collect data on a range of relevant factors. |
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Locating Data on Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose | Practitioners working on opioid overdose prevention efforts can use this tool to: learn more about behaviors they know or suspect are contributing to opioid overdose in their communities, in order to better target their prevention efforts; identify new sources of data to supplement those with which they are already familiar; identify proxy measures (that is, data alternatives) for factors of interest (if, for example, specific types of data are not available at the local level); identify potential prevention partners (for example, local hospitals and emergency medical services) who regularly collect data on a range of relevant factors. |
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