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• • Teens, Drugs, and Overdose: Contrasting Pre-Pandemic and Current Trends
    Tuesday, October 15, 2024
    This issue brief analyzes CDC WONDER data – including provisional data from 2023 – and data from national surveys of adolescent youth to highlight trends in substance use and overdose deaths. It explores how and where teenagers receive substance use information and treatment and how school settings can be leveraged to enhance prevention measures. Lastly, it examines federal and state prevention efforts and social media’s role in the drug crisis.
    https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/teens-drugs-and-overdose-contrasting-pre-pandemic-and-current-trends/
• • Grantee Highlight Videos: Recognizing the Impact of OAYI-awarded Project Sites
    Monday, October 14, 2024
    Join us in recognizing the significant contributions of project sites funded through the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative—Morgan County Partnership, Pinellas County, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation—in improving the lives of the opioid-affected youth and families in their communities. These highlight videos provide a snapshot of how these impactful initiatives have demonstrated true dedication to building community capacity and enhancing well-being through innovative programs and collaborative efforts. Their work has not only addressed pressing local challenges related to the effects of the opioid epidemic and other emerging substance use but have also set benchmarks for effective practices in substance use prevention, intervention, and treatment.
    https://iirinc.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/JPHIFileCloud/EirdR-eIHcZAjyaXzVjjI4wBIkJ6vWWv-Ci4Zv38MDSpMw?e=TQAbQJ
• • Deflection Strategies to Meet People Where They Are and Reduce Harms Associated with Substance Use Disorders
    Friday, August 30, 2024
    Deflection has emerged as a key intervention for first responders and law enforcement agencies to steer individuals with mental health or substance use issues away from arrest and prosecution. Many deflection programs are taking their efforts a step further by incorporating harm minimization strategies, which aim to minimize the negative consequences associated with various behaviors. Learn what one officer in the Westfield, Massachusetts, Police Department has done to foster outreach to overdose survivors.
    https://www.cossup.org/Content/Documents/Articles/CHJ-TASC_Deflection_Strategies_to_Reduce_SUD_Harms_Aug2024.pdf
• • What are Substance Use Disorders?
    Sunday, August 25, 2024
    This module provides an overview of how to diagnose a substance use disorder and a discussion of the neurobiology of addiction.
    https://www.cossup.org/ResourceLibrary/Details/c3dbfbb4-5406-4c9e-a096-8514124f62c4
• • Harm Reduction and Treatment Among People at High Risk of Overdose
    Monday, August 12, 2024
    This article examines whether access to treatment and harm reduction differ by overdose history and drug type in a racially and ethnically diverse population of people who use drugs. To characterize access and barriers to harm reduction and treatment in a racially and ethnically diverse population of people who use drugs.
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2822210
• • Champion of Recovery: Bambi Phillips
    Friday, August 2, 2024
    Bambi Phillips is a case manager for the Athens/Clark County Diversion Program in Georgia. In this video, she discusses her experiences in this role, the positive impacts she makes in her community, and how she supports individuals in recovery.
    https://www.cossup.org/ResourceLibrary/Details/d2dac563-93f0-4a02-a44a-f260ac3d7b25
• • Tribal Opioid Response Resource Toolkit
    Thursday, August 1, 2024
    A variety of materials, tools, resources, and links to support tribes in their efforts to combat the opioid epidemic within their tribal communities.
    https://www.nihb.org/behavioral_health/tribal_opioid_response_resources.php
• • SAMHSA Language Access Plan
    Thursday, August 1, 2024
    SAMHSA released its updated Language Access Plan (LAP), a roadmap to provide access for individuals with non-English language preference (NLEP) across all communities.
    https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/language-access-plan.pdf
• • Pain in the Nation: The Epidemics of Alcohol, Drug, and Suicide Deaths
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024
    TFAH’s Pain in the Nation report series tracks levels of alcohol, drug, and suicide deaths nationally and for population groups. This 2024 edition, reporting on 2022 data, found that a decrease in the alcohol-induced mortality rate led to a slightly lower combined rate of all U.S. deaths due to substance misuse and suicide, but the long-term trend of such fatalities is still alarmingly high.
    https://www.tfah.org/report-details/pain-in-the-nation-2024/
• • Behavioral Health by Race and Ethnicity: Results from the 2021-2023 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024
    This report is a high-level visual representation of key outcomes by race and ethnicity from the combined 2021-2023 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). This infographic, accompanying the 2023 NSDUH National Report, covers substance use, substance use disorders, mental health issues, suicidality, and perceived recovery from substance use problems or mental health issues among the noninstitutionalized population aged 12 or older in the United States.
    https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt47097/2023-nsduh-race-eth-companion.pdf
• • Next-of-Kin Implementation Checklist
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024
    This document is a companion document to Next-of-Kin Interviews: A Practitioner’s Guide to Implementation and includes checklists for the agency employing the NOK interviewer as well as for the NOK interviewer.
    https://www.cossup.org/Content/Documents/OFR/NextofKin/NOKImplementationChecklist/NextofKinImplementationChecklist.pdf
• • Results from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024
    This report provides key findings from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on substance use, mental health, and treatment among the noninstitutionalized U.S. population aged 12 or older. Estimates are presented by age group and by race/ethnicity for selected measures.
    https://store.samhsa.gov/product/results-2023-nsduh/pep24-07-021
• • Biden-Harris Administration Awards $45.1 Million to Expand Mental Health and Substance Use Services Across the Lifespan
    Wednesday, July 24, 2024
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced grant awards totaling $45.1 million, of which $15.3 million will fund services specifically for children and youth. The $45.1 million in awards include a variety of behavioral health initiatives in addition to youth wellness supports.
    https://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/press-announcements/20240724/biden-harris-administration-awards-45-1-million-expand-mental-health-substance-use-services-across-lifespan
• • Eviction Prevention: Strategies for Supporting Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
    Tuesday, July 16, 2024
    In support of the new HHRC Eviction Prevention Toolkit, this webinar will explore strategies for supporting people with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders living in community-based low-income housing. Topics include upstream eviction prevention strategies, housing support services, landlord partnerships, rent payment tools, behavioral health strategies, legal tools, and service coordination. The toolkit provides essential information to support stable tenancies and avoid the trauma of housing eviction.
    https://hhrctraining.org/events-webinars/webinar/43348/eviction-prevention-strategies?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=View%20the%20Recording&utm_campaign=UA-179397308-1
• • Eviction Prevention: A Toolkit for Tenants and Service Providers
    Tuesday, July 16, 2024
    This toolkit is for people with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders living in community-based low-income housing and the service providers and organizations supporting them in their housing and recovery. The toolkit provides essential information to support stable tenancies and avoid the trauma of housing eviction.
    https://hhrctraining.org/knowledge-resources/toolkit/46933/eviction-prevention-toolkit
• • National report highlights severe cost of inadequate juvenile justice system
    Wednesday, June 26, 2024
    Fight Crime: Invest in Kids released their report “Costly, Punitive Juvenile Justice Approaches Undermine Healthy Adolescent Development,” during a Zoom briefing that brought together experts to discuss the urgent need for reform in the juvenile justice system. The report shows that our juvenile justice system often fails to consider the realities of adolescent development. Adolescents, unlike adults, are still maturing cognitively, meaning they lack the capacity to effectively self-regulate, plan for the future, or control impulses.
    https://jjie.org/2024/06/26/national-report-highlights-severe-cost-of-inadequate-juvenile-justice-system/