Toolkit for assessing first responders attitudes and stigma toward people with opioid use disorder, validated for law enforcement, EMS, and fire personnel.

Explores linkage facilitation for OUD at every touchpoint in the criminal legal system, using the Sequential Intercept Model to describe redirection to recovery-oriented care.

Podcast episode explores stigma and healthcare access challenges for people with SUD in Appalachia, frameworks for understanding beliefs, and ways to address internalized stigma in healthcare and communities.

Webinar shares lessons from county officials in the Reaching Rural Initiative on leadership and innovation to improve rural substance use outcomes.

This series highlights empirical research and solutions to improve health outcomes for rural individuals using drugs, including technology to address transportation and workforce shortages.

Community media project in Central Appalachia supports communication and healing for families and communities affected by mass incarceration.

To support justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders in rural Nevada, the Office of the Attorney General has developed two outreach programs-Mobile Outreach Safety Teams (MOST) and Forensic Assessment Service Triage Teams (FASTT)-to intervene at various stages of the criminal justice process. Dr. Kerns, Dr. Snider, and DJ discuss how these teams operate, their impact at state and local levels, and strategies for overcoming implementation challenges.

Discusses hidden fentanyl use in rural Oregon and a new deflection program to divert people from misdemeanor charges into treatment.

Navigation is a model that has been used in both health and legal settings to reduce barriers to treatment and significantly improve outcomes for individuals with mental health or substance use diagnoses. This article provides an overview of successful court-based navigation programs.

COSSUP grantees are developing and implementing programs to support children exposed to violence and trauma. Improving collaboration among community organizations plays a critical role in this approach. This article explores ways that schools can engage as partners with justice, public health, and child welfare agencies to address the effects of parental substance use.

Hundreds of diversion programs to address the unique needs of justice-involved adults with mental health and substance use disorders have proliferated across the US. This two-part series aims to assist jurisdictions in parsing the many options available regrading diversion models.

Rural communities across the country are identifying ways to effectively partner with their local business community to better serve residents with substance use disorder (SUD) and make more efficient use of limited resources. This brief is one in a series highlighting projects that are part of the Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic (RROE) project.

Rural communities in all areas of the country are reaching out to their churches and faith-based organizations to bring them on as important partners and expand upon their outreach initiatives, as well as utilize the built-in resources many churches have, such as food pantries, clothing drives, and childcare services. This brief is one in a series highlighting projects that are part of the Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic (RROE) project.

Communities all over the country are implementing law enforcement- and first responder-led diversion efforts to redirect individuals with SUD, mental health disorders, and co-occurring disorders away from jail and the criminal justice system and into the care of community-based treatment programs. This brief is one in a series highlighting projects that are part of the Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic (RROE) project.

In this recording of Farm Aid’s monthly Breaking Bread series, the presenters host a screening of the short film Out of the Shadows. It’s a reflection on the mental health crisis in rural America. The 20-minute film is followed by a discussion with special guests and resource sharing led by Farm Aid’s Hotline Team.

Provides an outline for starting a regional or local judicial opioid task force.

Discusses how judges can bring otherwise disconnected stakeholders together to form partnerships, through multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), that work to achieve successful outcomes.

Using the sequential intercept model (SIM) as a foundational framework toward the goal of improved outcomes for people with opioid use disorders.

Communities nationwide are grappling with a growing opioid crisis, particularly in the Appalachian region, where overdose death rates were 72% higher in 2017 than in non-Appalachian areas. Local leaders have struggled to address rising addiction and overdoses, prompting this report to analyze the epidemic's impact and offer targeted recommendations in five areas: leadership, prevention, recovery, rehabilitation for justice-involved individuals, and economic development, each supported by case studies from Appalachian counties.

This brief is one in a series highlighting projects that are part of the Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic (RROE) project.