Resources

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Vital Strategies

Vital Strategies and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health developed an online interactive tool, the Opioid Settlement Principles Resource and Indicators (OSPRI). OSPRI aims to guide counties and states in investing in effective overdose prevention strategies using opioid settlement dollars.  The site provides guidance in monitoring how investments can expand a jurisdiction’s capacity to reduce overdose risks. The indicators are grouped by core opioid abatement strategies.

University of Washington Supporting Harm Reduction Programs (SHaRP)

University of Washington Supporting Harm Reduction Programs (SHaRP) provides technical assistance to harm reduction programs to support data collection. As part of their work, SHaRP created the Syringe Service Providers (SSP) Indicators Implementation Guide which provides data points that SSPs can collect to monitor and evaluate programs. The guide can be used by funders, government agencies and others who require data from SSPs. Their Point in Time Survey (PiTS) Toolkit provides standardized questions for SSPs to learn about service needs and gaps for their clients.

Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-partisan, public policy think tank, developed a set of Core Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Treatment Measures that states can use to assess treatment system effectiveness. Utilizing a measurement framework known as the OUD “cascade of care,” users can track services from diagnosis to recovery. The selected measures are organized by stages of the cascade. More details are available at Pew Charitable Trusts' website.

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

To address the gap in guidance on meaningful monitoring and evaluation measures for overdose prevention program initiation and implementation, NACCHO released the Specifying Monitoring and Evaluation Measures for Local Overdose Prevention and Response Strategies Toolkit. This toolkit addresses the challenges of evaluating programs funded by short-term grants and focuses on designing activities with achievable outputs and outcomes.

ChangeLab Solutions

ChangeLab Solutions is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that uses the tools of law and policy to advance health equity. The Preventing Overdose and Reducing Drug-Related Harm: A Policy Guide for State and Local Change offers a set of policy strategies that can be implemented at the local, state and institutional levels. The strategies are supported by peer-reviewed evidence. The Implementing State and Local Overdose Prevention Policies: A Resource for Navigating the Policy Process, created in partnership with the Network for Public Health Law, offers policymaking guidance to help ensure that overdose prevention policies are equitably developed and implemented.

Prevention Institute and Big Cities Health Coalition

Prevention Institute led the Supporting Local Governments Using Opioid Settlement Funds on Evidence-Based Programs. For this project, Prevention Institute, Big Cities Health Coalition, ChangeLab Solutions, RTI International and SheRay’s & Associates, LLC  provided technical assistance and capacity building to state and local government officials to identify, select and fund evidence-based strategies through opioid settlement dollars to prevent substance misuse, fatal and nonfatal overdoses and reduce the consequences of substance use more generally.