Tools and Toolkits

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This is a toolkit from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce for employers. There is an online course, divided into five modules, that gives an overview of the legal and operational issues an employer must consider in dealing with an employee’s use of opioids and other substances, as well as additional resources. 

This toolkit is aimed towards local and state health departments and community partners who are exploring opportunities to implement or enhance peer support services within overdose response and linkage to care initiatives. It provides information, resources, tools, actionable steps, and examples formed by research and experiences varying from across the country. 

 An ONDCP/USDA document that provides a comprehensive and expansive list of resources organized by 26 different categories and also lists various funding opportunities to address the opioid crisis across the continuum of care.

This free six-week online class offered through the University of Michigan aims to empower non-prescribing providers to impact the U.S. opioid crisis through increased knowledge and tools that will transform practice and policies. 

This is a website that provides free online training for providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) to obtain waivers to prescribe buprenorphine. 

This website has toolkits to help communities write grant proposals. Though this is targeted to rural communities, this can be a resource for any community looking to secure funding to address the opioid crisis. 

This is an interactive toolkit from the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists that provides guidelines and strategies on the consequences of injection drug use, harm reduction services, stigma, and professional and policy support. There are many links to resources, references, and data sources.

This toolkit provides information on how to support children affected by parental substance use disorder. It is meant for anyone - including but not limited to teachers, coaches, pastors, friends, and neighbors. The toolkit offers resources for adults to help understand adverse childhood events, what to look for if you suspect a child has a parent with substance use disorder, how to help those individuals, and more. 

This toolkit from the National Association of Counties provides information at the county level on housing affordability and population growth. This tool could help stakeholders improve the affordability, quality, and supply of local housing options. 

report by AHRQ on how to implement medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in rural primary care including education, barriers, payment, policy, and promising models in rural settings (Volume 1). 

From AHRQ (Volume 2), a resource that provides tools and strategies for rural primary care providers to: 1) prevent opioid use disorder (OUD); 2) educate on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD); 3) implement MOUD; and 4) prevent opioid overdose.  

A website that describes a team-based approach to improving the management of patients on long-term opioid therapy in primary care. This approach is focused on six building blocks, has an implementation guide, and has links to tools and resources. 

This is a training program from the Indian Health Service to prepare first responders to use naloxone for an opioid overdose. Educational material on naloxone, including links to training videos, are provided. 

A toolkit from the National Resource Center for Academic Detailing (NaRCAD) the provides resources for academic detailing of opioid prescribing and treatment with medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), including links to previous literature, resources, and patient education material.

This is a toolkit from the Kraft Center for Community Health that is based on the CareZONE model and helps communities replicate mobile addiction services. Identifying ideal locations to provide services, licensures, finances, outreach and engagement, and standard operation procedures are discussed in detail. 

This toolkit is designed to assist providers in engaging their patients on high dose opioids in a stepwise physician-directed tapering process. It provides guidance on management of complications and special scenarios during the tapering process.

This is a toolkit from the Center for Connected Health Policy that gives an overview of various approaches to the use of telehealth to treat substance use disorder from federal, state and local perspectives.

This toolkit developed by the Alaska Native Tribal Consortium focuses on the provision of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services in rural areas of Alaska. The guide is aimed at educating healthcare providers who want to learn more about addiction medicine, practitioners who want to start an MAT program in their community, as well as current practitioners of addiction medicine. 

This is a toolkit from the National Council for Behavioral Health and Vital Strategies that provides correctional administrators and health care providers the information necessary to plan and implement a program using medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within jails and prisons.

This is a toolkit from the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health that is tailored for service providers and health system planners who offer services to, or design services with, pregnant individuals and new mothers who use substances, with an emphasis on addressing stigma. The toolkit includes many useful tools and fact sheets.