This toolkit from the SAFE Project provides a step-by-step process of how to organize, evaluate, and create change in your community to impact the opioid crisis. It provides guidance on finding the right team of community constituents, identifying priorities, and putting a plan into action using
examples from other communities around the country.

The SAMHSA Coronavirus resource page provides information on assisting individuals, providers, communities, and states across the country in meeting the challenges of the Covid pandemic. These include a list of virtual recovery support services. 

This community-based tool consists of a two-day workshop that brings together stakeholders in the criminal justice, behavioral health, and recovery support systems to identify strengths, gaps, and priorities in their communities, and can strengthen the community response to the opioid crisis. 

Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) identifies the vital places in the system where best practices should be implemented, thereby increasing a person’s chances of recovery and decreasing recidivism. 

This is a report which outlines the extent and impact that addiction discrimination and stigma have on individuals with substance use disorder. The report includes data collected by the Shatterproof Addiction Stigma Index, a measurement tool designed to specifically measure addiction stigma and attitudes of the public on substance use. 

This is an academic paper that examines the social roots of the opioid crisis, creating a social determinants of health framework to better understand opioid-related harms across the drug-use continuum. Findings suggest that policymakers and public health leaders should develop partnerships with people who use drugs, incorporate harm reduction strategies, and reverse drug criminalization policies. 

This is a toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub that compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing programs to address social determinants of health in rural communities across the United States. The toolkit is broken up into seven modules. 

This is a toolkit from the American Hospital Association (AHA) that provides a report and related resources on eight different domains of social determinants of health: Food, housing, transportation, health behaviors, violence, education, social support, and employment. 

This is a report that describes how State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) are aiding their rural communities in responding to the addiction crisis, while meeting the expectations of SORH grants. Initiatives across the nation are highlighted, with a focus on collection and dissemination of information, coordination of rural health activities, and technical assistance. 

This website provides information on grants focused on improving the criminal justice system, with many opioid-related funding opportunities. 

This report from SAMHSA provides a directory that summarizes information on peer recovery coaching in every state. The information provided covers certification requirements, hourly pay rate, general screening criteria, financing for recovery coaching services, and settings in which peer recovery coaches are found in each state. 

This report recommends that states implement measures to track treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) as a means to optimize utilization of resources. It identifies eight core measures including OUD diagnoses, provider availability, treatment initiation, use of medications for opioid use disorder, and post treatment outcomes. 

This is a report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada that summarizes an 18-month project on opioid use disorder (OUD) stigma and gives a scoping literature review as well as the results of key informant interviews and focus groups involving first responders, persons with lived experience of substance and/or opioid use, policymakers, and other service providers.