This is the website of the Foundation of Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), a national, private, grantmaking foundation that funds innovative responses to the opioid crisis and disseminates evidence-based best practices through webinars that feature a panel of experts. 

This website provides webinars, journal articles, and reports to support a community's response to the opioid crisis during the coronavirus pandemic. The webinars feature a panel of experts in the field and include a recording and presentation slides. 

This is a report from the National Governor's Association which outlines several recommendations on how the federal government can help state governments and local communities tackle the opioid crisis in the areas of prevention, treatment, and recovery. These include increasing federal funding to states and giving them flexibility in distributing these resources.  

This website provides a trauma- and evidence-informed support group model that can be replicated to enhance peer support groups serving a diversity of populations in recovery, including mothers and people with experience of homelessness or incarceration. 

This is an issue brief from several collaborating agencies that offers statistics on opioid misuse and overdose deaths in rural Appalachian communities. Strategies and resources to address opioid issues are highlighted within this document. In addition, the brief covers recommendations to assist policymakers, funders, and leaders working to reduce opioid-related health disparities.

This was a presentation done at the Rx Summit that describes how faith leaders and their community members are currently responding to the opioid epidemic as well as how community stakeholders can partner with faith-based organizations. Two faith-based initiatives in West Virginia and Ohio are highlighted.  

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. 

This report describes the results of a survey which examined the incidence and impact of stigma in regard to individuals with opioid use disorder and their chances of recovery. The results emphasize how stigma continues to be a barrier to treatment and highlights which populations recorded the highest levels of stigma. 

This guide offers people with substance use disorder a description of the roles, values, and work environments of professional peer specialists. It uses visual aids to illustrate the integration of peer specialists into the treatment and recovery landscape and will help facilitate collaboration with a peer specialist.

This is an issue brief from the Pew Charitable Trusts targeting policymakers to maximize the chance of successful re-entry for people with substance use disorder leaving jails and prisons, with a focus on access to medications for opioid use disorder, health insurance coverage upon re-entry, workforce development of discharge planners, and integrated data infrastructure. 

This is an academic paper that examines how states are responding to the opioid crisis by using a survey of state health officials. As of 2015, prevalent state initiatives included educating the general public and specific stakeholders (e.g. pharmacists, physicians), cautious opioid prescribing, expanding medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), and expanding the availability of naloxone. 

This report documents the experiences of five programs that integrate employment services into treatment and recovery programs for people with substance use disorder (SUD). It offers recommendations for how to implement employment programs aimed at sustaining recovery from SUD and improving participants' economic well-being.