This is a guide from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) which provides strategies for rural communities to mobilize community partnerships for public health programming, including local examples and lessons learned. 

This is a report which outlines a model state legislation to create an opioid litigation fund and council. The prospective fund would ensure that money allocated to states through opioid litigation settlements and judgements solely be used to address the opioid crisis. 

Mom Power is a website that connects mothers of those who are either experiencing addiction or have succumbed to their addiction with other mothers that share the same experience, providing family support, empowerment, and education.

This is a report from Facing Addiction that highlights the multiple pathways of recovery (e.g. SMART, LifeRing, 12-Step, Medication-Assisted Recovery, etc.) and is an accessible resource for individuals, families, and treatment professionals seeking information by outlining and describing different pathways to recovery, sharing personal experiences of individuals who have found recovery in different ways, and demonstrating the diversity of recovery.

This is a 2020 report from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that discusses the strategic priorities of the federal government in relation to the supply and demand of drugs and how these will be operationalized. There is a focus on prevention, treatment, and recovery strategies. 

This report describes model criteria for certifying peer support workers to ensure their competence in providing substance and/or mental health peer support services. Such criteria include providing evidence of understanding of lived experience with substances, training in core competencies, formal education in relevant disciplines, and having supervised work experience. 

This is a report from SAMHSA that highlights 10 collaborative faith-based partnerships and outlines the steps taken by these teams in establishing a foundation for sustained strategic partnerships among community and interfaith leaders to support prevention, treatment, and recovery needs in their communities.

This is an academic paper that provides an overview of digital recovery support services, types of these services, how they may work to help people sustain recovery during the coronavirus pandemic, and evidence of their effectiveness. 

This is an academic paper that provides commentary on how virtual mutual help organization meetings, such as online 12-Step meetings, can provide some of the therapeutic benefits of in-person recovery support meetings in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.  

This is an academic paper that provides an overview of the trajectory of the opioid crisis through the lens of a structural and social determinants of health framework. Having an understanding of the root causes of the opioid crisis, such as upstream structural factors, can inform comprehensive interventions to a complex public health emergency. 

A toolkit by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) provides local, state, and national resources for local health departments to better address the opioid crisis. The toolkit is divided into sections: monitoring and surveillance, prevention, harm reduction, linkage to care, and stakeholders/partnerships. 

This is a website, operated by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and funded by SAMHSA, that provides education and training at a local level to provide evidence-based practices in the prevention, treatment, and recovery of opioid use disorders. Technical assistance is available at no cost to all communities.