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Rhode Island’s Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals (BHDDH) used an 18-month, collaborative approach to build a five-year substance misuse prevention plan. Through early planning, facilitated discussions, and tiered feedback, BHDDH engaged partners across the state to shape a shared vision, fostering trust and alignment within Rhode Island’s prevention community.

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This toolkit guides prevention practitioners in establishing and sustaining data workgroups essential for data-informed decision-making. These workgroups, integral to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, locate, analyze, and disseminate crucial substance misuse data.

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This toolkit equips prevention practitioners with the tools and guidance needed to conduct effective focus groups, fostering open dialogue, and gathering valuable insights from diverse stakeholders. By integrating focus groups throughout the prevention process and developing clear protocols, practitioners can tailor discussions to address specific community needs and inform evidence-based strategies.

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Aimed at demystifying the intricacies of primary care, this glossary defines key terms and concepts within primary care, shedding light on legislative influences, funding mechanisms, provider organizations, and payment systems.

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This resource offers guidance for prevention professionals addressing prescription opioid misuse. It helps practitioners understand state-specific regulations, educational requirements, and collaboration opportunities to enhance prescriber education programs. By answering key questions such as who can prescribe opioids in your state and what resources are available, this tool equips professionals to collaborate effectively with primary care.

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This grantee success story exemplifies the collaborative efforts of prevention practitioners in Franklin County as they address the opioid crisis through early childhood interventions. They've achieved significant milestones by embracing a deliberate, inclusive, and collaborative approach that places the experiences of community members with lived experience at the heart of their strategies.

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This tool offers a comprehensive list of community stakeholder groups, highlighting the ways that “non-traditional” partners can enhance prevention efforts.

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This tip sheet provides an introduction to key players involved in on-campus substance abuse prevention efforts, important considerations for working together, and examples of how to engage campuses and college students in community prevention efforts.

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This tool can help teams assess the degree to which member activities align with the collaboration’s overall purpose and goals.

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This activity can help grantees better understand the skills and expertise that current partners bring to the prevention table.

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This tool explains why and how grantees should conduct regular assessments of member satisfaction. This tool provides regular assessments of member satisfaction that can help you increase member engagement, improve group cohesion, and refine group processes and procedures.

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This tip sheet provides tips to help prevention programs get their new collaborative workgroup off the ground and running.

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This tool presents opportunities for collaborating at each step of the SPF.

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This worksheet helps grantees map out and track who, when, and how to reach out to potential partners.

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This tool offers practical tips for leading collaborative teams, organized around five key areas—onboarding, group dynamics, decision-making, establishing goals and actions, and leadership development.

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This tool provides a detailed chart describing four collaboration levels: networking, cooperation, coordination, and full collaboration showcasing how stakeholders can Stakeholders can work together in many different ways, for many different reasons.

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This tool presents important principles of collaboration to help practitioners develop the relationships needed to plan, implement, evaluate, and sustain prevention efforts.

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This worksheet offers questions grantees can ask themselves or others on their team to facilitate a discussion about membership.

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This worksheet helps grantees identify and recruit new partners through a health equity lens.

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This resource presents a starting point for ensuring the cultural competence of grantee collaborative efforts.

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This tool presents some tried-and-true tips from seasoned prevention practitioners on “getting to yes.”

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This tool outlines three key categories of prevention resources: fiscal, human, and organizational and helps practitioners understand how to leverage their collaborations to maximize these resources effectively and fill any gaps in their resources.

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This tool outlines how to develop a compelling argument, or “elevator pitch,” for asking potential partners to collaborate.

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This tool presents case examples of fictional communities each dealing with distinct challenges related to opioid misuse and overdoses. It outlines how these communities applied the five steps of the SPF to tackle their opioid-related issues, providing insights into addressing the epidemic and informing future strategic planning efforts for prevention practitioners.

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This tool provides a comprehensive guide on the use and accessibility of naloxone, a life-saving medication for reversing opioid overdoses. It discusses the current state of naloxone access, including types of access laws, liability protections, and the future of over-the-counter availability. The guide also addresses non-legal barriers to naloxone access, such as knowledge gaps, attitudes, values, beliefs, and logistical challenges. Additionally, it outlines strategies to overcome these barriers and considers additional factors like polysubstance use and naloxone dosing.