It is often said that what gets measured gets done. Having a measurement plan will help your coalition use data in a strategic and actionable way, including when to adjust your strategies. It will also help you tell a compelling story to your partners, funders and community. This tool provides instructions on how to create a clear plan across multiple areas of your coalition's work.

When looking at the news, we often see numbers for the opioid epidemic, but do those numbers represent where you live? How can you communicate, measure and track key opioid safety indicators for your community? This infographic goes over the key elements of using the California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard, created by the California Department of Public Health.

Organizations with access to health data face difficult decisions about how best to visualize these data for clarity, storytelling, and impact. This presentation serves as a guide to select the best visualization options for your data, and explains how to get started on the path to better data presentation.

We hear a lot about the opioid epidemic in the news, but not so much about how we are going to stop it. SafeRx Santa Cruz County has been working in collaboration with doctors, pharmacists, and other community members on preventative measures.

Learn more about how to communicate with data from subject matter expert Andy Krackov. This fact sheet goes through Andy's ten tips on using data to tell stories, providing resources for each key competency.

Use this resource sheet to learn strategies for telling a story with your data, along with seeing real life examples, instructional materials and other data related resources.

Strong partnerships are essential to the success of any coalition. Use this tool to map partners in your community.

This document explains why naloxone is a key strategy to reduce opioid overdose deaths, as well as how to navigate the barriers of distribution. 

This document outlines harm reduction principles and specific strategies you can bring into your coalition to deepen your work. 

This is a conversation about syringe exchange programs and how they can increase access to treatment programs. 

This video presents examples of naloxone and stigma reduction campaigns. 

This video is a call with the subject matter expert, who is a former law enforcement officer, Savannah O'Neill about her perspective for harm reduction strategies.

This video explains naloxone distribution strategies such as, engaging police, schools, pharmacies, jails, and the public. The accompanying infographic discusses the importance of creating a naloxone distribution plan and how to successfully put it into practice. 

This infographic discusses the importance of creating a naloxone distribution plan and how to successfully put it into practice. 

This video explains trends in opioid overdose deaths and gives current strategies to combat those deaths such as, naloxone, safe injection sites, and needle exchanges.

This infographic discusses multiple approaches to reduce overdose deaths.

This webinar features Savannah O’Neill from the Harm Reduction Coalition who addresses the impact of COVID-19 on people who use drugs, how to adapt your local programs, and available resources.

This workshop discusses the neurobiology of trauma, community trauma and inherent community resilience, how COVID-19 is impacting our levels of toxic stress, and how we can take tangible steps to heal ourselves individually and transform our organizations into trauma-responsive agencies.