While opioid use continues to dominate substance use prevention and treatment efforts, stimulants are a major contributor to California's overdose crisis. Methamphetamine is steadily rising as the preferred drug of choice across the state and contributes to more than half of drug-related deaths. Contingency management, also known as incentivized recovery, is one of the few evidence-based interventions proven effective for stimulant use disorder. It is an evidence-based behavioral therapy that offers individuals with tangible rewards (e.g., gift cards, vouchers, or prizes) for meeting treatment goals. Join us Wednesday, August 12, from 11:00 am–12:30 pm PT, as Thomas Freese, Ph.D., Director of the UCLA Integrated Substance Use and Addiction Programs (ISAP), shares an overview of current stimulant trends in California and an update on the state's Recovery Incentives Program, the contingency management benefit available through CalAIM's Medicaid 1115 Demonstration. Bring your questions and register today.

The California Overdose Prevention Network (COPN) and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California are teaming up in this webinar and workshop series to discuss how intervening on the social determinants of health (SDoH) can reduce the opioid overdose rate and overdose deaths. Join us for the final workshop in this series on Wednesday, April 8 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT. Join us for a hands-on workshop on using community data to make the case for upstream overdose prevention. You'll learn a simple, ready-to-use messaging framework - Values → Assets → Action - that helps you turn data from the California Healthy Places Index into a compelling message for partners, funders, and decision-makers. We'll explore how community conditions like housing, employment, and transportation act as protective factors against overdose, discover resources for actionable, upstream strategies, practice translating data into plain language, and build a complete sample message together as a group. Whether you're preparing for a presentation to your county board, pitching a new partnership, or writing a grant narrative, you'll walk away with a concrete approach you can use right away.

The California Overdose Prevention Network (COPN) and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California are teaming up in this webinar and workshop series to discuss how intervening on the social determinants of health (SDoH) can reduce the opioid overdose rate and overdose deaths. Join us on Wednesday, March 11 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT for the first workshop in the series that will discuss how to access and interpret the Healthy Places Index and build on the foundational skills from the first webinar. During the workshop participants will learn how to access and interpret HPI data, with a focus on opioid-related indicators. This session will include hands-on exercises and Q&A opportunities.

In the workshop series together we will:

• Take a deep dive into a new tool called the Strategic Action Planner & SDoH Roadmap that will help coalition members

• Effectively access the opioid data on the HPI map platform

• Understand what these data mean and how to use them to develop community-driven solutions

• Learn key strategies for communicating results and implementing solutions with communities

The California Overdose Prevention Network (COPN) and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California are teaming up in this webinar and workshop series to discuss how intervening on the social determinants of health (SDoH) can reduce the opioid overdose rate and overdose deaths.

This first webinar will cover:

• How improving community conditions like increasing household income, access to transportation, and safe, stable housing are key aspects of opioid overdose prevention

• How and what community-centered solutions can improve opioid overdose rates

• How to use the Healthy Places Index (HPI) map platform to determine community strengths and opportunities for intervention to improve opioid overdose death rates, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and opioid prescription rates

In the workshop series together, we will:

• Take a deep dive into a new tool called the Strategic Action Planner & SDoH Roadmap that will help coalition members

• Effectively access the opioid data on the HPI map platform

• Understand what these data mean and how to use them to develop community-driven solutions

• Learn key strategies for communicating results and implementing solutions with communities

Navigating addiction treatment can be confusing, discouraging, and frustrating for individuals seeking help and for the families and communities who support them. Although effective treatments exist, including life-saving medications like buprenorphine (Suboxone), many people never receive care, struggle to stay engaged, or encounter stigma and misinformation that block their path to recovery. This workshop will offer a deeper dive into the concepts presented during the NOPN webinar, The Path to Recovery: Understanding the Ups and Downs of Addiction Treatment. During the workshop, participants will discuss how stigma and misinformation create barriers to care in their community and what providers, advocates, and community members can do to expand access, reduce harm, and create more compassionate pathways to recovery. Participants will leave with practical insights and next steps they can take to support individuals and families affected by substance use disorder.

We are offering a workshop on Tuesday, December 16, from 10:30 AM – 12:00 pm to build on the important concepts that will be shared in our upcoming national webinar, When the Holidays Hurt:  How to Support Ourselves and Others Through Grief Including Loss Associated with Substance Use, Addiction and Overdose. This interactive session will help you apply practical strategies to offer care to those experiencing loss, to create a plan of support during times of loss and to create a safe space for a griever during the holidays.

PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact is pleased to announce our upcoming COPN Accelerator 7.0 cohort program for local multi-sector teams and coalitions. Accelerator 7.0 is designed to help multi-sector teams build adaptive leadership skills to better integrate overdose prevention activities with behavioral health services in their community. Join our information session to learn more about the program and application process. We will include a live Q&A session to address any questions and open the application immediately after the event.

After you attend or watch the recording of our NOPN Webinar, Addiction 101: Understanding the Science and Stories to Prevent Overdose, join us for a focused workshop where we will explore how those in our COPN network can take actionable steps in California. This will be an interactive workshop for participants to dive deeper and map out actionable steps they can take to build knowledge, awareness and empathy in their personal network and across sectors in their community.

Every day, local coalitions across California implement innovative strategies to advance overdose prevention, treatment, and harm reduction. On Wednesday, May 14 from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PT to attendees learned about new methods and practices that can be adopted in their own community. We heard from a panel of local coalition leaders who shared valuable insights on how their collaborative efforts have been put into action. After the panel, participants joined breakout rooms to dive further into the innovative approaches and learned practical steps to get started in their own community.

The California Overdose Prevention Network (COPN), based at the PHI Center for Health Leadership and Impact (CHLI), is pleased to release a funding opportunity for local overdose prevention coalitions to reduce overdose deaths from illicitly manufactured fentanyl and other drugs through implementation of overdose prevention, treatment and harm reduction strategies. Multi-sector coalitions are encouraged to apply for this opportunity to fortify and sustain strategies that are responsive to local needs in their community and/or region. Please join us on October 22 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm PT to learn more about the funding opportunity. Applications open following the information session on October 22, 2024.

PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact is pleased to announce our upcoming COPN Accelerator 6.0 cohort program for local multi-sector teams and coalitions. Accelerator 6.0 is designed to help your coalition develop a customized messaging plan for your community. The program is structured to support your coalition’s efforts in overdose prevention, strengthen partnerships, build buy-in from local stakeholders, continue innovative interventions, achieve your coalition goals, and manage pushback locally. Join our information session on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm PT to learn more about the program and application process. We will include a live Q&A session to address any questions about the program and application process. Applications will open after the event.

The PHI Center for Health Leadership and Impact is pleased to announce our upcoming COPN Accelerator 5.0 program for local, multi-sector teams. This year’s cohort will focus on sustainability in overdose prevention. The program is designed to help California communities embed sustainability principles and practices to strengthen their response to fentanyl and other drugs. Eligible applicants include formal and informal teams, collaboratives, or coalitions interested in substance use and/or overdose including those focused on youth, harm reduction, and/or overdose prevention.

Join our information session on Wednesday, August 9, 2022 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM PT to learn more about the program and application process. We will include a live Q&A session to address any questions about the program and application process. Applications will open after the event. Spread the word and register today!

It is estimated that California will receive approximately $2.05 billion from the California opioid settlement agreements over the next 18 years. Do you want a better understanding of how these funds will be utilized in California? Join us for an informative webinar presented by our partners at the California Department of Health Care Services and Aurrera Health Group. The webinar will provide an overview of how settlement funds are being distributed across the state, guidelines for their use on high-impact interventions, and ways you can connect with leaders in your community on local investment of funds. Come with your questions!

Data can help power local-level work to combat overdose. With data, we can raise awareness, tailor interventions, encourage policy support, and gain vital intelligence on the nature of the local overdose problem. The Spring 2023 COPN Convening will be a data summit on ways you can harness data to help achieve your aims.

The COPN Data Summit will feature key data sources and platforms needed for local decision-making; success stories from communities across California who will share how they’re leveraging data; a conversation about equity considerations with overdose data; and small-group breakout discussions on creating your own community surveys, forming strong and sustainable data partnerships, and ideas for new data systems to strengthen overdose prevention activities in California.

The COPN Data Summit promises to be a lively exchange of ideas for how we can all better marshal data to support our local work to combat overdose.

Join us for the second session of our COPN webinar series on youth overdose prevention. This session will focus on opportunities for substance use prevention, treatment and harm reduction with teens and adolescents.

Participants will hear from leaders of the California Youth Opioid Response (YOR California) who will provide an overview of the current landscape of prevention, treatment and recovery services for teens. The session will also feature on-the-ground strategies, policies and practices being used in Marin County including a youth prevention and harm reduction curriculum and Narcan distribution in schools. Finally, a representative from the Youth Peer Mentor Program (YPMP) will talk about prevention and treatment groups for transitional age youth in and out of custody. Participants will come away with tactical opportunities for local coalitions and other leaders in overdose prevention to partner with schools, community partners, and youth themselves. Spread the word and register today!

There are currently 65 syringe services programs (SSPs) operating in 33 counties across California that collectively serve more than 100,000 people each year. Join us on Wednesday, April 12 for a webinar that will showcase the important work of California’s syringe services programs and opportunities for you to build strong partnerships with local harm reduction leaders. Our speaker, Loris Mattox, from the California Department of Public Health will outline the work and impact of these key programs and ways to effectively partner with local harm reduction programs to reach people who use drugs.

Many successful programs are underway in California to expand access to addiction treatment. Join us for the first webinar in our series where we will talk about CA Bridge, an innovative program that provides training, technical assistance, and coaching to hospitals to treat substance use disorder like any other life-threatening condition. We will hear from Sherrie Cisneros, the Navigator Program Director for CA Bridge who will discuss the program model, its impact to date, and opportunities for local partners to collaborate with Substance Use Navigators (SUNs) in Bridge hospitals. Spread the word and register today!

Join us for the first session of our upcoming COPN webinar series on youth overdose prevention strategies. This first session in the series will focus on opportunities for early childhood and feature examples on whole child school-based systems of care. Participants will also learn about how to explore opportunities for local coalitions and other leaders in overdose prevention to engage with schools and after school programs. Spread the word and register today!

Communities across California developed innovative strategies over the past year. In this webinar you will hear from local overdose prevention coalitions who utilized local data to develop innovative interventions focused on youth engagement and harm reduction in their communities. These coalitions will share their process and implementation of their interventions.

After years of litigation, several major opioid settlement agreements are being finalized with states and communities across the country. There are important spending requirements common to all participating states. But where will localities in California be spending the money and will these funds support work already being implemented by coalitions, harm reduction organizations, and community organizations? Join us at the Fall 2022 COPN Convening for an opportunity to connect with colleagues and learn about the national opioid settlements, learn about the requirements of spending those funds, and how to invest those funds into work already being delivered. We will also have an interactive workshop to help you build a strategy based on your local partnerships, data, and messaging. As always, we will end with a trivia game for visa gift cards! Spread the word and register today.

What is the policy landscape for overdose prevention in 2022? Join us for an informative session led by Jeannette Zanipatin, the California State Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. She will cover key legislation in California and their implications for our work, including the end to mandatory minimum drug sentencing and senate authorization of overdose prevention programs. This is a great opportunity to kick off the new year and get up to speed on key policies in California, so come with your questions.

In the summer of 2020, data storyteller Andy Krackov and epidemiologist Sarah Marikos worked closely with a number of coalitions in the COPN network to help them find, analyze, and communicate local data related to substance use. Based on this experience, Sarah and Andy, along with CHLP staff, developed a comprehensive COPN Measurement Guide. This guide offers practical advice on leveraging data through use cases, worksheets, and includes links to numerous resources. During part I of this two-part series, Sarah and Andy will share lessons learned in data storytelling and unveil the COPN Measurement Guide that any coalition in California can use for their work.

This workshop is the second in a two-part webinar series that will explore conducting a community assessment that reflects input from both external and internal sources and describes how this can inform programmatic priorities and decisions. This final part will concentrate on methods for assessing internal organizational groups.

Join the COPN statewide convening to hear from leaders across various sectors and explore opportunities to adapt your overdose prevention and treatment strategies at the local level.

This workshop is the first of a two-part webinar series that will explore conducting a community assessment that reflects input from both external and internal sources and describes how this can inform programmatic priorities and decisions. This segment will focus on the benefits, mechanics, and impacts of community assessment, along with knowing how to pivot based on results.

Unsafe drug use and overdose can lead to preventable deaths. Join us to hear what two local coalitions are doing to prevent overdose deaths in their community.

Treatment of substance use disorder is often hindered by stigma and reluctance to treat SUD as the chronic illness that it is. Join us to hear how communities are addressing stigma and promoting access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT).

Safe pain management is an important part of overdose prevention. Join us to hear about what one community is doing around safe prescribing and safer pain management.

Join us for the first webinar in our Community Showcase series. Hear about what coalition leaders from Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties are doing to prevent new addictions in their community. We will discuss innovations and bright spots and you will have a chance to hear inspiring stories to take back to your own communities.