Promoted upstream and equitable investments of opioid settlement funding nationwide.
With support from the CDC’s Division of Overdose Prevention, Prevention Institute and its partners provided capacity-building opportunities to state and local opioid settlement fund decision-makers to identify and invest in upstream, evidence-based approaches that prevent opioid and other substance misuse and overdose. In partnership with Big Cities Health Coalition, ChangeLab Solutions, RTI International, and SheRay’s & Associates, LLC, PI delivered direct technical assistance to the State of Colorado Attorney General’s Office and developed a set of written capacity-building materials to inform the use of settlement dollars, including: an online resource hub that garnered more than 1,600 total views, a set of guiding principles to support settlement fund decision making and strategy development, and a three-part webinar series that drew more than 600 multisector attendees.
Our joint efforts affirmed opioid settlement funds as an essential opportunity to invest in healthy, equitable, thriving communities, and help alleviate the longstanding harms caused by the opioid epidemic. Our work increased an understanding of strategic investment approaches across the prevention continuum and how to partner with communities and people with lived and living experience in decision making.
This project was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number NU38OT000305 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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