Strengthened the capacity of state and local governments to use opioid settlement funds on evidence-based programs that reduce overdose.
PI continued to develop capacity-building materials for local government officials to prioritize evidence-based strategies for opioid remediation and prevention using opioid settlement funding. Big Cities Health Coalition and PI, along with our partners ChangeLab Solutions and RTI International, presented a three-part webinar series with accompanying blogposts on narrative and messaging, sustainability planning and implementation, and multisector strategies for collaboration, with 725 participants across all webinars. We also facilitated a peer learning discussion and continued to update an online resource hub with more than 4,200 views to build opioid settlement fund decision-maker capacity and knowledge. Our work has increased an understanding of strategic investment approaches across the prevention continuum and emphasized the need to partner with communities and people with lived and living experience for settlement fund decision making.
This project was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $450,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
Funder: This project was supported by Cooperative Agreement No. NU38PW000033 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) via the Big Cities Health Coalition.
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