Goal: Reduce or delay the onset of substance use
Priorities:
- Advocate with school to implement evidence-based prevention programs
- Increase education about substance use disorders across a range of stakeholders and community at large
- Promote parent conversations with kids about drugs and alcohol
- Increase opportunities for mentoring for youth including peer mentorship
Goal: Improve access and retention in treatment and other services
Priorities:
- Increase number of people in recovery working in the field
- Improve and initiate warm handoff programs and criminal justice diversion programs
- Increase interagency collaboration to ensure connection to basic needs
- Increase access to harm reduction resources
- Increase interagency collaboration between treatment and recovery services
- Improve treatment infrastructure by addressing pay and support for workers
- Evaluate length of stay restrictions
- Expand and align substance use education for first responders
- Improve access and support for MAT services
Goal: Increase recovery capital
Priorities:
- Improve promotion and initiation of pro-social activities
- Increase opportunities for stories of recovery to be shared across a range of stakeholders and community
- Expand supportive networks through utilization of CRS services throughout continuum of care
- Identify recovery capital needs