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The Response of the Church in Substance Use Disorder Prevention
Karl C. Colder
June 10, 2020

RESOURCES

• Updated Opioid Epidemic Practical Toolkit
  • Helping Faith and Community Leaders Bring Hope and Healing to our Communities
  • This toolkit, developed by The Partnership Center, contains practical steps communities and congregations can take to bring hope and healing to the millions suffering the consequences of opioid use disorder.
• Recordings of 2018 Webinars Featuring Faith and Community Leaders
  • Throughout 2018, The Partnership Center hosted a series of national webinars featuring community-based innovative and promising practices and models addressing the opioid epidemic.
  • Including: Opening Your Doors: Congregational Readiness and Recovery Support, Jan. 17, 2018.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the White House
  • Help, Resources and Information on the National Opioids Crisis
  • Opioids Crisis Next Door
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Opioid Basics
  • Rx Awareness Campaign
  • Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Factsheet
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Factsheets and Help-Lines
  • Managing Your Pain: Which Approach is Right for You?
  • What are the Risks of Opioid Medications?
  • What to do if Your Medication Isn’t Working?
  • Treating Overdose with Naloxone
  • SAMHSA’s Find Help & Treatment (Helplines and Resources)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • Teens: Drug Use and the Brain
  • Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
  • Effective Treatments for Opioid Addiction
• U.S. Surgeon General
  • Turn the Tide Campaign
  • Facing Addiction in America
• ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY-BASED RESOURCES
  • While the following is not a comprehensive survey of faith- and community-based recovery support programs and practices, we hope they provide a starting point for communities discerning the possibility of hosting these services.
• Examples of Faith and Community-based Recovery Support Programs
  •  Faces & Voices of Recovery’s Guide to Mutual Aid Resources
  • AA.org, NA.org Local Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous Meetings.
  • Al-Anon.org Local Al-Anon Meetings to support family members. 
  • The Landing, Alateen Meetings or similar programs for young people.
  • Celebrate Recovery (CR): A 12-step, Christian recovery program.
  • Celebrate Recovery Inside (CRI): The prison and jail expression of Celebrate Recovery.
  • Alcoholic Victorious: Meetings use 12 Steps, the Bible, & Alcoholics’ Victorious Creed.
  • Overcomers Outreach: an international network of Christ-centered 12 Step support groups
  • Phoenix Multisport: Sober Active Community: A sober-active recovery community that provides fitness programming to help foster the strengths necessary to maintain sobriety through physical pursuits and a sober network of friends.
• Examples of National Networks, Resources, and Referrals to Local Programs
  • Jewish Addiction Awareness Network (JAAN) JAANetwork.org
  • Young People in Recovery YoungPeopleInRecovery.org
  • Association of Recovery in Higher Education CollegiateRecovery.org
  • National Association for Christian Recovery (NACR) NACR.org
  • The Calix Society CalixSociety.org
• Examples of Faith Communities Shaped Around Recovery Support
  • The Recovery Church, St. Paul, MI TheRecoverychurch.org
  • Mercy Street, Houston, TX Chapelwood.org/Mercy-Street
  • Congregation Minchas Yitzchok, Washington, D.C. GoDaven.com
  • Northstar Community, Richmond, VA NorthstarCommunity.com

GENERAL RESOURCES

• DEA.gov
• DEA Drug Prevention
• DEA Community Outreach
• DEA Operation Prevention (school curriculum)
• Operation Prevention PSA Contest Videos
• DEA Campus Drug Prevention
• Get Smart About Drugs
• Just Think Twice
• CADCA

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