Careers of Substance has a newsletter! It comes out a few times a year, highlighting updates from the field, and site features.

This business-size card promoting the Careers of Substance website can be ordered for free at the MA Health Promotion Clearinghouse. Includes a QR code to direct people to this website.

This HRSA toolkit is a guide to help health care and social service organization leaders and providers improve care coordination for women with OUD in HRSA-supported programs. The information may also apply to other settings of care and to work with women with substance use disorder more broadly.

This case study walks through a town's response developing an early childhood prevention program by walking through how they conducted a needs assessment and developed their capacity building plan.

Author: The Center for Strategic Prevention Support and the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services Publisher: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services

The CASEL Guide can be a valuable resource for educational leaders and teams aspiring to implement research-based approaches to promote students’ social-emotional development and academic performance. The CASEL Guide provides a systematic framework for evaluating the quality of classroom-based social and emotional learning programs and applies this framework to rate and identify well-designed, evidence-based SEL programs with potential for broad dissemination to schools across the United States.

Author: Publisher: CASEL

Information about vaccines and boosters, as well as COVID-19 case data, from the Center for Disease Control.

The Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice builds the capacity of communities to use alcohol science for healthy, safe, and equitable neighborhoods through evidence-based, population-level strategies. With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Alcohol Program, we are committed to preventing excessive alcohol use by creating more knowledgeable and connected communities across the nation – using alcohol science for the community good. The Center amplifies resources and increases capacity through strategic partnerships, delivers training and technical assistance with content-specific experts, enhances access to the science through development of translational tools, and supports implementation of effective strategies by state and local organizations.

Author: Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice

Publisher: Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice

CMS is committed to updating supporting resources and providing updates as soon as possible. 

This is the application form for re-certification required every two years for certified prevention specialists.

Author: Massachusetts Board of Substance Abuse Counselor Certification Publisher: Massachusetts Board of Substance Abuse Counselor Certification

Conducting a strong needs assessment is the foundation for developing a successful prevention plan. However, no needs assessment is ever complete. To identify gaps and strengthen on-going data collection for your needs assessment, the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Data-Informed Decisions Working Group has designed this checklist. The checklist is organized by the six (6) core data areas of the Strategic Planning Framework: consequences, consumption, target populations, intervening variables (i.e. risk and protective factors), prevention resources, and community readiness. Data should be as local as possible, but include data from neighboring counties, state, regional, or national data for comparison purposes.

Author: Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Data-Informed Decisions Working Group Publisher: Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network