Careers of Substance collects resources from trusted organizations in order to support the substance use workforce in a variety of areas. If you would like to suggest a resource, please contact us.

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Careers of Substance Flyer with QR Code

Print out this flyer to post wherever you want to share the Careers of Substance website with people at your office, program, student career center, etc.

Addictions Workforce Development
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Careers of Substance Newsletter

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

Addictions Workforce Development Prevention Recovery Treatment
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Careers of Substance Wallet Cards

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.

Addictions Workforce Development
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Caring for Women with Opioid Use Disorder: a Toolkit for Organization Leaders and Providers

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.

Opioids Population-Specific Recovery Treatment
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Case Study: Components of an Early Childhood Response

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

Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Data Collection and Evaluation BSAS Funded Programs
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CASEL Program Guides: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs

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

Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
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CDC

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

COVID-19

Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice

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

Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

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

COVID-19
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Certified Prevention Specialist Re-certification Application

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

Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)