Tribal Opioid Use Disorders Prevention Resources

This brief updates the Environmental Scan (2019) and the Models of Tribal Promising Practices brief (2020) with COVID-19-induced and telehealth-specific programmatic pivoting for Substance Use Disorder / Opioid Use Disorder (SUD/OUD) - Opioid Overdose Prevention (OOP) services that many tribes, tribal programs, tribal epidemiology centers (TECs) and urban Indian organizations undertook in 2020 and 2021.

This brief features four models of tribal promising practices that address Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and opioid overdose prevention. This brief serves as a resource and dissemination tool for the four models to reach other tribal and urban Indian communities of practice exploring approaches to incorporate into their programs.

The purpose of this toolkit is to add to the compendium of tribal and urban Indian opioid overdose prevention summaries provided in An Environmental Scan of Tribal Opioid Overdose Prevention Responses (2019) and Models of Tribal Promising Practices (2020) by describing specific approaches to working with diverse groups within tribal and urbanIndian communities. Seven Directions, in partnership with the National Network of Public Health Institutes and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC), aims to support tribes and urban Indian organizations with tailored and inclusive opioid overdose prevention programming resources for diverse AIAN groups. This toolkit provides tailored resources for supporting tribal and urban Indian community members who also are members of LGBTQ2S+ communities, youth, elders, and / or veterans.