Member Resources
Cross-Sector Partnerships for Equitable Non-Punitive Solutions
Local and state partners are working across sectors and within public/private partnerships to build services that will address current crises and help to build a more functional equitable system of care.
How are Massachusetts Community-Based Organizations Responding to the Health Care Sector’s Entry into Social Determinants of Health?
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Partnerships for Health: Lessons for Bridging Community-based Organizations and Health Care Organizations
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Multisector collaborations epitomize the expression “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Working together toward common goals, organizations from different sectors that listen and work directly with communities can multiply their impact compared to what they can accomplish working separately. Because of this, funders too can expand their impact by investing in and encouraging these multisector collaborations that serve as engines for lifting up community voices and promoting equity.
Relevant Research & Data
Funders often seek cost analyses, effectiveness research, prevalence data and more. While it is clear there is a need for more robust disaggregated data, these resources aim to bring some newer and innovative efforts to the fore.
The Limits of Recidivism: Measuring Success After Prison (2022)
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Utilizing SBIRT as a Framework for Transforming How We Think About Prevention and Early Intervention for Youth and Young Adults
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Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment: Defining a Research Agenda
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Effects of a Patient-Centered Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Youth With Chronic Medical Conditions
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A syringe services program in an area with controlled HIV transmission (with HIV incidence of 1/100 person-years or less), functioning very well (with high syringe coverage, linkages to other services, and monitoring the local drug use situation), and an annual budget of $500,000 would need to prevent only 3 new HIV infections per year to be cost-saving.
https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-021-00575-4
While prior Surgeon General’s reports have discussed substance use disorders in certain contexts, The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health is the first Surgeon General’s Report to address substance use disorders and the wider range of health problems and consequences related to alcohol and drug misuse in the United States. Its aim is to galvanize the public, policymakers, and health care systems to make the most of these new opportunities so that the individual and public health consequences associated with alcohol and drug misuse can be addressed effectively. Only by doing so can individuals, their loved ones, and their communities be restored to full health and well-being. Only 10.4 percent of individuals with a substance use disorder receive treatment, and only about a third of those individuals receives treatment that meets minimal standards of care.’
Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics in 2017 found that non-Hispanic black and Hispanic youth were less likely to receive treatment with buprenorphine or naltrexone than were non-Hispanic white youth. “Disparities in access to quality treatment play a role in every aspect of health care and health outcomes, and the opioid crisis is no different.”
https://nida.nih.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2019/07/access-to-addiction-services-differs-by-race-gender
Workforce
These resources seek to reveal local, state and federal efforts to build and sustain a behavioral health workforce that is culturally and linguistically effective.
Behavioral Health Integration Services Fact Sheet
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Continuum of Care/System of Care
A continuum, or system, of care includes a coordinated approach to primary prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services. These resources will share ways to think about creating a full continuum with peer and natural supports woven throughout.
Harm Reduction Kit
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CA Bridge: Caring for Youth with Substance Use Disorders
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CA Bridge: A Caring Culture in Healthcare
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MAT for Opiod Use Disorder: Overcoming Objections
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CA Bridge: A Patient-Centered, Rapid Access Approach to Substance Use Disorder
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CA Bridge: Harm Reduction Strategies for the Hospital Setting
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CA Bridge: Culture of Care
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Behavioral Health Integration in Medi-Cal: A Blueprint for California
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Health Equity and Racial Justice
Substance use systems have a long history of racial inequities. These articles discuss how to begin addressing inequities in order to achieve better outcomes across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability and other intersectional identities.
Mismatched Infographic: PHILANTHROPY’S RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
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What does philanthropy need to know to prioritize racial justice?
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Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
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As the South Goes: Philanthropy and Social Justice in the US South
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April marks National Minority Health Month. It is a time for us to educate ourselves on the health challenges facing communities of color and other vulnerable populations, and to reflect on the progress we have made towards advancing health equity and what more we must do to ensure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. The origins of this observance date back more than 100 years, but it was officially recognized by Congress 20 years ago. Health funders serve many critical roles for the communities they support. They help give visibility and support to some of the most vulnerable people, serve as a bridge between community and policymakers, bring together myriad stakeholders working to address important issues, and serve as leaders through their voice and the programs they choose to support. Now more than ever, we need health funders to leverage each of these roles to ensure that we do not lose the progress of the past two years, and that we do not revert to a time when racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia were acceptable practice. As Barbara Mikulski said, “Each of us can make a difference. Together we make change.”
Funder Approaches to Youth Behavioral Health Equity – Grantmakers In Health (gih.org)
Even before the pandemic, the mental health and well-being of adolescents and young adults was worrisome and worsening. COVID-19 has exacerbated these trends and heightened existing disparities. GIH surveyed its Funding Partners in October 2021 to better understand how health foundations are addressing youth behavioral health equity. The survey results are summarized in an infographic that provides a useful snapshot of primary funding areas, types of populations supported, and top funding strategies.
Member Resources
Reframing Adolescent Substance Use and Its Prevention
Advocates want to build widespread support for the protective factors that can prevent adolescent substance use, but members of the public hold pre-existing assumptions about adolescents and substance use that act like roadblocks to that goal. Steering the conversation around these obstacles takes an understanding not only of what to say but also of how to say it. While some communications strategies will speed advocates toward their goal, others will slow them down or even halt progress completely. With support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the FrameWorks Institute has conducted extensive multi-method research to develop and test effective strategies for communicating about these issues with the public.
