Opioid Overdose Prevention and Support
The number of opioid-related deaths has quintupled in the U.S. in the last decade. This public health emergency is challenging communities everywhere and straining mental health and substance use disorder service systems.
Much is known about how to support recovery from opioid use disorders. People can and do recover—and recovery is possible for everyone. C4 Innovations supports providers in mental health and substance use disorder services in responding to opioid use and supporting people seeking recovery. We work to ensure that recovery supports are accessible to all as we address this epidemic.
Our team includes service providers, trainers, researchers, and people who have experienced mental illness, substance use, trauma, and homelessness. We partner with treatment and prevention experts to ensure coordinated responses.
Our work is grounded in our experience with providing and participating in mental health and addiction services. People with lived experience are at the forefront of our work to ensure real-world expertise is embedded in all we do.
We Can Help You
- Respond more effectively to opioid use disorders
- Provide strong support to people seeking recovery
- Partner with your organization to create an Opioid Overdose Prevention program inventory
- Understand:
- Risk factors for developing an opioid use disorder
- How opioids affect the brain
- Risk factors for overdose and relapse
- Overdose and relapse prevention
- Using Narcan to reverse overdoses
- Supporting people in treatment for opioid addiction
- Harm reduction and trauma-informed strategies
- Benefits and barriers to medication-assisted treatment and recovery
- Shared decision-making strategies
- Reducing HIV and Viral Hepatitis A, B & C transmission
- Recovery support resources and strategies
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Our Experts
Example of Our Work
Responding to the Opioid Epidemic
SAMHSA created the Opioid Response Network (ORN) to deliver State Targeted Response Technical Assistance (STR-TA). By bringing together experts in prevention, treatment, and recovery, ORN supports local efforts addressing the opioid epidemic. C4 Innovations is a core team member leading recovery-oriented technical assistance and coordinating teams of recovery experts nationally. We work closely with partners to ensure that recovery is an integrated focus for individuals using and prescribing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to address opioid use disorders. More about our opioid overdose prevention and support work.
Learn More
- Harm Reduction: Compassionate Interventions for Recovery: online course starts February 26, 2024
- Whole-Person Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Opioid Use Disorder—video recording of webinar sponsored by the Homeless & Housing Resource Center featuring C4’s Ken Kraybill and Steven Samra (88:55 minutes)
- Whole-Person Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Opioid Use Disorder: A Toolkit—developed by C4 staff in collaboration with the Homeless & Housing Resource Center (PDF)
- Power Hour: Roadmap to Racial Equity in Behavioral Health and Recovery Organizations—webinar recording (58:45 minutes)
- My Recovery Journey: Steven Samra—video (4:35 minutes)
- My Experience in a Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Program: Steven Samra—video (5:17 minutes)
- Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention
- Substance Use and Mental Health Recovery Supports
- Integrating and Supervising Peer Workers
- Medication-Assisted Treatment/Medication-Assisted Recovery
- Recovery Housing
- Stigma and Recovery
- Criminal Justice System Reform and Re-Entry Supports
- Recovery-Oriented Systems
- Pregnancy and Recovery
- Praxis: Training for MA Addiction Professionals
- Talking About Substance Use and Addiction (PDF)
More about our expertise and our training and technical assistance approaches and offerings.