This section includes opioid overdose response and prevention strategies developed by community stakeholders in Genesee County, Michigan, from the following sectors: Public Health, Public Safety, Treatment Providers, and Community Outreach Organizations. Strategies were developed using near real-time suspected opioid overdose data from the System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (SOS). Click on the applicable box below to read about the experiences and recommendations from stakeholders working within that sector.
Public Health
How strategies such as directing response efforts through use of data, and increasing community awareness can enhance opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among public health stakeholders.
Public Safety
How strategies such as monitoring trends for resource allocation and use of SOS data to develop innovative solutions to public health crises can strengthen opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among public safety stakeholders.
Community Outreach
A section that discusses how strategies such as stigma reduction, outreach in areas of high overdose incidence, and increasing partnerships with public safety can support opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among outreach and prevention stakeholders.