PS@EDC is working with states across the country to invest unrestricted dollars in innovative prevention approaches and cross-sector collaboration.

Many states are requiring the counties they fund to incorporate logic models into their local substance use prevention plans. In January, PS@EDC spent two days training 80 substance misuse prevention practitioners from across Kentucky on how to do so.

Through its Innovation Learning Lab, PS@EDC works closely with states to support local prevention programs to develop and evaluate innovative overdose prevention interventions.

Gary Langis discusses strategies that can play a significant role in keeping individuals alive in the days and weeks following an overdose.

PS@ EDC’s ongoing work with Kentucky has played a key role in strengthening the state’s prevention workforce by helping practitioners develop specialized TA skills that aren’t always covered in a college or university education.

This presentation describes four national emerging drug trends—the shift from prescription pain relievers to heroin and fentanyl use, the rising availability and use of cocaine, the re-emergence of methamphetamine, and the continued expansion of cannabis legalization—and how these trends require a shift in prevention tactics.

Gisela Rots discusses what effective youth prevention programs could look like at a time when marijuana is becoming more mainstream.

Through our Community Opioid Collaborative, PS@EDC works with states to identify and create the constellation of supports that communities need to establish and sustain cross-sector approaches to reducing opioid misuse and overdose, identify communities ready to engage in these approaches, and support these communities in moving this work forward.

Dodi Swope and Chuck Klevgaard offer ideas for how health professionals, social services, and policymakers can work together to prevent opioid abuse.

In 2020-21, Prevention Solutions@EDC provided training and technical assistance to prevention practitioners across the country, on topics ranging from coalition leadership and sustainability planning to the social determinants of health and intersection of prevention and recovery.