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Hampton & Peninsula Community Health Improvement Plan — 2023–2028

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CHIP Implementation Plan Draft: Substance Use A. Priority Area Substance Use, and in particular preventing drug overdose deaths, was initially chosen as a priority area in consultation with community stakeholders during the HPHD CHA / CHIP process conducted in 2022 into 2023. The guiding aim is to prevent drug overdose deaths. B. Goal During Phase I Implementation Planning in 2023, HPHD facilitated further consultation with community stakeholders through a CHIP Planning Workgroup. As a result of this community-guided work, the chosen implementation strategy is to create a virtual Community Collaboration Hub for Preventing Drug Overdose Deaths. The Community Collaboration Hub will be a virtual space where community organizations can: • Connect with other community stakeholders interested in reducing drug overdose deaths • Learn about community resources and ideas for preventing drug overdose deaths • Focus their work with community data about populations in need or at risk for drug overdose death • Collaborate to: o Help in-need or at-risk community members understand and utilize community supports during Years 1 and 2 o Develop additional collaborative initiatives for preventing drug overdose deaths by or before Years 3-5 C. Performance Measures Demonstrate in this section how you will know you are making progress. State specifically what you will measure to determine whether changes have occurred. Select indicators of progress for both the short term (1-2 years) and long term (3-5 years). Specify the data source you will use for those indicators (or your plan to develop a measurement system if necessary). Performance Measures Year 1 Years 2-5 1. Number of community stakeholder organizations engaged as members of the Community Begin Continue Collaboration Hub. 2. Activation of a ‘first-up’ collaborative effort to help in-need or at-risk community members understand and utilize community supports for reducing substance use and preventing drug Begin Continue overdose deaths (Years 1 and 2) 3. Inventory of supportive activities and resources shared with stakeholders as part of the Begin Continue first-up initiative. 4. Description of in-need or at-risk populations targeted as part of the first-up initiative. Begin Continue 5. Description of stakeholder activities conducted to reach, educate, and refer in-need or at- Begin Continue risk populations to available community resources. 6. Quantification of reach, or estimates of how many in-need or at-risk population members Begin Continue were served through the first-up initiative, by locality. Year 1 planning 7. Activation of at least one additional community initiative beyond the ‘first-up’ initiative Year 2 implementation D. A First-Up (Year 1) SMART Objective A ‘first-up’ SMART objective for preventing drug overdose deaths is described below. This first-up objective will create a foundation for additional objectives to be added over time. • Foster and support collaboration among community organizations interested in reducing Specific drug overdose deaths, with an initial focus on collaboration to connect people in need to community supports for preventing drug overdose deaths.
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