Resource Library
Vetted materials you can filter by audience & language.
Resources
A curated video resource hub for overdose prevention professionals facing burnout, toxic stress, and secondary trauma. Covers community connection for care, compassion fatigue, and managing stress through rest. Produced in partnership with Cypress Resilience Project and includes a downloadable brain rest worksheet.
A parent-facing explainer on kratom — what it is, where teens buy it, and why natural does not mean safe. It covers addiction and withdrawal, liver damage and seizures, the warning signs to watch for, and how to raise the subject with a teen.
Free state training for alcohol licensees and their staff on selling responsibly and avoiding sales to minors. A useful referral for retailers we work with.
Plain-language facts about cannabis use during pregnancy and breastfeeding, with guidance providers can share with patients. Part of CDPH's Let's Talk Cannabis campaign.
California's cannabis public education hub - facts for youth, parents, pregnant women, and drivers in English and Spanish.
Plain-language explainer on what naloxone is, where to get it, and how to use it.
A curated hub of tools and data resources for translating California Healthy Places Index and social determinants of health data into actionable community overdose prevention strategies. Includes a fillable upstream planning guide, a training video walkthrough of the HPI map, and a research report showing how neighborhood conditions drive overdose deaths.
Data-backed fact sheet on youth cannabis use trends and health impacts in California.
Alcohol Density Map
FAQs
Any community coalition, school, workplace, or provider organization in San Diego County can request support, at no cost.
Nothing. Trainings, technical assistance, and resources are provided free as part of a County of San Diego prevention contract.
Alcohol, cannabis, emerging substances like fentanyl, harm reduction, and overdose prevention — for community groups, providers, and public health partners.
Technical assistance is free, individualized support that starts with what you’re trying to accomplish. Common examples include making sense of local data, choosing and adapting an evidence-based program, strengthening a coalition, planning and strategy, and putting prevention strategies into practice. This isn’t a fixed menu — if you’re working on substance misuse prevention in San Diego County, just ask and we’ll figure out how we can help. Request technical assistance →
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