What is SAFE Communities?
SAFE Communities partners with communities nationwide to be more resilient and responsive to the impacts of mental health and substance use disorders.
Free, self-guided resources for community leaders
Community Playbook
Our Community Playbook provides communities with a step-by-step process in how to begin organizing, evaluating, and creating change in your community.
SAFE Solutions
A platform highlighting cutting-edge research, resources, and promising practices to support communities in identifying and implementing strategies for their response efforts.
New Resource:
Strategies for Libraries on Community-Based Substance Use Response Efforts
Libraries can serve as a crucial resource to support communities. With an increase in overdoses, we all could play a larger role in our community’s response to substance use. In this new resource, SAFE Project shares ways your local library could play an active role, along with a reading list appropriate by age groups.
Portfolio Spotlights
Looking for assistance with your strategic community response efforts?
SAFE Project provides tailored technical assistance and solutions-focused support to professionals in the substance use disorder field of practice. The SAFE Communities team can share promising practices, support resource development, lead group process facilitation, deliver leadership development and training, and help your community identify and implement comprehensive and sustainable goals.
More About SAFE Communities
Our Approach:
• We build collaboration within each community and customize our support to your unique needs.
• We use a national platform to lift up local success stories.
• We focus on comprehensive, sustainable short- and long-term goals.
• We promote evidence-based and innovative promising proactive solutions.
• Sharing promising practices
• Facilitating learning communities
• Delivering leadership development training
• Group process facilitation
• Resource development
• Federal, state, and local governments
• Non-profit and community-based organizations
• Health care providers, practitioners, and systems
• Mental health, substance use and recovery support services professionals
• Youth and youth-serving organizations
• Faith community
• Private sector and business community
• Local philanthropy
• Community coalitions, task forces, and special interest groups
(I-FPRS) Training
Send us an email and find out more about SAFE Communities today.
Resources
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ResourceA Guide to Building Your SAFE Community
It's time to organize and galvanize your community to create a opioid crisis plan. -
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PageJoin the No Shame Movement
Join our national movement to combat stigma, because there’s No Shame in getting help for mental health and addiction.
