Resources for Program Operators

Program Operations Meeting

We have a monthly drop-in Zoom meeting for program operators.

Purpose: Connect program administrators/coordinators/managers/service providers to discuss program operations, identify successes and challenges, share information and resources, and provide support.

Current activities: Support for new program development, share resources.

Join the NSS-CoP and then contact us for details.

 

Publications

Expanding Prescribed Alternatives on Vancouver Island - Practice Brief 

 

AVI Health and Community Services (2025, January). Practice Brief: Expanding Prescribed
Alternatives on Vancouver Island. https://avi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ExpandingPA.pdf

Download the report (PDF)
 

 

The Kitchener-Waterloo Safer Supply Program: A Collaborative Model of Care

 

Melissa Perri, Kaitlin Fajber, Adrian Guta, Carol Strike, & Gillian Kolla, 2023

Download the report (PDF)
Download the report summary (PDF)

Watch our December 2023 Research Spotlight webinar on this report

 

Safer Opioid Supply Program Protocols: Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario

 

Marysia Maraksa NP, Nicole Bond, Gab Laurence, & Kate Atkinson, 2022

Download (PDF)

 

Victoria SAFER Initiative Safe Supply Protocols

 

AVI Health and Community Services, 2022

Download (PDF)

 

Safer Supply: The pharmacist's role

 

ESCODI, 2022

Download (PDF) (également disponible en français)

 

Safer Supply Checklist

 

Co/Lab, 2021

Download (PDF)

 

Safe Supply Tool Kit

 

Health Canada, 2019

Download (PDF) (également disponible en français)

 

Safe Supply: Concept Document

 

CAPUD, 2019

Download (PDF) (également disponible en français)

 

Safer Opioid Supply Programs (SOS)

 

A harm reduction informed guiding document for primary care teams. Hales et al., 2020

View

 

Past Webinars and Meeting Recordings

 

LIHC Safer Opioid Supply Program

 

LIHC, 2023-03-17

Speaker: Cassidy Morris

 

Integrating Hepatitis C Care with Safer Supply Practice

 

CATIE, 2022-07-28

Speakers: Chris Hoy, Rivka Kushner, Tim O'Shea, Patty Wilson, Angie Austin and Jessica Nanni

 

Emotional Harm Reduction

 

NSS-CoP, 2021-11-08

Speaker: Corey Ranger

 

Safer Supply 101

 

NSS-CoP, 2021-10-14

Speaker: Corey Ranger

 

Supporting Worker Wellness: Grief, Loss & Burnout in the Overdose Crisis

 

NSS-CoP, 2021-08-26

Speakers: Juno Zavitz, Nicola Bangham

 

In Our Resource Library