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This issue brief offers valuable information to State Mental Health Authorities about the benefits of peer support and inclusion of the peer workforce throughout the behavioral health continuum. The document highlights current standards and best practices for including peer support workers as an essential component of services delivery for mental and co-occurring disorders, like substance use disorder.

This model standards guidance document, SAMHSA's National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification, is prepared in response to President Biden's 2022 Unity Agenda. This document outlines model standards for substance use disorder, mental health, and family/youth peer support certification.

This four-module toolkit offers strategies to develop peer support specialist programs for parents affected by substance use—whose children and families are involved with child welfare.

This interactive, online toolkit and list of resources was developed to support organizations in addressing racial inequities and the associated stigmas that lead to mental health and substance use treatment disparities and ensure they have the tools to support their patients and organizations.

This Advisory outlines how healthcare providers (i.e., obstetrician-gynecologists [OB-GYNs], primary care physicians, and other professionals who treat pregnant people) can take an active role in supporting the health of pregnant individuals who have OUD and their babies.

This publication offers strategies for government agencies to build recovery-rich communities, using lived experience as the frame.

This infographic offers individual-, organization-, and systems-level recommendations for addressing disparities and increasing access to and engagement with tobacco treatment and care for African Americans.

This guide offers strategies to integrate people with living and lived experience (PWLLE) into overdose prevention programs, featuring examples like overdose spike response and overdose fatality reviews. 

This manual provides guidelines for administrators on addressing issues in outpatient treatment for alcohol and substance misuse. It discusses cultural competence, management and strategic collaborations, human resources, financing, and performance and outcomes improvement.

This website contains practice guides, case studies, and blueprints for integrating data, systems, and practices that affect school climate including factors like bullying, drug and alcohol use, and social-emotional competence.