CSTE OD Spike Alert Advisory Group

CSTE has established the Overdose Spike Alert Advisory Group to focus on addressing three key needs and provide corresponding guidance on: 1. What data spikes mean (and what spikes are meaningful) 2. What actions should be taken 3. Variation at state and at local levels. This activity will principally address analysis and interpretation of surveillance data to identify overdose clusters/spikes, while also accounting for aspects of alert guidance that intersect with epidemiologic investigations, partnerships with key stakeholders, and prevention. Membership in the Advisory Group is intentionally limited to maintain a an effective size for resource development. CSTE will seek input outside of the group from a wide range of stakeholders. The group will develop an online toolkit that will be publicly available by late 2021. While CSTE staff will monitor this page and activity regularly, anyone with the link can access these resources. Please do not share any proprietary information or upload private documents. Email Danielle Boyd (dboyd@cste.org) if you have questions about the advisory group or about this basecamp site for the group.

For review and response 6.23.21 Archived

Please find the attached draft toolkit outline updated from our May call.  We will discuss this working document on our Friday, June 25 call.  In addition to the June call discussion, we are also soliciting individual feedback from advisory group members.  
Please review the outline in detail and add feedback and comments utilizing Track Changes or a separate document/email.  Consider the follow questions/items for your review:
1.      What is missing either at a high-level or in the detail of each section?
2.      Are there any items that are unclear/need more explanation or that should not be in the toolkit?  
3.      Who would you recommend (either yourself or a colleague) to develop the listed content?
4.      Are there any published resources available that you would recommend adding for the listed content?
 
Please provide your feedback via email to Megan Toe mtoe@cste.org by Friday, July 9th.