Meaningfully Partnering With Harm Reduction Organizations and Other Community-based Organizations That Serve People Who Use Drugs

This tool highlights another valuable method for health departments to ensure the inclusion of People With Lived or Living Experience (PWLLE): establishing grantmaking programs and developing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations (CBOs) that are led for and by PWLLE, including harm reduction organizations. As gathered from key informant interviews, the tool provides examples, strategies and key considerations for developing partnerships with CBOs, including the strategic roles of governments and CBOs, granting funds and request-for-proposals language. The target audience for this tool includes all staff within substance use-related departments.

This publication was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $248,980 with 100% funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, CDC/HHS or the U.S. government