Supporting Harm Reduction Programs

SSP Indicators Implementation Guide

  • Who is this guide for?
    •  The SSP Indicators Implementation Guide provides basic data points that a wide variety of SSPs could collect to monitor and evaluate their programs. This guide is focused on basic services and may not include some services that are becoming more common at SSPs. While this entire guide is likely useful for funders, government agencies, and others who require data from SSPs, the “Considerations for Funders” section is directly focused on recommendations for those who require these data.
  • How do I use this guide?
    • There are different ways to use the SSP Indicators Implementation Guide. SSPs and funders may read this guide through to understand the context, methodologies, and broader recommendations for data collection that inform why we think these indicators are important as well as good practices for data collection and analysis. We’ve also divided the guide into sections if only a few domains of indicators are of interest, or if a section or two is to be repeatedly referenced, while other sections are read once. We do recommend reading all the information in an indicator section before using that indicator.   
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The University of Washington Supporting Harm Reduction Programs (SHaRP) team hosted a webinar on July 18th at 11 PT / 2 ET to share our new Syringe Service Program (SSP) Indicator Implementation Guidance.  
 
Last year, the SHaRP team worked to create a list of community informed indicators, or data points, that we could recommend SSPs collect. We’ve been working to create guidance that includes good practices, potential uses of the indicators, recommended methods for collecting them, potential limitations, and more! The SSP Indicators Implementation Guide will be on our website on July 18th.  
 
In this webinar, we briefly review the indicators, go more in depth into what information you can find in the guide and how we hope it will be useful to you, and provide time for questions. We also be presenting on Considerations for Funders, which includes recommendations on data collection for funders of SSPs to consider based on feedback we’ve heard from SSPs throughout this process.