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Emergency continuity planning is the overall process of creating systems of prevention, response and recovery to deal with potential threats and disruptions to service delivery at an organization. In addition to prevention, the goal is to enable ongoing service delivery and operations before and during recovery from an emergency-related disruption. This tool helps Executive Directors…
This Policy Guide & Template is intended to support ASO leaders to build successful policies and best practices that will enhance the capacity of our sector to meaningfully involve people with lived experience of substance use in the effective delivery of all ASO services and programs. It includes a Policy Template that begins with an overview…
This toolkit offers a systematic and thoughtful approach to help you to address the possible risks facing your organization.  It provides a brief description of what risk management planning is and why you need to do it, and offers tools to help you identify risks and determine your priorities and how/when best to respond.   It…
This guide helps Boards and Executive Directors to prepare an annual operating plan that maps out the organization’s yearly objectives with proposed steps on how they will be accomplished, all in one document (see Operational Plan Templates). The operational plan takes into consideration budget and human resource constraints as well as a risk assessment in…
Please consult the Operational Plan Guide for further instruction on how to complete these Templates, that have been developed in Excel, making it easy for you to download, use and report back on to your Board and other stakeholders as needed.
This Table of Contents has been designed to help ASOs create their own Board Manual.  It includes a list of all of the documents and policies required for the effective governance of an organization.  You can use it as a template and insert  your own logo, create your own Board Manual cover page and customize…
This easy to use guide offers a template to help synthesize and organize your ED Board Report.  It has been pilot tested by 2 ASOs with positive reviews.  Feel free to amend it to meet your needs.  The Executive Director's report to the Board of Directors should inform, raise issues, ignite questions and evoke pride. …
This handy resource provides you with two types of partnership agreement forms, one for agreements that are long-term and involve operations and a second one for short-term projects or one-time events.  Both types of forms are offered in table and letter formats.  If all you need is the partnership agreement form, this is the resource…
This Guide is practical and easy to use.   It can help individual staff and staff teams to map out the steps, activities and timelines that align with their program goals and the organization's strategic directions and key priorities. This Guide  can be downloaded for direct use by staff or you can request OODP facilitation support…
This one page document provides a comprehensive overview of the steps and timelines involved in completing the OODP OSAT Process, with facilitation by an OODP Consultant.