Our Work
The SEOW aims to develop deliverables that demonstrate how data from different agencies can be used together to tell the full story of substance use and behavioral health status in communities. These deliverables are designed for use across Virginia at both the state and local levels to inform prevention needs and serve as a resource for community organizations and service providers.
Click here to view the deliverable dissemination action plan document to support distributing these documents in your networks.
SEOW 2024 Annual Report
This report focuses on OMNI Institute’s collaboration with Virginia’s DBHDS Office of Behavioral Health Wellness to support the Virginia SEOW and VASIS dashboard. It highlights the evolution of these initiatives since 2016, their role in data provision and epidemiological profiling, and their ongoing efforts to meet community needs while maintaining a shared goal.
Gaming and Gambling: Impacts on Virginia Youth and Young Adults
This report summarizes how gaming and gambling affect youth and young adults and how gaming and gambling can affect other aspects of public health, including substance use and mental health.
Youth Mental Health in Virginia: Prevention and Stigma Reduction Efforts
This report summarizes the status of youth mental health in Virginia, current prevention efforts in Virginia that aim to protect mental health, the role of stigma as a barrier to mental health support, and information on mental health resources available in Virginian communities.
Opioid Use: An Epidemic in Virginia and the Ongoing Response
This infographic focuses on the misuse of opioids in Virginia, which includes heroin, fentanyl, and prescription drugs. The two-pager also highlights prevention and harm reduction efforts in communities across Virginia, including naloxone administration and fentanyl test strips.
Marijuana Legalization in Virginia: What it Means for Prevention & Behavioral Health
This report summarizes information on marijuana legalization in Virginia and the impacts of legalization in Virginia and other states. Click here to view the references for this report, and click here to see the executive summary.
Fentanyl Brief: Data Trends and Prevention Efforts in Virginia
This brief report provides background information on fentanyl use and prevention and harm reduction resources in Virginia.
Click here to view references for the brief.
Substance Misuse Prevention in Virginia: Cost Savings & Impacts
This information sheet provides background on the cost savings of substance misuse prevention efforts in Virginia and how prevention funding is used throughout the state.
Click here to view references for the information sheet.
Virginia COVID-19 Impacts Report
This report provides a summary of preliminary trends in data around adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), school closures, behavioral health, substance use and overdoses, and the criminal justice system in Virginia since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. Click here for excerpts that can be used for dissemination.
SEOW 2020 Annual Report
This report summarizes the work of the SEOW in fiscal year 2020 (October 2019 - September 2020), including meetings, products, and outreach efforts.
Health Disparities: A Summary from Virginia’s Substance Use Prevention Efforts
This document is a condensed, three-page summary of the information found in the full report, below. It can be used as a more accessible introduction to health disparities and to see an example of a disparity in Virginia.
Click here for Spanish version.
Health Disparities: An Overview and Examples from Virginia's Substance Use Prevention Efforts
OMNI and the SEOW compiled this document as a starting point to share a common definition of health disparities, demonstrate examples of disparities in Virginia, and highlight how these disparities are being addressed. This document serves as an introduction to health disparities and how to use data to address them.
Click here for Spanish version.
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data Trends and Prevention Efforts in Virginia, February 2020
This report provides background on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and explores ACEs data in Virginia. To view references used to create this report, please refer to the Report References document.
Virginia Needs Assessment, August 2018
The SEOW contributed to the 2018 Virginia Needs Assessment by providing input on the data sources and priority areas.
Virginia Opioid Infographic, March 2018
This opioid infographic was created to demonstrate the impact of the opioid crisis in Virginia. The infographic also describes the value of prevention efforts as well as the ongoing prevention response to the crisis.
Virginia Epidemiological Profile, Alcohol 2017
This epidemiological profile was created to serve as a resource on consumption and consequence patterns of alcohol use among youth and adults in Virginia. This report was created to aid data informed decision-making concerning alcohol abuse prevention efforts.