Hampshire HOPE is a broad, inclusive coalition of people from all walks of life in Hampshire County, located in the heart of the Pioneer Valley: public health professionals, medical and behavioral health providers, police officers, prosecutors, people in recovery, people who use drugs, harm reduction specialists, advocates, allies and family members, elected officials, corrections workers, municipal leaders.

​Source: Based out of the City of Northampton's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) since 2015.

About Us

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  • Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) Grant funded awarded to the Northampton Health Department funded the buildout of https://www.wmahie.org, a neutral website allowing regional partners to access their coalition’s data portals as part of the Northampton Health Departments Health Information Exchange and to communicate publicly available, aggregate data related to substance use trends in the region. (2021) That was the primary function of DASH was for the public webpage for the HIE regional work and our access point.here

  • Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP), Department of Justice awarded to the Northampton Health Department to sustain DART, a public health/public safety, post-overdose, family support, and bereavement outreach program and to support the development of an EMS & Peer outreach model in the Berkshires developed through the Berkshire Opioid Prevention Collaborative (Berkshire Regional Planning) The grant ensure all first responders, social service agencies, and community members have access to Naloxone. Funding is also used to enhance a comprehensive, real-time, regional information collection, analysis, and dissemination database and case management system. (Oct 2020-Sept 2023)

  • National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Overdose Prevention and Response Mentorship Program awarded to the Northampton Health Department to mentor three national health departments, supporting these health departments in needs assessment and action planning. Projects include expansion of the DART program into several Hampden County municipalities and the development of a Hampden County portal of the Health Information exchange for the City of West Springfield Health Department.

  • Young Adult Empowerment Collaborative (YAEC) regional collaborative grant held by the Opioid Taskforce of Franklin County and the North Quabbin expanded Northampton Health Department’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) to give access to opioid related datasets for Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin Counties and the North Quabbin Region. (October 2018-September 2021)

  • Massachusetts Community Compact IT Grant awarded to the Northampton Health Department to develop a customized regional system data system (Health Information Exchange) to document and analyze the local opioid crisis. (2018)

  • Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration First Responder Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Grant (FR-CARA) awarded to the Northampton Health department is a two fold project: (1). Provide Naloxone to all first responders, social service agencies, and community members in Hampshire County. (2) Develop a post-overdose outreach program partnering public health, harm reduction, recovery coaches, and first responders. (October 2017- September 2021)

  • Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services: Massachusetts Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative (MOAPC) grant held by the City of Northampton Health Department and in partnership with the Health Departments of Easthampton, Amherst, South Hadley, and Quabbin Health District (Pelham, Belchertown, Ware). MOAPC provides support to increase the capacity of these municipalities in order to prevent the misuse/abuse of opioids and to reduce unintentional deaths and nonfatal hospital events associated with opioid overdose. (Jan 2015-June 2021)

  • Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Abuse Grant through the Northwestern District Attorney Dave Sullivan’s office. The ultimate goal is to use the data to create improved prescriber practices, fight addiction and crime-related activity, and improve the quality of life in the forty-seven communities in the Northwestern District. This funding was used to deliver SCOPE of Pain trainings to medical providers throughout the region. (2014-2016)