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Posted 6/8/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Advancing health equity involves ensuring that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This also applies to behavioral health. In conjunction with quality services, this involves addressing social determinants, such as employment and housing stability, insurance status, proximity to services, culturally responsive care – all of which have an impact on behavioral health outcomes.
Posted 5/4/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Data supporting the positive outcomes associated with peer support integration throughout the substance use disorder continuum of intervention and care has led nationally to systems integrating members of this relatively new workforce into their teams. Among most peer certifying authorities, sustained recovery from substance use disorder is one of the requirements to become a peer. Although substance use recurrence or “relapse” is not common among those in sustained recovery, it does happen. This webinar will introduce suggested considerations when attempting to draft model recurrence policy for peer support employers.
Posted 3/14/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Substance use and its progression to impairment, loss of control, and development of substance use disorders is a significant problem for adolescents and young adults. This presentation will provide an overview of developmentally-informed approaches to engaging youth and their families in treatment.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize motivational approaches to working with substance involved youth
Identify approaches to engaging families of substance involved youth
Speaker: Marc Fishman, MD
Posted 8/4/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Posted 7/28/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
The suggested tools and resources herein address the need for agencies to support frontline service providers following exposure to an overdose fatality. Frontline service providers may include any staff members that interact directly with populations that are at greater risk for experiencing overdose. The suggestions throughout the document should be implemented in keeping with agency-based policies and procedures for staff support. Introducing these strategies into the workplace can foster greater well-being among those staff members most vulnerable to trauma and distress.
The goal of these suggestions is to promote well-being in the workplace for those most vulnerable to trauma, stress and grief. To achieve this, outlined below are principles for agencies to incorporate into their organization, how to acknowledge death in the moment, approaches to coping with strong emotions, the importance of building a support system, and the process of grief.
Posted 5/26/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
Posted 3/25/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
State and Regional Focused Presentations: State Substance Use Prevention Systems and the National Prevention Network
Presenters will review the structure and function of state substance use prevention systems, describe the role and activities of the National Prevention Network, and highlight rural prevention initiatives.
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
The presenters reviewed the structure and function of state substance use prevention systems, described the role and activities of the national prevention network, and highlighted rural prevention initiatives.
Posted 11/24/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
Join your HRSA project officers and JBS TELS as they cover: A review of selected focus areas and prevention, treatment and recovery Strategies chosen by grantees, Using the Collective Impact Approach to develop your consortium, Creating an effective Logic Model and Developing an effective Strategic Plan.
Posted 6/29/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This Guide on Prevention of Drug Use and Treatment of Drug Use Disorder in Rural Settings was prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Drug Prevention and Health Branch, in the context of the global project Treatnet II: OFID-UNODC Programme to prevent HIV/AIDS through Treatnet Phase II, with the aim of providing an awareness-raising tool and guidance for policymakers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders in dealing with substance use issues in rural settings in their respective countries.