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Posted 5/12/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
64,000 people died from an overdose in the U.S. in 2016. Fentanyl-related deaths are up 540% in the last 3 years. In 2016 72% of the 1,374 fatal overdoses in NYC involved heroin and/or fentanyl
Posted 4/28/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for health and health care organizations to:
Principal Standard: Provide effective, equitable, understandable, and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy, and other communication needs.
Posted 4/7/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Your First 48 Toolkit is a Durham County resource guide for successful reentry within 48 hours after incarceration and beyond by connecting you to resources and service providers that help overcome the barriers to a successful reentry. Returning to your community with a criminal record can be a difficult task due to the collateral consequence of incarceration that limits access to employment, housing, healthcare, and education.
Your First 48 Toolkit promotes social and economic independence through relationship building, strong community involvement, education and public support. The Toolkit will help you foresee barriers to a successful reentry and identify likely solutions by informing you of who to connect with and what questions to ask.
Posted 3/25/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Care Coordination: Navigating Individuals With OUD Through a Treatment and Recovery Continuum
Presenters from the Western Region will describe two innovative care coordination strategies and models from the RCORP/Rural Health Opioid Program grantee perspective.
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This presentation covered recovery housing and MOUD in the context of issues emerging in rural America resulting from the pandemic and its impact on the rates of SUD and drug overdose. Also, presenters discussed the impact of the pandemic on corrections and the actions of states in response to COVID as it affects those with SUD. Presenters gave an overview of how recovery housing in this context can be developed especially in rural areas.
Posted 11/11/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
In these challenging times, some of our most important problems are intractable. Examples include health inequity, hybrid workplaces, systemic racism, maternal and child health, and a trained and available workforce. In this session, presenters introduced tools to help you lead, even when solutions are beyond your control. They applied those tools to help you recruit and sustain a workforce for tomorrow.
Posted 8/4/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
This session provided an opportunity to learn how to encourage faith leaders how to engage in harm reduction activities.
Posted 3/29/2024
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized and conducted a two-day virtual public workshop that brought together data experts, program implementers and evaluators, and other key interested parties to explore data collection efforts, evidence gaps, and research needs on harm reduction for people who use drugs (PWUD).
Posted 7/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
In Minnesota, American Indians have five to six times the opioid overdose death rate of other groups—the largest such disparity in the United States. This webinar occurred on July 10, 2020.
Posted 8/25/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The RCORP-TA sponsored webinar "How Cultural and Linguistic Competence can reduce Health Disparities in Latinx Communities" was held on August 18, 2020. The recorded webinar and presentation slides are contained in this resource. Please click the link above for more.