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Posted 3/28/2024 (updated 4/4/2024)
This workshop focused on how to find public transportation and how to communicate with public transportation organizations in your community. Through clarifying your needs and collaborating on options, you may find shared interests and ideas to improve services for your client access to food, jobs, education, and treatment.
Posted 1/19/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
The RHIhub has provided guidance, resources, model programs, and information on transportation in rural communities. The Rural Transportation Toolkit provides guidance, resources, and model programs to aid the development, implementation, and evaluation of transportation programs to support rural communities.
Posted 8/25/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) provided interactive graphic reports on the trends in overdose deaths using the latest data. The interactive infographic shows the effects combined drugs, such as fentanyl and xylazine, have on overdoses.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
This session discussed the barriers typically encountered and workarounds such as money, staff, and location. We encouraged participants to bring successes, near successes, and non-successes in expanding access over the last 3 years.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
This session covered key findings from the RCORP-Behavioral Health Care Support Year 1 Noncompeting Continuation Report.
Posted 7/14/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing a significant increase – 276 percent in 21 jurisdictions from 2019 to 2022 – in overdose deaths involving Xylazine, a nonopioid sedative that’s been detected in illicitly manufactured fentanyl drug products.
Posted 6/5/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Government Accountability Office discusses challenges rural communities face related to healthcare access, such as limited healthcare providers, travel distance and transportation issues, insurance coverage, and access to broadband.
Posted 4/28/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Transportation can be a barrier to health and healthcare in rural communities. The Transportation Technical Assistance Coordination Library (TACL) provides a sustainable methodology and platform for access and findability of rural and tribal transit coordination resources across a diverse range of transportation technical assistance centers and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The Community Transportation Database, developed by the National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM), allows you to use a map to explore state and local transportation providers and their related information.
Posted 4/14/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Researchers evaluate The Kentucky Access to Recovery Program (KATR), which provides services to individuals recovering from opioid use in several counties in Eastern Kentucky, and conclude KATR demonstrates a potentially effective strategy for increasing health-related social services in rural areas.
Posted 3/21/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Researchers at Indiana University conducted one-on-one interviews with clinical providers and other stakeholders in the recovery arena to better understand the slow uptake of the drug most used to treat opioid use disorder. Biases against buprenorphine was the most consistent theme, though the reason for bias differed amongst stakeholders. Clinical providers and behavioral health care providers preferred the abstinence approach rather than use of medications.