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Posted 10/7/2019 (updated 3/25/2024)
Meeting the Workforce Challenges of the Opioid Crisis in Rural America Webinar Presentation and Materials
Posted 11/30/2021 (updated 3/26/2024)
Peer providers are viable, evidence based, stand alone or additions to comprehensive teams that approach struggle interventions. Peer providers can be appropriate for any environment that have people with challenges ranging from substance use, gun violence, domestic violence to mental health experiences.
Learning Objectives:
What are the certifications that a peer provider can receive? You will walk away knowing various ways peers can show up in the workplace.
What additional training do peer providers need? Information on what trainings would be helpful for peers to be able to support others well will be provided.
How do we find, support and retain peer providers in the work place? Knowing where to recruit peers, how to keep the workplace well for peer will be knowledge you will leave with.
Presenter: Tanya Kraege
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 7/26/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
During this session, the Rural Behavioral Health Workforce Centers (RBHWCs) shared their collaborative project: a central resource hub for new workers looking to join the behavioral health workforce and a marketing campaign centering the value and roles of peer supports.
Posted 7/28/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
The toolkit Stimulant Safety: Getting Amped Up to Reduce Harms When Using Stimulants was developed through the CDC-funded National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center in collaboration with the NASTAD Drug User Health team and consultants. This resource provides education on the reasons people take stimulants, how to minimize harm, reduce stigma around stimulants, support peoples' positive experiences, the intersection of stimulant use and sexual safety, and much more.
Posted 8/29/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
This engaging webinar provided an overview of an invaluable resource that harnesses the wisdom of dozens of harm reduction experts. "Harm Reduction Hacks" offers important insights, tips, and tricks.
Posted 6/8/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The experience of Jenna Tatro’s substance use disorder and her subsequent overdose death has mobilized Jenna’s family and the Jenna’s Promise team to try and address the gaps in our current national recovery model, culminating in the formation of what aims to be a paradigm-shifting pathway to sustained recovery.
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 6/10/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
More people are dying from overdose now than at any point in history. Individuals learned about three innovative communication campaigns that challenge stigma, center people who use drugs, and build support for harm reduction as a lifesaving strategy to reduce overdose deaths.
Posted 7/6/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This presentation offers new strategies to help unhoused persons. Dr. Richardson reviews current statistics, identifies root causes, offers a description of life without a home, highlights persons with lived experience, and discusses new strategies that work to help those struggling without a home.