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Posted 5/26/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
What is the importance of responsive leadership? The complex choices facing leaders at every level of an organization require inclusive assessments and innovative solutions. Leaders face questions about who should be sitting around the table and which two or three responses might work to address a community consortium challenge. The presenter will review interventions for engaging in complex situations and a new normal.
Posted 3/25/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Stimulants 2021: An Update—Clinical Issues and Treatments
The presenter will review considerations in engaging and treating individuals with stimulant use disorders and present evidence-based treatment strategies relevant to rural communities addressing this growing problem.
Posted 3/25/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Effective Leadership for Community Consortiums
Presenters will discuss why leadership is so important during these critical times, the intersections and choices facing leaders, responsive approaches, and engagement strategies for leaders. They will also provide strategies for consortium engagement based on the work of a Colorado Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grantee.
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This presentation discussed the evolution of North Carolina’s formerly siloed sectors: prevention, treatment, & recovery. The introduction of Recovery Community Center (RCC) funding helped to develop a network of community-based recovery support services. However, when one of NC’s strongest prevention coalitions received RCC funding, they took it to another level. Keeping strongly rooted in its prevention identity, they expanded their growth into authentic recovery support services and non-arrest diversion partnerships with local law enforcement and treatment providers. Implementation II grantee Wilson Substance Prevention Coalition illustrated some of its full continuum of care programming and how it has adapted to the pandemic’s challenges
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
The presenter reviewed considerations in engaging and treating individuals with stimulant use disorders and presented evidence-based treatment strategies relevant to rural communities addressing this growing problem.
Posted 10/14/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
Stimulant intoxication, withdrawal, and psychosis have accepted and established treatment strategies. Several lifesaving harm reduction interventions/services are available. There are no Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for treatment of stimulant use disorder, although several are promising. Behavioral treatment, especially the use of contingency management (and other approaches with supportive evidence), has by far the best evidence of effectiveness. The presenter reviewed topics of importance to clinicians treating individuals with stimulant use disorder.
Rick Rawson, PhD, University of Vermont Rural Center of Excellence
Posted 10/14/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
What is the importance of responsive leadership? The complex choices facing leaders at every level of an organization require inclusive assessments and innovative solutions. Leaders face questions about who should be sitting around the table and which two or three responses might work to address a community consortium challenge. The presenter reviewed interventions for engaging in complex situations and a new normal.
Mary Kay Chess, PhD, Department of Management and Leadership, Saybrook University
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
A Guide to Federal and Regional Resources.
Posted 12/15/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
Participants learned about rural resources for funding, data, program evaluation, and how to effectively grow the visibility of an RCORP project. The panel explored opportunities to engage with State Offices of Rural Health (SORH), discussed SORH’s top ten resources, and outlined the wide variety of TA and efforts of SORH across the region.