Trainings and Resources

This packet presents Implementation III grantees with tools and strategies to support implementation activities that expand the options for SUD/OUD services across the care spectrum, thereby helping rural residents in your community to prevent SUD/OUD, access treatment, and move toward recovery. 

The workshop presented strategies to integrate HIV, hepatitis, and sexual health concerns into services for PWID. The session will focus on communication skills, assessment techniques, and building motivation among PWID to make healthier choices. Mr. Sacco looked at programmatic and clinical-level integration strategies and offered participants an opportunity to assess current service delivery models and develop a plan to enhance care. Mrs. Bell and Ms. Chavis intrdoduce participants to resources and funding opportunities available through HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB).

Participants learned evidenced-based harm reduction strategies to keep people who use opioids and psychostimulants alive with reduced disease burden. Presenters discussed methods of engaging people who actively use opioids and/or psychostimulants, harm reduction interventions, overdose prevention and response, overamping prevention and response, and linkages to care. Robert Childs, MPH, JBS International Christine Rodriguez, MPH, Vital Strategies

RCORP-TA is offering live Zoom sessions specifically for rural providers who are prescribing or considering prescribing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and would like to network and have informal discussions with their rural peers throughout the country.

In this re-welcome session, HRSA Project Officers shared reminders and updates about grant deliverables, the Evaluation Team will gave updates, and Technical Expert Leads discussed new and ongoing technical assistance available to Implementation I, Implementation II and MAT-Expansion grantees.