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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 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 11/11/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
In this session, a former RCORP-Planning, current RCORP-Implementation, and newly awarded RCORP-Psychostimulant grantee shared how it used multisectoral collaboration, lived experience, and second-chance employment to build a program from the ground up.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Cherokee Health System offers a wide array of comprehensive health services, including primary care, behavioral health, dental, and pharmacy.
Posted 5/11/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Medication assisted treatment (MAT) will be offered to patients who have a current diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD), moderate to severe, and who meet predetermined criteria.
Posted 9/14/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This fact sheet discusses new amendments to Tennessee’s naloxone access laws that went into effect on July 1, 2022. These amendments increase access to naloxone in several ways and remove some confusing language that previously limited the impact of state efforts to increase access to lifesaving opioid antagonist medications
Posted 1/26/2022 (updated 3/26/2024)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at data from six states mandated to report on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that occurs when newborn babies experience withdrawal from drugs. A previous study of these states – Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia – indicated that the reporting helped determine the prevalence of NAS and identify communities more severely affected. The current report is based on answers to a follow-up questionnaire given to epidemiologists and birth defects program managers from the same six states.