Minority To Priority - Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network

Minority To Priority

A Special Population Focused Approach

A significant amount of evidence directly links racism and discrimination to negative mental health and substance use outcomes. Current cultural competence efforts largely focus on undermining ignorance of other cultures, explicit hatred, and bigotry while underappreciating the importance of addressing implicit racial bias that can affect African American health outcomes, even in the absence of overt racism. Fortunately, for SATTC this gap in research and care in treatment has led to SATTC aiming to advanced among underserved racial, ethnic, and sexual minority sub-populations the importance of substance use and addiction.

SATTC aims to focus on obtaining the leading expertise on African Americans in particular while shedding light on this important racial disparity. Efforts from this initiative will add to understanding that minority populations such as African Americans need a focused seated at the table and to be made a priority in the conversation surrounding addiction medicine, substance use as well behavioral health workforce development among the population.

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The Southeast ATTC aims to significantly impact the retention of African Americans in substance abuse treatment while shedding light on racial disparities.

This initiative will provide: a series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance to mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers, and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the scope of implicit racial discrimination in health care and substance abuse treatment; a more nuanced view of what it means to be African-American in the United States; a recognition of the presence and impact of implicit bias and microaggression and motivation and ability to employ evidence-based strategies to address each of the aforementioned factors that continue to undermine retention, and as a result, substance abuse recovery outcomes, for African-Americans as a group.

Minority To Priority : Evidence Based Strategies (Mental Health)

A series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance for mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the presence and impact of implicit racial bias in health care and substance abuse treatment. This pamphlet focuses on evidence-based interventions that have been demonstrated to reduce the negative impact of implicit bias on healthcare outcomes. Systemic, organizational, and individual perspectives are presented.

Minority To Priority : Evidence Based Strategies (Substance Use)

A series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance for mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the presence and impact of implicit racial bias in health care and substance abuse treatment. This pamphlet focuses on evidence-based strategies that have been demonstrated to reduce the negative impact of implicit bias on healthcare outcomes. Systemic, organizational, and individual perspectives are presented.

Minority To Priority : Scope of the Problem

A series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance for mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the presence and impact of implicit racial bias in health care and substance abuse treatment. This pamphlet describes the scope and impact of implicit racial bias in healthcare and substance abuse treatment.

Minority To Priority : Sisters on a Long Road (What 11 African American Women in Long-Term Recovery Want to Tell Us)

A little about the product: The investigator, co-author Dawn Tyus, sought to learn about the realities, needs, strengths, and challenges of African American women in treatment and recovery. And she did it by asking women in long-term recovery about their own experiences and observations in treatment and early recovery, and about the wisdom they had earned through the years. Those interviews yielded a wealth of knowledge, experience, and ideas for treatment and recovery support. They will form the backbone of a collection of guidelines for treatment and peer-based recovery support for African American women, to be published this year (2020) by the Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Southeast ATTC) at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. But first, this article introduces eleven extraordinary women and some of their early treatment and recovery experiences and lessons

Minority To Priority : WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AFRICAN-AMERICAN? (Mental Health)

A series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance for mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the presence and impact of implicit racial bias in health care and substance abuse treatment. This pamphlet describes the evolution of the term African-American, and provides insight and guidance on how to use this information to improve retention among African-American individuals being referred to and receiving substance abuse treatment.

Minority To Priority : WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AFRICAN-AMERICAN? (Substance Use)

A series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance for mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the presence and impact of implicit racial bias in health care and substance abuse treatment. This pamphlet describes the evolution of the term African-American, and provides insight and guidance on how to use this information to improve retention among African-American individuals receiving substance abuse treatment.

Minority To Priority: Implicit Racial Bias and Microaggression

A series of educational products, guidance, and technical assistance for mental health providers, substance abuse treatment providers and primary care physicians who seek to elevate cultural competence efforts to include an understanding of the presence and impact of implicit racial bias in health care and substance abuse treatment. This pamphlet defines implicit racial bias and microaggression, and offers evidence-based strategies for addressing both substance use treatment programs.