Products and Resources Catalog

Hosted by Great Lakes, Mid America, Northwest and South Southwest ATTCs. July 23 2020. A conversation with Colin Cash, from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota and founder of the Sober Squad Recovery Movement. Part 1 of a discussion series drawing on the experiences of multiple recovery communities to provide models for how successful community-based recovery programs can be fostered and sustained in times of change.

Hosted by Great Lakes, Mid America, Northwest and South Southwest ATTCs. August 27, 2020. Part 6 of a discussion series drawing on the experiences of multiple recovery communities to provide models for how successful community-based recovery programs can be fostered and sustained in times of change. Series speakers join together for a final panel discussion.

Hosted by Great Lakes, Mid America, Northwest and South Southwest ATTCs. August 20, 2020. A conversation with Precia Stuby, Executive Director of the Hancock County Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services. Part 5 of a discussion series drawing on the experiences of multiple recovery communities to provide models for how successful community-based recovery programs can be fostered and sustained in times of change.

Hosted by Great Lakes, Mid America, Northwest and South Southwest ATTCs. August 13, 2020. A conversation with Callan Howton, Director of the National Peer-Run Training and TA Center for Addiction Recovery Peer Support. Part 4 of a discussion series drawing on the experiences of multiple recovery communities to provide models for how successful community-based recovery programs can be fostered and sustained in times of change.

Hosted by Great Lakes, Mid America, Northwest and South Southwest ATTCs. August 6, 2020. A conversation with Andre Johnson President and CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project. Part 3 of a discussion series drawing on the experiences of multiple recovery communities to provide models for how successful community-based recovery programs can be fostered and sustained in times of change.

Hosted by Great Lakes, Mid America, Northwest and South Southwest ATTCs. July 30, 2020. A conversation with Ruby Takushi, PhD, Director of Programs for the Recovery Café in Seattle, Washington. Part 2 of a discussion series drawing on the experiences of multiple recovery communities to provide models for how successful community-based recovery programs can be fostered and sustained in times of change.

Monthly e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. September 2020 issue: focus on National Recovery Month 2020 

Presented By: Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC Recorded on June 9, 2020  |  Module 5/8

The Great Lakes Wave podcast channel is available on all of the top podcasting platforms, including Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Breaker. New episodes and podcast series are added regularly!  

This Recovery Month 2019 podcast features an interview with Dr. Mike Flaherty, a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years' experience in prevention, intervention, treatment, research, and policy development related to substance use treatment and recovery. In this episode, Dr. Flaherty provides an overview of Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care.   

Dr. Tom Freese, co-director of the Pacific Southwest ATTC, shares insights on treatment and recovery in the LGBTQ population and offers recommendations on ways treatment organizations can meet the needs of their LGBTQ clients. 

Julia Alexander, co-director of the Great Lakes PTTC,  shares her experience as a person in long-term recovery along with recommendations on starting a recovery community organization (RCO).   

Dr. Haner Hernandez reflects on the 2018 National Recovery Month theme, Join the Voices for Recovery: Invest in Health, Home, Purpose, and Community, and offers recommendations on ways that treatment organizations can meet the needs of their Hispanic and Latino clients. 

This web page provides an inventory of national and Great Lakes region recovery resources available in virtual formats. Updated regularly with new resources. 

A Different Kind of Grief: Understanding the Client Grief Process of an Overdose or Other Substance Use-Related Death is a recorded webinar presented by Gloria Englund, Founder of Recovering U. Using case examples and her own lived experience, Englund's presentation addresses the unique and complex grieving process of those effected by substance-use related death.       Additional Resources          

Providing SUD services during a pandemic requires a mix of disaster preparedness, safety precautions, telehealth, and ethics. During her tenure as a leader in SUD treatment, Sheila Weix has been involved with emergencies related to the HIV epidemic, 9/11, and the 2008 economic collapse. She is currently applying this experience in an outpatient treatment service that includes medication-assisted treatment in rural Wisconsin during the COVID19 pandemic. Webinar participants will learn about: Safety precautions How to move all services to telehealth Reimbursement contingencies Leadership actions underway to address this rapidly changing situation    Additional Resources: Transcript_SUD in a Pandemic_Bigger Boat Part 1  

African Americans have lower rates of retention in substance use disorder treatment. In this one-hour webinar, Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, provides an overview of the factors that prevent African Americans from continuing in treatment, along with strategies that organizations can apply to improve engagement.  Presentation Slides Presented on February 5, 2020. 

Mountain Plains ATTC offered a webinar entitled Options for Peer Support in Frontier and Tribal Communities for our Frontier and Tribal Behavioral Health Treatment Providers Workgroup. This presentation was done by consultant Melissa Witham of C4 Innovates on January 30, 2020.   Areas Covered: Roles of substance use disorders, mental health, and family peers Roles of peers vs. clinical staff Establishing the setting for peer support – integrated with primary care, as part of emergency care/first response, reentry, telephonic Reimbursement and supervision Certification of peers Getting started   Link to Video

This session will provide an overview of the application of SAMHSA’s Best Practices and Suggested Guidelines for Substance Use Disorders Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities.  The session will provide a basic overview of housing policies that ensure support for people suffering from a substance use disorder who are in need of supportive recovery-oriented transitional housing. The focus will be on the lessons learned in developing housing in rural communities and housing that supports the inclusivity of all cultures. Learning Objectives This session will provide participants with: A case study on housing principles and policies that support recovery, prevent relapse, recidivism, and overdoses. An understanding of how to address housing supports for people in recovery in geographically remote areas and best-practices to serve a diverse population to ensure inclusion. Best practices to ensure safety for residents.   Presenter Jessica Thomasson serves as the CEO of Lutheran Social Services (LSS) of North Dakota. Jessica and the LSS team are active in the areas of affordable housing, childcare, mental health, disaster response, aging services, and support for young families. Download "Housing as an Intervention" slides here.    

Additional Resources Click to View Webinar Presentation Slides Translations     --This is Part 1 of a 2-Part Webinar Series-- This dynamic presentation explored cumulative, cultural and collective forms of trauma for Latinx people and communities, their relationship to risk for substance use, and briefly introduce ways we as helping professionals can support continued healing, resilience and resistance among the people and communities we serve. Participants ended this workshop with a clear framework for understanding the roles oppression-based trauma and culturally-centered resilience play in the lives of Latinx who are impacted by substance use. Spanning two decades of research, trauma-informed (T-I) practice is seen as a new frontier in behavioral health and social services (National Council for Behavioral Health, n.d.). Where trauma analysis regularly attends to impact of emotional trauma on individuals and its correlation with risk for substance use, less is understood regarding cumulative, cultural, and collective forms of trauma on Latinx individuals and communities, including immigration and acculturation traumas. These gaps are worthy of exploration given an emerging body of knowledge which evidences microaggressions (Nadal, 2018), racism (Williams, Metzger, Leins,& DeLapp, 2018), sexism (Kucharska, 2018), and homophobia (Goodwin, 2014) as correlated with risk for emotional trauma. Finally, culturally-rooted resilience and resistance are vital in the process of healing from substance use and are rarely addressed. Speaker Anna Nelson, LCSW College Assistant Professor @NMSU School of Social Work An educator for the previous decade and helping professional since 1996, Anna Nelson, LCSW, is a College Assistant Professor with NMSU School of Social Work and a Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Leadership and Administration. Ms. Nelson employs mixed-methods participatory action research grounded in Critical Race and Intersectionality theories to understand cultural, cumulative and collective trauma and its impact on communities with a strong focus on identity-driven resilience and resistance. From 2010- 2016, she served as Executive Director of the New Mexico Forum for Youth in Community, a statewide network intermediary that promoted racial, health, academic and economic justice for all youth statewide. Her professional practice emphases are youth, family and community engagement, violence prevention, trauma/healing informed culturally sustaining service systems development, and policy transformation, particularly for child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

This slide deck provides a brief overview of the role recovery capital plays in increasing assets and identifying barriers to recovery (Hennessey, 2017). It is designed to be used by behavioral health academic faculty, trainers, and state agency staff members for a variety of audiences. Each slide has notes for the presenter to provide guidance if necessary. References are included on the slides and in the notes. If you require further information on this topic, please contact the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MPATTC). You are free to use these slides and pictures but please give credit to the MPATTC when using them by keeping the branding and referencing the ATTC at the beginning of your presentation.      

You Fit Together is a guidebook about stress, the body’s reaction to the physical, emotional, or intellectual challenges it faces. Moderate stress can be positive and healthy, but having too much stress can cause problems with physical and/or mental health and raise the risk of problems with alcohol or drugs. The guidebook describes challenges that too much stress can cause, about your own health, the health of someone you know, or the health and well-being of your community as a whole - and tips to improve all of these challenges.      

This guide book is designed for leadership in a trauma-informed care initiative or a ROSC transformation—maybe in an organization, in a whole system, or in a whole community.   A Challenge to Leadership has 8 sections. Each section has a set of “action notes,” which are basically workbook tools.  The Action Notes can be used to start a planning process for a change team or a transformation team.      

Dr. Mike Flaherty is a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years experience in the prevention, intervention, treatment, research and policy development related to substance use, addiction and recovery. In this podcast, Dr. Flaherty provides an overview how Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care are transforming lives in communities across the country.