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Webinar presentation on implementing National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services.

In this webinar, Dr. Dennis Donovan, PhD, of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, describes the Healing of the Canoe (HOC) project, a collaborative between the Suquamish Tribe, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (PGST), and the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) to plan, implement, and evaluate culturally grounded interventions to reduce health disparities and promote health with both Native American tribes. Download slides | Learn more about Healing of the Canoe | Watch recording Webinar category: Specific populations

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Reference reading list of sources for HIV clinicians concerning medical marijuana.

This is the second webinar in a three part series on workforce recruitment and retention in behavioral health, with a specific focus on the field of addictions. The first webinar provided an overview of core concepts, the data on recruitment and retention, and showcased innovations by the State of Massachusetts. This second webinar will provide a broad review of recruitment and retention strategies, followed by a specific focus on recruiting and retaining people of color into the workforce.

Learn: 1. Implementation Science: What it is and why it is beginning to receive so much attention in behavioral health 2. Implementation Science models that guide the field and their relevance to implementing evidence-based practices and organizational change. 3. The key points of Diffusion of Innovations, by Everett Rogers, an essential reference book for implementation science and organizational change professionals

In this webinar, presenter Harold Gates of the Midwest Center for Cultural Competence will focus on defining the term cultural competence (CC). He also introduces the CC continuum of care and the CLAS standards.

Dr. Ryan Westergaard specializes in infectious disease and substance use disorder treatment. In this webinar, he provides an overview of the intersection between injection drug use, opioid use disorders, and HIV and viral hepatitis infections.

Monthly electronic newsletter highlighting Great Lakes ATTC training events and other topics.

In this webinar, Steve Woolworth, PhD, Vice President of Treatment and Reentry Services at Pioneer Human Services, shared a brief history of Pioneer Human Services (PHS), one of the nation’s largest social enterprise organizations, accompanied by a summary of the organization’s current service model and the emerging practices that PHS is investing in to address social determinants of health and the criminogenic and clinical risk factors associated with criminal justice recidivism, chronic addiction, and homelessness.  

This is the first webinar in a three part series on workforce recruitment and retention in behavioral health , with a specific focus on the field of addictions. These seemingly simple terms are quite complex, so this initial webinar will provide an overview of recruitment and retention core concepts, characteristics, workforce subgroups, and workforce development strategies. The webinar series is relevant for supervisors, agency leaders, state-level administrators and policy-makers.

FAQ Sheet captures questions and answer session of webinar presented by Dr. Dennis McCarty, April 3, 2018, "Treatment and Prevention of Opioid Use Disorder: Overview."

Monthly electronic newsletter featuring Great Lakes ATTC training events and other topics.

This brochure provides an overview of the South Africa HIV ATTC’s goals, objectives, and popular training topics. The South Africa HIV ATTC is an implementation science centre co-funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The brochure contains information about how organisations can request training or technical assistance.

Mid-America ATTC has developed a 2018 version of the Hepatitis Awareness Month (May) Info Sheet and Bulletin Insert. Side one has been updated to focus on the dual epidemics of the opioid crisis and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Although the document was initially designed for the faith community, it is appropriate as an educational flyer for much broader audiences. This product can be easily downloaded and used by churches, temples and mosques for their Sunday/Sabbath-day bulletins, newsletter

Naloxone temporarily reverses the effects of opioid overdose:slowed or stopped breathing and is typically utilized by first responders. The US surgeon general issued an advisory Thursday, April 5, 2018 recommending that more Americans carry the opioid overdose-reversing drug, naloxone which is sold under the brand name Narcan.

Dr. Dennis McCarty, PhD, provides an overview of treatment and prevention of opioid use disorder, with a discussion of effective use of medications.

Electronic newsletter announcing Great Lakes and national training and events.

This presentation discusses task shifting as a means of addressing severe mental illness. The presentation details two task shifting models supported by the South Africa HIV ATTC: (1) treatment partner (TP), psychoeducation, and m-health intervention; and (2) community health worker (CHW) mental health training intervention.

One-page information flyer, produced in 2018.

This double-sided handout can be given to and discussed with patients during the brief intervention. Side one contains information on prescription opioids and heroin, including mixing opioids with other substances, risks of opioid use, how to safeguard prescription opioids, steps to take if using opioids, and tips for quitting. Side two describes the effects of opioid misuse on the body.

This double-sided handout in Spanish can be given to and discussed with patients during the brief intervention. Side one contains information on prescription opioids and heroin, including mixing opioids with other substances, risks of opioid use, how to safeguard prescription opioids, steps to take if using opioids, and tips for quitting. Side two describes the effects of opioid misuse on the body.

This role play scenario can be used as part of an SBIRT training. It involves Tiffany, a 45 year old woman being seen for chronic ankle pain who scores in the severe zone on the DAST for prescription opioid misuse.

Electronic newsletter announcing events and trainings in Great Lakes Region. Writer/editor: Maureen Fitzgerald