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The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss using the CLAS Standards when working with the LGBTQ population. OBJECTIVES: Relevant insights on the impacts of disparities and societal stigma on the mental health and personal safety of LGBTQ individuals Heightened awareness, knowledge, and skills that address the needs of LGBTQ and substance use and/or other BH disorders PRESENTERS: Jacqueline Coleman MEd, MSM, BA, CPC Certified Professional Coach   Kate Bishop Education Coordinator LGBT Health Resource Center of Chase Brexton

Interview with Julia Alexander, recovery advocate and Co-Director of the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC). Julia is also the Indiana State Coordinator for the Great Lakes ATTC, PTTC, and Mental Health TTC. In this podcast, Julia shares info on her long-term recovery and how to start a recovery community organization (RCO).

Presenters:  Jacqueline van Wormer, PhD, Whitworth College Joshua Leblang, EdS, LMHC, University of Washington This August 2018 webinar tackled the complex and high stakes issues of how to best manage youth substance abuse needs for youth who are court-involved. Treatment courts attempt to balance due process with rehabilitation but many advocates are raising concerns that treatment courts may pose more harm than benefit for substance abuse recovery. This webinar brought together national research and clinical experts on the topic. Webinar attendees got firsthand information about the effective components of juvenile drug courts, the real world challenges of implementing these essential elements, and a clinical overview of the key components need to achieve substance use prevention and recovery outcomes for adolescents. Download slides | Watch recording Webinar category: Specific populations

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for individuals as well as health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services. OBJECTIVES: Provide an introductory overview of the Cultural and Linguistic Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards and their application in behavioral healthcare environments. PRESENTERS:  Jacqueline Coleman  MEd, MSM, BA, CPC  Certified Professional Coach

In this webinar, Joe Glass, PhD, MSW, of Kaiser Permanente WA Health Research Institute, examined the stigma of substance use disorders. Dr. Glass reviewed the scientific evidence about how stigma shapes healthcare experiences and treatment seeking, and discussed practical issues such as why and how to avoid using stigmatizing language.

This is the third webinar in a three-part series on workforce recruitment and retention in behavioral health, with a specific focus on the field of addictions. In this webinar, Dr. Christine Chasek, Director of the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, shares strategies for recruiting and retaining skilled behavioral health professionals to ruralareas. Dr. Michael Flaherty offers insight on recruiting and retaining peer support workers.

This webinar provides an overview of the Substance Use Disorders Initiative, a program developed at Massachusetts General Hospital to improve the quality, clinical outcomes, and value of addiction treatment by implementing a chronic disease model of care across the system. The Initiative includes inpatient and outpatient clinical services, SUD specific treatment services in the ED, integration of addiction services into primary care, and more.

Presentation by Dr. Michael McNett on alternatives to opioids for pain management.

Webinar presentation by Dr. Bryan Garner on how to use implementation science frameworks to implement evidence-based practices.

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

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.

This webinar will explore the intersection of tobacco, marijuana, and E-cigarettes. The webinar will drill down and look at e-liquid and e-aerosol, showing that is it isn't "just water vapor" and focus on some of the potential health consequences. Also addressed is the new Juuling phenomenon, while also addressing "dripping" and "dabbing." The webinar will introduce viewers to the new Heat-not-Burn product, IQOS, that is being promoted by Philip Morris International around the world.

Please join us for the first webinar in the Opioid Prescribers' Series. This webinar will describe how to improve patient safety by instituting a set of universal precautions for opioid prescribing in primary care based on leading clinical guidelines. Key points to be addressed are: 1) How the propose guideline principles were determined, 2) Key guideline principles for opioid prescribing, and 3) Methods for guideline implementation.

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.

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.

Joseph O. Merrill, MD, MPH, UW Associate Professor of Medicine April 25, 2018 Dr. Merrill is a UW associate professor of medicine and a certified expert in addiction medicine. He has clinical and research expertise in primary care, addiction medicine, pain medicine, and HIV medicine. As a member of the UW School of Medicine Colleges Faculty, he is active in medical student education. He teaches students, residents, and practicing physicians in a wide variety of settings. Download slides | Watch recording

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

This webinar, presented by K. Michelle Peavy, PhD, Research and Training Manager, Evergreen Treatment Services (ETS), examined the concept of patient-centered care in an OTP setting. Dr. Peavy, Research and Training Manager at Evergreen Treatment Services (ETS), will describe a treatment model that leverages patient-centered care components and enhances retention among individuals who struggle with ongoing drug use, and discuss clinical implications of that model. Download slides | Watch recording Webinar category: Opioids, Medication Treatment

The video focuses on the fentanyl overdose death of a young man from Grand Forks, ND and includes an interview with Mountain Plains ATTC Co-Director Thomasine Heitkamp. Documentary produced by Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded international news source that serves as the U.S. Federal Government’s official institution for external broadcasting. Video is being distributed throughout the US (in English) and China (in Mandarin). https://www.voachinese.com/a/opioid-20180227/4273229.html

The NWATTC hosted its first webinar on January 31, 2018, introducing staff and strategic vision and goals for the coming years. Webinar category: Other