Products and Resources Catalog

The February 2019 Dialogue features a redesigned template. Addiction: Segments include African American children of parents with alcohol use disorder | Mental Health: Mental Health News, HRSA job fair | Prevention: implementing culturally competent prevention programs for African American | ORN: Recovery Residences. Additional sections include upcoming training and webinar events, behavioral health observances, new resources, Region 3 news, and Region 3 Spotlight: ASAM 50th Annual Conference. The Dialogue is designed to inform behavioral and mental health professionals of news and upcoming events in the Central East states. This electronic newsletter is disseminated on the first Tuesday of each month. We encourage you to provide any feedback or submit articles and topics for discussion in future issues of the newsletter. If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive the Dialogue, news, and training announcements, sign up here.

The January 2019 Dialogue features the MHTTC Systems Transformation Initiative, Vaping/E-Cigarettes, SAMHSA funding news, and upcoming health observances and training events. The Dialogue is designed to inform behavioral and mental health professionals of news and upcoming events in the Central East states. This electronic newsletter is disseminated on the first Tuesday of each month. We encourage you to provide any feedback or submit articles and topics for discussion in future issues of the newsletter. If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive the Dialogue, news, and training announcements, sign up here.

The December Dialogue features the opioid epidemic in HHS Region 3, and UMB Center for Addiction Research, Education and Service (UMB CARES).

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss how health care organizations need to ensure that awareness, adoption, and implementation of the National CLAS Standards are incorporated to have a more inclusive definition of culture in order to better adolescents. OBJECTIVES: highlights of enhanced CLAS Standards that contribute to positive health outcomes; increased knowledge of current disparities facing youth and young adults in health care settings; new and existing frameworks that have created successful health outcomes for youth and adolescents experiencing crisis; and review of Best practice interactions with youth and adolescent patients PRESENTERS: Jacqueline Coleman MEd, MSM, BA, CPC Certified Professional Coach   Benjamin Di'Costa Leading digital health and wellness strategist

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss the importance for healthcare organizations to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services and promote a more inclusive definition of culture in order to better serve children and their caregivers. OBJECTIVES: Highlights of the enhanced CLAS Standards that contribute to positive health outcomes for children Explore CLAS oriented patient/provider relationship Build principles tailored to and for children and their caregivers   PRESENTERS: Jacqueline Coleman MEd, MSM, BA, CPC Certified Professional Coach   Ebony Johnson MHS Global strategist on gender equality, human rights, and public health.  

The November Dialogue features the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force (ARPO) and rural health.

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss the importance for healthcare organizations to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services and promote a more inclusive definition of culture to include sexual orientation and gender identity, in order to better serve the LGBTQ community. OBJECTIVES: Highlights of the enhanced CLAS Standards 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

Featuring bullying prevention, Mental Health Awareness Week, PTTS award, Central East on the Move, new resources, Region 3 news, Monthly Health Check, and affirmations.

This webinar will discuss how historically menthol products have been predatorily marketed to marginalized groups and most conspicuously to African Americans. The results of predatory marketing has led to 85% of adults and 94% of teen African American smokers to smoke menthol cigarettes. Black folks die disproportionately from tobacco-related diseases compared to other races and ethnic groups. Menthol isn't deadly itself, but it allows the poison to go down easier.

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

Go Purple for Recovery Month! Featuring personal recovery stories, Recovery Month, new resources, Central East on the Move, Regionan 3 news, and affirmations.

Featuring Recovery Month, accepting stories of recovery, International Overdose Awareness Day, new resources, Central East on the Move, and Region 3 news.

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

The July 2018 Dialogue discusses the STR-TA Consortium, Minority Mental Health Month, awareness events, Central East on the Move, and regional news.

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.

Featuring opioids and technology, Jean Bennett, Ph.D., SAMHSA Regional Administrator (Region 3), Central East on the Move, new resources, Region 3 news, Monthly Health Check, and affirmations.

Featuring MATCHHS, Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, Alcohol Awareness, Central East on the Move, new resources, Region 3 news, Monthly Health Check, and affirmations.

Featuring Dickie Lynn Gronseth, MPH, Project Officer for Title X Family Planning, gambling addiction, Central East on the Move, new resources, Region 3 news, Monthly Health Check, and affirmations.

Featuring Connections CPS and the opioid epidemic, HIV disparities in the African American community, Central East on the Move, new resources, Region 3 news, Monthly Health Check, and affirmations.

This webinar is designed for healthcare and human service providers and other staff who interact with patients, who work in multiple types of settings. Prescribers of extended-release and long-acting opioids are particularly welcome. We now know that overdoses from prescription opioids are a driving factor in the 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. FACULTY: Dr. Edwin Salsitz, MD, DFASAM, attending physician at the Beth Israel Medical Center, Division of Chemical Dependency in NYC.

Featuring opioid data and looking ahead, doubling of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, Prestera Center, Central East on the Move, new resources, Region 3 news, Monthly Health Check, and affirmations.

This booklet identifies common workplace stressors for addiction professionals and offers evidence-based, practical strategies and resources to promote healthy lifestyles and productive professional lives. It is intended to assist agencies to create supportive work environments as well as provide guidance to employees on enhancing their own well-being. This guide is an updated version of "Self-Care: A Guide for Addiction Professionals."

Stigma often makes addicted and recovering people, family and friends, treatment professionals, community activists, and other stakeholders feel powerless, angry, and frustrated. This guide is designed to help people become empowered and to provide practical tools by which people can become involved in stigma prevention activities.    This resource provides practical information about a variety of approaches to prevent addiction-related stigma. Some are especially simple and can be initiated by individuals on their own. These include tips on using stigma-free language and writing letters to the editor. Some approaches are comprehensive, such as developing a community action group and implementing a community-based campaign.