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Electronic newsletter announcing trainings and events in Great Lakes ATTC region. Some national events. Editor/writer: Maureen Fitzgerald.

Electronic newsletter announcing training and events in Great Lakes ATTC region. Writer/editor: Maureen Fitzgerald

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

Electronic newsletter announcing Great Lakes and national training and events.

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

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

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

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."

This product is a 1-page overview of the South Africa HIV ATTC's mental health training model written by Dr. Goodman Sibeko, the South Africa HIV ATTC Co-Director. It was published by the Western Cape Department of Health in the October 2017 Provincial Health Research Newsletter on page 8. The article can be found below as a separate link to the full Newsletter.

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

Monthly electronic newsletter highlighting 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.

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.

Hispanic adolescents in the US tend to grow up with intersecting Latino and American cultures. Addressing maladaptive behavior with Latino youth encourages a culturally informed approach that integrates an ecological understanding of their world and the factors that influences their behavior. Some of these can include substance use disorders, mental health concerns, family dysfunction, adolescent development stages.

Professional boundaries set the parameters of effective and appropriate interaction between professionals and the persons they serve. They protect clients or patients as well as the provider. This course will discuss professionalism and ethics, dual relationships, how to build a safe working environment and maintain professional boundaries that are essential for practice and achieving client goals.

This two-part webinar will review the Ethics Code for Counselors. Topics include: definitions and foundations of ethics, principles and problem areas, professional responsibility and counselor considerations. Confidentiality will also be reviewed. There will be case studies, discussion, and information on technology and ethics.

This two-part webinar will review SUD diagnosis criteria, the impact of SUD on the brain and compulsivity factor, as well as specific signs and symptoms for alcohol and opioid use disorders (AUD, OUD). The content will further explain how medicated assisted treatment (MAT) works, why it’s the most effective treatment for OUD and AUD, and will include points for providers to effectively inform clients on how MAT increases a person’s opportunity for access and sustain recovery.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium: Reclaiming Our Roots: Rising from the Ashes of Historical Trauma This document is a compilation of the presentations given by invited experts at the National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC 2015 Second Annual Symposium: Reclaiming our Roots: Rising from the Ashes of Historical Trauma.

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.