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The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure represent a leading preventable cause of developmental delays in the United States. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) represent the range of lifelong effects that can occur, including cognitive, behavioral, and/or social deficits. This lunch break will provide an overview of FASD and provide resources to adapt women’s treatment programs to increase success for women with an FASD.

Addiction is a family disease. Yet mothers are often treated in isolation from their children and partners, having to choose between getting treatment and keeping their families together. One revolutionary program in Compton, California lets women bring them all -- fathers/partners and children of all ages -- to experience the recovery journey together. "Bring Them All" tells the story of family-centered care through the perspectives of clients and staff at SHIELDS for Families.

This vignette, part of the "Bring Them All" documentary, describes how SHIELDS for Families empowers clients in their roles as parents.

This vignette, part of the "Bring Them All" documentary, describes how SHIELDS for Families partnered with child welfare to reunite and strengthen families struggling with addiction.

This vignette, part of the "Bring Them All" documentary, describes the comprehensive array of services available to children of all ages at SHIELDS for Families.

This vignette, part of the "Bring Them All" documentary, describes how SHIELDS for Families involves fathers in treatment.

This vignette, part of the "Bring Them All" documentary, describes how SHIELDS for Families built its family-centered program.

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

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

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.

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

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. 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, 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.

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.

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.

In this webinar, Dr. Hill discusses the major myths about marijuana use and the challenges of treating marijuana addiction, including working with parents.

Dr. Kari Franson from the University of Colorado's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences shares information on the long-term negative outcomes marijuana use has on developing adolescents.

Dr. Laura Borgelt, Professor at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, discusses the effects marijuana use can have on women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, the unborn child, and newborns.