Thursday, June 18, 2020 10:30 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. EDT
Join SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Network for a day of learning from nearly two dozen national experts, policy makers, and providers in large plenaries and smaller concurrent sessions. All those working at the intersection of serious mental illness, substance use or co-occurring disorders and homelessness, will find engaging sessions. No travel is required—attend directly from your own internet-connected computer. Join us for the whole summit or drop in to only those sessions that most appeal to you. See the full agenda and more event information on the registration page.
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Monday, June 22, 2020 6:00 p.m. EDT
This workshop explores stereotypes, biases, and disparities related to COVID-19. Participants will gain skills to recognize and interrupt bias in a compassionate manner using tools for cross-cultural communication.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 2:00–3:00 p.m. EDT
SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) invites you to join national experts in a conversation about the experiences of Black men with mental illness, substance use disorder (SUD), or both. Our presenters will highlight current research and describe best practices and promising strategies for supporting the recovery of Black men.
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SAMHSA is committed to providing regular training and technical assistance (TTA) on matters related to the mental and substance use disorder field as they deal with COVID-19. View the updated available TTA resources to assist with the current situation.
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 SAMHSA is allowing flexibility for grant recipients affected by the loss of operational capacity and increased costs due to the COVID-19 crisis. These flexibilities are available during this emergency time period. Flexibility may be reassessed upon issuance of new guidance by the Office of Management and Budget post the emergency time period. Click the link above for information and resources to assist grant recipients during the COVID-19 emergency. Continue to check this website for updates.
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These FAQs address general questions associated with award and management of SAMHSA discretionary grants that may arise in relation to COVID-19. This information does not apply to SABG, MHBG, PATH or PAIMI grants. Applicants and grant recipients are strongly encouraged to monitor this website for updates.
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 Training and events are available for practitioners through many of SAMHSA’s Training and Technical Assistance Centers. Some of these are highlighted below. Note that some of them require advance registration. Visit SAMHSA’s Practitioner Training webpage for a more complete listing.
Note: If you are unable to access an event or webinar or have questions, please contact the source given at the individual event URL.
Monday, June 15, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
LGBTQIA people are much more than their sexual orientation and gender identity. This interactive webinar combines the perspectives and practices of both Cultural Humility and Motivational Interviewing, inviting participants to consider how these approaches, used in tandem, can enhance engagement and retention of LGBTQIA people.
Follow-up PCSS Clinical Roundtable Discussion: Injectable Extended-Release Buprenorphine Treatment in the Fentanyl Era
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
This Clinical Roundtable Discussion is a follow-up to the live webinar session that took place on May 19, 2020 at 12:00 pm ET. This discussion will address questions from the live webinar as well as provide you with an opportunity to ask questions. The goal of the PCSS Clinical Roundtable is to support interactions among addiction experts and health professionals through an informal “roundtable” conversation.
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Monday, June 15, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary, team-based model that provides intensive community-based and outreach-oriented services to people who experience the most severe and persistent mental illness. The vast majority also have a co-occurring substance use disorder and many experience comorbid medical illnesses as well as homelessness. The goals of the meetings are to:
- Connect with one other;
- Share strategies and resources for adapting team practices and communications; and
- Facilitate connection to the most up-to-date resources during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Monday, June 15, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT
Join the authors of Visioning Onward for inspiration, insights, exercises, and a Q&A session to prepare you to vision with your schools and districts. In this time of COVID-19, visioning is a critical part of planning for our future. Participants will receive a study guide to take our virtual approach back to your schools and districts to conduct your own visioning sessions.
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Monday, June 15, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Please join us for our virtual talking circle. This event is held bi-weekly. This group will be facilitated by a Native guest and will focus on concerns about yourself, your family, your work, and/or your tribal community that you may be experiencing during these uncertain times. Other meetings will take place at 1:00 p.m. EDT on June 29, July 13, July 27, August 10, and August 24, 2020.
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What’s Next: Transitioning Back to the Office Environment
Part 1 – Monday, June 15, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
Part 2 – Friday, June 19, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
The Post-COVID-19 Workplace – What Will Work Look Like?
Part 1 – Monday, June 22, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
Part 2 – Friday, June 26, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
Are you feeling a lack of connection and support with co-workers? Bring your morning coffee or tea to this series of 30-minute coffee breaks with colleagues. This is a time to connect and share challenges we’re experiencing and explore strategies for being well and productive while working in this new COVID-19 reality.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Join us for 1-hour, interactive Q&A sessions with Doctors Jim & Lizz Mazza about their online, live-streamed 16-lesson DBT STEPS-A curriculum to teach the basics of emotional regulation and specific skills such as mindfulness, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness—essential skills at any time, but even more critical during COVID-19.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:00 a.m. EDT
Expert consultants devote the first segment of each hour-long session to a specific topic and then address questions submitted by registrants. Consultation Office Hours provide intensive service, staff and operations consultation, and allow for an engaging Q&A session between the experts and participants.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The goal of this webinar is to increase the awareness and abilities of mental health care providers in their use of cultural elements by promoting culturally appropriate formulations when treating Latinx presenting with psychological and mental health disorders. The information is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and on the therapeutic relationship.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
This is the eighth session of a weekly open forum to listen and share suggestions and resources. Special attention will be paid to resiliency, strength, overcoming challenges of social distancing, and supporting mental health professionals in their efforts to adapt their delivery of service. Other sessions in this series will be held on the following dates:
- Tuesday, June 23, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
- Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
- Tuesday, July 7, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
- Tuesday, July 14, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
In this 1.5-hour training, participants will explore what it means to build a workplace community that is caring. We will discuss how participants can make space for individual, interpersonal, and structural solutions that can keep employees healthy and prevent burnout. This webinar is recommended for those setting agendas and building team cultures, such as managers, directors, and other organizational leaders. There are two dates to choose from, so register for the one that best fits your schedule.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT
Many schools are using yoga to effectively address the trauma and toxic stress that administrators, educators, and students experience each day. Using yoga practices rooted in neuroscience and vagal nerve research, educators can bring themselves and their students in the moment calm. Leave with tools to plan a consistent practice for yourself, your staff, and your students to see the transformational change of infusing trauma-informed yoga into your school community.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:00 p.m. EDT
This is the last webinar in a 6-part series on Telemental Health, and will focus on risk management.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:00 p.m. EDT
The goal of this facilitated discussion with providers is to learn about the cultural considerations necessary to facilitate behavioral health recovery in Hispanic/Latino Communities. Note: This is not a training; it is an online discussion group.
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Third Wednesday of Each Month at 11:00 a.m. EDT
This webinar provides practitioners with an easy-to-access opportunity to continue to build their practice skills towards fidelity. Attend all sessions or select from the menu of dates and topics below:
- Wednesday, June 17, 2020 – Gold Star Things to Say (Genuinely!)
- Wednesday, July 15, 2020 – What To Do When the Client Says Something About Changing Their Behavior
- Wednesday, August 19, 2020 – What to Do When The Client Seems Stuck About Changing Their Behavior
- Wednesday, September 16, 2020 – Pay Attention to Discord
- Wednesday, October 21, 2020 – Guess What Happens When You Ask for Change Talk?
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT
The National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (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 serve persons living with HIV.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The purpose of this session is to create awareness and understanding of the policy and public relations issues surrounding the prescribing of opioids and other prescription medications. Panelists will provide a timely update on the pressing legal, regulatory, and enforcement trends affecting pain management.
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Part 1: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Part 2: Thursday, June 18, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
This two-part series addresses the relationships between infant and adolescent trauma, and the risk and potential for a substance use disorder outcome. Participants in Part 1 will be able to name ways addiction impacts the maternal and infant brain, identify prevention strategies, describe the significance of attachment parenting to promote infant resilience, and discuss the risk of inherited genetics. Participants in Part 2 will be able to name brain systems impacted by exposure to adverse childhood experiences, describe three social, emotional, and behavioral impacts of exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences during adolescence, and identify stigma in self and in others.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 4:00 p.m. EDT
Hope & Cope 2020 is part of The Well-Being Series – Connections During COVID-19: Mental Wellness Webinars for Families and Educators. Join college and high school students for Hope & Cope 2020, a virtual event that invites you to reflect on the impact the world-changing events of 2020 have had on your life, through storytelling and connection with others. As part of this event, attendees will be able to:
- Tell and hear stories of the most authentic, personal kind;
- Build resilience as you explore and articulate your values, fears, and dreams; and
- Help others cope if you decide to share your story.
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Miércoles, Junio 17, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Este adiestramiento virtual de una hora y media proporcionará información sobre cómo la fatiga por compasión impacta a los profesionales de ayuda y a cuidadores al intervenir con personas que están experimentando mucho dolor. Los participantes podrán discutir la definición de fatiga por compasión y términos relacionados. La presentadora proveerá concienciación sobre las personas en riesgo de desarrollar fatiga por compasión y a su vez, se identificarán las señales y/o sÃntomas. Por ultimo, los proveedores de servicios de salud mental que sirven a los hispanos y latinos obtendrán estrategias para protegerse, prevenir y/o lidiar con la fatiga por compasión.
¿Quién debe asistir? Este es un taller de nivel básico diseñado para promotores de la salud, trabajadores sociales, psicólogos, consejeros, estudiantes graduados, y otros proveedores de salud mental.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:30 a.m. EDT
Psychotic disorders, a severe form of mental illness, typically emerge in adolescence and early adulthood. Early detection and intervention is key to prevention and improved outcome. This workshop aims to provide health/mental health professionals and clinical researchers who work with young people with hands-on skills to assess and diagnose Clinical High Risk (CHR) syndromes and early psychosis using the Structured Interview of Psychosis-risk Syndromes (SIPS).
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Part 1: Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:45 a.m. EDT
Part 2: Thursday, June 25, 2020, 10:00 am EDT
Part 3: Thursday, July 2, 2020, 10:00 am EDT
This training will provide attendees with the foundational elements of motivational interviewing and the stages of change model; demonstration and practice of skills and strategies to implement motivational interviewing in your work, and approaches to match your interventions to your participant's state of change. This training will be informational and interactive.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:00 p.m.
Note: This series will be held on the third Thursday every month from May to September 2020 at 3:00 p.m. EDT
The June 18 seminar, Getting Paid: Drug Medi-Cal and MAT Reimbursement, will provide detailed information on coding, billing, and payment as well as the resources available to support reimbursement for X-waivered physicians to provide MAT in California. Other upcoming Webinar topics include:
- Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT: Medicare
- Thursday, August 20, 2020 3:300 p.m. EDT: Special Populations
- Thursday, September 17, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT: Audience Demand; Topic TBD
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Every Other Week on Thursdays at 12:00 p.m. EDT: June 18, July 2, July 16, July 30
These Mutual Support Calls for Thriving at Work During COVID-19 will help facilitate support and the sharing of resources and ideas for mental health service providers during this unprecedented public health crisis. You are welcome to join 1, 2, or all 3 calls.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from Serious Mental Illness and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery. This session focuses on the role of religion and spirituality in recovery.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
This one and half hour online session will offer mental health providers information about a tailored Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for Latinx youths. The rationale for developing a culturally centered CBT protocol, the change model, and its main components will be presented. This is an intermediate level online event designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, graduate students, and other mental health providers.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 6:00 p.m. EDT
During this second webinar in the two-part series, we will discuss data quality and quantity–having enough data, and having the right data. Processes for prioritizing risk and protective factors to determine which to address with prevention efforts will be described, and examples will be shared. This webinar will conclude with recommendations for ongoing monitoring to inform evaluation efforts.
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Friday, June 19, 2020 9:00 a.m. EDT
This virtual training course focuses on topics and issues for behavioral health supervisors to help enhance and expand your process as a clinical supervisor. Throughout the training, we will discuss a variety of supervision topics including various models of supervision, addressing ethical dilemmas with supervision, as well as technology and supervision.
Connecting Prevention Specialists to Native Communities During Times of Crisis – Virtual Listening Sessions
Friday, June 19, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
These virtual sessions support Native communities in these challenging times. The meetings will cover major concerns that have been expressed, and will continue to share resources, and encourage the peer support that has been happening among those who participated. We hope these meetings will be supportive and helpful, and that we can help connect you with the resources you need. Other sessions include June 26, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT.
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Friday, June 19, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
Need assistance applying and/or integrating the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria? Join On-the-Spot (OtS) the 3rd Friday of each month at 12:00 p.m. EDT, for a one-hour session with an ASAM professional who will answer and discuss questions related to:
- Program development;
- 6-dimensional assessment and treatment planning; and
- Continued service, transfer, and discharge management.
Participants will have the opportunity to share case studies and receive guidance on how to use ASAM to make informed decisions with the client across the continuum of care. OtS is an open forum guided by the participants at each session.
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Friday, June 19, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT
This interactive 90-minute webinar provides an overview of the framework of Recovery Oriented Systems of Care, ways to self-assess a program’s current capability across specific dimensions, essential provider perspectives and skills, and approaches to developing an implementation plan to align current infrastructure toward a recovery enabling model.
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Friday, June 19, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
Friday, July 3, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
How are our veteran patients faring during quarantine? What can we, as providers, do to support them during this time? These questions are on our minds and we hope to share strategies, resources, and support each other as we work with and care for our veteran patients, especially those in Native communities. If you work with veterans, or are a veteran who supports others, we welcome you to join us for these discussions.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
Are you ready to start using videoconferencing in your practice/agency or Recovery Community Organization or have you already started and have questions about resources and next steps? Join this one-hour forum with knowledgeable providers and subject matter expert(s) who will answer questions and lead discussions around a variety of topics related to successes and challenges of using videoconferencing to offer clinical/peer recovery services via telehealth.
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Tuesday, June 23 11:00 a.m. EDT
Please join us for part 5 of the 7-part series covering the steps of the Strategic Prevention Framework. This session will:
- Identify the difference between process and outcome evaluation;
- Describe how to recommend improvements and make mid-course prevention programming corrections; and
- Discuss ideas for sharing and reporting evaluation results with stakeholders.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:00 p.m.
The experience of caring for patients and families during COVID-19 is bringing forward new moral and ethical challenges for primary care teams, such as lack of protective equipment, requirements for distancing, patients not seeking care for prevention and chronic illnesses–and so much more. In this webinar, we talk about moral resilience and ways to recognize and respond to moral distress as members of primary care teams.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT (Day 1)
Tuesday, June 24, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT (Day 2)
A major driver of the high burden of unintended pregnancies among women with substance use disorder (SUD) is the low utilization of effective contraception. To effectively address this disparity, a paradigm shift in how reproductive/sexual health is conceptualized for women with SUD is needed. The presenters will aid the audience in making this paradigm shift to broad focus on sexual health education, literacy and reproductive life planning.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
There is emerging evidence that with early identification and treatment, we can change the trajectory of psychosis and optimize the likelihood of recovery. This webinar will cover information on specific early warning signs and symptoms of psychosis-risk and psychosis, how to provide evidence-based early psychosis assessment and treatment/referral, and current target populations and special considerations in early psychosis work. Practical tools and resources related to assessment and treatment will be provided.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The goal of this webinar is to increase the awareness and abilities of mental health care providers in their use of cultural elements by promoting culturally appropriate formulations when treating Latinx presenting with psychological and mental health disorders. The information is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and on the therapeutic relationship.
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Wednesday, June 24, 4:00 p.m. EDT
This series of 12 self-compassion sessions teach you how to care for yourself in the moment that you most need it. The sessions will be comprised of didactic presentations, guided practices, and discussions, which will offer specific tools that you can use to give yourself the support you deserve. It's okay to join this session if you missed the one before it.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10:00 a.m. EDT
This 4-hour interactive workshop will provide participants with an in-depth overview of all problem-solving courts (including Drug, DWI, Veteran and Opioid courts) and clearly outline providers’ expectations and obligations (communication, toxicology testing) once a partnership has been formed. Participants will be introduced to a step-by-step process of how to create a criminal justice network and come to understand what judges expect from a provider relationship. Participants will understand the role of parole and probation, and how that relationship can impact the overall treatment process. Lastly, participants will become familiar with the various evidenced-based practices that problem-solving courts and other criminal justice professionals look for when referring to treatment providers.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will introduce two digital health tools to address addiction in families and patients, both free during the COVID-19 pandemic. An overview of the evidence-base for the programs, how they work, the benefits and risks, and ways they can be incorporated into present substance abuse teletherapy treatment will be discussed.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020 5:00 p.m. EDT
Educators and school mental health leadership are resilient, creative, and tenacious, but they need to be supported to be able to provide support. Each Wellness Wednesday is a 60-minute virtual session for the school mental health workforce to connect, reflect, and support each other.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT
This series features online meetings focused on bringing together leaders, clinicians, administrators, and constituents who are interested in working together to increase feasibility and scalability of specialized early psychosis and clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-P) treatment across the New England region and other areas in the U.S. Guest presenters will share their experience with finding ways to pay for high quality prevention services for youth and families affected by early psychosis and/or signs of clinical high risk. This will include discussions about negotiating bundled payment structures with third-party payers, providing telemedicine, and finding creative solutions to maximize existing resources in order to provide stepped care that matches evidence-based services to individual needs and preferences.
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Thursday, June 25 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Expert consultants devote the first segment of each hour-long session to a specific topic and then address questions pre-submitted by registrants; provide intensive service, staff and operations consultation; and allow for an engaging Q&A session between the experts and participants.
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Thursday, June 25 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
The Peer Support Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (PS ECHO) is a movement to share knowledge, and amplify capacity to provide best practices. The PS ECHO is an online community for peer recovery specialist and mental health peers to:
- Share community and statewide resources;
- Learn new skills and tools for doing peer work; and
- Meet and connect with other peers.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT
This interactive, online training will review and make relevant the key concepts of Motivational Interviewing. Participants will explore how and when to employ this evidence-based practice to support behavior change. Case scenarios will be used to provide practice opportunities focusing on substance use.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from Serious Mental Illness and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery. This session focuses on recovery in the Hispanic and Latinx Community.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT
This webinar will examine data on the rise and scope of vaping, and how it contrasts with previous tobacco use data. It will also examine the known risk factors that contributed to this rise, such as ease of availability, low perceptions of harm, and lack of environmental strategies to prevent use. The webinar will also discuss the issue and current status of acute lung injuries caused by vaping.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT
There is no one-size-fits-all model for implementing medications for addiction treatment (MAT). This session will highlight concrete organizational and administrative steps and processes to consider when defining your own clinic’s needs in treatment delivery. We will discuss the value of developing a MAT implementation plan that includes clinical considerations, process improvement considerations, staffing, and financial considerations.
[Note: PCSS Exchange is a six-session online course focused on the implementation of prescribing medications for treating opioid use disorder in a variety of healthcare sessions. It is structured around the EPIS Framework of implementation (Explore, Prepare, Implement, Sustain). For more information, visit this website.]
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Friday, June 26, 11:00 a.m. EDT
This conversation will introduce strategies for conducting a community assessment as part of the response to this public health emergency. Understanding how COVID-19 has impacted the social and economic factors in your community can assist leaders in prioritizing strategies critical for a customized response.
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 The Chartbook on Healthcare for Asians and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) was released May 21, 2020 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with collaboration from SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity. The Chartbook provides measures of healthcare access and quality for Asians and NHPIs from the annual National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, summarizes trends in healthcare and disparities, and shows selected demographics. View the Chartbook on AHRQ's Website.
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The Korean language version and the Spanish language version of the updated Therapy manual contain a 12-week cognitive–behavioral anger management group treatment model. The content includes specific instructions and suggested remarks for group leaders, and exercises for group members. This model will work in a variety of clinical settings, and with diverse audiences.
The updated Korean language version and Spanish language version of the workbook are companion pieces to the Anger Management Manual; They summarize the information presented in each session of the 12-week program and provide worksheets for completing exercises.
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