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Join SAMHSA’s PCSS-MOUD for 8-Part Harm Reduction Podcast Series, Compassionate Care for People Who Use Drugs
7/2024 – 9/2024
Join SAMHSA’s PCSS-MOUD for 8-Part Harm Reduction Podcast Series, Compassionate Care for People Who Use Drugs
Join SAMHSA’s PCSS-MOUD for 8-Part Harm Reduction Podcast Series, Compassionate Care for People Who Use Drugs
SAMHSA’s Providers Clinical Support System - Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (PCSS-MOUD) is hosting a new and exciting 8-part podcast series that delves into the critical importance of harm reduction. This series consists of 30-minute episodes hosted by distinguished members of the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction (AMERSA).
PCSS-MOUD is a SAMHSA-funded national training, guidance, and clinical mentoring program to enhance the capacity of healthcare and counseling professionals to identify and treat opioid use disorder (OUD). PCSS-MOUD trains health professionals to provide effective, evidence-based, medication treatments to patients with opioid use disorder in primary care, psychiatric care, substance use disorder treatment, and pain management settings.
Each episode of the podcast series will feature experts across different fields, providing a well-rounded perspective on harm reduction.
The first podcast of the series, Test Your Drugs, Not Your Limits - The Role of Advanced Drug Checking in Harm Reduction, aired July 11 and highlights how community-based advanced drug checking supports people who use drugs, harm reduction staff, and clinical providers.
The second podcast, Harm Reduction in the Hospital: Meeting People Where They Are, aired on July 18.
Register and receive notification as new episodes become available and to listen to previously aired podcasts in the series.
Virtual Learning
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Digital Dialogue Session: Intentional Integration: How to Identify and Support Parents With Co-Occurring Disorders
8/8/2024 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Digital Dialogue Session: Intentional Integration: How to Identify and Support Parents With Co-Occurring Disorders
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Digital Dialogue Session: Intentional Integration: How to Identify and Support Parents With Co-Occurring Disorders
Family treatment courts (FTCs), like all drug courts, historically focused on treating substance use disorders (SUDs). However, FTCs cannot maintain this singular focus since 45% of adults with an SUD in the general population also live with a co-occurring mental health disorder. People with an untreated co-occurring disorder are less likely to complete substance use treatment or achieve sustained recovery; they are also more likely to experience unemployment, homelessness, child welfare involvement, incarceration, and suicide.
Many dependency court professionals recognize the prevalence of co-occurring disorders. Still, due to complexities in screening, assessment, diagnosis, and securing mental health services, FTCs may not appropriately identify and treat parents with co-occurring disorders. This session examines the interactive nature of substance use and mental health disorders, while providing strategies for improved approaches and outcomes for parents and their children.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize definitions and prevalence rates of co-occurring disorders and explore theories of how and why substance use and mental health disorders co-occur.
- Identify complexities and opportunities in screening and assessment to more accurately identify parents with co-occurring disorders.
- Apply evidence-based approaches for integrated treatment and recovery.
- Adopt strategies from FTCs that successfully serve parents with co-occurring disorders.
Virtual Learning
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Idea Exchange Three: Co-Occurring Disorders
9/19/2024 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Idea Exchange Three: Co-Occurring Disorders
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Idea Exchange Three: Co-Occurring Disorders
Join the National Family Treatment Court Program for the September Idea Exchange, where the topic will be the continuation of the conversation following the Practice Academy course—Intentional Integration: How to Identify and Support Parents With Co-Occurring Disorders. Many dependency court professionals recognize the prevalence of co-occurring disorders. Still, due to complexities in screening, assessment, diagnosis, and securing mental health services, family treatment courts may not appropriately identify and treat parents with co-occurring disorders. Come take part in a lively conversation with peers from across the country and discuss strategies, share innovations, and brainstorm solutions to challenges and barriers!
Virtual Learning
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Digital Dialogue Session: Sustained Recovery: Don’t Make Aftercare an Afterthought
11/12/2024 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Digital Dialogue Session: Sustained Recovery: Don’t Make Aftercare an Afterthought
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Digital Dialogue Session: Sustained Recovery: Don’t Make Aftercare an Afterthought
Recovery is a process, and family treatment courts (FTCs) are a time-limited acute intervention in a family’s life. FTCs must blend aftercare planning into their program design to best support parents and their children after case closure. Aftercare plans, also known as “continuing care plans,” can provide parents with structure, accountability, and needed ongoing services to both parents and children after child welfare, treatment services, and the FTC no longer remain a central part of their lives. This Practice Academy shares the "do's and don'ts" of aftercare planning, highlights innovative approaches to continuing care, and offers strategies and examples that FTC teams use to support sustained family recovery.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the purpose and process of aftercare planning.
- Establish do's and don'ts of aftercare planning.
- Apply lessons about aftercare planning successes and challenges from FTC alumni in sustained recovery.
- Adopt strategies from recovery research and innovative FTCs focused on sustained recovery.
Virtual Learning
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Idea Exchange IV: Aftercare
12/3/2024 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Idea Exchange IV: Aftercare
Family Treatment Court Practice Academy Idea Exchange IV: Aftercare
Join the National Family Treatment Court Program for the December Idea Exchange, where the topic will be the continuation of the conversation following the Practice Academy course—Sustained Recovery: Don’t Make Aftercare an Afterthought. Recovery is a process, and family treatment courts (FTCs) are a time-limited acute intervention in a family’s life. FTCs must blend aftercare planning into its program design to best support parents and their children after case closure. Aftercare plans can provide parents with structure, accountability, and needed ongoing services to both parents and children after child welfare, treatment services, and the FTC no longer remain a central part of their lives. Come take part in a lively conversation with peers from across the country and discuss strategies, share innovations, and brainstorm solutions to challenges and barriers!
What's New in the Online Learning Center
PRO-ACT: Virtual Site Visit To Peer Support Programs In Southeast Pennsylvania
The opioid epidemic has impacted southeast Pennsylvania particularly hard. According to the Commonwealth Prevention Alliance, the rate of drug-related overdose deaths in Pennsylvania is almost double the national overdose death rate.
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Columbus & Franklin County Addiction Plan
In response to a profound jump in overdose deaths in 2015, stakeholders from across Franklin County, Ohio, gathered together to address the opioid epidemic, discussing strategies related to treatment access, prevention, education, law enforcement, and recovery.
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