Budgeting for Rural Recovery Residences

This course covers the basics of recovery house financing considerations, including capital expenses, operating expenses, stopgap funding, and ways to become sustainable.

Intro to Public Policy

Course covers the process of policy-making process at the federal level.

How to Prevent MAT-Related Discrimination

Information on developing non-discriminating policies in rural recovery housing based on FHA and ADA.

The Intersectionality of Women, SUD, Trauma, and the Criminal Legal System (Summit 2022)

Illustrates the invisible power relations created by trauma and the legal system for women with SUD and how it shapes identity and inequality.

Insurance for Recovery Housing

Buying insurance for your recovery house.

Identifying SUD Bias and Addressing Stigma in the Clinical Setting

This presentation outlines practical approaches to identifying personal bias and addressing stigma in the clinical care setting.

Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Strategies and Principles for Guiding Conversations With Your Patients

In this session, Dr. Jackson shares practical ways to implement and utilize motivational interviewing (MI) in a rural healthcare setting to foster change. Dr. Jackson covers the four guiding principles of MI, the spirit of MI, and how to honor autonomy in a way that creates an environment of collaboration, empowerment, and hope. Attendees learn how to uncover what motivates their patients to change and review active listening and productive communication strategies.

Pregnancy, Parenting, And Substance Use: Stigma, Fear and a Call for Improved Messaging to our Families

This presentation covers unique barriers that people with opioid use disorder face when pregnant and parenting.

Improving Prevention and Care Outcomes for LGBTQ People: Safer Spaces and Better Data Collection

This article describes key points in a presentation given by Dr. Blosnich (Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for LGBTQ+ Health Equity at the University of Southern California’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work). Dr. Blosnich discussed “how LGBTQ people with SUD contend not just with stigma related to SUD, but with stigma related to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), which can be unintentionally yet overtly part of the health care experience in rural areas.”

Tony Hoffman Highlights the Cost of Institutional Stigma

This article summarizes the main points from a keynote address at the Taking Action Summit in 2022.
“Tony Hoffman says he’s grateful for the insight he gained from experiencing homelessness. The co-founder of pH Wellness, who delivered a keynote at the Taking Action Summit, reflected on how his substance use disorder (SUD) eventually led to homelessness and how that experience gave him perspective on the stigma faced by people in similar circumstances. Instead of blaming people, he feels a sense of compassion and empathy. Rather than judging them, he wonders about the source of the pain that led to SUD.”