Developing a Rural Community Approach to Overcoming Stigma
Resource page about Community Conversations on Opioid Use Disorder, a program focused on overcoming stigma
Community-Led Safe Spaces for U.S. Communities?
Community-led Safe Spaces offer peer-led support to people in distress in a welcoming setting in the local community.
SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line
The course will help learners to understand what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and identify best practices for sharing information about the 988 Crisis Lifeline and other resources.
Recovery Communities Organizations 101
This course covers the definition of recovery community organization(RCO), describes the types of RCO’s that support workforce and education development, and shares how you can support the startup or continuation of an RCO in your community.
Overdose Response Teams
ORTs are a multi-agency, harm reduction response unit that delivers support and person-centered services to individuals in the community who experience a non-fatal overdose.
Bridging the Racial Divide For Those Left Behind
Overview of statistical data regarding racial inequities, an examination of unconscious and conscious bias, and the creation of a culturally competent environment.
Why Addiction is a Chronic Disorder
Webinar
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.
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.”
For Two Award Winning Authors, Community is Crucial to Overcoming the Opioid Crisis
This article summarizes important points from the keynote speeches given by two award-winning authors at the Taking Action Summit in 2022.
“Sam Quinones and Beth Macy have spent much of their careers as journalists and authors covering this nation’s overdose crisis. Quinones’s works include his bestseller Dreamland and new book The Least of Us, and Macy’s include her bestseller Dopesick, which became a series on Hulu, and recently released Raising Lazarus. Although these authors have focused on different aspects of the crisis, in their keynote speeches they shared an overarching conviction. Community engagement—and the sense of purpose and belonging it gives rise to—is capable of turning the tide.”
