Marshall CORE Program: Exploring Career Goals

This course helps connect skills and interests to career opportunities.

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.

Resolving Conflict

In this course, you’ll learn common sources of discord and some typical responses. You’ll also discover techniques to resolve conflict, address anger, and stop abusive behavior.

Understanding Urine Analysis

When used correctly and competently following best practice guidelines, urine analysis can be an effective therapeutic tool.

Urine Analysis: From a Resident Perspective

This course will explain urine analysis from the residents perspective. Providing person-first care, dignity, and respect is hugely important to your residents.

Creating a Culture of Change: Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing

Explore Motivational Interviewing (MI) and how it can support change in your recovery house. Students will recognize the spirit of MI and its core elements and strategies, be able to identify basic skills they can adopt, and know where to find more resources for continued learning.

Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Recovery Residences

This course provides an overview of trauma-informed care and how trauma can impact a person. By implementing trauma-informed care in your rural recovery house setting, you can help residents better manage their outcomes and build recovery capital.

Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House’s Alumni

Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network.

Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support

Gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections by staying connected to your alumni.

SMART Recovery: An Overview

Overview of the SMART Recovery mutual aid group program that uses self-empowerment to encourage lasting change.

Welcome to the Rural SUD Info Center, a collection of best practices, tools, and research for rural communities as they work to build and strengthen a comprehensive approach to substance use disorder (SUD). These resources offer support to rural providers/partners, recovery specialists, rural community members, and more.

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FAQs

How can I learn more about the resources and services that are specifically available in my local area?

We encourage all visitors to the Rural SUD Info website to also explore additional resources and services available through the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), or Rural Health Information Hub (RHIHub).

How often are the Rural SUD Info Center materials updated?

Materials are updated on a quarterly basis.

How can I contact the Rural SUD Info Center?

Visit the request assistance page. https://ruralsudinfo.org/request-assistance/

Is there an Urban SUD Resource Center?

There is not an equivalent Urban SUD Resource Center. However, all of the information and tools on this website are available to the public, regardless of location or grant status.

What are the Rural Centers of Excellence?

The RCOEs were established in 2019 by the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP), an initiative of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) that aims to reduce morbidity and mortality related to SUD in rural areas.

Myself, or someone I know, is in a crisis. What should I do?

Please call or text 988, or visit: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-support/in-crisis

What is the Rural SUD Info Center?

The Rural SUD Info Center is a collection of best practices, tools, and research for rural communities building and strengthening a comprehensive approach to substance use disorder (SUD). These resources offer support to rural providers/partners, recovery specialists, rural community members, and more.

What resources are available for providers and patients?

Resources available for providers and patients include the Clearinghouse Resource Page. We also encourage visitors to fill out a technical assistance (TA) request for implementation support.

Where can I find rural providers in my area?

We encourage our visitors to use resources found throughout the Rural SUD Info
Center, along with Health
Resources & Services Administration, Rural
Health Information Hub, and the three RCOEs
to locate rural providers in your area.

Where can I find previous versions of toolkits?

All old versions of toolkits and resources are archived and can be retrieved through a request via the request assistance form.

Who operates the Rural SUD Info Center?

The Rural SUD Info Center is operated by the three RCORP-Rural Centers of Excellence on Substance Use Disorders, which are funded by HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.