Despite increased focus on mental health and substance use challenges in the public health sector, there remains a lack of formal training for building professional competencies across public health agencies.
Additional education and training must be tailored to, and based on, the experiences and activities of the existing workforce. We provide dynamic programming to build public health’s capacity for addressing mental health and substance use challenges.
This roadmap provides local and state health departments with information, resources and tools to implement effective strategies to support linking people who are at risk of opioid overdose to care.
OVERDOSE RESPONSE AND LINKAGE TO CARE: A Roadmap for Health DepartmentsTelehealth has expanded access to recovery support like never before — but how do we ensure peer recovery support specialists (PRSSs) are fully integrated and supported in these virtual spaces? This webinar will explore effective strategies for embedding PRSSs in telehealth environments, fostering strong collaboration with clinical team members and…
It is increasingly challenging to serve communities and prevent overdose. How do we sustain community relationships and provide access to life-saving services with limited financial, human, institutional, legislative and social capital?Community-based organizations and health departments that support people who use drugs must continue to find ways to be creative, nimble…
Join us to discuss how and where along the criminal justice continuum Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) can create partnerships to engage and support people with serious mental illness (SMI). We’ll cover key intervention points for delivering timely, coordinated mental health and substance use treatment and explore evidence-based strategies…
Join the Providers Clinical Support System — Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (PCSS-MOUD) and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing on Aug. 14, 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET, as we learn from two leading experts from GRAND Mental Health, an Oklahoma-based Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), on…
