Integrating behavioral health and community systems to enhance the access, provision, and quality of substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, and mental health services.
What's Happening
Trauma Responsive Training – Communities Part 2
03
Apr 2025
Drawing from current theory and practice in Trauma Responsive Care and Addiction Recovery, this micro training series will cover key core concepts, practices, and skills, with a focus on their effectiveness for individuals, families, and communities. Participants will learn...
Opioids and Mental Health: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Community | Opioides y Salud Mental: Lo Que Debes Saber para Protegerte y Proteger a Tu Comunidad” El uso indebido de opi
09
Apr 2025
*This training will be conducted in Spanish, with English captioning. Opioid misuse has become a public health crisis in the United States, severely impacting our community. This informational webinar aims to educate about the risks of opioid use, its...
Mindfulness Monday – Practices to Promote Mental Well-Being & Resilience – April Session 1
14
Apr 2025
Mindfulness is an evidenced-based way to effectively decrease stress and increase personal well-being and resilience. In collaboration with the Opioid Response Network (ORN), we are excited to continue Mindfulness Monday, a micro (30-minute) bi-weekly training series dedicated to fostering...
Workshop Wednesday: Ripples of Recovery Anti-Stigma Campaign Strategy – Awareness
16
Apr 2025
Join us as we continue to learn about effective strategies for implementing the Ripples of Recovery anti-stigma campaign in your organizations and communities. Jim Cowser, CEO, Central Wyoming Counseling Center, will be leading this training. This second strategy that...
Mindfulness Monday – Practices to Promote Mental Well-Being & Resilience – April Session 2
28
Apr 2025
Mindfulness is an evidenced-based way to effectively decrease stress and increase personal well-being and resilience. In collaboration with the Opioid Response Network (ORN), we are excited to continue Mindfulness Monday, a micro (30-minute) bi-weekly training series dedicated to fostering...
Need to Know
Prevention
“The National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory (Policy Lab) leads the equitable coordination, analysis, development, and implementation of national policy to promote mental health, prevent substance misuse and addiction, provide treatment and support recovery.”
https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers/nmhsupl
Risk Reduction
“Risk reduction is critical to keeping people who use drugs alive and as healthy as possible, and is a key pillar in the multi-faceted Health and Human Services’ Overdose Prevention Strategy.”
Treatment
“The use of medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.”
https://www.samhsa.gov/medications-substance-use-disorders
Recovery
“Recovery signals a dramatic shift in the expectation for positive outcomes for individuals who experience mental and substance use conditions or the co-occurring of the two.”