Integrating behavioral health and community systems to enhance the access, provision, and quality of substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, and mental health services.
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Caring for the Caregiver: The Importance of Emotional Wellness for Families Título del seminario web: Cuidar al cuidador: la importancia del bienestar emocional para las familias
Este seminario web de una hora destaca el papel esencial que desempeña el cuidado emocional para los familiares que apoyan a un ser querido que lucha con problemas de salud mental o consumo de sustancias. La sesión comienza con...
Mindfulness Monday – Practices to Promote Mental Well-Being & Resilience Micro-Trainings
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...
Trauma Responsive Training – Communities Part 1
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...
“Medicine without Walls” an innovative MOUD model developed by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (Tribe)
Through TOR grants and partial Indian Self-Determination contracting of IHS primary care services, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate started up Asniyapi Field Health Clinic (AFHC) in 2023. Our aim is to provide consistent, evidence-based, and compassionate medication for treatment of opioid...
Mindfulness Monday – Practices to Promote Mental Well-Being & Resilience Micro-Trainings
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...
Trauma Responsive Training – Communities Part 2
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...
Need to Know

“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 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.”
“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 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.”