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
Mindfulness Monday – May Session 2
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May 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
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May 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 – June Session 1
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Jun 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...
Drug Education Series: Neurobiology of Substance Use Disorders and Intersection with Trauma
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Jun 2025
As part of MP ROTAC’s commitment to providers, communities, and individuals impacted by the opioid and substance misuse epidemic, we are proud to present a comprehensive drug education training series that presents up-to-date information on topics critical for maintaining...
Workshop Wednesday: Ripples of Recovery Anti-Stigma Campaign Strategy – Community
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Jun 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.
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.”