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
Wheel of Wellness: Rest Session 2
30
Apr 2024
A micro-training, held twice a month, and each month will focus on a specific principle. Dr. Rebecca Shisler Marshall will be leading all of these training sessions. If you were unable to attend the introductory webinar you can view...
Wheel of Wellness: Movement Session 1
07
May 2024
A micro-training, held twice a month, and each month will focus on a specific principle. Dr. Rebecca Shisler Marshall will be leading all of these training sessions. If you were unable to attend the introductory webinar you can view...
Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Use Disorder – Session 1
08
May 2024
This first session will include introduction to TBI and insight into the data regarding brain injury and the intersectionality with behavioral health and vulnerable populations.
Micro-Mind Pivot Training: How To Transform Health In Recovery Using Nutrition
18
Jul 2024
A 12-week series of dynamic micro-trainings, designed to teach anyone working in the healthcare, addiction, and recovery fields how to implement evidence-based strategies that can not only enhance your well-being but also provide tools to integrate into your patient/client...
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
Harm Reduction
“Harm 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.”