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
Coalition Building in Rural Communities: The Veteran Experience
10
Jun 2026
Using the presenter’s experience serving as the Implementation Manager for the Together With Veterans program, this training will identify best practices for building sustainable coalitions, explore the unique strengths and challenges of engaging veterans in rural communities, and highlight...
Mindfulness Monday: Grounded Earth & Sky Breathing Exercise
22
Jun 2026
Join us for our ongoing interactive mindfulness series. Throughout this series, participants will explore practices designed to cultivate a sense of personal calm by nurturing both mind and body, while learning how to allow external stressors to pass without...
The Power of Community: Reducing Stigma Around Addiction (Session 3)
25
Jun 2026
Stigma surrounding substance use disorder (SUD) remains one of the most significant barriers to treatment and recovery support in rural communities. This in-depth training series will bring together individuals with lived experience and professionals working across the recovery continuum...
Mindfulness Monday: Mindfulness for Burnout
13
Jul 2026
Join us for our ongoing interactive mindfulness series. Throughout this series, participants will explore practices designed to cultivate a sense of personal calm by nurturing both mind and body, while learning how to allow external stressors to pass without...
The Power of Community: Reducing Stigma Around Addiction (Session 4)
23
Jul 2026
Stigma surrounding substance use disorder (SUD) remains one of the most significant barriers to treatment and recovery support in rural communities. This in-depth training series will bring together individuals with lived experience and professionals working across the recovery continuum...
Mindfulness Monday: Calming Visualization using the Five Senses
27
Jul 2026
Join us for our ongoing interactive mindfulness series. Throughout this series, participants will explore practices designed to cultivate a sense of personal calm by nurturing both mind and body, while learning how to allow external stressors to pass without...
The Power of Community: Reducing Stigma Around Addiction (Session 5)
20
Aug 2026
Stigma surrounding substance use disorder (SUD) remains one of the most significant barriers to treatment and recovery support in rural communities. This in-depth training series will bring together individuals with lived experience and professionals working across the recovery continuum...
The Power of Community: Reducing Stigma Around Addiction (Session 6)
17
Sep 2026
Stigma surrounding substance use disorder (SUD) remains one of the most significant barriers to treatment and recovery support in rural communities. This in-depth training series will bring together individuals with lived experience and professionals working across the recovery continuum...
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.”