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
2024 Mountain Plains Leadership Academy
22
Apr 2024
Forge meaningful mentorship relationships with experienced leaders in the field of rural behavioral health and substance use disorder management. Identify your own leadership style.
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...
Wheel of Wellness: Movement Session 2
21
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...
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.”