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
Utah State University Extension – Strong Bodies Strength Training Program – Leader Training
06
Nov 2023
Strong Bodies is a 12-session evidence-based strength training program that focuses on building strength, balance, and flexibility to minimize injury and improve the ability to do activities of daily living.
Mindful Monday Series – Experiential Mental Health Practices
20
Nov 2023
This is a 30-minute training and will run every other week through December 4th, 2023. 10/9 - Sound Healing; 10/23 - Grounding; 11/6 - Creativity and the Inner Critic; 11/20 - Self-Compassion HEAL; 12/4 - Boundary Meditation
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.