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2024 Region 6 Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment Results
By Nicole Schoenborn, SSW PTTC Evaluator
Each year, the South Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (SSWPTTC) conducts a training and technical assistance (T/TA) needs assessment to help us capture the training needs of the field and inform our overall process for creating the work plan for the region. Our first needs assessment was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic as we saw emerging T/TA needs in the workforce. After 6 years, it has expanded into a comprehensive assessment of needs across the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), with additional sections around onboarding, health equity, and data literacy.
In the past year, the needs assessment informed live events such as the Unraveling Connections: Social Determinants of Health and Substance Misuse Prevention and the Alcohol, Equity, and Social Justice: Breaking the Silence. Services in the South Southwest region had a stronger emphasis last year on building the capacity of substance misuse prevention professionals to address gaps in prevention with services for underserved communities. Themes that have strongly surfaced for next year’s services continue to address Social Determinants of Health, underserved communities, and cultural humility and responsiveness. In addition, evaluating programs and communicating data using visualization methods will be a focus area for data-related services in this next year of the SSW PTTC.
To view the data and findings, select the links below.
Read more about the SSW PTTC Needs Assessment
Needs Assessment 2024 PowerPoint
Published: December 12, 2025
eNewsletter or Blog
The January 2025 Dialogue contains articles on:
Addiction: A Road Map to Success: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Challenging Environments
Prevention: SAMHSA's 21st Prevention Day
Opioid Response: National Mentoring Month
Additional sections include behavioral health observances, virtual training and webinar events, Region 3 news, and new resources.
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Published: January 8, 2025
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The New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center created this document as part of a Technical Assistance Request to support the Maine Recovery Council's Prevention Ad Hoc Subcommittee in their strategic planning process to identify gaps in prevention funding and opioid use prevention services and create strategy funding recommendations. This document shows how the subcommittee identified substance misuse prevention funding priorities for the Opioid Settlement Dollars through that strategic planning process. This document shows the workplan and outcomes of this process for the workgroup itself to reflect back on in future planning and also offers a process guide for other entities (municipalities, states, regions, etc.) who want an example of a robust process to examine the prevention landscape in other places, demonstrate service gaps, and prioritize funding for opioid use/misuse prevention using opioid settlement dollars.
The Maine Recovery Council:
The Maine Recovery Council was established pursuant to the Maine State Subdivision Memorandum of Understanding (PDF) and Agreement Regarding Use of Settlement Funds and 5 M.R.S.A. §203-C. The purpose of the Council is to direct the disbursement of funds within the Maine Recovery Fund for specific uses throughout the state to address the opioid crisis in Maine. Examples of approved uses are reversing overdoses through naloxone or other FDA-approved drugs, expanding the availability of medication-assisted treatment for Mainers struggling with opioid use disorder, helping Mainers avoid opioid use through evidence-based prevention programs, and providing additional special education resources to Maine school administrative units. The Council comprises 15 members appointed by the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the Attorney General, and certain counties, cities, and towns in Maine.
All council meetings are held in person unless otherwise specified on the notice and agenda. Council meetings are open to the public, and members of the public are permitted to attend to observe but not participate unless otherwise specified on the notice and agenda. Members of the public may also observe by a remote video link provided in each agenda.
Process for Prevention Workgroup prioritizing:
The New England PTTC worked with the Maine Recovery Council (MRC) to help process the priorities for funding prevention strategies in Maine for the 2024-2025 fiscal years. The New England PTTC proposed supporting a strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) planning process, which was accepted by the Maine Recovery Council and spearheaded by the MRC Prevention Seat, Liz Blackwell-Moore. The MRC had identified Prevention as a priority in their MOU with the Maine Office of the Attorney General, responsible for the stewardship of the money from the state to communities. These strategy recommendations were presented to the Council in October 2024, and were accepted by the Council in November 2024.
Published: January 2, 2025
Interactive Resource
Against the Odds - Problem Gambling Graphic Medicine, is a new tool to help foster prevention-focused conversations with young people about problem gambling. Tips for talking & lesson plans are included. Technical assistance is available.
A graphic medicine uses the format of a graphic novel to communicate health information. Evidence shows that the visuals combined with the information can help with memory of important information, as well as understanding and comprehension. We worked with SOPO Unite in South Portland, Maine, to create this student-lead story about five friends, while struggling with the normal ups and downs of life as a teenager in small-town New England, now find themselves with a bigger problem on their claws...I mean, hands! The plastics factory on the outskirts of town had a chemical leak, and it's really killed the vibes. Now these friends have to launch an epic grass-roots community clean up, before the vibes kill them!
Throughout the story, we see one friend, Luke, struggle with his gambling habits, and another friend, Bishop, struggle with the impacts of the environmental crisis on his well-being. Still, those obvious struggles aren't the only ones. Stay until the end to catch how the students find a connection as medicine, and check out the accompanying Implementation guide to see all the ways the story can be a tool for you to talk to young people about problem gambling.
Preview and download (PDF)
Preview (in English) - available in January
Preview (in Portuguese) - coming in the Spring 2025
Preview (in Spanish) - coming in the Spring 2025
Printed copy or electronic copy (PDF format) for download, available in January 2025. Please complete the Request Form.
*The New England PTTC is only able to mail printed copies to those working/living in HHS Region 1 (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI). If you request a copy working/living outside of HHS Region 1, we'll send you an electronic copy (PDF format) to download. Please complete the Request Form.
For Facilitators
Download the Facilitators Implementation Guide.
Download the Guide (full color) - available in January
Download the Guide (grayscale) - available in January
Through our cooperative agreement with SAMHSA and our Agility Grant through the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), all our resources are free to the public.
Questions? Contact Sarah Harlow, Co-Director, New England PTTC:
[email protected]
About this resource: This resource was developed to address a need identified in HHS Region 1 (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI) to provide substance misuse prevention professionals with tools for substance misuse prevention and gambling prevention. This resource is developed through the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA), SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement #5H79SP081020-03. This resource was made possible through a partnership with the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) through the-award-of a one-year Agility Grant. For more information on the Agility Grant through NCPG, please visit: https://www.ncpgambling.org/problem-gambling/agility-grants/.
Published: December 18, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue
Enhancing the Collaborative Efforts of Communities to Address Homelessness
Epi Corner:Adolescent Health Literacy and Substance Use
What's Happening Around the Region?
What's New at SAMHSA?
Published: November 21, 2024
Documents, Interactive Resource
Fostering Dialogue: Exploring the Intersection between Prevention and Harm Reduction
Published: September 29, 2024
Print Media
Evidence-based prevention is a healthcare investment that can improve the economic well-being of states and communities. Prevention can reduce the societal costs of substance use and even increase individuals’ socioeconomic standing. Raising awareness of prevention’s economic value will help shift the perspectives of people and policymakers who view it as an expense to understanding it as a long-term investment. This resource provides important facts and figures that you can reference when advocating for prevention.
Published: September 27, 2024
Print Media
Collaboration between prevention and harm reduction can improve health outcomes and expand the reach of services. Harm reduction touches services across the behavioral health continuum of care and can align with prevention strategies. This product explains the importance of collaboration between prevention and harm reduction and identifies potential collaborative opportunities and partners.
Published: September 23, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Additional Resources on Suicide and Substance Use Disorder
Epi Corner: Gone Too Soon: Suicide Among Adolescents and Young Adults
What's Happening Around the Region?
Webinar: Navigating the Green Wave: Strategies for a Local Response to Cannabis Legalization
Webinar: Strategies to Disrupt the Proliferation of Emerging Drugs: A Community Approach
New from SAMHSA
Preventing Substance Use Among Young Adults with Disabilities
National Recovery Month
Published: September 18, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
The September 2024 Dialogue contains articles on:
Addiction: Understanding Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults: A Focus on Opioid and Alcohol Use
Mental Health: September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Prevention: Preventing Suicide Through Integrated Substance Use Prevention Efforts
Opioid Response: ORN Regional Summit for the Construction Industry
Additional sections include behavioral health observances, virtual training and webinar events, Region 3 news, and new resources.
The Dialogue is designed to inform behavioral and mental health professionals of news and upcoming events in the Central East states. This electronic newsletter is disseminated on the first Tuesday of each month. You are encouraged to provide us with any feedback or submit articles and topics for discussion in future issues of the newsletter.
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Published: September 5, 2024
Print Media
Prevention messaging seeks to change behavior by inspiring hope and providing information on the risks of substance use. Implementing well-designed, culturally responsive messaging alongside other evidence-based prevention strategies can increase the effectiveness of each. This product explains the importance of prevention messaging, provides examples of messaging techniques, and shares tips and resources for developing a messaging campaign.
Published: September 5, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue
North Texas Tackles the Fentanyl Crisis with New Documentary
National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day is August 21
Harm Reduction Resources
Epi Corner: Opioid Overdoses in Children and Adolescents
What's Happening Around the Region?
Webinar: Reducing Youth Substance Misuse by Implementing Mental Health Initiatives
Webinar: Navigating the Green Wave: Strategies for a Local Response to Cannabis Legalization
Webinar: Strategies to Disrupt the Proliferation of Emerging Drugs: A Community Approach
New From SAMHSA
SAMHSA Releases the 2023 National Survey on Drug use and Health (NSDUH)
National Mental Wellness Month
Published: August 15, 2024
Multimedia
Webinar Description:
As prevention professionals, facilitation in both virtual and face-to-face spaces is an integral part of our work. The ability to convene partners -- whether in meetings, trainings or events – and lead them through collaborative decision-making and other processes is essential to the success of community-based change efforts. This session looked at the art and science of facilitation, the skills needed for successful facilitation and discussed real-world tips and techniques for consensus-building with groups and managing group dynamics.
Session Learning Objectives included:
Describing the facilitation skills prevention practitioners need
Identifying techniques for managing group processes and dynamics
Identifying strategies for handling challenging situations as a facilitation
Presenter Info:
Sandra Puerini Del Sesto, M.Ed, ACPS is a consultant and master trainer in behavioral health
and strategic planning for states and non-profits. For over thirty-five years, Ms. Del Sesto has
provided training throughout the United States in all areas of prevention practice.
Jess Goldberg, MSW, MPH, CPS, is a Training and Technical Assistance Specialist with Education
Development Center. She specializes in building capacity to improve
behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels.
Published: August 5, 2024
Multimedia
From Tokenism to Empowerment: Building a Sustainable Youth Coalition
Rikki Barton, MAPS, IC&RC
July 23, 2024, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Effective community prevention work involves youth engagement at all stages of the Strategic Prevention Framework – that is, Assessment, Capacity, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. Unintentional tokenism is a barrier to youth reaching their full potential with prevention work; instead, youth can and should be engaged in leadership opportunities, strategic discussions, and solutions to the identified problems. An effective way to engage youth in prevention is to build a youth coalition that empowers them to take the lead for their peers and the community. This interaction session will help you understand the essential nature of youth involvement, how to make prevention work attractive to youth, and practical steps to building a youth coalition.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand why youth involvement is essential for substance use prevention work.
Build skills around recruiting, retaining, and appropriately engaging youth in prevention work.
Implement practical steps to building a sustainable youth coalition.
PRESENTERS
Rikki Barton, MAPS, IC&RC, has a passion for communicating essential messages to move individuals and communities onward in their goals. She is the Founder/Lead Consultant of Onward Consulting and holds the Missouri Advanced Prevention Specialist certification as well as international IC&RC certification. Rikki has nearly 15 years of prevention field experience and currently serves as a consultant to assist organizations, coalitions, and state/federal agencies in the areas of substance use prevention, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion. She has extensive experience working with community coalitions, providing training, grant writing, managing funding sources, and leading a team of preventionists. Rikki trains for several national organizations including National Council for Mental Wellbeing, CADCA (youth and adult programs), and the National Coalition Institute. She also volunteers with a human trafficking prevention and awareness coalition, serving on leadership for the last 12 years, with particular focus on empowering youth to stay safe on social media and teaching adults how to protect young people from online grooming. Rikki holds a Bachelors degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters degree from Liberty University.
Published: July 23, 2024
Multimedia
Description
Peer professionals provide an array of recovery-oriented and person-centered care which include empathetic engagement with survivors of trauma circumstances. Peer professional work at times can increase the peer’s vulnerability to vicarious trauma or secondary stress.
This 2-hour workshop reviewed how trauma situations may present when supporting clients to recognize and cues alerting as to when to step away from a trauma-inducing situation. Content also offered practical strategies for peers and other staff on self-care and self-supportive resources to build and maintain resiliency.
Presenter Information
Diana Padilla, MCPC, CARC, CASAC-T has worked in the behavioral health field for more than 25 years. Using a culturally informed and inclusive recovery-oriented perspective, Ms. Padilla instructs on how to enhance strategies and interventions to best meet the substance use and related needs of communities of color, LGBTQ+ people, and other traditionally underserved populations. She is also an SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) Technical Assistance and Implementation Specialist, helping agencies to build their capacity to effectively intervene with communities at risk of substance use and mental health related conditions and behaviors.
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Published: July 22, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue
The Importance of Accessibility: 5 Simple Steps
Resources Highlighting Accessibility and Disabilities
Epi Corner: Social Network Analysis: A Helpful Tool in the Prevention Toolbox
What's Happening Around the Region?
Webinar: Elevate Your Work: Accessibility for Prevention Professionals
Webinar: Reducing Youth Substance Misuse by Implementing Mental Health Initiatives
New From SAMHSA
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
Get Involved with National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month - A Toolkit
Published: July 17, 2024
Multimedia
Developing Effective Substance Use Prevention Messaging
Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip, and Olivia Stuart, LMSW
July 11, 2024, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Messaging describes different methods of communication that people can use to share information. When utilized effectively by the prevention field, messaging can help improve people’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors around substance misuse. Recent data suggests that the reach of prevention messaging has decreased among youth at the same time that perceptions of harm for many substances has also decreased. Effective messaging is a critical tool in preventing substance use among youth and adults. This webinar will help prevention professionals learn why messaging is important to the field, understand how prevention can utilize a variety of messaging tools, recognize the core elements of how to craft an effective prevention message, learn the best practices for creating a prevention campaign, and discover how to share prevention messages among different audiences. The Central East PTTC has created a new infographic product to further share this information which will be reviewed as part of the webinar. Lastly, participants will be able to put this information to use by working in small groups to develop a prevention messaging campaign based on a provided scenario.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand the importance of messaging to prevention.
Describe different types of messaging tools.
Ascertain how to share prevention messaging with a variety of audiences.
Utilize best practices for creating an effective prevention messaging campaign.
Practice building a prevention message.
PRESENTERS
Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip holds a Masters of Science in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Swansea University and a Postgraduate Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She offers significant professional experience in the fields of public policy development and analysis, criminal justice research, data collection and analysis, program development, and performance management.
Olivia Stuart, MSW supports the training & technical assistance (T/TA) team in the development and delivery of knowledge translation products across multiple projects. In this capacity, she assists with webinars, literature reviews, and infographics on a range of behavioral health topics. Prior to joining Carnevale Associates, Olivia interned with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center where she supported projects to reduce inequities in the criminal justice system. Olivia also served as a Graduate Research Supervisor at George Mason University and worked for several years in LGBTQ+ advocacy and fundraising. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from George Mason University.
Published: July 11, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
The July 2024 Dialogue contains articles on:
Addiction: A Syndemic Approach to Training and Technical Assistance in the Central East
Mental Health: Supporting Mental Well-being within Minority Communities
Prevention: Championing Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention: Honoring BIPOC Mental Health Month
Opioid Response: Construction and Opioids
Additional sections include behavioral health observances, virtual training and webinar events, Region 3 news, and new resources.
The Dialogue is designed to inform behavioral and mental health professionals of news and upcoming events in the Central East states. This electronic newsletter is disseminated on the first Tuesday of each month. You are encouraged to provide us with any feedback or submit articles and topics for discussion in future issues of the newsletter.
Sign up to receive the Dialogue in your mailbox.
Published: July 3, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue
Systems Thinking for Prevention Professionals
Epi Corner: Addressing Parental Loss in Children of Overdose Victims
What's Happening Around the Region?
Webinar: Elevate Your Work: Accessibility for Prevention Professionals
Exciting Updates! HealtheKnowledge Online Learning Platform
An Important Announcement from the Blueprints Registry
New Products and Resources from the South Southwest PTTC
New From SAMHSA
Published: June 19, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
The latest edition of our bi-monthly newsletter is available. This month’s edition features Our Leaders, the Advanced Prevention Institute, awareness campaigns for June, and regionally and nationally developed events and tools to support and grow the prevention workforce in New England. View the newsletter.
Published: June 17, 2024
Multimedia
Stigma the Gift that Keeps on Giving: Residual Effects of Stress During the Recovery Process from Active Substance Use
Part 2
Demetrie Garner, CPRS, and Shawn Colvin, CPRS, RPS, RCPF
June 13, 2024, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Identifying triggers is essential at the beginning of the recovery process, but more is to be revealed. Comprehensive support systems, including counseling, employment assistance, and accessible housing, can alleviate some of the stress and contribute to a successful recovery. Sustainable support is a counterbalance to stress and the stigmatization of being in recovery. As we unpack the benefits of support systems, we will also discuss the tools for prevention and how to move forward in recovery.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Recognize the role of comprehensive support systems in alleviating stress during recovery.
Investigate various types of support systems and how they can act as preventive measures in dealing with stress and the association of stigma.
Examine tools and techniques and address stress and triggers in a recovery context.
Develop strategies to build and maintain long-term recovery and apply the knowledge gained to support others.
PRESENTERS
Demetrie Garner, CPRS, as a Peer Recovery Specialist, has been presented with the unique opportunity of working in the largest Emergency Department in the state of Maryland. This has given him the vantage point to encounter minority disparities. A lack of health communication targeted to African-Americans and other minorities help further this disparity. As a Peer Recovery Specialist, the visible cracks of systemic inadequacies in health care and its access garners attention and policy changes in patients with substance use disorders. Having the experience in active addiction abusing opiates, cocaine, and alcohol for 26 years with countless relapses fostered the experience needed to help others in active addiction. Finding recovery over the last 2 and 1/2 years while working in the recovery field has given Demetrie a unique perspective in recidivism and retention throughout the process of recovery. With the help of the God of his understanding (Jesus Christ), Narcotics Anonymous, and healthy relationships, the pathway of a daily reprieve from active addiction is now possible. Continuous work through pastoral licensed counseling has unlocked the acceptance of childhood molestation and recovery from trauma. After 21 years since Demetrie decided to drop out of high school in the 11th grade, education seemed to become more important to obtain. If he wants to help individuals who look like himself and suffer from trauma and active addiction, then higher education has to be pursued. While at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, currently a sophomore, Demetrie’s interest in studies is in the social science of public health. Future involvement with research is being pursued with patients that have wait times in emergency rooms with substance use disorders. Previous research this past semester has examined minorities hesitancy to receive Covid vaccinations.
Shawn Colvin, CPRS, RPS, RCPF, has been working in the field of recovery professionally for 10 1/2 years at the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore City. He has been clean and sober for 13 years. Shawn loves being a Treatment Manager, Peer Specialist, Facilitator, and Treatment Coordinator! Shawn has a passion for assisting others toward a life of positive transformation out of the darkness of addiction!
Published: June 13, 2024
Multimedia
Stigma the Gift that Keeps on Giving: Residual Effects of Stress During the Recovery Process from Active Substance Use
Part 1
Demetrie Garner, CPRS, and Shawn Colvin, CPRS, RPS, RCPF
June 11, 2024, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
While many intricate parts develop a positive outcome to recovery, identifying triggers that cause stress is the first step to a continuous, healthy recovery. Stigma can often become the conduit for environmental and emotional triggers. It is crucial to challenge and dismantle the stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs surrounding addiction and the recovery process. As we unpack the association of stress and triggers, we will close the loop on the missing link of dismantling the negative attitude of doubt facing the newcomer in recovery.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand the importance of identifying triggers that cause stress during recovery.
Recognize the role of stigma as a potential trigger for stress in individuals in recovery.
Investigate the various ways in which stigma can act as environmental and emotional triggers.
Consider how dismantling stigma can contribute to a healthier and more successful recovery.
PRESENTERS
Demetrie Garner, CPRS, as a Peer Recovery Specialist, has been presented with the unique opportunity of working in the largest Emergency Department in the state of Maryland. This has given him the vantage point to encounter minority disparities. A lack of health communication targeted to African-Americans and other minorities help further this disparity. As a Peer Recovery Specialist, the visible cracks of systemic inadequacies in health care and its access garners attention and policy changes in patients with substance use disorders. Having the experience in active addiction abusing opiates, cocaine, and alcohol for 26 years with countless relapses fostered the experience needed to help others in active addiction. Finding recovery over the last 2 and 1/2 years while working in the recovery field has given Demetrie a unique perspective in recidivism and retention throughout the process of recovery. With the help of the God of his understanding (Jesus Christ), Narcotics Anonymous, and healthy relationships, the pathway of a daily reprieve from active addiction is now possible. Continuous work through pastoral licensed counseling has unlocked the acceptance of childhood molestation and recovery from trauma. After 21 years since Demetrie decided to drop out of high school in the 11th grade, education seemed to become more important to obtain. If he wants to help individuals who look like himself and suffer from trauma and active addiction, then higher education has to be pursued. While at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, currently a sophomore, Demetrie’s interest in studies is in the social science of public health. Future involvement with research is being pursued with patients that have wait times in emergency rooms with substance use disorders. Previous research this past semester has examined minorities hesitancy to receive Covid vaccinations.
Shawn Colvin, CPRS, RPS, RCPF, has been working in the field of recovery professionally for 10 1/2 years at the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore City. He has been clean and sober for 13 years. Shawn loves being a Treatment Manager, Peer Specialist, Facilitator, and Treatment Coordinator! Shawn has a passion for assisting others toward a life of positive transformation out of the darkness of addiction!
Published: June 11, 2024
eNewsletter or Blog
The Great Lakes Current is the e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC.
The June 2024 issue features content celebrating Pride Month, PTSD Awareness Month, and Intersection of Addiction and Racism: A Curated Bibliography‒a new comprehensive resource created by AMERSA, the ATTC NCO, and the PTTC NCO. You will also find links to upcoming trainings focused on the therapeutic benefits of humor in treatment and recovery, prevention efforts in rural communities, and trauma-informed care for transition-age youth.
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Published: June 6, 2024
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Working with Behavioral Health Providers to Address and Prevent Addiction
Robert Rogers, LADC, CCS, PS-A, LSW
June 5, 2024, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this session, we will review evidence-based strategies for preventing opioid-related overdose death. We will review the role of safe storage of medication and illicit drugs in reducing deaths as well as proper drug disposal. We will examine how one behavioral health agency located in Central Maine, a rural community, implemented a systemic approach to screening, brief interventions, and Naloxone saturation as part of their CCBHC (Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Identify three evidence-based strategies for preventing opioid overdose.
Understand one behavioral health agency's systematic approach to targeted Naloxone distribution.
Understand the role of safe storage of medication in reducing overdose-related deaths, diversion of medications, and reducing access to lethal means of medication.
PRESENTERS
Robert Rogers, LADC, CCS, LSW, PS-A, has worked with youth and families throughout Somerset and Kennebec Counties since 1994. Robert works for Kennebec Behavioral Health as Director of Substance Use Prevention and Grant Services. He worked with Somerset Public Health as the Drug-Free Communities Program Coordinator, completing ten years of coalition work. Robert is a certified Prime for Life instructor and the State of Maine certified Responsible Beverage Seller trainer for the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages & Lottery Operations. Robert also coordinates Respect ME, a Certified Domestic Violence Intervention Program for female survivors of domestic violence who used resistive violence with their intimate partners. Robert was appointed to the state Substance Abuse Service Commission, served by appointment on the state's Maine Opiate Collaborative Prevention and Harm Reduction team, served as Chair for the Maine Prevention Specialists Certification Board, and serves as a Maine representative on the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center’s Advisory Board. Additionally, Robert is on the Board of Directors for AdCare of Maine and Sunset Home, a non-profit assisted living facility for older women in Waterville, Maine. Robert is an Adjunct Professor of Substance Use Prevention at the University of Maine at Farmington. Most recently, Governor Mills appointed Robert to the State of Maine Board of Alcohol & Drug Counselors and serves as the board's Chair. In 2021, Robert was awarded the Neill E. Miner Memorial Prevention Award, and in 2014 was awarded Prevention Provider of the Year by the Maine Alliance to Prevent Substance Abuse.
Published: June 5, 2024