| | | Northwest ATTC: September 5, 2023 |
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| | | Recovery Month Learning Series |
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| | September is Recovery Month! This year, the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare has partnered with the Northwest ATTC to bring you a weekly section in our newsletter devoted to celebrating the strong and proud recovery community and the dedicated members of the addiction workforce who make recovery in all its forms possible. | | Each week, we’ll be highlighting one of SAMHSA’s Recovery Month themes and matching it with a set of on-demand webinars, online resources, and other educational opportunities that promote and support evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, with a focus on populations that are typically overlooked and underserved in our physical and mental health systems. | | In case you missed it: Check out last year's Recovery is Health | Health is Recovery webinar series from Idaho DHW and Northwest ATTC, featuring sessions on overdose, harm reduction, HIV and Hep C, sexual health & recovery, and more! |
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| Recovery Month Week 1
Supporting Youth, Young People,
and Families and Caregivers |
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| | This week’s Recovery Month theme highlights the need to support youth and young people in recovery and the crucial role that families and caregivers play in supporting individuals who are already in recovery or are seeking to start their recovery journey. | | The recovery journey isn’t just for the person with substance use or mental health issues – it includes everyone who cares about them too. |
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| | THIS WEDNESDAY! Get 1.5 CE/CME!
Not Too Much, Not Too Often, and Not Too Many: The Results of the First Large-Scale International Project to Develop Lower-Risk Gambling Guidelines |
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| September 6, 2023 | 11am-12:30pm PT
Register here! | | Advice about how to gamble “responsibly” is widely promoted in many jurisdictions. However, until now, there has been no evidence-based, specific advice for people who gamble who want to reduce their risk of gambling harms. |
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| | In 2016, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction began the first large scale international, comprehensive, multimodal project to develop evidence based Lower-Risk Gambling Guidelines (LRGGs). This presentation from David Hodgins, PhD and Matthew Young, PhD will describe key deliverables from the LRGG project including the lower-risk limits for expenditure, frequency and number of types of games. It will also present a self-assessment quiz, a suite of posters and other knowledge mobilization tools that are freely available to those who with use or promote the guidelines (https://www.gamblingguidelines.ca). | | 1.5 CME or CE credits available (find out more about available credit types). | | Sponsored by the Northwest and Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs) and the Western States Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. |
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| | | Northwest NARCH End of Summer Research Training Institute: Elder Health Track |
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| | Are you or someone you know interested in Elder Health? The NW NARCH End of Summer Research Training Institute has a new research training track in Elder Health. | | If you are an American Indian/Alaska Native health professional or health science student, you are strongly encouraged to apply. Individuals with a strong interest in Native health, but who work in professional areas outside of Native health are also welcome to apply. |
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| | You can receive up to $5,000 to complete a Research Capstone Project and a travel award to a scientific conference of your choice! | | This track is led by Dr. Turner Goins, a nationally known expert in Indigenous aging. She is excited to lead you through classes such as Research Design and Implementation, National Native Elder Programs, Dementia, Mobility, Balance and Falls and more! Check out our flyer (attached) for more information. Please help us share this opportunity! | | Location: Classes will be held in Pacific Time on Zoom | | Dates: October 2-6, 2023 followed by monthly webinars until June of 2024 | | Cost: Tuition is covered by grant from NIH to NPAIHB | | Apply here! (Deadline is September 18, 2023) |
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| | NBCC Minority Fellowship Program
for Addictions Counselors |
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| | Apply for an Addiction Counseling Fellowship! The 2024 application period for the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program for Addictions Counselors is open! | | The program will administer up to 40 master’s degree-level counseling fellowships of $15,000 for addictions counseling students, plus the travel expenses to participate in other program-related trainings. African Americans, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders are especially encouraged to apply. Application deadline: September 30, 2023! | | Learn more about eligibility requirements and apply here. |
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| | | Webinar: Assessing Mental Health Among Young U.S. Females: Learning Insights from Girls for Health (LIGHT) Research Study (NIDA CTN)
September 15, 2023 | 8am-9am PT (11am-12pm PT)
In this webinar from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network Youth Special Interest Group (NIDA Youth SIG), Dr. Viviana Horigian, MD, MHA, will present the background, approach, and preliminary results of the Learning Ingists from Girls for Health (LIGHT) study, a study that used focus groups with adolescent and young adult females to talk about their mental health concerns and improve understanding of the best ways to assess and help them with those concerns. | Northwest ATTC Webinar: Recovery Capital and Resilience: Head and Tail of the Same Coin
September 20, 2023 | 12-1pm PT
Beyond sobriety, programs dealing with substance use disorders have embraced a more comprehensive goal: Recovery. There are four recognized domains of recovery: Health, Home, Purpose, and Community. There are a myriad of resources, both internal and external, that make up recovery capital. As a person begins their journey, they draw on their initial store of recovery capital and as that journey continues, they gain more recovery capital. More recovery capital, more recovery. More recovery, more recovery capital. By assisting an individual identify their recovery capital and make plans for its increase, their recovery becomes stronger. This session, presented by Norma Jaeger, PhD (ABD), Executive Director of Recovery Idaho, will explore the many potential elements of recovery capital and how to support an individual in building more recovery capital to support their life in recovery. | Conference: Four Directions Cultural Awareness and Healing Support Conference (Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling)
September 18-21, 2023 | in-person at ilani Casino Resort, Ridgefield, WA
Four Directions is ECPG’s annual fall conference. Many representatives of Tribal Nations in the Pacific Northwest have come together to plan this important conference, with the aim of Honoring the Past and Protecting the Future through holistic health, wellness, and recovery support. Registration is $170-190 (scholarships available). | Virtual learning collaborative: Motivational Interviewing (Region 10 Rural Opioid TA Collaborative – ROTA-C)
September 18, October 16, November 20, December 18, 2023 (12-1:30pm PT)
The ROTA-C will be hosting a Fall 2023 Learning Collaborative for Motivational Interviewing (MI). As a member of the Learning Collaborative, you would attend four meetings hosted by Dr. Michelle Peavy with the aim of improving the MI skills of all attendees. You will have the opportunity to submit work samples, receive feedback, and interact collaboratively with professionals. Open to anyone who provides services in Region 10. | Webinar: Implementation Strategies for an Incentive-Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorder Among American Indian and Alaska Native People (UW ADAI)
September 19, 2023 | 12-1pm PT
Join the UW Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute for their next lunch and learn session, featuring Kait Hirchak, PhD, MHPA (Eastern Shoshone) from the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University. Dr. Hirchak will be talking about community and university partnerships to culturally adapt and implement contingency management among American Indian and Alaska Native communities. | Webinar: How Language Barriers Contribute to Health Care Disparities (NIHMD)
September 21, 2023 | 11am-12:30pm PT
How is your health impacted if you don’t speak the same language as your physician? How do you know if you have the right treatment plans and medications when language barriers exist? Join NIMHD and Alicia Fernandez, M.D., for the next NIMHD Director’s Seminar Series event in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, to explore these questions and more. | Conference: Liberating Methadone: Building a Roadmap & Community for Change (LYU Langone Health)
September 21-22, 2023 | In-person and virtual
This conference aims to bring together members from various backgrounds to discuss and exchange ideas on how to improve access to and use of methadone to reduce the harms of opioid use. Our goal is to break down traditional barriers between researchers, clinicians, policy makers and people who use drugs and to create a shared space for collective understanding. Conference proceedings will be gathered to generate a report with actionable recommendations for policy and clinical practice. This two day conference can be attended in person or virtually via a webinar. | Virtual conference: Guam's Annual Conference on Substance Use Disorders (Guam Behavioral Health & Wellness Center and the Pacific Southwest ATTC)
September 26-27, 2023
Earn up to 8 CE credits while attending presentations on clinical interventions, emerging issues in behavioral health care, prevention, mental health, and more. Find the complete agenda here. |
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