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This brief provides an overview of two models of support for families—support by peers with lived experience of substance use disorders and sometimes child welfare involvement, and support by professionally-trained recovery specialists. The brief also highlights implementation considerations gleaned from interviews with four programs that have demonstrated positive child welfare and recovery outcomes for families.

This Technical Assistance Tool was developed by the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW). NCSACW is a technical assistance resource center jointly funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Children’s Bureau (CB), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The National Practice Guidelines for Peer Supporters was issued in the summer of 2013 as both a consensus and guidance document for those who are providing or supervising peer support services. The document was the result of a six-month, inclusive process that started with a task force convened at the 2012 iNAPS National Peer Supporter Conference, an expert panel at SAMHSA headquarters, and over 1000 peer supporters nationwide who reviewed and gave input through focus groups and surveys. The result of this six month effort was a 98% national agreement on twelve core values of peer support and what those values look like in practice.

The 2021 National Recovery Month theme, “Recovery is for Everyone: Every Person, Every Family, Every Community” reminds people in recovery and those who support them, that recovery belongs to all of us. We are all called to end gatekeeping and welcome everyone to recovery by lowering barriers to recovery support, creating inclusive spaces and programs, and broadening our understanding of what recovery means for people with different experiences. Resources and activities for this year’s Recovery Month observance includes this toolkit for Recovery Month – filled with tips for celebrating Recovery Month and community outreach, the Recovery Month website, graphics to share on social media, and more.

"American Indian and Alaska Native people deserve high-quality materials to help make informed choices. But it can be hard to find health resources that are inclusive, accurate, and culturally appealing. That’s why we created Native Health Resources – a one-stop-shop for no or low-cost Indigenous health education tools."

Topic Areas they address: Tribal Opioid Response, OUD Prevention, Family Care plans, Sexual Health, Mental Health, Adolescent Health, 2SLGBTQ+, and Vaccination.

Founded in 2023, Native Health Resources is the brainchild of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) – a non-profit Tribal advisory organization serving the 43 federally recognized Tribes of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. NPAIHB proudly houses the Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center, a wide variety of health promotion projects, and is a leader in Indian health policy.

Native Health Resources is generously supported by the Minority HIV/AIDS Fund and the Indian Health Service.

The purpose of this introductory training is to provide HIV clinicians with a detailed overview of the neurobiology of addiction, the impact of HIV on the brain and central nervous system (CNS), and the detrimental impact of the intersectionality of multiple stigmatized identities. This training is a companion to, and can be conducted in conjunction with the “How Change Happens: Substance Use Disorders and HIV/AIDS” training curriculum.

The Nature of Addiction and HIV*

Nature of Addiction and HIV PowerPoint Presentation

Nature of Addiction and HIV Trainer Guide

Nature of Addiction and HIV Fact Sheet

How Change Happens: Substance Use Disorders and HIV/AIDS*

How Change Happens PowerPoint Presentation

How Change Happens Trainer Guide

How Change Happens Fact Sheet

The purpose of this introductory training is to provide HIV clinicians (including, but not limited to physicians, dentists, nurses, and other allied medical staff, therapists and social workers, and counselors, specialists, and case managers) with a detailed overview of HIV and psychotropic medications.

HIV and Psychotropics PowerPoint Presentation

HIV and Psychotropics Trainer Guide

HIV and Psychotropics Fact Sheet

Dopamine Video

Participant Handout

With this guide, learn how to create a billing system from scratch, improve your existing system, and improve your collections from third-party payers. It is designed for agencies with all levels of experience and includes a step-by-step guide for creating or improving you billing system, sample forms, and case studies.

These are slides from an ORN presentation discussing the correlation between HIV and OUD.

Workers in high-risk occupations or who work in hazardous environments face significant risk of injury, which may lead to opioid or other substance use, overdose, or death. Workers involved in emergency response, law enforcement, health care, and environmental services also face the risk of occupational exposure to opioids. These at-risk workers and other populations often lack the necessary resources and education to protect themselves. The NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP) has developed an awareness-level training tool on the prevention of occupational exposure to fentanyl and other opioids, and a second curriculum designed to address the impact of the opioid crisis on workers, the workplace, and the community. Available resources are found below, along with additional health and safety resources related to opioid exposure, use, and prevention.

Mountain Plains ATTC offered a webinar entitled Options for Peer Support in Frontier and Tribal Communities for our Frontier and Tribal Behavioral Health Treatment Providers Workgroup. This presentation was done by consultant Melissa Witham of C4 Innovates on January 30, 2020.

Areas Covered:

• Roles of substance use disorders, mental health, and family peers
• Roles of peers vs. clinical staff
• Establishing the setting for peer support – integrated with primary care, as part of emergency care/first response, reentry, telephonic
• Reimbursement and supervision
• Certification of peers
• Getting started

This recorded webinar aims to increase understanding of common oral health problems faced by individuals with mental health and substance use challenges. Many may face stigma or shame related to their oral health. Peer support specialists play an integral role in supporting those they serve related to their oral health and recovery. Excerpts from the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon’s Peer Oral Health Training are utilized in this webinar. Hosted by the Northwest MHTTC in partnership with the Mental Health and Addiction Association of Oregon.

The OSA is a performance improvement resource to help engage CCBHCs in a self-reflective process to enhance partnerships to integrate peer-delivered services in CCBHCs. The OSA consists of four change concepts that are characteristic of an integrated peer-delivered services approach and a set of goals for each change concept. CCBHC leadership, administrative, clinical members and providers and other stakeholders should complete the OSA. The organization should then aggregate the responses for the team to discuss and develop a workplan for integrating peer-delivered services into CCBHCs.