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Your story should make your work stand out among similar organizations and be so memorable that people pay attention and remember you after the story ends. These seven guidelines from Mission Minded will help your organization brand itself in a way that sets you apart from the rest, attracting the support you need to achieve your goals.

This guidance document provides information about how the ADA can protect individuals with OUD from discrimination—an important part of combating the opioid epidemic across American communities. While this document focuses on individuals with OUD, the legal principles discussed also apply to individuals with other types of substance use disorders.

The series of six (6) issue briefs and webinar aims to improve efficiency in the use of grant funds by providing opportunities for grantees to learn from each other. Developed from SAMHSA listening sessions with grantees and government project officers about strategies that grantees use to optimize data collection processes, the BestPractices4Data series of issue briefs and webinar brings together innovative and best practices that grantees use to address the most common, complex, and costly challenges associated with grantee required data collection activities.

BestPractices4Data Issue Brief Topics:

• Incorporate Technology for Data Collection and Reporting
• Use Data to Monitor Progress and Tell Your Agency Story
• Establish Data Protocols to Optimize Data Collection
• Hire Effectively for Data Roles
• Manage Data Collection for Multiple SAMHSA Grants
• Understand Unique Data Concerns When Working with Tribes

The Better Days - Sometimes We Struggle Worksheet

Gregorio* “Craig” Lewis believes in recovery with all his heart. Sometimes, life happens and things change. This author walked his talk straight into the gutter —living a fairly desperate and upsetting, yet transformative life while homeless— until a mere 4 years and 6 months ago. Now, he is living a new life, truly alive and well in the heart of Mexico. He is the evidence that if you want to get better, do the work, experience the improvements.  Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like him: the poor, the unwanted, the blamed, the hurt, the labeled, the outcast, and the rejected. Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like you: the carers, the lovers, the educators, the agents-of-change and the healers. Everything you read in his books was learned and earned the hard way. Recovery is some of the hardest work possible. Do it, and keep doing it and maybe, just maybe, your dreams will also come true.

*Gregorio has given his permission for the PR CoE to share these three coping skills packets on their website. The public is free to download and use these packets.

Obtain full workbooks here: survivingtheimpossible@gmail.com

The Craig Lewis Guide to Surviving the Impossible book- This is your captain speaking worksheet

Gregorio* “Craig” Lewis believes in recovery with all his heart. Sometimes, life happens and things change. This author walked his talk straight into the gutter —living a fairly desperate and upsetting, yet transformative life while homeless— until a mere 4 years and 6 months ago. Now, he is living a new life, truly alive and well in the heart of Mexico. He is the evidence that if you want to get better, do the work, experience the improvements.  Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like him: the poor, the unwanted, the blamed, the hurt, the labeled, the outcast, and the rejected. Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like you: the carers, the lovers, the educators, the agents-of-change and the healers. Everything you read in his books was learned and earned the hard way. Recovery is some of the hardest work possible. Do it, and keep doing it and maybe, just maybe, your dreams will also come true.

*Gregorio has given his permission for the PR CoE to share these three coping skills packets on their website. The public is free to download and use these packets.

Obtain full workbooks here: survivingtheimpossible@gmail.com

Various community recovery support services help sustain positive behavior change for individuals with alcohol and drug use disorders. This article reviews the rationale, origins, emergence, prevalence, and empirical research on a variety of recovery support services in U.S. communities that may influence the likelihood of sustained recovery. The community recovery support services reviewed include recovery high schools, collegiate recovery programs, recovery homes, recovery coaches, and recovery community centers. Many individuals are not provided with the types of environmental supports needed to solidify and support their recovery, so there is a need for more research on who may be best suited for these services as well as when, why, and how they confer benefit.

This is a webinar to discuss factors that have historically driven the disproportionate impact of HIV on Black communities and policy and programmatic solutions to help eliminate disparities highlighted in a new Special Issue of the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities.

The webinar, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Policy Action Needed to Address HIV/AIDS in the Black Community, features leaders in the HIV space.

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss how health care organizations need to ensure that awareness, adoption, and implementation of the National CLAS Standards are incorporated to have a more inclusive definition of culture in order to better serve homeless and recovering individuals.

OBJECTIVES:

• Define the CLAS standards, themes and recommendations
• Understand strategies for decreasing health disparities for people in recovery
• Learn types of peer support and value of services delivered by peer-led experts
• Explore key cultural and structural drivers of peer recovery (homelessness, poverty and other factors)

The Original Peer Support Recovery & Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum -- Hope Worksheet

Gregorio* “Craig” Lewis believes in recovery with all his heart. Sometimes, life happens and things change. This author walked his talk straight into the gutter —living a fairly desperate and upsetting, yet transformative life while homeless— until a mere 4 years and 6 months ago. Now, he is living a new life, truly alive and well in the heart of Mexico. He is the evidence that if you want to get better, do the work, experience the improvements.  Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like him: the poor, the unwanted, the blamed, the hurt, the labeled, the outcast, and the rejected. Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like you: the carers, the lovers, the educators, the agents-of-change and the healers. Everything you read in his books was learned and earned the hard way. Recovery is some of the hardest work possible. Do it, and keep doing it and maybe, just maybe, your dreams will also come true.

*Gregorio has given his permission for the PR CoE to share these three coping skills packets on their website. The public is free to download and use these packets.

Obtain full workbooks here: survivingtheimpossible@gmail.com

This report summarizes the findings of a landscape analysis on the topic of peer providers in mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services. To describe the landscape, we used a series of terms to capture the many titles and roles peer providers play, and conducted a literature search of peer-reviewed and published studies and reports, as well as a search of the “grey” literature on several topics, including:

• Peer Support Roles, Organizational Settings, and Models of Care UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care Research Report 6
• Integration of Peer Providers into Traditional Care
• Evidence of Efficacy of Peer Support
• Policy and Financial Infrastructure for the Peer Support, including Billing, Reimbursement, and Sources of Funding for Peer Support Programs
• Training and Certification for Peer Support

A wide variety of specialized roles have evolved to assist individuals and families achieve recovery achieve recovery from addiction, including recovery from what have been called process addictions—harmful relationships with gambling, food, sex, money, etc. There is a long history of addiction medicine specialists (addiction-trained physicians, psychiatrists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses), addiction counselors, addiction-trained therapists, outreach workers, case managers, and interventionists, to name just a few. One of the most recently emerging roles is that of the recovery coach. This particular role has a complex etymology, with roots in both the voluntary peer supports found in addiction recovery mutual aid societies and in the field of professional life coaching. As a result of this mixed heritage, the public is now confronted with a variety of people calling themselves recovery coaches or offering recovery coaching as a specialized service who vary considerably in how they perceive and practice this role.

Dr. Mark Ragins, MD, has enclosed in this packet several short documents that highlight various aspects of recovery-based transformation, including:

• The Four Stages of Recovery
• Person Centered vs. Illness Centered
• We Treat Chronic Illnesses, Don't We?
• Milestones of Recovery Scale