Behavioral Health

Centering lived experience and harm reduction in primary care for people with opioid use disorder

This workshop will detail the features of a harm-reductionist framework for substance use treatment within a primary care setting. The program incorporates recovery support counselors with lived experience, trauma informed care, community feedback, patient education, addiction-focused case management, and harm reduction supplies into primary care visits for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). This program […]

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Understanding Engagement With an ED-Based Peer Intervention for Opioid Overdose Prevention

Presenters will discuss results from a qualitative study that examined the role of an ED-based peer navigator intervention for patients experiencing homelessness who presented with an opioid-involved overdose. In-depth interviews with 23 participants revealed several themes relating to barriers and facilitators to engagement with the intervention. Speakers: Giselle Routhier, PhD, MSW, NYU School of Medicine

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First year lessons of initiating a SOAR program in a primary care and outpatient psychiatric setting

To date, Health Care for the Homeless-Houston’s SOAR program has a 66% approval for clients receiving SSI/SSDI benefits. This has allowed for growth of the program and developing the current program that has helped many clients not only with SSI/SSDI benefits but also with housing, attaining food and social/emotional support. Speakers: Norma S Tejada-Foster, RN,

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Recuperative Care in Recovery Settings: A Promising Practice

The intersection of mental health and substance use with homelessness and chronic physical illnesses is a difficult mix of concerns to address. Through integrating recuperative care into recovery-based settings, Haven Recovery is striving to meet the needs of individuals experiencing these concerns. This session will dive into development, procedures, and community-support building as well as

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Substance Use Guidelines Series

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s Substance Use Guidelines are brief substance-specific guidelines intended for use by anyone who is a consumer of services or a service provider working with people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs. The guidelines were developed with the help of national and community-based experts and made possible

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Substance Use Guidelines

Introduction The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s Substance Use Guidelines are brief substance-specific guidelines intended for use by anyone who is a consumer of services or a service provider working with people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs. The guidelines were developed with the help of national and community-based experts and made

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Trauma Informed Approaches

This course will provide an overview of the concepts of trauma and trauma informed care for patients who are interacting with Vaccine Ambassadors seeking to help with vaccine hesitancy for the COVID-19 vaccination. Learn the fundamentals of trauma, trauma-informed principles, and secondary trauma and how to identify and utilize these skills within the Vaccine Ambassador

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