Substance Use

LL – HHRC Advanced Care Planning for People Who Use Drugs

Speakers: Devora Keller, Director of Clinical Quality Improvement, National Health Care for the Homeless Council; Michael Light; Jessica Naugle; Tanya Majumde; Melanie Bien; Rana Gardner, Lead Services Navigator, Pathways to Housing PA Session Materials: ACP PWUD.pdf 5 wishes.pdf Light_2024_Trauma-Informed Skills to Start ACP Conversations.pdf Emergency Contact HER templates for Discussion and Documentation.docx MI Communication Skills.pdf […]

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A New Syndemic Approach: Domestic Violence, Homelessness and Harm Reduction

This workshop seeks to engage participants in reflection and conversation about the intersection of domestic violence, substance use, and homelessness while also identifying concrete and practical intervention strategies providers can begin to implement to best serve all our participants, and in this case specifically intimate partner violence survivors. Speaker: Tanagra Melgarejo, Author, MSW, National Learning

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Engaging consumers and clinicians in what works for substance use in people who are homeless

People experiencing homelessness die prematurely compared to their stably housed peers. Increasingly deaths are due to substance use. Yet national data confirms people experiencing homelessness have lower access to publicly funded substance use treatment programs and are less likely to receive medication-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder. This workshop will be led by facilitators with

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Addiction and Medical Respite Care

Speakers: Raven Scrivner, Interfaith Works; Carol Benner, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Meg Martin, Interfaith Works; Elizabeth Yearsley, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Joanna D’Afflitti, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Hannah Matheson Session Materials:  CAT presentation NHCHC final.pptx Challenging Behaviors ppt NHCHC.pptx REST NHCHC 2024.pptx HCH2024 slides.pptx  

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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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