Join Tom Coderre of SAMHSA; Cortney Lovell; John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP; and Aubri Kaufman, MA, LAC, NCC, as they present and react to initial findings from a FORE-commissioned qualitative study that engaged 47 peer recovery coaches across the nation in discussions about their training, work experiences, successes, and challenges, and provide some recommendations for the recovery field.
As people with lived experience of addiction and recovery, peer recovery coaches (PRCs) are often the lynchpin to engaging people in opioid use disorder treatment and helping them rebuild their lives. FORE is engaged in efforts to explore the unique challenges and experiences of PRCs across the United States so that a strong, effective workforce is developed. Hearing directly from PRCs about the supports and training they need to reach their highest potential and have a positive impact on people in treatment and recovery should be a critical component of developing policies to expand this workforce.
The Opioid Crisis Innovation Challenge 2021 will provide grant support for innovative projects which can explore and/or evaluate new “outside-the-box” ideas, bring together approaches from several diverse fields, and engage multi-disciplinary, cross-sector teams to solve some of the crisis’ most intractable problems. Due to high interest in this opportunity, we held this informational session to discuss the Challenge and answer your questions.
While pregnancy and the postpartum period are key opportunities to engage people in addiction treatment, many prisons do not leverage them. Read about a pilot effort, supported by FORE, that is bringing integrated prenatal care and substance use disorder treatment to women in a North Carolina prison.
Join Peter Treitler, MSW and Jim Lloyd, JD, MPP of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University as they present on the background of the opioid crisis in New Jersey, the state’s array of policy responses enacted to address it, and some preliminary Medicaid data and analyses from the Center for Health Services Research. With commentary from Steven Tunney, RN, MSN; Ashley Harrell, LCSW; and Douglas Olson, MD.
Read how three FORE grantees are working to identify gaps in opioid use disorder treatment and care for Black Americans and promising approaches to close them.