The Opioid Epidemic: Panhandle Response

De-escalation, Engagement and Support-Network Partnership Training

• Intended audience: Community partners (social services, law enforcement, first responders, nurses, emergency department staff, etc.)
• Length of training: 3.5 hours each
• Bringing out to the Panhandle early Spring.

This half-day training is designed to provide a basic skills training in evidence-based approaches to de-escalation, engagement, and cultivation of support networks for individuals seeking services in non-specialty settings. Specific attention is paid to understanding interventions for Opioid Use Disorder and co-morbid mental health conditions. The training in techniques for identification of Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders along with practical skills training used to engage a person and their support network while in crisis provides service positions with capability for enhancing clinic milieu, initiation of follow-up appointments, and increased rates of retention in treatment. This training will also provide a pocket guide for participants with points of reference to assist in the continuation of the use of skills when they return to work in their various settings.

Participants will:

• Understand the basic components of Integrated Care specific to their setting and region
• Understand the most effective techniques for de-escalation and how these are opportunities for engagement and referral
• Learn how to identify patients in need of support with Opioid Use Disorder, provide engagement, and refer them to providers within the area
• Learn how to identify natural support networks and invite them into the intervention process in order to propel an individual toward health
• Be able to use a pocket guide that can be brought back to their setting for support in the implementation of newly acquired skills

MAT Friendly Support Group Implementation Training

• Intended audience: support group facilitators
• Length of training: 1 day
• Coming in early Spring

Implementing an evidence-based, peer-support group involves training on content, and also training on techniques for effective implementation. HBFF uses the Double Trouble model as a foundation for all pathways peer support group. The implementation workshop includes:

• Exploration of the Double Trouble model
• Clarity between peer and professional roles, exploration of boundary issues and basic ethical standards of care
• Medication-assisted treatment specifics
• Embracing strengths-based care and person-centered approaches
• Role playing common group issues, and practicing therapeutic techniques
• Implementation support provided in vivo, workshopping issues related to communication, staff understanding, and community engagement

Opioid Crisis and Response Summit

• Intended audience: Community partners (social services, law enforcement, first responders, nurses, emergency department staff, etc.) and general public
• Length of training: 1 day
• Coming early Spring

Summit topics include:

• Neurobiology of addiction and recovery
• Stigma Reduction
• Understanding addiction as a long-term, chronic, no-fault disease/illness
• Understand common workplace practices that support persons in recovery
• Training in De-escalation, Engagement and Support Network Partnership
• Panhandle Worksite Wellness Training – How do we help each other? 

ARISE® 2-Day Comprehensive Care is designed to support families in bridging the gap between the addiction-driven life they have come to consider "the norm" and the unknown freedom of life in recovery.    

• Intended audience: Anyone working or concerned about someone dealing with addiction. 
• Length of training: 2-days
• Location: 1 central location
• Email Nicole Berosek for additional information: nberosek@pphd.org    

ARISE® Comprehensive Care is an evidence-based model with a proven track record of getting over 83% of individuals with substance use disorders into treatment in three weeks. 96% enter treatment in six months. 61% abstinent by the end of the first year, with 10% more using less. It is proven in federal research to be the most successful intervention available.

 Once trained in ARISE® Comprehensive Care, participants will have knowledge and tools to:

• Provide support for anyone struggling with addiction to help them discover the freedom of recovery
• Serve as coach and case manager for client and family
• Provide guidance and coaching to support client's recovery, health, and mental wellbeing
• Learn how to reach out to members of the individual's family and natural support system
• Provide support to the families and know when to refer members of the family and/or support system to receive their own services
• Serve as referral agent for clients and families to support their recovery, health and mental wellbeing

• Provide clients and their families with continuous support and monitoring to ensure long-term recovery