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Opioid Stewardship Programs: An Organizational Strategy for Addressing Pain and Addiction

Opioid Stewardship Programs have the potential to respond to pain and addiction throughout an entire organization. Yet, only a small percentage of hospitals have implemented them. This training provides an organizational view of implementing OSPs into rural healthcare organizations.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Review the relevance for OSP implementation in rural settings. 

  2. Examine the evidence for the 11 Opioid Stewardship Program strategies. 

  3. Evaluate the feasibility for implementation in rural healthcare settings. 

Target Audience: Duration:  60 minutes

Format:  Recorded Presentation 

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

A New Era of Treatment for Substance Use/Opioid Use Disorder

The adverse consequences of pain and opioids are significant. In order to respond to people with opioid use disorder (OUD) increased access to care is necessary. Dr. Grant walks through evidence-based policies, programs, and pharmaceutical options for treating people with OUD. 

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Identify the continuum of services for responding to chronic and the inherent interplay between pain, and SUD in rural settings (e.g., dependence vs. addiction).  

  2. Examine recent guidance for opioid prescribing, regulatory changes, and requirements for offering medications to treat substance use/opioid use disorder.  

  3. Apply latest information about SUD/OUD treatment through case study. 

Target Audience: Duration:  60 minutes

Format:  Recorded Presentation

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

Enhancing Treatment for Chronic Pain: Opioids and Complementary Care

This training provides an overview of the neurobiology of pain and treatments including complementary options. Dr. Ibrahim shares his research on the health benefits of green light therapy for certain painful conditions. 

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Analyze opioids and complementary treatments for pain. 
  2. Examine the evidence surrounding green light therapy. 
  3. Evaluate options in rural settings.

Target Audience: Duration:  60 minutes

Format:  Recorded Presentation

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

Integrating care: Advancing Health Equity through Whole Person Responses to Pain and Addiction

This recorded 1-hour webinar aims to offer solutions for addressing pain and addiction. It will provide an overview of integrated behavioral health care models, screening, brief intervention and referral processes, and individualize treatment considerations for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. 

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Recognize the need for integrated care models. 
  2. Develop strategies for screening, brief intervention/treatment, and referral. 
  3. Distinguish treatment methods for patients based individualized factors (e.g., diversity, culture; geography; pain with no history of opioid use disorder vs. pain with history of opioid use disorder).  


Presenter Bios:

Dr. Christina Arredondo - Dr. Arredondo currently resides in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona where she is raising her family amongst an extensive family unit. After graduating from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with a BA in Psychology she worked in mental health treatment and research in San Francisco, CA and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Arredondo completed her medical school at University of Washington in Seattle and then Psychiatry Residency and Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale University. Later she returned to school for a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at Harvard University Chan School of Public Health. She has worked in various sectors of Psychiatry but her interests lie in capacity building in public health, Native health, behavioral health epidemiology, addiction services, integration of culture into a medical model of care, and teaching the next generation of Psychiatrists. She is currently the medical director of behavioral health and MAT at El Rio and of Desert Palms at Intermountain and works in both local and national addiction and mental health groups.

Dr. Mark Grant - Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Mark returned to the Southwest after completing medical school at Loyola Chicago. He completed his residency at the University of Arizona South Campus Family Medicine Program where he developed a passion for working with the underserved and homeless. Bilingual in Spanish, he also enjoys working with Spanish-speaking patients. Seeing the impact addiction had on patients in the Tucson community, Mark pursued a fellowship in addiction medicine to gain the skills that would help him better serve this population.

Dr. Natasha Mendoza - Natasha Mendoza, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Dr. Mendoza’s scholarship is focused on substance use, co-occurring disorders, and connecting service systems (i.e., harm reduction, treatment, crisis response, health care, criminal justice, and child welfare).  Additionally, Dr. Mendoza's work as a researcher and educator serves to explore and elucidate the ways in which identity (i.e., cultural, gender, sexual) and wellness may be assets in behavioral health.


Continuing Education Information:

CE/CME: This webinar meets the requirements for the California Board of Registered Nurses. Accreditation from the National Association of Social Workers has been approved. It has been endorsed by the Western Region Public Health Training Center. We have applied for CME and it's under review.


Understanding Self-Neglect and Responsive Approaches to Care and Support

The purpose of this training is to raise awareness of self-neglect among vulnerable adults in Hawaiʻi. Speakers will provide an overview of self-neglect, self-neglect statistics in Hawaiʻi, responsive interventions and helpful resources, and the role of Adult Protective Services.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand how self-neglect is defined by Hawaiʻi law and who is an Adult Protective Services client; 
  • Identify and assess key indicators of self-neglect; 
  • Understand ethical values and principles in working with people who self-neglect and "capacity to consent;" 
  • Distinguish key types of intervention for people who self-neglect.

Target Audience: Social workers, health educators, dietitians, and other public health professionals.

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Credits for CHES, 1.5 CPEUs for Registered Dietitians (meet ethics requirement)

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) are not responsible for the provider’s interpretation of the Academy/CDR Code of Ethics for the Nutrition and Dietetics Profession or its enforcement as it relates to the scenarios and content presented in this activity.

CHES Provider number:  99036; CPEU Provider number: 21216
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Recording Date:  6/15/2023

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Breathe in, Breathe out

Stress is a universal experience. If not addressed, stress can have negative effects on our mental health. To help people reduce stress and improve the mind-body relationship for overall health, Jon Kabat Zinn, PhD, developed formal mindfulness practices, termed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). By taking this training, public health professionals will learn MBSR techniques and explore ways to implement MBSR into public health practice. 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and how it can be an approach in mental health issues.
  • Identify different Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques and their benefits.
  • Describe how Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction applies to public health programs.

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals, Educators/Trainers, General Public Health, Mental Health Professionals, Nurses, Teacher/Faculty

Duration: ~ 45 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 Category 1 CHES Credits, 1.0 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: May 11, 2023

Author:  Wayne Tormala, Chief of the Arizona Department of Health Services and Dulce Rodriguez, BS

Subject Matter Expert:  Wayne Tormala, Chief of the Arizona Department of Health Services

Narration by: Dulce Rodriguez, BS

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

Episode 30: Strategies and Resources for Working Across Sectors

In the final episode of Keeping Up With Public Health: Cross-Sector Collaborations (Season 3), we review the value of working across sectors for developing public health infrastructure and advancing health equity, and discuss general approaches to cross-sectoral work and relationship building. Resources for engaging in cross-sectoral work are shared. Guests: Ruben Cantu, Melissa Jones, MPA.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Explain the importance of cross-sectoral work for advancing health equity.
  • Discuss approaches to engaging in cross-sectoral work for population health.
  • Access resources for working across sectors.

Target Audience: Public Health Professionals

Duration:  40 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.75 Category 1 CHES credits (no continuing competency)

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Podcast

Recorded: 5/2023

Hosted by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN, MCHES®

Guest Bios: 

Ruben Cantu is an Associate Program Director at Prevention Institute with 20+ years’ experience in public health, safety, and wellbeing through an equity and racial justice lens. He leads initiatives to address and prevent community trauma and improve mental health and community safety through a focus on community conditions. He is the primary author of California’s strategic plan for reducing mental health disparities and serves on several state advisory committees.

Melissa Jones, MPA, is the Executive Director of BARHII. She is passionate about creating the conditions that increase quality of life and makes life more fair for more people. Her work focuses on the intersection of social determinants of health, social inequity, and well-being. Her experience includes work in municipal government and non-profits, in the Bay Area’s large and small cities. Melissa is an active community member in Oakland and also serves on the Association of Bay Area Government’s Regional Planning Committee, which advises on regional planning issues. Before joining BARHII, Melissa served as Senior Program Officer at Boston Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), where she launched and ran Boston LISC’s Resilient Communities Resilient Families (RCRF) Initiative. The initiative works to ensure that residents of Boston’s Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan neighborhoods benefit from the rising tide of transit and other public investments.

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

Episode 28: Street Medicine Programs

Collaborative efforts of Street Medicine Programs that work across disciplines and sectors to meet the complex health needs of individuals experiencing homelessness. Guests: Jeffery Hanna, MPH, MSc, Robert Fauer, MD, Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, Catherine Miller, BSc, Justin Zeien, MD, MPH

Learning Objectives: 

  • Discuss key partners for successful implementation of Street Medicine Programs
  • Explain the importance of the interdisciplinary approach of Street Medicine Programs
  • Propose approaches for cross-sector collaborations to serve people experiencing homelessness.

Target Audience: Health professionals working with people experiencing homelessness

Duration:  42 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.75 Category 1 CHES Credits (no continuing competency credits)

Recorded: 5/2023

Hosted by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN, MCHES®

Guest Bios:

Robert Fauer, MD was a private practice family physician in Phoenix, Arizona for over 35 years. Retired from commercial medicine in Dec 2022, Dr. Fauer joined Street Medicine Phoenix in May 2021 where he serves as the Medical Director of Street Medicine Phoenix.

Brett J. Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, is the Director and co-Founder of the Division of Street Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) of USC and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. He has practiced homeless medicine since 2007 and founded programs at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) Street Medicine in Allentown, PA, and USC Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Feldman is the outgoing Vice Chair of the Street Medicine Institute. His main role is to provide technical assistance and consultation to members and affiliates on the topics of the social teaching of street medicine, program development and optimization. He had participated in the establishment or expansion of over 100 street medicine programs internationally. Mr. Feldman’s work has been featured on the BBC, Channel News Asia, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, the Associated Press and Telemundo. A PBS documentary featuring Brett and the street medicine program which he founded, Close to Home: Street Medicine, won an Emmy award in 2018.

Jeffery Hanna, MPH, MSc is an innovative community activist, trilingual in English, Arabic and Spanish with an extensive background in public health practice. Jeffery was the co-founder of Street Medicine Phoenix a multi-university collaboration between the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, Mayo Clinic, Creighton University, and Midwestern University, which provides primary care screening services to meet the unmet needs of individuals experiencing homelessness in downtown Phoenix. During the pandemic Jeffery worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator for The University of Arizona College of Public Health in Phoenix, where he led both COVID-19 testing and vaccine efforts on the Phoenix Bioscience Core and through the University of Arizona Primary Prevention Mobile Health Unit, which served many underserved and rural communities in addition to partnering with U.S. Customs Border Protection agency, to vaccinate along the U.S. Southern Borders in Arizona.

Catherine Miller is Lead of Street Medicine Phoenix at the University of Arizona College of Public Health in the Community Outreach and Engagement Program, where she is able to fulfill the vision of the organization by advocating for and improving the delivery of care for individuals experiencing homelessness. Her passion leads her to want to inspire the next generation of health services providers in order to improve quality of life, reduce stigma, and offer compassionate, person-centered care to those individuals experiencing homelessness. With a strong focus on inter-institutional and inter-agency collaboration, she is honored to be at the intersection of public health, social justice, and health equity.

Justin Zeien, MD, MPH is a 2nd year anesthesiology resident at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and a Captain in the United States Army Medical Corps. Dr. Zeien earned a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Arizona Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. He then attended The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix where he co-founded Street Medicine Phoenix as a 1st year medical student in 2017 and ultimately earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2021. As a Phoenix native, his passion for street medicine stems from witnessing the rise in Phoenix’s homeless population and wanting to do more to help his community. He was inspired to develop Street Medicine Phoenix with Jeffery Hanna after learning about other street medicine programs nationwide.

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

LGB&T Cultural Humility – Knowing Our Place

LGB&T Cultural Humility training is designed to increase knowledge and skills to effectively interact with LGB&T people, as well as support and provide affirming care and support. This training integrates the unique viewpoints of local and Hawaiian culture as related to māhū. Utilizing the unique viewpoints of our Hawaiian and local cultures, we aim to increase humility and capacity for understanding when engaging with our most vulnerable populations.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Have an increased understanding about the culture, family values, and place of our Native Hawaiian māhū community;
  • Have an increased understanding of the differences between cultural and western views of our LGB&T community;
  • Increased ability to tailor existing services and support to better meet the needs of our LGB&T and māhū communities.

Target Audience: Public Health Professionals including Registered Dietitians, Social Workers, Health Educators and others.

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Recorded: 5/19/2023

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

Food Security and Public Health

Dr. Susan Mercado will provide an overview of how the food system impacts on health outcomes. Different aspects of the food system will be described. Driving forces behind food systems will also be discussed including climate change, conflict, COVID-19 (the triple Cs). The role of the public health in achieving food security will highlight some good practices from Hawaii and other places.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. To understand the definitions of food insecurity, hunger and food access, and how these impact on different population groups by age and race.
  2. To discuss the determinants of food systems and how food systems can create or destroy health.
  3. To share good practices in integration of food security in health systems.


Target Audience:  Social Workers, Registered Dietitians, Health Educators, and other public health professionals.

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Recorded:  4/21/2023

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest.

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