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Registration is open for the NNLM webinar “Building Recovery Ecosystems for Substance Use Treatment”. It will take place on Wednesday, August 16, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CDT. Region 1 is the sponsor.
Robust recovery ecosystems provide an environment where individuals can access substance use treatment and recovery support services such as housing and second chance employment, among others. With support from the Fletcher Group, as part of their HRSA-funded Rural Community Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Center for Excellence, NORC at the University of Chicago and East Tennessee State University (ETSU) developed a recovery ecosystem index to measure the relative strength of county-level recovery ecosystems. The Recovery Ecosystem Index Mapping Tool (rei.norc.org) provides access to recovery ecosystem data for community partners to support community planning, programming and technical assistance designed to strengthen recovery ecosystems throughout the United States. The session will also include an overview of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Recovery-to-Work Ecosystem Model to help individuals in recovery access the support services and training they need to maintain recovery and obtain gainful employment, and will highlight successful projects in Appalachia funded through ARC’s INSPIRE Initiative.
The presenters are Logan Thomas, an economist with the Appalachian Regional Commission; Michael Meit, Director of the East Tennessee State University Center for Rural Health Research; Megan Heffernan, a Senior Research Scientist in the Public Health Research Department at NORC at the University of Chicago; and Mary Moran, a Program Analyst in the Business and Workforce Investment (BWI) Division at the ARC.
This course is worth 1.50 hours of CE credit at CHIS Level 1 and is at the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels for class experience level.
For more information, including the course objectives and speaker biographies, and to register, please go here. Registering requires having an NNLM user account. Create one here. To view a list of additional webinars in the ROI: Region One Insights Webinar Series, go here.