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IWE created competencies and curriculum for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wellness Coaching Registered Apprenticeship Program. Training is online, self-paced, and led by experts. It empowers students to help people in their community live longer, healthier, and happier lives.

This BSAS Practice Guidance provides information on integrating opioid overdose prevention into treatment. 

Overview

Evidence clearly supports the need to address tobacco use by people being treated for substance use. Tobacco / Nicotine product use includes: cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco, and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) including vape pens, mods, tanks, and JUULs.

The Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) brings nearly 30 years of experience to their mission: to build collaborative capacity in individuals, organizations, and networks working for social justice and racial equity.

In this 5-hour Introduction to Substance Misuse Prevention course, you will learn about the history of prevention, key concepts and definitions, and specific drug effects—and get a glimpse of the effects of substance use and addiction on the brain.

JSAT values high quality empirical research relevant for translation by treatment practitioners from all disciplines and across any setting where persons with substance use and addictive disorders are encountered. The scope also includes workforce factors among other health services research. 

JSAT features research, reviews, commentary and conference proceedings that advance the care of substance use disorders. Create a free account then hover over the "Articles and Issues" section header for a drop-down menu which offers email alerts and RSS feed.

Laban's Addiction Specific Trainings provide distance-learning opportunities for drug and alcohol counselors and a variety of behavioral health professions. 

The LACE Program's main goals are to increase: the number of Hispanic/Latino/a/x/e (H/L) individuals with addiction treatment credentials; the H/L community’s access to culturally and linguistically competent care; the capacity of the publicly funded system to H/L treatment outcomes.

In this brief, stock is taken from the existing research on strengths and resilience within Latinx families. Based on the analysis of the literature, this brief provides recommendations to researchers for advancing strength-based research on Latino families and to programs and practitioners for building on Latinx families’ strengths in service delivery.

Author: Natasha Cabrera, Angelica Alonso, Yu Chen, Rachel Ghosh

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