This training guide for peer recovery mentors working the child welfare system is notable for its description of 10 best practices for family peer support mentors.
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Project Nurture
Source: Health Share of Oregon
Project Nurture is an innovative treatment model for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorder and their infants. An integrated care team provides prenatal, maternity, postpartum, and pediatric care to the women and their infants. This 2018 presentation explains the treatment model and presents brief findings from an evaluation of the program. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
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State Options for Promoting Recovery among Pregnant and Parenting Women with Opioid or Substance Use Disorder
Source: National Academy for State Health Policy
This 2018 report from the National Academy for State Health Policy describes strategies state and local leaders can adopt to promote recovery among pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder. It also features descriptions of programs in place in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
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Project Nurture – A Center of Excellence Model that Integrates Maternity Care and Addiction Treatment
Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
A one page guide to Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
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8 Ways to Help You Keep Loving Someone with an Addiction
Source: Recovery Research Institute
This one page infographic provides 8 strategies to enable family and caregivers to continue loving and supporting someone with an addition.
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Medication-Assisted Treatment: An eBook for Parents & Caregivers of Teens & Young Adults Addicted to Opioids
Source: Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
This publication from Partnership for Drug-Free Kids provides information about medication assisted treatment (MAT) for parents and caregivers of teens and young adults with opioid use disorder.
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Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder: Pocket Guide
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This pocket guide from SAMHSA is written for health care providers prescribing medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. The guide includes a checklist of steps providers should take during the patient
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Creating a Local or Regional Judicial Opioid Task Force
Source: National Judicial Opioid Task Force
This guide serves as a resource for judges on how to take a leadership role in their community or region in convening stakeholders to collaborate on solutions to the opioid crisis.
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Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
This website describes the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model Medicaid is piloting to improve behavioral health care for children and youth with the goals of improving child outcomes, reducing inpatient hospitalizations and out-of-home placements, and creating alternative funding streams for these services.
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A New Path: Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing
Source: Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing
The website for A New Path, an advocacy group of parents, citizens, individuals in recovery, community leaders and health care professionals working to educate the public, media and policy makers about addiction and expand access to treatment. The group has a focus on reducing the stigma associated with