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Addiction Trainings

Broaden your understanding of addiction, the availability of resources, and ways to help community members move towards positive changes and better health.

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NEON offers a series of trainings on opioid misuse and addiction, targeted to Law Enforcement, Health Care Workers, CHWs, THWs, and Community Members. Trainings include:
 

Two- to four-hour trainings on a variety of topics, including:  

Brain Basics, Motivational Interviewing for Addictions, Compassion Fatigue for Addiction, Health Risks of Opioid Use, Family Impacts of Opioid Use, What is Medication-Assisted Treatment and How to Support It..

If you would like more information about our grant or a specific training or topic, please do not hesitate to reach out to Lisa Ladendorff at [email protected]

Brief Training Descriptions:

  • Brain Basics: Understand the anatomy, development, and functions of the brain, particularly in the context of substance or opioid use disorders.

  • Motivational Interviewing for Addictions: Designed to help health and social service providers better serve individuals with substance use disorders or opioid use disorders.

  • Compassion Fatigue for Addiction: Learn how to help individuals gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress and how it pertains to addiction.

  • Health Risks of Opioid Misuse: Broaden your understanding of the physical and mental health risks associated with opioid misuse and how to connect community members to relevant resources and services.

  • Family Impacts of Opioid Misuse: Learn more about opioid misuse response, infection risks for PWID, and strategies to interact with the support individuals with SUD/OUD to continue medical treatment.

  • Medication-Assisted Treatment and How to Support It: (MAT) is used to treat substance use disorders as well as sustain recovery and prevent overdose. Learn how to connect community members to (MAT) services and collaborate with providers to support community success.

Current Available Online Trainings:

Brain Basics

Understand the anatomy, development, and functions of the brain, particularly in the context of substance or opioid use disorders.

Offered Online    November 18th from 1:00 - 4:00 PM PT             $100.00

A 3-hour online course for THWs, community members and professionals to understand the anatomy, development, and functions of the brain, particularly in the context of substance or opioid use disorders.  

 Objectives Include:

  • Be able to state the difference between brain regions (real estate) and brain architecture.
  • State the global role of neurotransmitters in the brain cell communication.
  • Name the three areas fo teh triune brain and understand their functions and needs.
  • Complete a basic map of your autonomic nervous system.
  • Be able to utilize basic safety, connection, and learning statements when working with young children and their parents.
  • Implement three different basic regulation exercises.

*This training offers 3 CEU contact hours for THW and MHACBO. 

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Future Trainings

Motivational Interviewing 4-month series coming in January 2025. Click HERE for more information.

Contact Kinda Cable at [email protected] to be put on our waiting list. 

 

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 *Training dates are tentative and are subject to change.

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