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Rural Oregon Opioid Trainings

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

 

NEON's Removing Community Risks for Opioid Misuse in Eastern Oregon is a grant-funded program that works with community partners who support individuals at risk for or diagnosed with substance or opioid use disorder. 

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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, Opioid Addiction for Traditional Health Care Workers.

 

If you would like more information about our grant or a specific training or topic, please do not hesitate to reach out to Lauren Babcock 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 Use: 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 Use: 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.

  • Opioid Addiction for Traditional Health Care Workers: Designed to help health and social service providers understand addiction, the history of the opioid crisis, harm reduction, and treatment resources for individuals with substance or opioid use disorders. This is a 4-week training.

Current Available Trainings:

Motivational Interviewing and Addiction 

Sharpen your skills in helping people move toward positive changes and better health using motivational interviewing tactics and practices. This training is designed to help health and social service providers better serve individuals with substance use disorders and/or opioid use disorders.

Offered Online  March 20th from 1pm - 4pm

Topics Include:

  • Articulate personal challenges when working with those living with addiction
  • Understand the layers of defense in addiction
  • Define MI and when it should be used
  • Understand and explain the spirit of MI
  • Name the stages of change and how they relate to MI
  • Identify change talk in individuals living with addiction
  • Use reflections in working with individuals living with addiction
  • Use the process of decisional balance with individuals living with addiction

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

 

This Training is CLOSED AND FULL

We will have another training in the future. 

Compassion Fatigue and Addictions

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.

Offered Online    April 10th, 2023 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM PT 

This training will help individuals gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress, and how these pertain to addiction. Participants will be able to conduct personal risk and resiliency assessments as well as develop transition rituals and other self-care practices. 

Topics Include:

  • Describe the similarities and differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress
  • Explain reasons working with individuals living with addiction can lead to compassion fatigue
  • Be able to list at least five signs of compassion fatigue
  • Be able to identify ways they can promote workforce wellness to prevent stresses that lead to compassion fatigue  
  • Be able to conduct a personal risk and resiliency assessment
  • Develop a plan for self-care

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

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What is MAT and How to Support It

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

Offered Online    May 15th, 2023 from 1:00 - 3:00 PM PT 

This training will help individuals gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress, and how these pertain to addiction. Participants will be able to conduct personal risk and resiliency assessments as well as develop transition rituals and other self-care practices. 

Topics Include:

  • Define Medication-Assisted Treatment and its role as a harm reduction practice
  • Identify when clients are and are not eligible for MAT
  • Understand the service components and medication options for MAT
  • Be able to identify at what point of treatment a client is at and provide them with appropriate resources

*This training offers 2 CEU contact hours for THW and MHACBO. 

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Training Offerings Coming in 2023

March 20th: Motivational Interviewing and Addiction
April 10th: Compassion Fatigue and Addictions
May 15th: Medication Assisted Treatment and Support
June 12th: Health Risks of Opioid Use
July 17th: Family Impacts of Opioid Use
August 7th,14th,21st,28th - 4-Week Opioid Training for THWs

*Training dates are tentative and are subject to change.

 

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