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This fact sheet describes the importance of self-care to ensure well-being for people providing recovery supports and other behavioral health services. It provides tips for individuals and leaders to check in and support a person’s overall wellness and improve well-being.
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This guided document summarizes the experiences, insights, suggestions, and concerns shared by participants in Family Peer Support: Broadening the View, a recent virtual event hosted by SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery. The goal of this event was to ensure that those with lived experience as advocates, leaders, peer support providers, and—most important—family members could share their perspectives regarding the possible expansion of family peer support services.
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Financing Peer Crisis Respites in the United States highlights the benefits of peer crisis respites within the recovery-oriented continuum of crisis care and identifies common components, operations, and funding of peer crisis respites in a national sample of programs across the United States.
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SAMHSA’s updated Overdose Prevention and Response Toolkit provides guidance to a wide range of individuals on preventing and responding to an overdose. The toolkit, designed to augment overdose prevention and reversal training, provides guidance on the role of opioid overdose reversal medications, including naloxone and nalmefene, and how to respond to an overdose.
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This report explores the use of the Value-Based Payment model and potential to improve delivery of integrated and coordinated substance use disorder treatment services.
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Provides overview of using Motivational Interviewing in substance use disorder treatment
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Peer workers are emerging as important members of treatment teams. Help supervisors understand how to supervise peer workers in behavioral health services:
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Graphic defining peer support, the role of peer workers, and outlining emerging research on the efficacy of peer support.
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In 2015, SAMHSA led an effort to identify the critical knowledge, skills, and abilities leading to Core Competencies needed for peer workers in behavioral health services.
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This manual provides guidance on the use of medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use misuse. It summarizes approved medications, screening and assessment, treatment planning, and patient monitoring.