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This fact sheet offers key points about the disparities and magnitude of behavioral health problems in rural communities and the challenges for service delivery in rural areas such as geographic distance and workforce shortages. Solutions based on innovative practices and community collaborations were highlighted in SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery Rural Recovery Meeting along with other sources.
This factsheet offers innovative and promising practice approaches to improve rural behavioral health, including how to provide greater access to services.
This factsheet offers innovative and promising practice approaches to improve rural behavioral health, including how to provide greater access to services.
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This event will be led by the Office of Recovery (OR) within SAMHSA. The purpose of this meeting is to bring recovery stakeholder together for an open dialogue. The OR will be sharing exciting upcoming events for Recovery month in September. The office will also be sharing recent activities that the SAMHSA Program to Advance Recovery Knowledge (SPARK) training and technical assistance program has been working on.
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This event was hosted by the Office of Recovery (OR) within SAMHSA to bring recovery stakeholders together for an open dialogue. The OR shared the launch of the new training & technical assistance initiative - The SAMHSA Program to Advance Recovery Knowledge (SPARK) - as well as upcoming events for Recovery month.
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This document was developed by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Office of Recovery, while the content and themes outlined within were identified by participants—including technical experts and those with lived experience—during the Peers and Psychiatry in Dialogue meeting. Please note that the views, opinions, and content expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of the Office of Recovery, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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This report provides background history of the development of Peer Recovery (PR), including an overview of the current landscape of PR Programs.
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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 new consumer guide offers people with past or current problematic substance use a straightforward exploration of the roles, values, and work environments of professional peer specialists. This guide is a comprehensive resource that will help readers understand who professional peer specialists are, what they do in various work settings, and how to access and pay for their services. Through visual aids illustrating the integration of peer specialists into the treatment and recovery landscape and practical forms readers can fill out, this consumer guide will help facilitate a strong start toward collaboration with a peer specialist.
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This meeting was convened to bring recovery stakeholder together for an update on the goals and activities of the discussion of the Office of Recovery and to dialogue with recovery leaders from across the nation.
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This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) reviews the use of the three Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications used to treat OUD methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine and the other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD.
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TIP 61 provides behavioral health professionals with practical guidance about Native American history, historical trauma, and critical cultural perspectives in their work with American Indian and Alaska Native clients.
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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.
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This toolkit is for practitioners living with a mental illness who wish to own and operate mental health services. The toolkit provides guidance based on evidence-base practices, and includes a brochure, presentation, and introductory video.