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This Department of Labor website provides information and a comprehensive toolkit, plus state and local resources, to expand employment opportunities for people in or seeking recovery.
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This report summarizes the feedback the Office of Recovery collected from individuals representing persons with lived experience of mental health or substance use and staff of federal and state partners.
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This web page provides an overview of substance use and strategies that employers can use to develop a recovery ready program at their workplace.
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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 also emphasizes that harm reduction and access to treatment are essential aspects of overdose prevention.
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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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The SAMHSA Harm Reduction Framework is the first document to comprehensively outline harm reduction and its role within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Framework will inform SAMHSA's harm reduction activities moving forward, as well as related policies, programs, and practices.
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Best practices in increasing accessibility of services for people with Substance Use Disorders
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This web page offers strategies that employers can use to develop a recovery ready program at their workplace.
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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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This toolkit provides guidance and resources for private and public sector employers.
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This document updates a prior Recovery Housing Guideline and outlines best practices for the implementation and operation of recovery housing. The best practices are intended to serve as a tool for states, governing bodies, providers, recovery house operators, and other interested stakeholders to improve the health of their citizens, reduce incidence of overdose, and promote long-term recovery from substance use and co-occurring disorders.
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Best Practices for Successful Re-Entry for people with behavioral health disorders
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These guidelines support learning about key aspects, functions, and uses of peer support services in recovery from problematic substance use.
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Best practices in providing virtual care
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Provides guidance in utilizing group therapy in the treatment of substance use disorders.
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Provides overview of using Motivational Interviewing in substance use disorder treatment
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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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This four-part webcast series educates healthcare professionals about the importance of using approaches that are free of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors in treating individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and related conditions, as well as patients living their lives in recovery.
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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 policy brief provides clear guidance regarding the expected and effective operation of the subset of the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)-funded recovery housing programs in order to strengthen performance and improve the achievement of outcomes by these programs.