Welcome to our April newsletter. Wisconsin CONNECT is a collaborative. We seek to provide technical assistance and training opportunities for substance use prevention and treatment grantees, providers, clinicians, social workers, and support staff.
We draw on local and national academic and community resources to reduce and prevent substance use and improve overall health and wellness in Wisconsin.
To that end, we want to help you connect the dots with this newsletter. It is a tool to support our efforts to promote new research, share tools and trainings that aim to help you engage in different communities, enhance practice and improve the health of your clients and program participants.
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Tuesday, April 5th
10:00-11:00am
Please join a webinar on tobacco treatment integration and smoke free policy implementation in substance use treatment settings. The webinar is for DHS 75 providers, administrative staff, and other partners who would like to learn about the resources available to establish written policies related to tobacco treatment and smoke free environments. The webinar will provide details about two digital toolkits that will be available online – one that will focus on how to assess and treat concurrent tobacco use disorders and a second that will focus on how to implement a smoke free environment. Other resources will also be reviewed, including the helpusquit.org website, fact sheets and trainings that are accessible online, and how to access free training and technical assistance from UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialists.
You can register for the webinar by clicking here: Link
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Registration Open for 2022 Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit
The Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit is an event focused on highlighting strategies to address the use of opioids and stimulants in Wisconsin. All people interested in building healthy communities are invited to attend.
May 10-12, 2022: La Crosse (with a virtual option)
La Crosse Center
300 Harborview Plaza
La Crosse, WI
Schedule
Continuing education units are available for people who attend the live event either in person or virtually.
The deadline to register is 12 p.m. May 4, 2022.
Deadline for hotel registration is April 7th if you are attending in person.
The 2022 Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit is sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services with support from Wisconsin Connect, a service of the Center for Urban Population Health, which is made up of faculty and staff from the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Milwaukee, and Advocate Aurora Research Institute.
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Substance Use Disorder Treatment Platform Grant Opportunity
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Care and Treatment Services are seeking applications to award one contract for the development and implementation of a substance use disorder treatment platform. This online platform must allow the public to locate, compare, and review Wisconsin-based substance use disorder treatment programs. Applicants must have at least one year of experience operating a substance use disorder treatment platform.
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Mobile Narcotic Treatment Program/Opioid Treatment Program Grant Opportunity
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Care and Treatment Services are accepting applications to award a contract for a mobile narcotic treatment program/opioid treatment program to provide opioid use disorder treatment services to underserved and high-need populations. Eligible applicants include for-profit agencies and nonprofit agencies currently certified under Wis. Admin. Code § DHS 75.13 and Wis. Admin. Code § DHS 75.15.
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul joins Governor Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) in announcing the launch of the updated Dose of Reality initiative in February. The goal of this information and education campaign is to change the conversation around Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic. The Dose of Reality initiative provides the tools for all Wisconsinites to prevent or reduce the risks of opioid use through open and honest talks about the dangers of opioids and ways to save lives.
The updated Dose of Reality initiative is a series of webpages found at DoseofRealitywi.gov that:
- Provide information on the risks of opioids.
- Provide information about safe storage and disposal of medications to keep them out of the hands of people who may misuse them.
- Offer strategies to support people at risk of or experiencing an opioid use disorder.
- Provide information on naloxone, its availability, and how to use it to reverse an opioid overdose.
- Help people find treatment and recovery services for an opioid use disorder.
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The ASAM Criteria Course is comprised of a comprehensive suite of competency-based learning activities in a distance learning delivery method and the live webinar delivery format that meet the learning needs of the multiple audiences and results in the appropriate use of the Criteria in practice.
This is a practical training designed to help beginner, intermediate, and advanced counselors, social workers, administrators, and other clinical staff develop patient-centered service plans and make objective decisions about patient admission, continuing care, and transfer/discharge for individuals with addictive, substance-related, and co-occurring conditions.
April 25th
9am - 4pm CST
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This ECHO series is based on information found in The ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related, and Co-Occurring Conditions, Third Edition and incorporates an opportunity for participants to learn and apply the information through a short didactic presentation and case-based activities.
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New Registration Link for 2022! |
ECHO is an opportunity for women’s substance use treatment providers to come together with clinicians who provide care to women with substance use disorders to learn and share information and strategies to improve the lives of women, their children, and their families.
The ECHO is conducted monthly for 1 hour and includes a brief educational presentation on a topic of interest, a case presentation by a collaborator, and a discussion on strategies that can help the provider offer the best possible care for the client/patient.
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Upcoming Dates
March 10
April 8
No May ECHO
June 10
July 8
August 12
September 9
No October ECHO
November 11
December 9
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Save the Date
Registration is open for buprenorphine x-waiver training webinars sponsored by the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Two webinars are scheduled; March 25th and April 25th.
April 29-30, 2022
In-person at Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.
Drop off any unused medications at a collection site near you.
April 30, 2022
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Check out our video archive to find a session you might have missed.
You can also go back to the training session webpage to find other resources, slides and handouts.
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Click here below to see all the upcoming trainings and events across topics. |
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Have a training interest? Looking for technical assistance? Simply fill out this online form with what you are seeking and we will follow up to further explore your needs. |
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We do this in partnership with the Bureau of Prevention, Treatment and Recovery within the Wisconsin Department of Health Service's Division of Care and Treatment Services, UW-Milwaukee, and our network of training providers. |
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