Greetings Providers!
Thank you for
the work you do for
our UP communities
September
Newsletter
  • Upcoming FREE Trainings
  • Save the Date
  • Build your Emotional Resilience
  • Advances in Addiction & Recovery Journal
  • Provider Toolkit (PDF)
Happy National
Recovery Month:

Thank you for your
service in our field!
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free ice cream on us
as a thank you!
Upcoming FREE Trainings
Mindfulness for Chronic Pain
and Opiate Dependence

Learning Objectives:

•Identify the core components of mindfulness practices and mechanisms of therapeutic action.
•Describe cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of chronic pain cycles and how mindfulness practices can help interrupt them.
•Examine how mindfulness practices can disrupt or address the common patterns of dependent behavior.
Racial Inequalities in
Substance Use

Learning Objectives:

•Define racial inequities and describe their relation to substance use treatment
•Describe federal and state policies that influenced the criminalization of substance use
•List and apply strategies for assessing, diagnosis and treating substance use disorders in racial and ethnic minorities with a focus on marginalized communities
Save the Date
2021 Suicide Prevention Summit
View Recordings until Sept 24th
Topics Include:
-Innovation in Men’s Mental Health

-Managing Hopelessness and Despair with Younger Clients

-Stigma and Suicide in Historically Marginalized Communities

-Work with Military and Veterans

-Creating a Suicide-safe Culture

-Interventions for Suicidal Youth and their Families

AND MORE!
2021 EMS
Leadership Academy
Oct 21-24 and April 21-24
Emotional Resilience Video Toolkit
Join Michigan State University's Lisa Laughman LMSW, ACSW to learn about how you can use Acceptance Commitment Theory in your life.

Advances in Addiction and Recovery Journal
Official Publication of NAADAC (Association for Addiction Professionals)

Click on the image to check out the most recent issue or click here to access old issues!
Provider Toolkit Available Online
One of the large projects of the Beyond the Save grant has been creating a Provider Toolkit to distribute across the UP.

A digital copy is available now on our website! You can download and review this important information about Substance Misuse and the resources available to in the UP. Share with anyone who you think might benefit from the info contained in this toolkit.

After reviewing, please complete our evaluation survey and share your thoughts with us.
Great Lakes Recovery Centers is working with MiREMS, Dial Help, NorthCare Network, Marquette-Alger EMS Medical Control Authority, and our partners - the UP Coalition Network to reduce opioid deaths and overdose across the Upper Peninsula. 
This project and website is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,000,000 with no percentage financed with nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.