A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
February 9, 2022
11:30 am–1:00 pm ET
This 1.5 hour session, titled "Collaborating With Corrections in the OTP Setting" will cover medications for opioid use disorder in correctional facilities, strategies for collaboration between opioid treatment programs and correctional facilities, and transitioning patients from the incarcerated setting to community level SUD care.
Via Zoom
OBAT TTA+ and Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. are partnering to provide a series on addiction treatment in the Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) setting. This series will have five sessions covering a variety of topics that are offered twice.
This 1.5 hour session, titled "Collaborating With Corrections in the OTP Setting" will cover medications for opioid use disorder in correctional facilities, strategies for collaboration between opioid treatment programs and correctional facilities, and transitioning patients from the incarcerated setting to community level SUD care.
This training will be held via Zoom. We would prefer that you log in using a computer with a web cam so that we can all connect to each other via video. Please note that signing on with video is required to receive CEs. If you do not have access to a web cam, please let us know.
OTP and OBAT staff providing treatment for substance use disorders in Massachusetts
Participants will be able to describe different strategies for the implementation of medications for opioid use disorder in correctional facilities.
Participants will be able to evaluate strategies for collaboration between opioid treatment programs and correctional facilities.
Participants will be able to recall at least 2 best practices in transitioning patients from the incarcerated setting to community level SUD care.
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Continuing education credits are pending approval.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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