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Every child has a right to a life free from harm within a community that supports them and their family to thrive.
But does every child get to experience these rights?
This webinar highlights findings from SAMHSA’s guide titled, Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse, which explores evidence-based, community-level strategies to prevent alcohol misuse.
This month on November 9th, 2022, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) DDR Partners meeting offered a discussion on quality assurance and included two presentations:
Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MATTC) partnered with the Ethnic Communities Opioid Response Network in Missouri, the Addiction Policy Forum, and the Opioid Response Network (ORN in IA, KS, MO, and NE) to translate 5 different evidence-based prevention products "Prevention of Opioid Use Education Materials" into 12 different languages, and ensure they are culturally appropriate, including Arabic, Bosnian, Bu
In acknowledgement of World AIDS Day, ISSUP Italy would like to invite you to attend their upcoming Webinar.
Children living with parents who use substances are a group of children who are overlooked in legislation, policy and practice.
This guide draws on research that puts children’s voices front and centre.
O ISSUP Brasil apresentou um webinar com pediatras discutindo formas de prevenção e como funcionam os problemas causados pelo uso de substâncias.
Dois pediatras discutem sobre os meios de se fazer prevenção e como funciona os problemas causados pelo uso de substâncias.
Moderadores:
Paulo Martelli – Presidente ISSUP Brasil
ISSUP Peru mengundang Anda untuk berpartisipasi dalam webinar tentang layanan pencegahan dan pengendalian kecanduan masyarakat.
Webinar akan berlangsung pada Kamis, 20 Oktober 2022 pukul 11:00 (waktu Peru)
Treatment Planning
This video is intended as a learning tool for developing a treatment plan adapted from UTC on course 5: Intake, Screening Assessment, Treatment Plan, and Documentation for Addiction Professionals. This video does not substitute similar training.
Video ini dimaksudkan sebagai alat pembelajaran untuk penilaian pemahaman yang diadaptasi dari UTC pada kursus 5: Asupan, Penilaian Skrining, Rencana Perawatan, dan Dokumentasi untuk Profesional Kecanduan. Video ini tidak menggantikan pelatihan serupa.
Mental health and substance use issues are commonly linked, and it is important that practitioners are skilled and knowledgeable in identifying and working with the potential challenges an individual may be facing.
This webinar presented the latest global and regional trends in the use of opioid analgesics and explore issues related to availability.
Around the world the consumption of opioid analgesics has been increasing, yet millions of people still die in pain every year, including children, mostly in poor countries, but also in rural areas in developed countries.
This Webinar examines a new model of couples treatment for addiction.
The model includes new aspects in the treatment, related to relationship reparation/ forgiveness and aspects of Emotionally-focused couple therapy.
ISSUP Ukraine and ITTC-Ukraine jointly held an initiative dedicated to the ongoing war and the horrific events that resulted from Russian's attack on Ukraine. Ukrainians are currently experiencing extremely traumatic events that will have a direct impact on their mental health for a long time to come.
In the wake of loss, it can be hard to take care of those you care about who are grieving. As with self-care, there are many possible ways to offer support to someone who is grieving, and a variety of factors that affect how you can offer support, including the amount of time that has passed since the loss, your personality, the grieving person’s personality, the nature of your relationship, your past experiences, and the amount of time and en
This factsheet, published by the National Centre for PTSD, discusses the ways in which we can engage in self-care in the wake of loss.
The factsheet provides an overview of grief and some of the theories and processes that are associated with self-care.
This virtual presentation is sponsored by the Southeast ATTC Regional Center and will focus on supporting the education and skill development of providers who work with people with substance use disorders (SUDS) by integrating mindfulness practices and techniques.
How to Inform Policy and Decision Makers About Evidence-Based Substance Use Policy and Prevention.
Matej Košir