Meets every 1st Thursday of the month.

The Harm Reduction ECHO program will provide an orientation to harm reduction strategies and approaches to prevent substance use-related overdoses, deaths, or other harmful health or mental health impacts. Learners will be exposed to evidence-based, and emerging and novel, harm reduction practices. The program will include a heavy emphasis on reducing misinformation about harm reduction practices and combatting stigma towards people who use drugs.

Meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month.

The TxRx (pronounced “Tex-R-X”) ECHO program provides telementoring in utilizing medications to treat substance use disorders, including medications for alcohol, opioid, and stimulant use disorders. This program targets prescribers, and other providers who support medication-assisted treatment services for patients. This includes topics such as assessment, induction, treatment, referrals to higher levels of care, and ongoing longer-term care or wrap-around services.

Meets every 3rd Thursday of the month.

The opioid epidemic has broadly impacted communities and healthcare systems. As morbidity and mortality related to opioids have increased, so have hospital admissions related to opioid and intravenous drug use including skin and soft tissue infections, heart infections, severe withdrawal symptoms and more. Complications of drug use may lead to complex and prolonged hospitalizations. Hospitalization is a reachable moment and an important opportunity to increase access to opioid use disorder (OUD) management, treatment and harm reduction. Inpatient acute care environments are uniquely and well-positioned to help patients with substance use disorders as part of hospitalization. Join this learning community to learn how to leverage a patient’s time in the hospital or other acute care settings to address OUD.

Meets every 4th Thursday of the month.

The Systems and Sustainability ECHO will focus on large-scale, systems-level opportunities and challenges to implementing and sustaining substance use-related services, be those screening, referral, or treatment practices. Topical areas of focus will include financial models, leadership skills, implementation strategies, workforce development, equitable access to care, integrated care, continuums of care, and other related subjects.

Meets every last Friday of the month.

Substance use disorder prevalence rates, as well as fatal overdoses, remain at record highs (Centers for Disease Control, 2021). The behavioral health workforce, regardless of specialty, or setting, needs to be prepared to effectively respond to clients who meet the criteria for a substance use disorder, or who may experience adverse health or mental health effects from risky substance use. This program will prepare behavioral health professionals to effectively screen, intervene, and refer (when necessary) clients with substance use disorders.

Meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

This research-focused ECHO program will grow a diverse workforce skilled in conducting recovery science research to address these knowledge gaps. Recovery Science ECHO participants will gain access to a network of established and emerging recovery scientists and researchers eager to collaborate and address the most pressing scientific questions of the field.

Meets every 2nd Thursday of the month.

Public safety professionals often find themselves to be the first point of contact for someone who is experiencing an overdose or engaging in a substance related-risky behavior (e.g., impaired driving, property crime). This program is intended to build public safety professionals’ capacity in successfully responding to substance use and substance use disorders in their day-to-day work. This will include recognizing substance use, brief screening, referring or transporting to the appropriate point of care, and preventing or responding to overdose. Public Safety attendees will also learn how evidence-based approaches to behavioral health challenges, can promote officer wellness and reduce burnout.