Breaking the Cycle in Salem County: Substance Use and its Generational Impact
2024-04-30 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Zoom
Join us for our April Community Conversation, which explores the broader context of substance use and young parents in Salem County. With a focus on families, this virtual conversation aims to unpack Salem County’s maternal and family health outcomes and substance use among young parents while promoting strength-based protective factors. Featuring a panel with expertise in rural substance use, family and child welfare, and a perinatal considerations in South Jersey, this event will provide an overview of substance use and rural health in Salem County, family considerations of substance and social drivers of health, and perspective from the lived experience of a parent in recovery. If you have any additional questions, please reach out to Emily Hernandez at emily@salemwellnessfoundation.org.

Opioid Use Disorder and Treatment Physician and Staff Training
2024-05-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Intersection of Mood Disorders and Substance Use Disorders

MAT Managing Pain Post-Op Transitions to Ambulatory Care
2024-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Supporting Families After Loss
2024-05-08 12:00 - 13:00
Brett Pepe
HOPE Program
NJ Traumatic Loss Coalition

MAT CQI Quality Improvement Applications: Case Study 5
2024-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Is 988 Just a Number?
2024-05-15 12:00 - 13:00
Mary Jean Weston
NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Youth Focus: Primary Care Interventions
2024-05-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Puthenmadam Radhakrishnan, MD
NJ DCF Children’s System of Care
Psychiatric Pediatric Collaborative

Celebrating and Supporting The Role of Peers
2024-05-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Susanne Mills, Sandy Snell
NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Benzodiazepines
2024-05-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom

Learning Series Webinar: Treating Pain Without Opioids
2024-05-30 11:00 | Zoom
• Learning objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
o Identify how and why athletes are introduced to opioids and how their use could lead to dependence and addiction
o Recognize signs and symptoms of opioid misuse in an active population
o Identify alternatives to treat pain
• Schedule
o Introduction by PDFNJ
o Presentation by James Bailey, DO, FAAPMR
o Presentation by Sarah Vi Cerreto, BSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC, HN-BC
o Question-and-Answer Session

Learning Collaborative: Engagement Through a Trauma Informed Lens
2024-06-04 13:30 - 15:30 | 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB B515, Rosemary Gellene Room, Newark, NJ
Rutgers Health, Northern NJ Medication-Assisted Treatment Center of Excellence (MATCOE), and CAI Global present an impactful Community Partner Learning Collaborative on “Engagement through a Trauma-Informed Lens.” This event is free and open to direct staff and professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorder and unhoused individuals. Please note: complimentary lunch will be served.

Buprenorphine Initiation in the Emergency Dept. and Office Based Addiction Treatment Settings
2024-06-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom

MAT Increasing Patient Access to SUD Services: Where Do We Go From Here
2024-06-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Addiction Care in Perinatal Populations
2024-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom

MAT CQI Quality Improvement Applications: Case Study 6
2024-06-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Stimulants
2024-06-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom

MAT Lunch Hour
2024-06-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Co-hosted with New Jersey’s MAT Centers of Excellence, the medications for addiction treatment (MAT) lunch hours are hour-long virtual meetings to hear from experts and discuss the latest in clinical and non-clinical issues affecting the MAT patient population. Providers, OBAT navigators, peers, advocates, and other stakeholders working in New Jersey’s substance use disorder field are welcome to attend.

MAT Alternatives to Opioid Therapy for Patients with a History of SUD
2024-07-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

MAT CQI Quality Improvement Applications: Case Study 7
2024-07-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

MAT Integrated Care for OUD and Co-occurring Illicit Substance Use
2024-08-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

MAT CQI Quality Improvement Applications: Case Study 8
2024-08-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

OBAT Care Team Trainings
2024-09-04 09:00 - 12:00, 2024-09-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
This training series focuses on foundational knowledge and actionable information for OBAT care team including:

Introduction to substance use disorders, harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and the OBAT model
Approaches for building relationships and putting harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and care-planning into practice in a clinic-based setting
Best practices in connecting patients to behavioral health and social service resources including specific community resource identification and referral tools

The training series is free for OBAT care team and providers/clinical support staff. If you are not an OBAT care team or a provider but are interested in participating in the training.
Participants are awarded a Certification of Completion at the end of each cohort. Participants are required to attend all sessions in order to receive a Certificate of Completion. If you are unable to attend all of the sessions but would still like to attend, please contact us for approval before registering.
License-specific CEUs are available for nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and physicians, and interdisciplinary continuing education

MAT Supporting Reentry: Drug Treatment for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
2024-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

MAT CQI Quality Improvement Applications: Case Study 9
2024-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Save the Date/Building Hope for the Future
2024-09-18 | Virtual
NJ Department of Human Services’ Opioid Summit 2024
Virtual All Day Conference, Workshops, Panels, Keynote Speaker
CME and CEU Credits Available

OBAT Care Team Trainings
2024-09-18 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-09-25 09:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
This training series focuses on foundational knowledge and actionable information for OBAT care team including:

Introduction to substance use disorders, harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and the OBAT model
Approaches for building relationships and putting harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and care-planning into practice in a clinic-based setting
Best practices in connecting patients to behavioral health and social service resources including specific community resource identification and referral tools

The training series is free for OBAT care team and providers/clinical support staff. If you are not an OBAT care team or a provider but are interested in participating in the training.
Participants are awarded a Certification of Completion at the end of each cohort. Participants are required to attend all sessions in order to receive a Certificate of Completion. If you are unable to attend all of the sessions but would still like to attend, please contact us for approval before registering.
License-specific CEUs are available for nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and physicians, and interdisciplinary continuing education.

SUD navigation support calls
2024-10-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
In addition to the main OBAT navigator training, we offer quarterly case conferencing and skills lab calls to provide ongoing opportunity for OBAT navigators and other substance use disorder (SUD) navigators/case managers in New Jersey to continue learning through:

Hour-long deep dives into particular content areas
Discussion of (de-identified) patient cases and support thinking through patient engagement strategies, potential resources, and how to practice self-care while doing this work
Presentations and sharing updated resources about relevant topics such as harm reduction, strategies for identifying new community resources, trauma-informed care, self-care, and more
