Substance Use Recovery Banquet: Building Resilient Communities

31 San Damiano Road,Golconda IL 62938

10 May, 2022

Description

Free dinner, giveaways, and presentations that build awareness and skills to identify and respond to substance use disorders. Join us for a FREE dinner, giveaways, and presentations that build awareness and skills to identify and respond to substance use disorders. Also, we will be recognizing two Hardin County General Hospital staff that have been champions for building SUD recovery supports. See flyer for details on continuing education credits. Topics: Risk Factors and Screenings for SUDs. Arrowleaf's RCORP progress update. Medication-Assisted Recovery and recovery support in local primary care clinics. Local recovery story and peer support roles in the community. Speakers: Jason West, MD is a family physician at SIH Primary Care in Harrisburg, has been providing MAR services since 2019, and serves as the physician lead in Addiction Medicine for SIH. Brent Van Ham, MS, RN, CDC, CADC, is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, specializing in Substance Use Disorder prevention, treatment and recovery. Alisha Foster, LCSW is Arrowleaf's Assistant Director of Community Resources & Prevention and certified in trauma care and co-occurring disorders. Melissa Smith is a person in recovery who is working towards her social work degree; and serves as Arrowleaf's RCORP Peer Recovery Coach. This conference is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award GA1RH39556 totaling $1,000,000 with 50% funded by HRSA/HHS and 50% provided by Arrowleaf in-kind support. The contents are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor, an endorsement, by HRSA/HHS, or the US Government.