Events

Caring for ME Webinar with Liz Blackwell-Moore, MPH.

Schools, communities and healthcare practices across Maine are working hard to reduce the heavy burden being caused by substance use disorders. While many people are working hard to improve the community and healthcare response to overdoses and increase treatment and recovery services, there are also substantial efforts underway to prevent substance use disorders from forming. Webinar participants will learn what schools and communities are doing to implement best practices strategies to prevent people from having substance use disorders and how those efforts connect with prevention in the healthcare setting.

The objectives for this webinar include:

1. Learn new information about the latest research and best practices in substance use prevention.
2. Learn about prevention efforts and messaging happening in schools and communities and how those
efforts connect to the efforts of health care.
3. Learn about the importance of providing secondary prevention options to people most at risk for
overdose.

Additional topics covered in the webinar are opiate misuse prevention, prevention of early use of substances, and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on a person’s risk of problematic substance use.