Date: February 9, 2022

Use of methamphetamine impacts people across the Midwest in many ways. Join the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 7 Harm Reduction Workgroup for a series of brief, 30-minute webinars to explore strategies to address meth use, ranging from prevention to treatment and recovery. The third webinar will focus on harm reduction, including discussions on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) initiatives, coalition building to address public perception, and current stimulant-focused harm reduction efforts.

Date: February 25, 2022

Time: 11:30 am  – 12:00 pm CT

Register for the webinar here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session. 

For questions, please contact Rae Hutchison at CHutchison@hrsa.gov.

The Addressing Meth Use in the Midwest webinar series is hosted by the HHS Region 7 Harm Reduction Workgroup: the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA), Administration on Community Living (ACL), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).

Date: February 8, 2022

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) invites you to a free webinar on Innovative Rural Health Programs. Come and join us to learn about HRSA-funded programs and resources that support rural health and telehealth. This upcoming webinar will feature two recipients from HRSA’s Telehealth Network Grant Program (TNGP).  The TNGP’s purpose is to promote rural Tele-emergency services by enhancing telehealth networks to deliver Emergency Department (ED) consultation services via telehealth to rural providers without emergency care specialists.

Date:  Monday, February 28, 2022

Time:  2:00 – 3:00pm CT

Register for the session here.

Webinar Objectives:

• Review and discuss the significance of healthcare disparities in rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and their impact on outcomes in time-sensitive emergency conditions
• Highlight key steps to developing a telemedicine solution in EMS as evidenced by Emory Rural Tele-EMS Network (ER-TEMS) to address key contributors to worse outcomes in time-sensitive conditions
• Propose an action plan for rural providers to incorporate tele-EMS solutions into normal operations
• State the demonstrated benefits of using telepsychiatry in mental health settings and identify the infrastructure needs to implement telepsychiatry services
• Describe how North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP) is addressing problems in areas of access to quality (evidence-based) mental health services

Featured Speakers:

Sy Saeed, MD, MS, FACPsych, Chairperson, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

Kalyan Muppavarapu, MD, MPH, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

Michael J. Carr, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Section, Emory University School of Medicine

This webinar is part of HRSA’s Telehealth Learning Webinar Series.  The series’ goal is to highlight successful projects/best practices as well as resources to promote and further the use of telehealth technologies for health care delivery, education, and health information services. 

For more information about the series, contact Nancy Rios at NRios@hrsa.gov.

For more resources and tools about telehealth, visit telehealth.hhs.gov and https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/telehealth/index.html

Date: February 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 7 Harm Reduction Workgroup has produced an Addressing Meth Use in the Midwest webinar series. Session #2 focused on primary prevention and increasing public awareness around meth use; highlighting the Missouri No MO Meth project. For your reference, attachments from Session #2 are available: Webinar 3 Addressing Meth Use in the Midwest and Meth Prevention for Adults. 

Additional information about the No MO Meth prevention resources is available here.

The Session #2 recording can be accessed here:  https://hrsa-gov.zoomgov.com/rec/share/pEiIvB4p5nPVk6-aZxQKUMDAn_Tj_niPoDQO_DEgBV9fEi1H1ITeAcwsOrxsMACE._EAV7YzvbWvzvT1H.

A recording of Session #1 of the series is available here.

Session #3 in the series is February 25^th at 11:30 am CT and will focus on harm reduction, including discussions on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) initiatives, coalition building to address public perception, and current stimulant-focused harm reduction efforts. For details, please see the attached flyer. Register for the session here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session.

HHS Region 7 Harm Reduction Workgroup:  the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA), Administration on Community Living (ACL), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).