SAMHSA MAT-PDOA MA-SOAR2 Grant is sponsored by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) through Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

Substance Use Initiatives - Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Skip to content Donate Find A Community Health Center Programs and Initiatives > Clinical Quality Initiatives > Substance Use Initiatives Substance Use Initiatives --> Mass League Substance Use and Recovery Initiatives Mass League’s SUD Communications Forum and Online Community This forum provides community health centers (CHCs) with access to updates, discussion posts, and monthly calls on a variety of topics, including regulation and policy changes impacting service delivery and reimbursement of care, training and TA opportunities, funding announcements, and other items of interest.

Being part of the community allows CHCs to consult with peers doing similar work to share strategies, ask questions, and engage in peer dialogue in support of creating a culture of recovery for CHC patients experiencing substance use disorders. For more information about joining this online community, please contact Jim Hiatt, Vice President Clinical Health Affairs, at jhiatt@massleague. org .

MassLeague CHC Recovery Coaching (RC) Forum This forum was started in June 2023 to share relevant information about CHC integration of recovery coaches and recovery supervisors.

Recovery coaches and supervisors have different responsibilities than clinicians, and this forum was born out of their need to have a space to talk from a peer-to-peer view and not have the conversation so focused on clinical issues, which is often the case in a substance use disorder (SUD) forum.

The recovery coaching forum meets bi-monthly for one hour to discuss emerging topics and policies, share harm-reduction strategies and similar resources, discuss importance of well-being and self-care in peer-to-peer roles, and provide an opportunity for peer-to-peer dialogue.

Like all Mass League forums, this is an online community in our member portal for coaches and their supervisors to exchange ideas, questions, challenges, and successes. For more information about this forum, please contact Maya Saunders, Manager of Substance Use and Recovery Initiatives, at msaunders@massleague. org .

SAMHSA MAT-PDOA MA-SOAR2 Grant The Mass League is the lead agency for a five-year Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration (SAMSHA) Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) – Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction (PDOA) grant award running from September 30, 2021, to September 29, 2026. This is the League’s second rendition of this grant intended to support community-based providers in responding to opioid use disorders.

The SAMHSA-funded MAT-PDOA Massachusetts Community Health Centers Supporting Opioid Addiction Recovery program is designed to increase access to MAT for individuals with opioid use disorder and decrease illicit opioid use and prescription opioid misuse at six-month follow-up. A key component of the MA-SOAR2 program is to add recovery coaches to existing office-based addiction treatment services at community health centers.

This program’s goal is to support at least 545 individuals in accessing medication-assisted treatment and recovery coaching services to address opioid use disorder. Our target populations include individuals identifying as Latine/Hispanic, military veterans, and/or individuals re-entering the community after a period of incarceration.

The Mass League is partnering with Brandeis University as evaluators and with three community health centers, including Community Health Center Fitchburg, Edward M. Kennedy and Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, to implement the project’s activities. For more information on the SAMHSA MAT-PDOA MA-SOAR2 program, please contact Maya Saunders, Manager of Substance Use and Recovery Initiatives, at msaunders@massleague.

org . Mass General Brigham SUD Equity Grant The Mass League is partnering with Mass General Brigham and Boston-area community health centers to advance equitable SUD-related services and support.

As part of this collaboration, the Mass League received a generous five-year grant from Mass General Brigham to support health centers in their efforts to increase access to and retention in effective, culturally responsive SUD treatment and recovery support services for Black, Latine, and Native and tribal-identified people.

Overarching goals and activities of the MGB SUD Equity Grant: Engage in large-scale community needs assessment with a variety of health center and community stakeholders to inform ongoing development and implementation of the grant.

Guide grant decision-making through the convening of an advisory council, the majority membership of which will include individuals identifying as BIPOC and/or those with lived experience related to substance use and recovery. Offer more culturally informed and responsive SUD-related services Integrate substance use treatment services within health center settings Integrate harm reduction practices and lower threshold models of care.

To learn more about this project, please contact Darian Leta, Senior Manager of Substance Use and Recovery Initiatives, at dleta@massleague. org .

SUD Training and Capacity-Building Opportunities Boston Medical Center (BMC) Grayken Center for Addiction Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) The BMC Grayken Center for Addiction TTA provides education support and capacity building to community health centers and other health care and social service providers on best practices for caring for patients with substance use disorders.

They offer a variety of in-person, pre-recorded, and live virtual training sessions to raise awareness and clinical skill at addressing SUDs, inclusive of training, that fulfill the DEA Controlled Substance Registration mandatory eight-hour SUD training. You can find links to register for training as well as request training for your health center here: https://www. addictiontraining.

org/ . Massachusetts Consultation Services for the Treatment of Addiction and Pain (MCSTAP) MCSTAP offers real-time, telephonic professional consultation to primary care providers on safe prescribing and managing care for patients with chronic pain and/or a substance use disorder.

It is a comprehensive resource on a range of topics, such as medication management related to medication-assisted treatment, opioid, and non-opioid pain medications; pain management strategies, including non-pharmaceutical treatment of pain; and resources in the community for people living with chronic pain and/or an SUD.

Any provider within a primary care practice, such as physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses, or behavioral health clinicians, can call MCSTAP — a free resource to all Massachusetts providers. The MCSTAP phone line is intended for providers only, and patients with questions should be referred to their PCP.

For addiction and pain management consultation, please call 1-833-PAIN-SUD (1-833-724-6783), Monday through Friday, 9 a. m. – 5 p.

m. For more information about the program, contact Amy Rosenstein at 617-790-4186 or amy. rosenstein@beaconhealthoptions.

com . National Clinician Consultation Center Substance Use Warmline The Health Resources and Services Administration sponsors The University of California-San Francisco’s Clinician Consultation Center Warmline to support primary care providers at health centers. Get free, expert clinical advice on SUD treatment for managing complex patients with addiction, chronic pain, and behavioral health issues.

Both online and phone consultations are available. The Warmline is accessible by phone toll free at 855-300-3595 and operates from 9:00 a. m.

to 8:00 p. m. ET, Monday through Friday.

Providers can also upload cases online for consultation support. To learn more, click here . Provider Clinical Support Systems (PCSS) PCSS is a program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), created in response to the opioid overdose epidemic to train primary care providers in the evidence-based prevention and treatment of opioid use disorders and treatment of chronic pain.

They offer various online educational opportunities, including training that satisfies the DEA Controlled Substance Registration substance use training requirements for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. PCSS also provides clinical mentoring programs aimed at improving confidence and skills in preventing, identifying, and treating substance use disorders, opioid use disorders, and chronic pain.

To learn more, click here . American Society of Addiction Medicine - ASAM Trainings Founded in 1954, ASAM is a professional medical society representing over 5,500 physicians, clinicians, and associated professionals in addiction medicine.

ASAM is dedicated to increasing access and improving the quality of addiction treatment, educating physicians and the public, supporting research and prevention, and promoting the appropriate role of physicians in the care of patients with addiction. ASAM offers a variety of in-person and online educational opportunities, including larger national educational forums for in-depth knowledge transfer about SUD care.

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