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Description: This round table will highlight innovative approaches, partnerships, and community-driven strategies that are helping rural communities prevent and respond to opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders, and to identify practical actions that rural communities can take to strengthen prevention, treatment, recovery, and long-term resilience. 

Target audience: Rural health professionals, behavioral health and SUD providers, public health professionals, community leaders, people with lived experience, peer support organizations, first responders, educators, faith-based organizations, policymakers, researchers, and other rural community partners.

Presenter(s): Ellen Piekalkiewicz, Philip Rutherford, and Kristina Bryant, MBA 

Learning Objectives: 

1. Identify innovative, rural-specific approaches being used to prevent and respond to opioid use disorder (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD) in rural communities, including strategies that address the unique challenges of rural and frontier settings. 
2. Recognize the value of cross-sector partnerships and community-driven approaches in strengthening rural prevention, treatment, recovery, and support systems, including collaboration among healthcare providers, behavioral health organizations, community organizations, people with lived experience, and other local partners.
3. Identify practical strategies that can be adapted locally to improve access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services, and strengthen the rural continuum of support for individuals, families, and communities affected by substance use.
4. Identify actionable next steps for strengthening long-term rural resilience, including opportunities to build local capacity, leverage existing resources and partnerships, sustain successful approaches, and develop more connected and responsive rural SUD systems.   

Credit designations available: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, AAPA Category 1 CME Credit, Nursing Contact Hour(s)

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by PCSS-MOUD and American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Credit Designation Statements Physicians American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Nurses and Nurse Practitioners American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry is an approved provider of nursing continuing education through AAAP’s Joint Accreditation provider #4008192. This activity is approved for up to 1.0 CNE credits. PAs American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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Funding Funding for this initiative was made possible by cooperative agreement no.1H79TI088037 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.