Overcoming OUD Treatment Barriers for People Experiencing Homelessness
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Overcoming OUD Treatment Barriers for People Experiencing Homelessness
Recorded: Thursday, April 4, 2024 to Sunday, April 7, 2024
On-Demand Session
Overview
This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 55th Annual Conference addresses the challenges seeking substance use treatment among people experiencing homelessness by integrating the perspectives of people with lived experiences of both homelessness and addiction with scientific evidence.
This workshop, led by peer support specialists, harm reduction organizers, and addiction medicine clinician-researchers with expertise in street medicine and caring for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) will better equip clinicians to provide evidence-based addiction care for PEH. We will discuss the unique challenges PEH face when seeking addiction care and addressing these barriers through harm reduction and peer recovery coaching. Participants will engage in case-based discussions to create a comprehensive addiction treatment plan for example PEH with opioid use disorder.
The target audience for this Introductory level session includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other clinicians, researchers, residents, fellows, students, and counselors.
This session addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Patient Care and Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning and Improvement
This session addresses the following ICPE Competencies:Interprofessional Communication, Teams and Teamwork
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
- identify the challenges seeking substance use treatment among people experiencing homelessness by integrating the perspectives of people with lived experiences of both homelessness and addiction with scientific evidence.
- design strategies to initiate medication for opioid use disorder (buprenorphine/methadone/naltrexone) for patients experiencing homelessness.
- compare models for treating addiction among people experiencing homelessness, including peer-led mobile outreach.
Registration Rates
| Rate Description | Rate |
| ASAM Member | $29 |
| Non-Member | $39 |
| Associate Member | $19 |
| Resident Member* | $19 |
| Student Member* | $19 |
*Residents, Fellows-in-training, Interns, and Students must join ASAM to receive a discounted registration rate. Click here to become an ASAM member. National and Chapter membership dues apply. There is no charge for Students to become a Member, but verification of student status is required.
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Registration Open: 05/06/2024 - 04/06/2027
User Access Closed: 05/06/2027
Session Instructions
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Marina Gaeta Gazzola, MD
Resident Physician
NYU Langone/NYC Health and Hospitals Bellevue Emergency Medicine Residency
Marina Gaeta Gazzola is a resident physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone School of Medicine/NYC Health and Hospitals Bellevue Hospital Center as well as a post-doctoral researcher at the APT Foundation Inc, a not-for-profit, low-barrier opioid agonist program based in New Haven, Connecticut. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of the social determinants of health and opioid use disorder as well as language and stigma related to substance use disorders. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine. Prior to medical school, Marina was a bilingual science teacher at the largest primary school in the New Haven Public Schools district.
Donnie Rose
NLCC Lead Navigator
New London CARES
Donald Rose is currently the Lead Navigator at Alliance for Living’s New London County CARES project. Donald is a resident of New London; he has been active in recovery and mental health for 18 years. Donald is a licensed Community Health Worker through the State of Connecticut. He has been trained and certified in addiction and mental health services, including Mental Health First Aid and Recovery Coach Certification. Mr. Rose has years’ experience as a harm reductionist operating under the harm reduction model. Assisting people to instant access to medications for substance use disorder. Mr. Rose works with those in transition from incarceration, people/families experiencing homelessness. He brings his passion for human services and his own life experiences as a person in remission from substance use disorder to his work and community involvement.
Donald Rose, CHW
Lead Navigator NLCC
Alliance For Living
Trish Rios, Community Health Worker
Assistant Director of NLCC Navigators
New London CARES
Trisha Rios is the Asst Director of NLC Cares Navigators. Ms. Rios has been working with the New London County CARES project since its launch in 2018. She has held various positions in the field of recovery for the past 15 years. She is a licensed Community Health Worker in the state of Connecticut. She has experience working with people in various settings and is especially skilled at community outreach and engagement. Ms. Rios brings her experience as a person in remission from substance use disorder and draws on her own experience as a person who benefited from harm reduction and outreach services to her work and community involvement.
Trish Rios, CHW
Alliance For Living
Nicholaus Christian, MD, MBA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Yale Program in Addiction Medicine
Nicholaus “Nick” Christian is an internal medicine clinician-educator and current postdoctoral research fellow through the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development program and provider for veterans experiencing homelessness at the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT) clinic. He completed his addiction medicine fellowship in the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine following completion of internal medicine residency training at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin where he helped start the “B-Team,” a national model for expanding access to buprenorphine for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder. Throughout residency he lived as a “missional” resident at Community First! Village, a master-planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for people transitioning out of chronic homelessness where he has helped spearhead a community-based participatory research project to elevate the voice of his neighbors who use substances or are in recovery. His current clinical and research interests include improving care for people who use substances that are on the continuum of experiencing homelessness to being stably housed.
Kelly Thompson, MA
President & CEO
Alliance for Living
Bio: Kelly Thompson, President/CEO Alliance for Living
Kelly Thompson is the President and CEO for Alliance for Living, located in New London, CT, where she has held the executive leadership position since September 2011. Kelly’s commitment and advocacy for people living with HIV began in the early 1990’s when she joined ACT UP Cleveland and worked with the OHIO AIDS Coalition to provide healing weekends for people living with HIV across the state of Ohio.
Ms. Thompson’s extensive experience is in non-profit management, including fundraising, program development, organizational strategy and development, mediation and conflict resolution, fiscal and performance management and community outreach.
In her current position at Alliance for Living, Ms. Thompson ensures that people living with or at-risk for HIV in New London County have the services they need to achieve optimal health and wellness. Alliance for Living provides medical case management for clients living with HIV and support services associated with housing, food security and nutrition, treatment adherence, harm reduction health educational programs. Additionally, AFL provides a housing program for people who were chronically homeless, syringe access and drug user health, HIV testing, overdose prevention and the New London New London County Cares, a program that provides a coordinated response to the overdose epidemic in New London County through education, overdose prevention, harm reduction, peer navigation and mobile treatment services.
Ms. Thompson serves on several committees including the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS - Community Advisory Board and Overdose Action Team of Southeastern CT.
Ms. Thompson is a graduate of Cleveland State University, where she completed the degrees of Master of Applied Communication Theory and Methodology and Bachelor of Arts in Communication. She is a trained mediator and conflict resolution facilitator.
Accreditation & Credit Designation Statements
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, the American Society of Addiction Medicine 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.
Physicians
The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
This activity awards 1.25 Nursing contact hours.
PAs
ASAM 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 1.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 05/06/2027. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, ASAM is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.
IPCE Credit
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators (CAADE)
This educational program is approved by CAADE: #CP40 999 1225.
California Association of DUI Treatment Centers (CADTP)
This educational program is approved by CADTP: #205.
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
This educational program is approved by CCAPP: #OS-20-330-1224.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
Upon completion of the activity and online evaluation, all other participants may request a certificate of participation. Participants may submit this certificate of participation to their professional organization/institute as documentation for completing this accredited continuing activity.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) or Continuing Certification Programs (CCP)
This activity meets the requirements for MOC/CCP for the following primary physician boards and for state licensing CME requirements. MOC Credit is only reported for ABA, ABP, ABIM, and ABS. By completing the online credit application and evaluation, the learner permits ASAM to report credits to the appropriate Board. Learn more.
- American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
- American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
- American Board of Surgery (ABS)
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)
- American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
- Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.
Disclosure Information
In accordance with disclosure policies of ASAM and Joint Accreditation, the effort is made to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all CME/CE activities. These policies include mitigating all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for the Planning Committees and Presenters. All activity Planning Committee members and Presenters have disclosed all financial relationship information. The ASAM CE Committee has reviewed these disclosures and determined that the relationships are not inappropriate in the context of their respective presentations and are not inconsistent with the educational goals and integrity of the activity. Click here to view the full disclosure listing.
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