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Burnout: Knowing When and How to Take Breaks | April 2, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Keywords: #burnout #fight or flight #general adaptation syndrome #harm reduction #self care #trauma response

In this presention Blue Valentine discusses the importance of taking intentional breaks for sustainable harm reduction work. She reviews trauma responses, General Adaptation Syndrome (Hans Selye), considerations for people working in Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction work and stress management, knowing ...

Date added: 04/2/24

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Naloxone Part 2: Talk Nerdy to Me | March 5, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #breathing #harm reduction #naloxone #never use alone

In this presentation we hear from Blue Valentine and Jude Leahy on Part two of Nalxone. This session builds on Naloxone Part one and gives a deeper dive into the application and usage of Naloxone and current best practices to ...

Date added: 03/26/24

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Naloxone | February 6 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #naloxone #narcan #opioid overdose #overdose

In this presentation on Naloxone, Blue Valentine addresses why it is important that we continue the conversation around naloxone use, how it works, how to recognize overdose and the steps to take to respond to an overdose and support someone ...

Date added: 02/6/24

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Harm Reduction | January 23, 2024

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Grand Rounds Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #best practice #harm reduction #Recovery #substance use disorder

We invite you to join Indian Country ECHO for a Grand Rounds focused on offering Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban Indian (I/T/U) programs and practitioners vital information on best practices for meeting American Indian and Alaska Native clients where ...

Date added: 12/13/23

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Save Lives Oregon | November 7 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #clearing house #harm reduction #naloxone #narcan #save lives oregon

In this presentation Ashley Jones will be discussing the application process for Save Lives Oregon, and providing an overview of the types of support they have available through their program. Save Lives Oregon began in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Date added: 11/7/23

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Policy and Legislation Updates and Impacts Discussion | September 5 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #Harm Reduction policy #Oregon Measure 110

In this presentation and discussion, Haven Wheelock shares on the Oregon State Senate Bill 1043, updates to Measure 110, and the concepts included in House Bill 2395.

Date added: 09/5/23

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The Principles and Practice of Harm Reduction | August 1 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #overdose prevention #syringe access #syringe services

In this presentation, Sabrina Garcia shares on several foundational principles and experiences of practice in Harm Reduction.

Date added: 08/1/23

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Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Experiencing SUDs | May 2, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #parents #pregnancy #pregnant #substance use disorder #SUD #SUD treatment

In this series of presentation, Dr Sherry Daker, PharmD, MHA, Treatment and Recovery Co-Lead for the IHS National Committee on Heroin, Opioids & Pain Efforts, highlights best practices for supporting pregnant and parenting people, partners, and families experiencing substance use disorders. ...

Date added: 05/2/23

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Xylazine | April 4 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #hr #od #overdose #safe #xylazine

In this presentation, Blue Valentine, provides an overview of Xylazine, related withdrawal and overdose risk, and supportive care pearls. Furthermore, Blue discusses harm reduction strategies and preventative methods for safe use, and key tips for wound management. Xylazine is an ...

Date added: 04/4/23

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Harm Reduction Outreach Methods | February 7, 2023

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #lived experience #outreach #Recovery #SUD

In this presentation O'Nesha Cochran-Dumas shares her experience in harm reduction work in varied settings and how to address needs and outreach in different locations. She talks about the core value of humanizing individuals we work with and aligning our ...

Date added: 02/7/23

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	Jason Arion Butler is an enrolled member of the Ute Tribe of Fort Duchesne, Utah and is also part Mojave and Cherokee. He resides in Gibson, Idaho with his wife of 22 years, children, and grandchild who are all enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He graduated from Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and earned his Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. He has spent the past 5+ years employed by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Tribal Health and Human Services Department, where he spent time serving as the Recovery Service Coordinator for the Four Directions Treatment Center, the manager for the Community Health Representative program, and recently accepted the position of Behavioral Health Manager. He strives to incorporate Native culture, traditions, morals, and values into the healthcare services provided to Native communities, implementing these practices into his work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and advocating for the reconstruction of healthcare practices nationally. Today he says, “I am loving life and am extremely thankful to have found a career path I love.

	Carrie Sampson-Samuels is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation located in Eastern Oregon. Carrie has an early background in nursing providing patient care in long term and clinical care settings. Carrie then furthered her education in community health and health studies at Portland State University, later advancing her education in healthcare management at Oregon Health and Sciences University while serving in leadership and executive management for a Tribal health organization as the Community Health Director. Carrie has served Tribes from Oregon to Montana and the Treaty 7 Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. As the Community Health Aide Project Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Carrie has provided leadership, advocacy and project management for expansion for the Behavioral Health Aide and Community Health Aide Program under the umbrella and direction of the Tribal Community Health Provider Project. This work has led to the expansion of Tribal Community Health Providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Carrie is responsible for leading partnerships with the education institutions, key Tribal partner sites, contract experts and advisory workgroups. This includes development of education infrastructure, education curriculum, recruitment strategies, tools for integration of providers into tribal health organizations, and working with state partners to develop policy and infrastructure for provider reimbursement. Carrie manages and writes multiple grants that support all aspects of this work and provides technical assistance support to the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Carrie is the proud mother of 4 daughters and resides on a small ranch on her Tribal homelands.

	Dr. Liu is a generalist OB/GYN at Gallup Indian Medical Center. In addition to her medical degree, she holds a PhD in Health Policy. Among other publications, she served as the chief editor for the 2019 Oxford University Press book: “50 Studies Every Obstetrician and Gynecologist Should Know.” She has formal training in Quality Improvement processes through the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program (CPIP), which she utilized to implement emergency contraception at Massachusetts General Hospital. During her six years at Gallup Indian Medical Center she has primary responsibility for preparing and reporting of metrics related to the delivery of obstetric care, and serves on the Continuing Medical Education committee.

	Dr. Hoover is from Chicago, where he grew up and went to medical school, at Rush University, on Chicago’s diverse West Side. He was trained in Urology at Boston Medical Center in Boston’s beautiful South End neighborhood. Dr. Hoover went on to pursue fellowship training in voiding dysfunction and laser prostate surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hoover is a Board-Certified Urologist, by the American Board of Urology, having achieved this honor in 2018. Dr. Hoover has several peer-reviewed publications, including research studies and medical illustrations. His family is happy to call Gallup home since the end of 2017. In their free time they like to explore New Mexico’s wilderness and go camping. Now that their two girls are growing up, it’s also imperative that we catch Pokemon wherever we go.Dr. Hoover is the only Urologist in McKinley County, New Mexico, and in any of the surrounding counties– it’s just him between Albuquerque and Flagstaff. He’s happy to continue seeing established patients, and is accepting new patients from the entire region. Dr. Hoover believes in communication, candor, and compassion as essential tenets of patient care. Dr. Hoover is an expert in general Urology, male and female voiding dysfunction, kidney stones and kidney stone surgery, BPH and laser prostate surgery, erectile dysfunction, vasectomy, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer. Many of the procedures he do as a Urologist are done in the office including: cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamics, treatment foroveractive bladder, and many others. Please call/text or email and let him and his staff know how they can help you.

	Eric Wortmann, MD is the former Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility. Besides patient care, Eric has a deep passion for mentoring aspiring physicians and health care providers. He was the Education Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle as well as Adjunct Faculty for the US Army teaching Special Forces Medics. He has been a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine in Haiti and has worked in the Dominican Republic since 1989. Eric has a long-time passion as a mid and long-distance running coach. He has lived on Kauai for 30 years. Currently he divides his time between Northern Italy and Hawaii. Recently he was accepted into Doctors without Borders USA and is awaiting his first assignment.

	Corey Detlefs, MD, FACS, is the Trauma Outreach Director and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix