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Harm Reduction Works | November 2, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

In this presentation, Jess Tilley shares the Harm Reduction Works history and reviews the Harm Reduction Works Host Script (HRH413).

Date added: 11/2/21

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Fentanyl’s Rising Presence in Oregon | October 5, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #fentanyl

In this presentation, guests from Overdose Data to Action: Oregon HOPE discuss the rising prevalence of fentanyl in substances used, share insight from interviews with persons who are currently exposed to risks of fentanyl, and highlight how we can better ...

Date added: 10/20/21

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Indigenous Story Work | August 3, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #oral tradition #stories #storytelling

Through the practice of storywork and oral traditions, indigenous people learn to live in right relationship with the themselves, their families, communities, and all of creation. In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland ...

Date added: 09/13/21

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Harm Reduction Support and Perspective on Return to Use | September 7, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #harm reduction #return to use

In this presentation, faculty discuss supporting patients who return to use and how to continue to center safety, compassion, and accessibility while offering Harm Reduction resources.

Date added: 09/13/21

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Tribal Sovereignty and Harm Reduction | July 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #health policy #tribal sovereignty

In this presentation, Elizabeth J. Coronado, JD (Chukchansi) of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board's Health Policy team discusses Tribal Sovereignty, it's history, law and policies and shares valuable legal tools for harm reduction.

Date added: 07/6/21

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Learning as We Lead: Experience of Measure 110 Implementation Oversight and Accountability Council Members Working in Harm Reduction | June 1, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #M110 Oversight and Accountability Council #oregon decriminalization #Oregon Measure 110

Oregon is the first state in the nation to decriminalize personal possession of small amounts of all drugs, while expanding access to addiction treatment and other health services. In this series of presentations, members of Oregon's Measure 110's Oversight and Accountability Council, Blue ...

Date added: 06/1/21

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Fentanyl Testing | May 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #fentanyl #fentanyl testing

In this series of presentations, Jude Leahy, MPH, shares an opportunity to share challenges, or successes your harm reduction program has or is facing, learn together from each others experiences and receive feedback from experts in the field through the new Harm Reduction ...

Date added: 05/4/21

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Post Overdose Care – Addressing Vicarious Trauma | April 6, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #historical trauma #post overdose care #trauma #trauma-informed care #vicarious trauma

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses best practices for providing support following an overdose reversal as well as vicarious trauma, historical trauma, and ways we can support ...

Date added: 04/6/21

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Community Advisory Groups-Centering programs in the lived experience of people using substances | Community Resources for Wound Botulism | March 2, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #community advisory groups #wound botulism

In this series of presentations, Jude Leahy, MPH, and Blue Valentine, CHW, Harm Reduction Specialist, share key insights for building community support, mitigating stakeholder opposition, advise on program design and implementation and developing support networks to give life to harm reduction ...

Date added: 03/2/21

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Program Planning and Development | Trickster Tales and Harm Reduction | February 2, 2021

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Harm Reduction ECHO Program

Keywords: #program planning #trickster #trickster stories

In this presentation, Blue Valentine, CHW, Harm Reduction Specialist, discusses program planning and development and the key steps to giving life to a harm reduction program. Then, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health ...

Date added: 02/2/21

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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