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Adverse Childhood Experiences

Type: Video

Audience: Clinical

Keywords: #ACEs #Adverse Childhood Experiences #webinar

This video by the Sonoma County Indian Health Project discusses Adverse Childhood Experiences. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) screening is a set of questions about early childhood trauma. The screening is used to start a conversation in the Medical visit where ...

Date added: 11/3/22

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Domestic Violence 101

Type: Video

Audience: Clinical

Program: Journey to Health Maternal and Child Health

Keywords: #Domestic violence #stronghearts #webinar

Date added: 11/3/22

Past Presentation

Preventing, Monitoring and Treating Infectious Diseases in the MAT Clinic | November 3 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical

Program: Substance Use Disorder

Keywords: #hcv #infectious disease #mat #pharmacotherapy #prevention #Screening #substance use #SUD #treatment

In this presentation Whitney Essex, APRN-CNP shares on prevention, monitoring, and treating infectious diseases in the setting of pharmacotherapy for substance use disorders. She discusses infectious diseases associated with substance use disorders, the intersection between infectious disease and substance use disorder ...

Date added: 11/3/22

Past Presentation

New Data: Buprenorphine and Benzodiazepine Overdose Risk | November 2, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Hepatitis C

Keywords: #benzo #benzodiazepine #bup #buprenorphine #clonidine #literature #od #overdose #suboxone

In this presentation, Dr. Jasen Christensen, DO, discusses how the addition of buprenorphine changes overdose risk, explains the affect of buprenorphine on risk for benzodiazepine overdose and describes the use of Clonidine in MOUD treatment.

Date added: 11/2/22

Past Presentation

Syringe Service and Harm Reduction Program Practices and Activities that Help Prevent and Decrease Syringe Litter | November 1, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: Harm Reduction

In this presentation, Blue Valentine, CHW, Harm Reduction Peer Specialist, Sabrina Garcia, Peer Recovery Specialist, and Hannah Roy, Health Promotion Supervisor, share their experiences starting a harm reduction program, how they provide syringe services and what methods they use to ...

Date added: 11/2/22

Past Presentation

Child Abuse and Non-Accidental Trauma (NAT) | November 1, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Emergency Medical Services

Keywords: #child abuse #ems #non accidental trauma #pediatric #risk factors

In this presentation, Dr. Kimberly Pruett discusses Child Abuse and Non-Accidental Trauma (NAT) covering the topics of parental and child risk factors, common triggers for serious abuse, varied presentations seen in case studies, and appropriate response techniques.

Date added: 11/1/22

Past Presentation

Reframing Native Mental Health | October 25, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance

Keywords: #health disparities #mental health #trauma

Joseph P. Gone, PhD, presents on rethinking American Indian mental health services.

Date added: 11/1/22

Past Presentation

Journey to Health ECHO | October 27th, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Journey to Health

Keywords: #aian #community based interventions #Community healing #familial healing #health #healthy relationships #historical trauma #interventions #intimate partner violence #trauma #violence prevention

In this presentation, Kaylee Trottier, PhD, LP, introduces risk and protective factors for violence and prevention as well as intervention strategies behavioral health specialists can apply in their practice. Kaylee also includes case scenarios to identify and build on protective ...

Date added: 10/27/22

Past Presentation

Indigenous Trauma and SUD Care – Trickster Spirits and the Opioid Response | October 27, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Community Health Representative

Keywords: #cultural #indigenous #stories #tails #trauma #trickster

In this presentation, Dr. Danica Love Brown, ECHO faculty member and Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, discusses indigenous trauma, Trickster Spirits, and other cultural considerations in addressing substance use disorders.

Date added: 10/27/22

Past Presentation

The Ripple Effects with the Implementation of the Behavioral Health Aide Program: The Healing Movement is Growing – A Personal Story | October 11, 2022

Type: Past Presentation

Program: CHAP ECHO Learning Collaborative

Join the Behavioral Health Aide (BHA) Education Program team within the Tribal Community Health Provider Program (TCHPP) to hear a personal story from Jenece Howe, Program Manager at Village of Hope at Yakama Nation. The BHA experience and perspective is ...

Date added: 10/26/22

	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