Granite Recovery Centers Salem, New Hampshire, United States
Session Description: We are experiencing dramatic workforce shortages in the wake of both COVID 19, and Opioid epidemic. Now more than ever we need to focus our efforts on improving organizational cultures and creating inclusion rather than exclusion to promote workforce development and retention. The workshop will address several key issues related to the changing landscape of mental health and substance abuse treatment, the existence of internal stigma, and its effects on workforce culture and client treatment. Research indicates that with treatment providers, client biases exist in the perception that addiction is both a disease and moral issue. These biases contribute to the negative attitude’s treatment professionals have towards clients, diminishing the clients’ feelings of empowerment and subsequent treatment outcomes. The training will focus on the evolution of the mental health, and substance abuse fields, and explore the integration of in-recovery and non-recovery staff. We will illuminate the ongoing presence of internal biases, and stigma between non-recovery an in-recovery staff, and its impact on organizational culture and client care. We will identify and discuss specific strategies to improve staff empathy, strengthen positive perceptions of recovery, increase treatment team cohesion, and support in creating a healthy recovery centered culture.
Learning Objectives:
After this activity participants should be able to
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify 3 key factors in the evolution of mental health and substance use treatment in the US
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify at least 3 key indicators that discrepancies and stigma exists between non-recovery and in-recovery staff that can impact clinical care
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify at least 3 strategies to raise awareness, decrease stigma, improve clinical interventions and bridge the gap between non-recovery and in-recovery staff.