Tuesday, May 7, 2024
5/7/2024
James Madison University Substance Use Disorder Education (JMU-SUDE) is a collaborative training program designed to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and aspirations required for treatment of substance use disorder across ten academic units/programs within the seven academic departments in the College of Health and Behavioral Studies (CHBS). This includes training in Nursing, Social Work, Graduate Psychology, Health Professions (i.e., Athletic Training, Dietetics, Occupational Therapy and Physician's Assistant programs), Health Sciences, Kinesiology, and Communication Sciences and Disorders. Students and faculty are the populations to be served by this program in classroom instruction, field experiences, and conference presentations. Community educational partners, who will provide student field placements and field supervision, will also be included in conference presentations. The training includes strategic and stepwise development and provision of inter-professional content for faculty, students, and local health workers to learn the necessary skills and knowledge to provide screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for individuals who are at risk or have been identified as having a substance use disorder. In order to provide current information for a research-based understanding of substance abuse disorder (SUD), training will also include concepts of recent advances in neurobiological foundations of addictions, harm reduction, medically assisted treatment, trauma/ACEs, and motivational interviewing. Training is designed to provide knowledge and skills in interprofessional collaborative practice, reduce stigma by addressing attitudes toward addictions, and increase aspirations in health professionals for treating individuals with substance use disorders. The goal is to develop a sustainable training program that is comprehensive across the health and mental health professional programs within the CHBS. The program will draw from existing SAMHSA curriculum models that are tailored to meet the specific professional responsibilities and roles within each department as they are integrated into the standard curriculum. Where appropriate, field experiences will be expanded and developed in the community for application and supervised training of newly learned skills and knowledge. Classroom instruction will be used for increasing knowledge for screening and treating substance use disorders, field experiences for increasing students' skills, and conference presentations for development of inter-professional collaboration across professions. Input for successful implementation will be facilitated by identifying a 'champion' for each department to facilitate implementation of new instruction into current course work and programming in the most feasible manner. Input from Community partners has been provided to advise content and teaching that address the realities of substance use treatment in community settings. With the enrollment across CHBS at approximately 180 faculty and 5,000 students, the training is expected to have significant impact for expanding the number of practitioners prepared to deliver high-quality, evidence-based SUD treatment.
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