Behavioral Health Resources - June 2022

Alaska Department of Health sent this bulletin at 06/03/2022 07:34 PM AKDT

June 3, 2022 Resource Bulletin

Monthly Alaska, National & International Resources and Key Updates on:
Justice Involved  | Mental Health
Substance Misuse & Recovery |
Suicide Prevention & Postvention |
Neurobehavioral

Miss our last email? Past e-bulletins are posted in the left column on both the ABADA and AMHB websites.

Mental Health

Anchorage Block ParTAY - 26th and Spenard
June 9, 4:00-7:00pm AKDT

Join Alaska Behavioral Health and Alaska Spirit of Youth to celebrate transition age youth and programs that support their mental health. Food trucks, live music, outdoor games and tours of Alaska Seeds of Change and the POWER Center. To download the flyer, click here.

For more details, click here.

Talking Circle: Trauma and Human Trafficking in Tribal Communities
June 9, 11:00am-12:30pm AKDT

Join panelists for a moderated talking circle on trauma and human trafficking in tribal communities, including a live question and answer session.

For more information and to register click here.

Resiliency Amidst a Global Health Crisis: Supporting Alaskans’ Behavioral Health Needs
June 23, 8:30am-4:30pm AKDT

This provider education session is hosted by Comagine Health. Topics include State of Alaska Behavioral Health initiatives, utilization management and care coordination updates, guest Speakers from the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association (ASHNA), Providence Adolescent program, and Alaska Child and Family.

To learn more and to register, click here.

_{Alaska First Responders 24-hour Relief Line}
_{1-844-985-8275

Crisis counseling and general support for healthcare and behavioral professionals}

_{Alaska Careline}
_{For someone to talk to, call anytime:}
_{1-877-266-4357 (HELP) or text 4help to 839863}
_{3-11 p.m. Tue-Sat}

_{National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Alaska}

_{Alaska Division of Behavioral Health Well-Being Alaska}

_{Alaska Training Cooperative June Training Flyer

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (AK-AIMH) Trainings}

^{Family Services Training Center June Training Flyer}

_{Alaska Behavioral Health Trainings}

_{Alaska Partnership Access Line (PAL-PAK) for Prescribing Providers}

Substance Misuse Prevention, Treatment & Recovery

Alaska Pain and Opioid Management Echo
June 13, 12:00-1:00pm AKDT

The Pain and Opioid Management (POM) ECHO is a continuing online series with the goal to enhance knowledge on pain management and addiction, and the treatment of opioid use disorder for primary care providers across Alaska.

To register please click here.

Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Training
June 7-8, 9:00am-1:30pm AKDT

This virtual introduction will provide an overview of the SBIRT framework, provide evidence for the value and efficacy of SBIRT, and introduce basics for each step of the process and offer best practices and recommendations.

To view the agenda and to register, click here

Listening Session: AK Behavioral Health Providers
June 20, 10:00-11:30am AKDT

The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center seeks to have a deeper understanding and connection with Native communities, leaders, and governments. They are collaborating with the National American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Technology Transfer Center to hold listening sessions. These listening sessions will help structure a targeted Community of Practice that will take place in the fall of 2022. If you have questions you can email northwest@mhttcnetwork.org.

To learn more and to register, click here.

Building Bridges: Alaska Peer Support Conference 2022
June 14-16, 8:00am-2:00pm AKDT

This conference is hosted by the State of Alaska Division of Behavioral Health and Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. Peer Support Providers of all types will discuss many recovery-oriented topics.

To register and view the agenda, click here.

Peer Support Trainings
July-September

Alaska Behavioral Health’s Introductory peer support training class is being offered several times over the summer and fall:

July 16 to August 13, Saturdays 9:00-6:00pm
August 29 to September 2, M-F 9:00-6:00pm
September 20 to October 20, T/W/TH 6:00-9:00pm

For more information and to apply, click here.

_{Alaska Office of Substance Misuse & Addiction Prevention}

_{Recover Alaska}

_{Alaska's Tobacco Quit Line}

_{Never Use Alone}

^{Alcoholics Anonymous Alaska Statewide Meetings}

_{Narcotics Anonymous Zoom Meetings}

_RADACT

_{Project ECHO}

_{UW Medicine Pain and Opioid Consult Hotline for Providers}

_{Treatment Connection - Find a Provider}

^{Find a Buprenorphine Provider}

Justice Involved

Anchorage Reentry Coalition Case Management

The Anchorage Reentry Coalition works to improve reentry outcomes for citizens returning from incarceration and public safety for communities, and does so through engagement, education, advocacy, and collaboration. The Reentry Case Manager assists those returning with access to housing, employment, treatment, education, training, faith-based, tribal, and peer support.

For more information and to learn more about the coalition, click here.

Mat-Su Reentry Coalition Reentry Resources

The Mat-Su Reentry Coalition promotes public safety by identifying and implementing strategies that increase the well-being of formerly-incarcerated individuals within the community and reduce the likelihood of their recidivating. Besides offering reentry case management for Mat-Su Valley residents, the coalition provides an online directory of reentry-related services, including housing, medical care, substance abuse treatment, support groups, court-mandated programs, and transportation. To access this directory, click here.

To learn more about the coalition, click here.

Juneau Reentry Coalition Behavioral Health Resources Directory

The Juneau Reentry Coalition (JREC) is a collaboration of individuals, community advocates, businesses, non-profits, tribal, faith-based, and public agencies who support success for justice involved Alaskans, at all phases of their justice involvement—pretrial, incarceration, reentry, and reintegration. The JREC Behavioral Health Resource Directory offers a searchable database for identifying Juneau programs and services that specifically serve justice-involved Alaskans in Juneau. To access the Juneau Behavioral Health Resources Directory, click here.

To learn more about the Juneau Reentry Coalition, click here.

Ketchikan Reentry Coalition Case Management

The Ketchikan Reentry Coalition offers people returning to Ketchikan after incarceration support in five focus areas: housing, employment and meaningful engagement, healthcare, cultural and community connection, and transportation. Coalition staff help with reentry navigation, care coordination, training and development, networking, and peer support.

Thursdays from 5:00-6:00pm at Pilothouse Coffee, the coalition hosts Reentry Coffee Hour for Alaskans returning to the community after incarceration a chance to get together with other reentrants to talk about their experience, network, and support each other over free coffee and treats. For more information, click here.

To learn more about the coalition, click here.

_{Department of Corrections}

^{Alaska Reentry Partnership}

_{Supporting Our Loved Ones Group}

_{Partners for Progress}

_{Alaska Native Justice Center}

_{GAINS Center}

Suicide Prevention & Postvention

Alaska Suicide Prevention Conference
June 9, 9:00am-2:15pm AKDT

The Alaska Division of Behavioral Health is offering this conference to highlight best practices in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. The keynote on June 9, will be about adolescent suicide trends in Alaska with breakout sessions from NAMI, Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), screening, and 988 and crisis call center services for young adults.

To view the full agenda and zoom link, click here (link only works off the State of Alaska network)

Out of the Darkness - Fairbanks Walk
June 4, 11:00-11:45am AKDT

To learn more click here.

Talk Saves Lives: A Brief Introduction to Suicide Prevention
June 24, 12:00pm AKDT

This presentation will be hosted over Zoom. It is community-based and covers the general scope of suicide, the research on prevention, and what people can do to fight suicide. Participants will learn common risk factors and warning signs associated with suicide, and how to keep themselves and others safe.

To learn more click here.

_{Alaska Careline}
_{For someone to talk to, call anytime:}
_{1-877-266-4357 (HELP) or text 4help to 839863}
_{3-11 p.m. Tue-Sat}

_{American Foundation for Suicide Prevention}

_{National Suicide Prevention Lifeline}

_{Suicide Prevention Resource Center}

_{PC CARES}

^{Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research on Resilience}

Neurobehavioral

Friendships and Dating Classes in Fairbanks
June 6 – August 10, Mondays & Wednesdays, (1-2:30pm AKDT)

This class, sponsored by Stone Soup Group, teaches teens and adults, 16-26 years old with intellectual and related developmental disabilities, and youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) how to develop and maintain health relationships. This 10-week hybrid Zoom and in-person (Fairbanks) course meets twice per week beginning in June.

For more information click here.

UAA Train-the-Trainers for Friendships and Dating Program

The UAA Center for Human Development offers a train the trainer program, offering community agency personnel skills in facilitating Friendships and Dating groups of teens in their communities.

For more information, click here.

_{Alaska Office of Substance Misuse & Addiction Prevention - FASD}

_{Alaska Center for Children and Adults - Thursday FASD Support and Discussion Group}

_{Families Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FAFASD)}

^{FASD United}

_{Red Shoes Rock: Awareness Campaign}

^{Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury (TABI) Program}

^{Brain Injury Association of Alaska}

Other Resources/Opportunities

If you know of a great resource or opportunity, send us an email and we'll try our best to include it here or in a section above.

Request for Information: Medicaid Billing and Clinical Documentation Information Management System
Responses due by June 22, 2:00pm AKDT

The Alaska Division of Behavioral Health is seeking letters of interest from qualified parties capable and interested in providing a comprehensive behavioral health Medicaid billing and clinical documentation information management system (subsequently referred to as the “behavioral health information management system”).

To view the public notice, click here.

Request for Proposals: Psychotropic Medication Oversight and Monitoring Case Review for Children in State Custody or on Medicaid
Proposals due by September 2

The Alaska Division of Health Care Services is requesting proposals from eligible applicants to provide independent third-party expert case review to ensure that high value pediatric psychiatry and psychopharmacology care is provided to children enrolled in Alaska Medicaid, particularly children in state custody.

To review the public notice and full solicitation, click here.

_{Rural Health Information Hub}

^{Visit Us:}

^{Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse}

^{Alaska Mental Health Board}

^{Statewide Suicide Prevention Council}

_{431 N. Franklin Street, Suite 203 | Juneau, Alaska 99801}

Questions? Comments?

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