SAMHSA: Opportunities to enhance SUD peer force

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March 8, 2024

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This message is sent on behalf of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Financing opportunity for peer support

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is releasing a new report, Financing Peer Recovery Support: Opportunities to Enhance the Substance Use Disorder Peer Workforce, and hosting a webinar to discuss findings with experts from the field on peer recovery support services (PRSS) and the important role the financing of these services plays in substance use disorder (SUD) recovery process.

Financing Peer Recovery Support: Opportunities to Enhance the Substance Use Disorder Peer Workforce

Examining the Use of Braided Funding for SUD Services

Webinar: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 10 a.m.

The report and webinar will discuss, explore, and summarize the financing, utilization, and regulatory structures of providing PRSS for SUD within federal grant programs and state Medicaid programs. Based on analyses and input from an expert panel of behavioral health peer services experts, the report identifies challenges and opportunities to finance and strengthen the PRSS workforce.

Featured Presenters:

Shoma Ghose, associate vice president, Westat – Welcome and introduction of panelists
Tom Coderre, principal deputy assistant secretary, SAMHSA – Opening and closing remarks
Greg Williams, president, Third Horizon Strategies – Report overview/panel moderator
Elizabeth Burden, senior advisor, National Council for Mental Wellbeing – Panelist
Sierra Castedo de Martell, research fellow, Justice-Involved and Emerging Adult Populations Initiative (JEAP) and Chestnut Health Systems’^TM Lighthouse Institute – Panelist
Kristen Harper, public health advisor, Office of Recovery, SAMHSA – Panelist

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About SAMHSA and Peer Recovery Support

SAMHSA's Peer Recovery Center for Excellence is a resource to individuals, organizations, and systems working to advance the successful implementation of the peer support model of recovery in an array of settings. This is one of many resources available to providers through SAMHSA's provider training portals.

Learn more about SAMHSA

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Functioning as both the state's largest health care purchaser and its behavioral health authority, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is a leader in ensuring Washington residents have the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

There are three pillars of our work: Apple Health (Medicaid); the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) and School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) programs; and behavioral health and recovery. Under these pillars, HCA purchases health care, including behavioral health treatment for more than 2.7 million Washington residents and provides behavioral health prevention, crisis, and recovery supports to all Washington residents.

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