A conference focused on breaking down silos and promoting the use of frontline health workers (such as Community Health Workers) to improve community health and chronic disease management! Impact will have breakout sessions focused on developing skills as well as administration of CHWs in an organization. The second day will focus on promoting CHWs and …
Building Hope and Resiliency in Nevada’s next generation
Addressing prescription drug abuse and opioid addiction in Nevada’s safety net health centers: Understand the current availability of prescription drug abuse treatment at nevada’s community health centers (chcs), rural health and tribal clinics. Understand public resources available to support safe prescribing of opioids and overdose response. Provide practical tools that any chc or rural health …
03/08/2017 07:24 pm ET | Updated Mar 17, 2017 For every 100,000 people in the United States, 200 are addicted to heroin and counting. US News Statistics like these have led officials to call this trend a “heroin epidemic,” and for good reason. Heroin use in the U.S. increased 63 percent between 2002 and 2013, …