Our Nations Our Journeys

The opioid epidemic is an on-going public health crisis in AI/AN communities across reservations and urban areas. This workshop will present four promising practices and a care coordination framework that was developed based on key informant interviews, a literature review, lessons learned from technical assistance with tribes, and guidance from the national Opioid Technical Advisory Group. The result of intersecting and cumulative impacts of social and health inequities, the opioid epidemic requires an approach grounded in Indigenous social determinants of health and guided by evidence-based strategies. Tribes have been at the forefront of developing and evaluating innovative, strengths-based, and culturally-responsive promising strategies using an Indigenous worldview. The goal of this workshop with reflective activities will leave you with an understanding of what these promising strength-based practices are and how they can be integrated into your own setting in order to strengthen prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts for opioid use disorder in your community.

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