Substance Use Workforce Training Needs during Intersecting Epidemics: An Analysis of Events Offered by a Regional Training Center from 2017-2020.

ABSTRACT: Background: Intersecting opioid overdose, COVID-19, and systemic racism epidemics havebrought unprecedented challenges to the addiction treatment and recovery workforce. From 2017-2020, the New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) collected data in real-time on the training and technical assistance (TA) requested and attended by the front-line workforce. This article synthesizes practice-based evidence on the types of TA requests, topics of TA, attendance numbers, and socio-demographics of TA attendees over a 3-year period spanning an unprecedented public health syndemic. Methods: We assessed TA events hosted by the New England ATTC using SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability and Reporting System post-event survey data from 2017-2020. Events were coded by commo

SUBMITTER: Scott K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8509100 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature