Substance Use Disorder Prevention and early intervention
Purpose: This ECHO is focused on substance use prevention and early intervention systems in school contexts. Prevention work is complex, interprofessional, and requires strong partnerships. Sessions will exemplify successful models, empower teams to vision together, and assist champions to advance their own prevention efforts.
Audience: School counselors, teachers, coaches, athletic directors, school-based health professionals, school administrators, youth services officers, youth behavioral health professionals, youth peer support, public health professionals, juvenile justice professionals
Sample topics: Evidence-Based Early Intervention'; Universal and Culturally Specific Screening; School-Community Prevention Partnerships; Youth Peer Support Models; Family-Integrated Screening and Early Intervention;Collaboration and Leveraging Cross-Sector Funding rities, stigma, and structural factors affecting addiction care; Use of long-acting injectable buprenorphine; Harm reduction principles; How to address co-occurring mental health disorders; Pregnant patients and SUD; Palliative care and SUD
Schedule: Alternating Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Pacific time, January 22 - June 25, 2026.
Faculty:
Rae Wright, MD, Family Medicine, Addiction Medicine Specialist
Jenny Cary, LCSW, Mental and Behavioral Health Coordinator, Hillsboro School District
Mike McCart, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC)
Ashley Silver, CADC-I, QMHA, Specialized Behavioral Health Support Specialist, La Clinica School Based Health Center
