AGENCY TESTIMONY
Addiction Service Workforce Training Program
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Dr. Schatz outlines the Addiction Service Workforce Training Program, a novel system-wide substance use curriculum for NYC Health + Hospitals' behavioral health workforce. The program is supported by $2,400,000 in opioid settlement funds and aims to achieve systemic culture change in addiction treatment.
- The program aims to reach at least 3,000 staff members, including peers, social workers, nursing, and pride staff
- Training focuses on stigma reduction, harm reduction, effective communication, and treatment modalities
- The program includes support for addiction fellowships and interactive training using simulated patients
- Implementation began in fiscal year 2024, with execution continuing in fiscal year 2025
Dr. Daniel Schatz
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New York City Health and Hospital's Office of Behavioral Health is developing a novel system wide substance use curriculum for our behavioral health workforce called the Addiction Service Workforce Training Program.
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The training is supported by $2,400,000 in opioid settlement funds.
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Upon full implementation, the program aims to reach at least 3,000 New York City Health and Hospital peers, social workers, nursing, and pride staff in order to, 1, achieve the systemic, culture change in the treatment of individuals living with addiction, and 2, facilitate appropriate addiction medical treatment and care management.
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The training initiatives will prepare our workforce to, to address substance use disorder by focusing on stigma and harm reduction, effective communication and referral strategies, and building expertise in treatment modalities.
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The program also includes support, supporting addiction fellowships at New York City Health and Hospital Facilities and an interactive training using live actors as simulated patients with opioid use disorder to provide emergency medicine physicians an opportunity to advance their treatment of opioid use disorder in the health and hospital's 11 emergency departments.
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Planning took place in the fiscal year of 2023 and implementation began in the fiscal year 2024, and execution in fiscal year 25 remains underway.