A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
BMC's SUD Care Continuum ECHO® takes place from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Cycle 6 will run from September 21, 2022 to February 15, 2023.
This is a drop-in training opportunity. Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Substance Use Disorder Care Continuum ECHO® (SUD Care Continuum ECHO®) offers training and support in addiction treatment, with a focus on supporting front line addiction treatment workforce. This includes health providers in Acute Treatment Services (ATS), Crisis Stabilization Services (CSS), Transitional Support Services (TSS), Opioid Treatment Programs (OTP), long-term residential program, sober and recovery homes, primary care, and psychiatry. This free, case-based tele-mentoring drop-in program is designed to increase the capacity of health care providers to implement high-quality and evidence-based addiction treatment.
The SUD Care Continuum ECHO® is an interdisciplinary learning community that encourages participation from all members of the team caring for patients with SUD. Participants learn from experts in the field of addiction as well as from one another. Free CME, CE, and CEU credits are available.
The ECHO® Model uses a simple videoconferencing platform (Zoom) to link participants across Massachusetts and the SUD Care Continuum ECHO® Hub Team at BMC. Care teams have the opportunity to learn from each other and to receive specialist input from the interdisciplinary Hub team. The foundation of the teleECHO® clinic is case-based learning, in which participants discuss real de-identified patient cases. Each SUD Care Continuum ECHO® session includes a brief didactic relevant to the treatment of patients with addiction. Subjects include:
For more information or to register, email the Grayken Center for Addiction TTA ECHO® team.
Project Director
Colleen LaBelle, MSN, RN-BC, CARN, Program Director, MA State Technical Assistance Treatment Expansion of Office Based Addition Treatment (STATE OBAT), Boston Medical Center
Medical Director
Emily E Hurstak, MD, MPH, MAS, SUD ECHO Medical Director
Recovery Coach
Latisha Goullaud, Lead Peer Recovery Coach/Peer Mom – Moms Do Care Grant, Sunflower Team – Lynn Community Health Center
Nurse Care Manager
Justin Alves, RN, MSN, ACRN, CARN, CNE, Clinical Nurse Care Educator, MA State Technical Assistance Treatment Expansion of Office Based Addiction Treatment (STATE OBAT), Boston Medical Center
Evaluation Team
Matthew Heerema, MS, Clinical Research Coordinator, Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance, Boston Medical Center
Alicia Ventura, MPH, Director of Special Projects and Research, Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance, Boston Medical Center
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.