This page lists Dartmouth Health events that are related to substance use and mental health from the past few years.
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2024
Spring 2024 DH Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative (SUMHI) Action Update
Please join us for SUMHI Action Update May 20, 5 to 6:30 pm on Zoom. The Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative (SUMHI) serves as a networking forum for people involved in clinical transformation initiatives aimed at improving care of patients with mental health and/or substance use issues. Come learn about new initiatives and hear updates on familiar ones. There will be an opportunity to share brief news on your own work.
2023
Interprofessional Grand Rounds - One Pill Can Kill: Updates From the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Friday, June 30, 2023, 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Auditorium H, Lebanon, New Hampshire
- Credits: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.50 hours)
- CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.50 hours)
- ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (1.50 hours)
Join us as we discuss new knowledge presented by experts from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration:
- The recent increase in opioid use and the health crisis that has resulted in growing fatalities.
- Related crime statistics are staggering.
- Substance use disorder is on the rise.
- Physicians and nurses in all clinical settings are seeing the effects of overdoses.
- EMS personnel and police are equally challenged to respond appropriately to this growing epidemic.
Free screenings of "The Wisdom of Trauma" documentary film
June 20, 6 pm, Lebanon School District Admin Building
June 21, 6 pm, Claremont Opera House
Dartmouth Health and area organizations hosted 2 free screenings of "The Wisdom of Trauma" documentary film, featuring Dr. Gabor Mate. The film was followed by a panel Q&A/discussion with local mental health, substance use, and peer support experts.
2023 NNEPQIN, Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network, Spring Conference.
Thursday, June 8, 8:45 am to 4 pm, Livestream event
We addressed our most pressing clinical challenges:
- Strategies to screen and intervene for mental health and postpartum depression
- Management of profound cardiac decompression during labor and delivery
- Updates on fetal echocardiography, TOLAC counseling and Post-Arrive Trial outcomes
In addition, we explored how to optimize transfers from planned home to hospital births; improve our trauma-informed care and gain insight from our Perinatal Community Advisory Council Members.
SUMHI Action Update
May 1, 2023
4 to 5:30 pm
Presentations include:
- Suicide prevention activities at Dartmouth Health
Angie Raymond Leduc - Integration of clinical and community strategies to address pediatric mental health
Julie Balaban - Overview of evolving Dartmouth Health initiatives supporting employee mental health, and introduction of the team
Nikki Crean, RN and Kayla Behbahani, DO
Connect Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Virtual Full Training
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
9 am to 4 pm via Zoom
This is a best practice program seeking evidence-based recognition, developed by NAMI NH and is in compliance with New Hampshire's SB 202 Suicide Prevention Education Requirement for K-12 schools.
Participants will:
- Recognize their role as a gatekeeper; and learn to recognize risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs for suicide in persons at risk.
- Gain an increased comfort level in knowing how to connect with a person at risk.
- Have an increased awareness of how to connect a suicidal individual with resources.
Participants must be:
- age 18 or older
- Interested in this topic at a personal or professional level
- Passionate about helping others at risk for suicide
Registration
Register via our registration form, or email Angie Leduc at Angie.M.Leduc@hitchcock.org.
Enrollment is limited to the first 35 people. A Zoom link for the meeting will be sent in an email post registration.
Universal Precautions for Opioid Prescribing and Buprenorphine as a first-line consideration for Pain Management and Opioid Use Disorder
Monday, March 20, 2023
7:30 am to 12:15 pm
Virtual and in-person at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Auditoria C and D, Lebanon, NH
In this seminar, advanced practice providers and physicians will acquire knowledge and skills about universal precautions in opioid prescribing in any clinical setting. We will also address the use of buprenorphine for pain management and opioid use disorder.
Credits: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (4.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (4.00 hours).
Psychiatry Grand Rounds 2023 - Substance Use and Schizophrenia: Cracking the Chicken-or-Egg Question, Jibran Khokhar, PhD, BSc
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
8 to 9 am
Location varies at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Credits: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.75 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (6.75 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (6.75 hours)
NNEPQIN Winter Conference
Thursday, February 9, 2023
8:45 am to 4:30 pm, Webinar
We welcomed 2023 with the latest topics addressing our clinical challenges: simulation to identify perinatal safety threats; optimizing strategies to screen and intervene for SUD and mental health concerns; transfers from planned home to hospital births; updates on COVID and neonatal hydronephrosis; and sustainable ways to address staffing issues. We have something for your entire continuum of care team, from prenatal care through labor and delivery and maternal and neonatal follow-up. Multidisciplinary teams participated.
Credits: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.75 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (6.75 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (6.75 hours)
2022
Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity
November 7, 2022
Inaugural gathering in Fairlee, VT. Learn more.
Keeping Students Safe: ECHO Cohort 2 (Virtual)
October 18 through December 13, 2022
3:30 to 4:30 pm
ECHO - Effective Strategies for Supervising Mental Health Peer Specialists
September 28, 2022, through April 12, 2023
The Impact of Opioid Use & Opioid Poisoning on the Brain
September 15, 2022
8:30 am to 4 pm
This six-hour training provided an overview of how opioid use changes the brain and affects behavior and brain injury resulting from opioid poisoning.
Celebration of six years of SUMHI (Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative)
May 25, 2022
4 to 5:30 pm
Connect Suicide Prevention for Educators
May 19, 2022
3:30 to 5:30 pm
Audience: Restricted to educators
Limited to the first 30 people
This FREE 2-hour virtual training was for educators to learn how to recognize their role as gatekeepers and risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs for suicide in at-risk persons. This training helped participants gain comfort in knowing how to connect with a person at risk and how to connect them with available resources.
Peer-assisted Recovery Training - Suicide Prevention
April 5, 2022
8:30 am to 4 pm
Danielle Mackey was the contact for registration and questions at danielle.n.mackey@hitchcock.org.
Peer-assisted Recovery Training - HIV/AIDS/HCV Prevention
March 29, 2022
8:30 am to 4 pm, via Zoom
No cost to participants
Danielle Mackey was the contact for registration and information at danielle.n.mackey@hitchcock.org.
Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches
March 22 and 23, 2022
9 am to 6 pm, via Zoom
No cost to participants
Attendees must have completed 30 hours of Recovery Coach Training. Attendees could register or ask questions by contacting Danielle Mackey at danielle.n.mackey@hitchcock.org.
Recovery Coach Academy
March 7-11, 2022
9 am to 4:30 pm, via Zoom
No cost to participants
Recovery coaches promote recovery by removing barriers and obstacles to recovery and serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recovery.
If you would like to register or have questions, please contact Danielle Mackey at danielle.n.mackey@hitchcock.org.
NNEPQIN Winter Virtual Conference
February 10, 2022
The latest topics addressing our clinical challenges in 2022 was discussed:
- The impact of COVID among NNEPQIN Hospitals
- Periviability and shared decision making
- Pelvic shape and effects on fetal presentation
- Cooling for mild HIE
- Hepatitis C in pregnancy and infant follow-up and strategies to improve outcomes for women with opioid use disorders and their infants
They provided something for the entire continuum of care team from prenatal care to labor and delivery, neonatal stabilization, discharge, and follow-up.