Featured Courses
Leading and Facilitating High Performing Teams in Behavioral Health Settings: Module 1 – The Basics
Leading and Facilitating High Performing Teams in Behavioral Health Settings is a five-module course designed to provide you with a set of tools and practices that will enhance your leadership and facilitation effectiveness within various behavioral health settings. In these settings, behavioral health providers may be part of one or more routine or ad hoc work-place clinical teams or committees (discharge committee; high utilizer committee) and organizational work-place meetings (shift change, staff meetings). In today’s post-COVID world, many organizational teams operate both virtually and in-person. This course focuses on the development of practice competencies for facilitating and leading a variety of meeting formats, activities, and processes to support the deliberative and inclusive actions of organizational teams. These competencies focus on activities for: conducting efficient and effective meetings, developing team comrade and trust, generating information, generating and evaluating ideas, making decisions, and developing action plans.
Buprenorphine Starts for Patients Using Fentanyl
The dramatic increase in opioid overdose deaths across the nation, tied to stimulant and fentanyl use, highlights the need for rapid expansion of access to intervention services in a variety of healthcare and community health settings across the state. This session is part of a larger series of Clinical Quick Tips that UCLA ISAP has prepared for providers working in Primary Care and Community Health settings to help them better understand: patterns of use and risk of stimulants and fentanyl; tools for identifying use among patients; approaches for engaging and supporting patients to help reduce harmful consequences of use; linkages and pathways to specialty care when desired; and medication supports for patients with co-occurring mental health issues.
This brief video highlights the value of using buprenorphine with patients who intentionally or unintentionally use fentanyl, addresses guidance for inducting patients on buprenorphine in hospital, clinic, and home settings, and provides resources to support new prescribers.
About our Center
The Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Pacific Southwest ATTC, HHS Region 9), which covers Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau, is designed to enhance knowledge and expertise in substance use disorder treatment and recovery by disseminating clinical and research information. We also develop, revise, and distribute curricula based on research products and form partnerships with local and regional stakeholders to ensure that the training needs of the region are identified and met.
Self-Paced Learning
About Our Courses
Welcome to the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs’ curated catalog of on-demand learning opportunities. This enduring course catalog features a variety of self-paced learning opportunities that have been developed by the UCLA ISAP Training Department, Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and other training/technical assistance organizations located across the United States. The catalog is organized in alphabetical order by key topic area. Special thanks to the California Department of Health Care Services, County of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for providing funding to support the development of many of the courses contained within this Catalog.
Complimentary Continuing Education (CE) credit and/or Continuing Medical Education (CME) is available from UCLA ISAP for many of the courses featured throughout this Catalog. Please be sure to review the course description(s) to determine which types of CE/CME credit are available prior to enrolling in and completing the course(s).
The Catalog features several free on-demand learning opportunities from the CA Bridge Academy, as well as on-demand learning opportunities available through HealtheKnowledge, managed by The Collaborative to Advance Health Services at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies. HealtheKnowledge offers a wide variety of courses in the areas of improving health and healthcare services. Each high-quality HealtheKnowledge course offers a free Certificate of Completion for you to keep once you have passed the course requirements. Continuing Education (CE) credit is available for most of the courses for $5 per credit hour. The courses provided on this site cover a variety of health-related topics relevant for today’s healthcare provider.
For questions, please contact Beth Rutkowski (brutkowski@mednet.ucla.edu). We hope you find what you’re looking for to further expand your knowledge of evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and recovery approaches. To search the course catalog, type Ctrl+F and enter a keyword into the search bar. Happy browsing!