Join SAMHSA’s Webinar About the New Report Released on Financing Peer Recovery Support: Opportunities to Enhance the Substance Use Disorder Peer Workforce Examining the Use of Braided Funding for Substance Use Disorder Services Tuesday, March 26, 1 – 2 p.m. ET

https://westat.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_GAqKWYriSJGkw_CS31tKeg?utm_source=SAMHSA&utm_campaign=defda07d1e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_26_05_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-defda07d1e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D#/registration SAMHSA is releasing a new report, Financing Peer Recovery Support: Opportunities to Enhance the Substance Use Disorder Peer Workforce, along with a hosting a webinar to discuss findings with experts from the field on peer recovery support services (PRSS) and the important role the financing of these services plays in substance use disorder (SUD) recovery process. The report and webinar will discuss, explore, and summarize the financing, utilization, and regulatory structures of providing PRSS for SUD within federal grant programs and state Medicaid programs. Based on analyses and input from an expert panel of behavioral health peer services experts, the report identifies challenges and opportunities to finance and strengthen the PRSS workforce. The report and webinar provide an update on the present state of coverage and availability of these services as well as the financing mechanisms of the behavioral health care system, to identify opportunities, innovations, and challenges to service delivery and access. Featured Presenters: Shoma Ghose, Associate Vice President, Westat – Welcome and Introduction of Panelists Tom Coderre, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, SAMHSA – will provide opening and closing remarks Greg Williams, President, Third Horizon Strategies – Report Overview and Moderator Elizabeth Burden, Senior Advisor, National Council for Mental Wellbeing – Panelist Sierra Castedo de Martell, Research Fellow, Justice-Involved and Emerging Adult Populations Initiative (JEAP) and Chestnut Health Systems’TM Lighthouse Institute – Panelist Kristen Harper, Public Health Advisor, Office of Recovery, SAMHSA – Panelist