ROOTS Symposium

Join Colorado ROOTS for a rural addiction care symposium, featuring:

• Expert-led presentations from addiction specialists

• Interactive breakout sessions

• Strategies to improve addiction care in your community

Open to hospital and clinic staff, hospital leadership, community treatment and recovery organizations, and Opioid Abatement Council Members.

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9-9:15am: Welcome

9:15-10am: 1st Keynote – Transforming Rural Addiction Care

10-10:15am: Storytelling #1– Lived Experience Spotlight  

10:15-11:15am: Breakout Session Activities (choose 2)

• Stigma & Bias in Practice

• Mapping Rural Care Pathways

• Medications for Addiction Treatment

• Integrating Addiction Care: The Business and Ethical Argument

11:15-12pm: Addiction Care 101

12-1pm : Lunch & Networking

1-4pm: Education by Track

• Hospital Leadership

  1. Rural State of the Nation: Risks and Practical Mitigation Strategies

  2. Addiction Care as a Financial Solution

  3. How to Engage your Staff and Communities

• Community/Advocate

  1. Navigating Medicaid Changes: Implications for Rural Care in Colorado

  2. Perspectives in Recovery: A Patient Panel

  3. Motivational Interviewing (same as Clinical Track)

• Clinical

  1. Addressing Stigma and Bias Through Therapeutic Reconciliation 

  2. MOUD/MAT Best Practices 

  3. Motivational Interviewing (same as Community/advocate Track)

3:45-4pm: Break

4-4:15pm: Storytelling #2–  Lived Experience Spotlight 

4:15-5pm: Closing Keynote : The Next Era of Addiction Medicine: Elevating Rural Clinical Excellence

Hear from top addiction specialists and healthcare leaders, including:

• Don Stader, MD, FASAM, FACEP

• Kevin Stansbury, MS, JD, FACHE

• Cristen Bates, MPH

• Josh Blum, MD

• Sean Buck, MD

• & more!