• Event Description

  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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• Agenda

  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!

Registration is required. Hotel rooms will be available to book at a discounted rate for attendees.