Opioid Impacted Family Support Specialist Certificate
Enhance and expand your knowledge, skills, and expertise to help fight the opioid and substance use crisis our country is facing.
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Through a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Concordia is providing education and training to professionals in Wisconsin and Michigan to treat individuals suffering from opioid abuse/addictions free of charge to the students. 100% of the tuition and a stipend will be given to those who are accepted into this certificate program.
Wisconsin and Michigan have significant populations experiencing substance use disorders (SUD), as there is a disconnection in treating these individuals in a meaningful manner that will help to move them toward discontinued use or overcoming their addictions. To address the needs, Concordia is providing education to those who express an interest in positively impacting the lives of individual’s suffering from the effects of opioid use disorder (OUD).
This program will enhance and expand paraprofessionals knowledge, skills, and expertise. It aims to increase the number of Care Coordinators and other behavioral health-related paraprofessionals who work on interprofessional teams to provide services to children whose parents are impacted by opioid use disorders (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD), and their family members in guardianship roles.
There's a special focus on demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the specific concerns for children, adolescents, and transitional aged youth in high need and high demand areas who are at risk for mental health disorders and SUDs.
Those who participate will:
- Demonstrate increased knowledge and capacity to help individuals and families with opioid use disorders (OUD) or substance use disorders (SUD)
- Receive full tuition for the online certificate program including modules, and coverage for the 3-credit, 8-week online course “Drugs, Society and Human Behavior” and a $5,000 living stipend
- Have the flexibility to work through self-paced online learning modules after the completion of the academic course (academic course is an online asynchronous course with readings and assignments due each week), followed by 12 weeks of online experiential learning
- Complete a pre and post-test to demonstrate knowledge gained
- Be eligible to continue on into a state-approved registered apprenticeship to expand their learning
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling 2.2 million over the course of 4 years with 100% funded by HRSA/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA/HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please see this website.
