NLBHA

Our mission is to is to influence behavioral health policy, eliminate disparities in funding and access to services, and improve the quality of services.

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Come join us for two Iconic Music Tributes in ONE SUPER show! Honoring SELENA and VICENTE FERNANDEZ! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month and support our charity event to raise scholarships for Latino students!
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@PBG19 @ABHWorg @NationalCouncil @ShatterproofHQ @kennedyforum @NatlAssnAttysGn @EndSUDNow @pewhealth Thanks for a super chat today #MATAct @NLBHAORG

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@ABHWorg Thank you for hosting this important #MATAct chat and to bring experts to the table including https://t.co/1oz7rQnDXN

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@ABHWorg https://t.co/r3LUXJV5su This is an excellent opportunity to learn about how to effectively serve the Latino community. Sept. 16-17 #MATAct

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@ABHWorg An important resource regarding Latinos #MATAct The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic/Latino Population: An Urgent Issue
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@ABHWorg https://t.co/r3LUXJV5su This is an excellent opportunity to learn about how to effectively serve the Latino community. Sept. 16-17 #MATAct

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The upcoming National Latino Behavioral Health conference on Sept. 16-17th is a great opportunity to learn about how to more effectively serve the Latino community. #MATAct

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@ABHWorg Telemedicine is vital to rural, border, frontier and tribal areas of the country and ensuring the using of interpreters for organization serving particularly Latino, First Nations and AAPI communities. #MATAct

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@ABHWorg In states with prescribing Psychologists #MATAct can help increase capacity to serve more individuals seeking treatment.

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@ABHWorg In states with prescribing Psychologists, the opportunity to increase treatment opportunities can increase particularly in HPSA and MUAs. In New Mexico, e.g., 32 our of 33 counties are HPSA and MUA. #MATAct

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@ABHWorg For the Latino community it is vital to have educational and informational programming in Spanish and English. Using highly proficient and fluent Spanish speakers using health literacy content including MAT for substance abuse disorders.
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@ABHWorg NLBHA provides Promotores de Bienestar (Promoters of Wellbeing) to Latino families, parents, elders, lay persons, and community members on the opioids and how to prevent and treat this condition. MATAct#

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@ABHWorg Access to treatment is uneven with particular obstacles for Hispanics and other minority groups thus preventing and achieving health equity. #MATAct

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@ABHWorg #MATAct Latino rates of misuse and overdose rates have been historically high and removing barriers to treatment will be beneficial to serving more Latinos.

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@ABHWorg Removing barriers for practitioners can reduce administrative burden, increase direct services to patients and increase # of practitioners providing services.

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@ABHWorg Increasing access to substance abuse treatment for Latinos is vital to achieving behavioral health equity in the U.S.

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@ABHWorg The National Latino Behavioral Health Association. to the Latino community. We are a national voice on eliminating behavioral health disparities affecting Latinos in access to treatment and developing culturally appropriate services for Latinos.

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@ABHWorg This legislation removes the requirement for health care practitioners to apply for a separate waiver through DEA. Also allows community health practitioners to dispense certain narcotic drugs prescribed by health care practitioners.

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@ABHWorg National Latino Behavioral Health Association. A national voice on Latino behavioral health whose mission is to reduce the great Latino behavioral health disparities in access to treatment, funding and workforce.

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@ADAWnews @ABHWorg @ShatterproofHQ @NationalCouncil Ready to go.

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@ADAWnews @ABHWorg @ShatterproofHQ @NationalCouncil Looking forward to today's chat.