The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic Latino Population: An Urgent Issue (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course examines national data and explores the impact of opioid misuse on the Hispanic Latino community. It includes a discussion of sociocultural factors, such as immigration issues, religion, stigma, and a lack of culturally responsive prevention and treatment. Strategies to address opioid misuse are given, including an overview of evidence-based treatment recommendations and medication-assisted treatment.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Readings: The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic Latino Population: An Urgent Issue/ SAMHSA; Medications for Opioid Overdose, Withdrawal, and Addiction/ NIDA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by exploring the opioid crisis and the Hispanic/ Latino population.
Learning Objectives: Describe recent data on the prevalence of opioid misuse in the US Hispanic/Latino population. Identify the key sociocultural factors associated with opioid misuse within the Hispanic/Latino population. Identify prevention, treatment, and recovery strategies.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 cultural competence continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic Latino Population: An Urgent Issue, Course #4593, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Free State Social Work, LLC as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 12/08/2022 - 12/08/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Cultural Competence continuing education credits.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.