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How to Initiate a Recovery Conversation
Opening a dialog with a person struggling with substance use can be challenging—but it’s less intimidating if you plan the conversation. Having a conversation with a loved one about their substance use can be one of the most difficult things you ever do. But it can...
Self-Care 101: Navigating Healthy Boundaries
Setting healthy boundaries is essential when you have a family member or friend with a substance use issue. No matter how tough things get, we all need to ensure we are healthy, well-balanced, and able to take care of our own needs. Learning to set healthy boundaries...
Self-Care 101: What is ‘Self-Care’?
Learn how self-care can help you face obstacles and live a healthy life. With all the difficulties the world has faced over the past few years, self-care is on our radars more than ever before. If you are a family member or friend of someone dealing with substance use...
Self-Care 101: Learn to Meditate
Mediation can help you stay calm during even the most difficult days. Meditation has become increasingly popular thanks to the many benefits it offers the mind and body when practiced on a regular basis. It is an incredible self-care tool to help you stay grounded and...
The Importance of Family Support During Recovery
Learn tips on how to support your loved one who uses. It’s often very challenging to show support to someone with a substance use issue. Substance use can seem to change your loved one in ways that confuse and upset you. You might not even know whether they are...
Communication Do’s and Don’ts
How to use positive communication to improve relationships. Communication is one of the most essential parts of any relationship. And the way in which you communicate with your loved ones can have a huge impact on your shared future. Below are some of our top tips for...
What to Do When Your Loved One is in a Substance Use Crisis
Prepare how to respond appropriately during a substance use crisis with these helpful tips. Family members of people using substances undoubtedly face many difficult situations in their lives. During a crisis, it’s critical that you know how to respond appropriately,...
The Link Between Substance Use Disorder and Trauma
Trauma and adverse events—experienced as either a child or adult—can contribute to substance use disorder.
Understanding the Mental Health Aspect of Addiction
Substance use disorder can be accompanied by other underlying mental health issues. Here’s how to support the whole person.
How to Maintain Your Compassion and Patience
Resilience, persistence, and support are necessities when helping those struggling with substance use disorder.
Peer Recovery Coaches in Hospital Emergency Departments: Changing Hearts and Minds About Addiction
Peer Recover Coaches in Hospital EDs: Changing Hearts and Minds About Addiction This report was developed by Friends Research Institute, Inc. and Innovations in Recovery through Infrastructure Support (IRIS)—a National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug...
Reverse the Cycle Webinar 4: “Decreasing Treatment Disparities for African Americans with OUD”
Mosaic Group is excited to present our latest initiative, the Reverse the Cycle Webinar Series, in collaboration with several esteemed partners. These webinars are part of our comprehensive "Reverse The Cycle" Substance Use Response Program, which aims to address the...
Reverse the Cycle Webinar 3: “Emergency Department Buprenorphine Induction in the Face of Fentanyl”
Mosaic Group is excited to present our latest initiative, the Reverse the Cycle Webinar Series, in collaboration with several esteemed partners. These webinars are part of our comprehensive "Reverse The Cycle" Substance Use Response Program, which aims to address the...
Reverse the Cycle Webinar 2: “Providing Care for ED Patients with Substance Use-Related Conditions: A Hospital’s Legal Obligation”
Mosaic Group is excited to present our latest initiative, the Reverse the Cycle Webinar Series, in collaboration with several esteemed partners. These webinars are part of our comprehensive "Reverse The Cycle" Substance Use Response Program, which aims to address the...
Reverse the Cycle Webinar 1: “Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD): Opportunities in 2023”
Mosaic Group is excited to present our latest initiative, the Reverse the Cycle Webinar Series, in collaboration with several esteemed partners. These webinars are part of our comprehensive "Reverse The Cycle" Substance Use Response Program, which aims to address the...
Download the Adolescent SBIRT Implementation Checklist
Mosaic Group's Adolescent SBIRT Checklist (ASC) is a tool designed to provide organizations with a set of critical steps that will help ensure that Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) becomes a sustainable, integrated part of routine care....
Changing Hearts and Minds about Addiction Using Peer Recovery Coaches
Mosaic Group partnered with Friends Research Institute, Inc. (FRI) and Innovators in Recovery through Infrastructure Support (IRIS) in the qualitative study "Peer Recovery Coaches in Hospital Emergency Departments: Changing Hearts and Minds about Addiction". The study...
Improving Adolescent Health: Facilitating Change for Excellence in SBIRT
Mosaic Group participated in the development of the "Improving Adolescent Health: Facilitating Change for Excellence in SBIRT" as part of the Facilitating Change for Excellence in SBIRT (FaCES) Practice Transformation Team. This tool was developed for the National...
“Identifying Substance Use Behavior in Schools” Presentation
Mosaic Group was pleased to be selected as a presenter at the 2020 Maryland Rural Health Conference with our partner, Wicomico County Health Department in Salisbury, Maryland. In this presentation, "Identifying Substance Use Behavior in Schools," we discuss how we...