We are excited to celebrate Marcie D. Gray with USARA (Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness)! 🎉

Marcie recently presented at AMERSAs 49th Annual Conference, sharing on rural peer networks! We're grateful to have Marcie and USARA in the CONNECT community!

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Grateful to our CONNECT members & @parcka.bsky.social advancing care transitions for people affected by substance use.

Hear Laura and Natasha on EP64 of Let’s Talk About Drugs! Both sharing lessons from the CONNECT Project on bridging hospital discharge to follow up & community support.

🎧 New episode of Let’s Talk About Drugs in the Intermountain West! #LTAD

We explore the @theconnectproject.bsky.social with Laura Stolebarger, BSN, & Natasha England—supporting care transitions for patients with substance use disorders.

💙 Compassionate care starts with #connection.

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🎧 Looking for something to listen to today?

Check out this episode of the On Research Podcast all about community engagement in research — what it means, why it matters, and how we can do it better.

👉 On Research Podcast – about.citiprogram.org/blog/on-rese...

Ever wonder what Community Engaged Research is?

Check out this short read

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#CONNECTProject #CommunityResearch #CareTransitions

We're proud to share the official website for the CONNECT Project!

🔎Our collaborative effort focused on improving care transitions for people affected by substance use through community-engaged research.

📍 Visit the site here: medicine.utah.edu/internal-med...

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We’re thrilled to share that our work has been published in the Substance Use & Addiction Journal!

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We’re grateful to the community members, partners, and collaborators who are shaping this work with us!

How do we design innovative & effective programs to improve linkage to follow-up medical care and addiction treatment after a hospitalization or ER visit?

We start by listening to those who know best—patients, nurses, frontline providers, and community advocates. These are core voices of CONNECT.

Big changes are coming to Medicaid and could reshape access

hsph.harvard.edu/news/how-med...

💡How might these changes impact people in care transitions or communities we all work with?

📣We’d love to hear your thoughts!

#CONNECTProject #CommunityVoices

Did you know that 1 in 4 people with opioid use disorder experienced a medical hospitalization within the past year?

These are often missed chances to connect people to care.

CONNECT is committed to a person-centered and effective way to improve linkage to treatment after a hospital or ER visit.

CONNECT (Community Network to Navigate and Enhance Care Transitions) is excited to kick off our project on improving care transitions for people with substance use problems.

Follow us here for updates and ways to get involved!

#CONNECTProject #CommunityEngagedResearch #SubstanceUseCare