Integrating Peer Services Across the Continuum of Care

Jenna Neasbitt has been a Science Writer/Editor III with the Health Action Impact Center at JBS International for almost two years. Jenna’s work at JBS focuses on SAMHSA’s Knowledge Application Program, publishing evidence-based products including the OTP Federal Guidelines, Treatment Improvement Protocol for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, the Treatment Application Program’s Contingency Management Advisory, and Expanding Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: The Role of Pharmacists and the Settings in Which They Work. Jenna has focused her work on system transformation for people who use opioids and other substances. Previous roles include Recovery Consultant at the Center for Social Innovation as well as Opioid Response Network, creating and instructing the MOUD curriculum for state-funded treatment and recovery programs at UT Austin’s Addiction Research Institute, as Adjunct Instructor for the National Recovery Institute with Faces and Voices of Recovery, and as an independent contractor providing training and technical assistance on numerous topics. Jenna has also been a clinician in the treatment field, worked for the single state authority at Texas HHSC and wrote the state’s initial funding application for State’s Targeted Response funding in 2017. Jenna received a Master of Science in Psychology with a focus on Industrial and Organizational systems and has worked across the behavioral health continuum in clinical, volunteer, and advisory capacities. Jenna’s experience includes counseling, accreditation reviews, evaluation, grant-writing and administration, and policy work within the state funded, non-profit, and private behavioral health domains. Jenna is also a person with SUD lived experience, a principal founder and current consultant for Good MOUD Institute, which provides patient education and training for MOUD.

 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter does not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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