Description
September 3, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM CONNECT Outreach Van: Mobile Psychiatry and Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People Experiencing Homelessness
Description:
Learning Objectives:
- Appreciate the unique needs of unhoused patients living with psychiatric and substance use disorders.
- Identify common barriers to accessing comprehensive psychiatric care and harm reduction services, especially among people living in extreme poverty.
- Understand the benefits of developing mobile outreach programs as extensions of brick-and-mortar sites.
- Recognize relationships between community needs, program mission, and design/structure of mobile health services.
Presenter: Malia Haddock, MS, PMHNP
Malia Haddock has over two decades of frontline experience caring for people in underserved communities. She created and led Homeless HealthPartners at Maine Medical Center and was on the founding team of the MaineHealth Preble Street Learning Collaborative. She is currently the clinical director of CONNECT, Maine’s first mobile psychiatry and substance use disorder treatment program that provides low-barrier care to people experiencing homelessness in Greater Portland. Malia is a faculty member of the Tufts University School of Medicine, and she holds a BA in Literature, Science and the Arts from the University of Michigan and an MS in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from the University of Southern Maine.
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
