The Systems and Sustainability ECHO, which ran from May 2022 – April 2025, explored large-scale, systems-level opportunities for implementing and sustaining substance use-related services, such as screening, referral, or treatment. Designed for an audience of healthcare and behavioral health leaders, this ECHO covered a wide range of topics, including financial models, leadership skills, implementation strategies, workforce development, equitable access to care, integrated care, continuums of care, and sustainability. This series provided learners with free continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe common barriers and facilitators to systems-level substance use disorder screening or treatment implementation efforts.
2. Compare and contrast evidence-based strategies for addressing systems-level challenges in employing substance use-related interventions.
3. Identify strategies for sustainability of evidence-based substance use disorders or risky substance use treatment services.
4. Analyze sustainability or systems-level challenges through the discussion of real-world case scenarios within teleECHO clinics.
5. Adopt implementation strategies presented in the Systems and Sustainability ECHO program and obtain ongoing feedback and recommendations on your approach from the ECHO learning community.

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