Appalachian Recovery Concepts, LLC

Appalachian Recovery Concepts, LLC Appalachian Recovery Concepts is a single member LLC, owned and operated by Stephanie Hutter-Thomas, PhD, CPH, RPS, CHW.

Appalachian Recovery Concepts strives to provide low-barrier, cost-free professional development training and supervision for peer support specialists of all experience levels. Dr. Hutter-Thomas is the Research Program Director for the Buprenorphine Implementation Research & Community Health (BIRCH) project through West Virginia University School of Medicine. The BIRCH study aims to increase integrated medical care services in FQHC/PCC settings for PWUD in West Virginia. She also serves as educator for the Maryland Rural Opioid Technical Assistance (MarylandROTA) program, University of Maryland Extension, providing community education on the overdose crisis, mental health, stigma, and harm reduction. In 2021, Dr. Hutter-Thomas formed Appalachian Recovery Concepts, L.L.C. for the purpose of providing ongoing consulting and education to Maryland programs as an independent contractor. Prior to her current roles, she served as Research Program Coordinator for the BeSuRe West pilot project by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, organizing data collection efforts to examine socio-behavioral determinants of HIV, HCV, and overdose risk among people who inject drugs in Western Maryland. She went on to serve as a project researcher in Western Maryland for the Statewide Ethnographic Assessment of Drug Use and Services study known as SEADS, characterizing the lived experience of people who use drugs in Maryland. As a seasoned Mental Health First Aid instructor, she has provided over 65 workshops, certifying more than 500 Mental Health First Aiders in Maryland. Dr. Hutter-Thomas is a strong advocate for peer support and remains an active contributor to Appalachian community efforts through her affiliation with the Healing Allegany Consortium of Allegany County and the Stand Together Against Drug Abuse consortium of Garrett County. Dr. Hutter-Thomas is a member of the Frostburg State University Institutional Review Board, the Allegany County Mental Health Advisory Board, the Maryland Coalition of Families Board of Directors, the Allegany Arts Council Board of Directors, the Maryland Area Health Education Center (AHEC, West) Board of Directors, the Archway Station Board of Directors, and the Office of Consumer Advocates Board of Directors.

07/04/2024

RELEASE: The Maryland Department of Health announced its partnership with the Maryland Coalition of Families - MCF to develop recommendations and a public-facing roadmap that offers a vision for change for the state’s public behavioral health system. Learn more: bit.ly/3VS6PFK

07/01/2024
06/24/2024

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The first US clinical guidelines to diagnose and treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults are exp...
04/12/2024

The first US clinical guidelines to diagnose and treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults are expected to be released this fall, providing patients, clinicians, insurers, and policymakers with a long overdue and much-needed standardized framework.

The initiative comes under the auspices of the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD). David Goodman, MD, a member of the APSARD guidelines executive committee and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, noted that the US lags behind several other nations, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand who already have guidelines in place.

The first US clinical guidelines for adult ADHD are expected to be released this fall, providing a long-overdue, much-needed, standardized framework.

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