The PAEA ORN 2 Clinical Sites Initiative uses multiple tools to engage PA educators preceptors and students about all facets of opioid use disorder OUD and substance use disorders SUD On July 12 Donna Murray DMSc MS PA C clinical training project outreach director for ORN 2 and PAEA senior director of admissions participated in an open and transparent conversation with Belinda Gillespie CPSS peer support specialist recovery coach and community health worker with the Mountain Area Health Education Center MAHEC in Asheville North Carolina July is National BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month so we asked Gillespie to offer her unique perspective as the only peer support of color in the MAHEC System She was willing to share her story of lived experience with substance use disorder six years and eight months in prison and now supporting her Peers through their own journey of recovery Belinda has faced her own…
