Webinar/Virtual Training
The Take 10! Transforming Care for Women with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and their Families series discusses current issues and challenges confronted by women presenting with substance use, SUDs, and who are in recovery. Women experience SUD in ways that are distinct from men. Studies show that when women begin treatment for SUDs, they frequently arrive with more severe medical, behavioral, psychological, and social struggles compared to men. For these reasons, there is a need for different treatment methods.
Series Learning Objectives
This series will address:
Best practices for treating women with SUDs in the United States, with a focus on the Midwest
The link between trauma, substance use, and other co-morbidities in women
Using trauma-informed approaches during treatment when appropriate
Effective clinical strategies, interventions, and resources that help improve engagement, retention, and completion of treatment programs
Topic 6 (Overview Session): Considerations for Treating Women with SUDs Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
This 30-minute overview session will introduce participants to considerations for treating women with SUDs who have experienced IPV and/or TBI.
When most people hear the terms “concussion” or “traumatic brain injury,” they think of football, military service, or unfortunate accidents. Fewer people are aware that brain injury can be caused by overdoses, head injuries while under the influence of substances, domestic violence (e.g., domestic, sexual), and strangulation or choking. Many clinicians are unaware of the role IPV can play in the lives of their clients, including how substance use and mental health coercion can affect one's overall health, including their needs and ability to participate when receiving behavioral health services. We lack awareness of the significant role TBI and IPV can play in a person’s recovery journey as well as accessing and successfully engaging with supports. We will discuss strategies to incorporate knowledge of IPV and TBI into behavioral health services so clients can continue to live the lives they deserve.
Session Learning Objectives:
Attendees will:
Learn at least two tactics of substance use coercion
Identify at least two ways in which unidentified brain injuries can contribute to challenges accessing behavioral health services
Develop at least two strategies to integrate knowledge of IPV brain injury into behavioral health services
CERTIFICATES:
Registrants who fully attend this event or training will receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training.
Trainers:
Rachel Ramirez, LISW-S, RASS
Cheryl Stahl, LPCC
The Great Lakes ATTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
Webinar/Virtual Training
Human service providers are struggling to hire and retain the staff they need to fulfill their missions. Service providers are challenged by staffing shortages, competition for talent with other industries, and the high costs of staff turnover. This training series will combine sessions focused on organizational workforce development and the power of the NIATx Change Leader Academy (CLA) to help providers better understand and improve staff hiring and retention.
Using the lenses of client-centered service delivery, workforce wellness, and coaching/mentoring, the initial training series will help you focus on the elements that impact your capacity to recruit, hire, retain, and promote the team that you need. This series will then be followed by a NIATx Change Leader Academy (CLA) designed to focus specifically on the recruit-hire-retain-promote continuum. The CLA will provide tools that will enable you to engage in data-driven changes that will improve your recruitment and hiring.
Learning Objectives:
Participants in the RHRP series will:
Apply implementation science methods to improve RHRP practices and address organizational workforce challenges
Develop their workplace team using core wellness, coaching, and mentoring tools and concepts
Use NIATx tools and rapid cycle PDSA cycles to improve recruitment, hiring, retention, and promotion
Training Schedule:
Sessions will take place on March 26, April 2, 16, 23, from 9:00 AM–10:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM–11:00 AM ET.
NOTE: Participants must attend all sessions dates to receive NAADAC continuing education hours.
Continuing Education:
Participants who fully attend all sessions in this series will receive 4 continuing education (CE) hours. CE certificates are distributed via email to qualified participants within two weeks after the conclusion of the series.
TRAINER
Mat Roosa, LCSW-R
Mat Roosa was a founding member of NIATx and has been a NIATx coach for a wide range of projects. He works as a consultant in the areas of quality improvement, organizational development, and evidence-based practices implementation. His experience includes direct clinical practice in mental health and substance use services, teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and human service agency administration.
The Great Lakes A/MH/PTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
Webinar/Virtual Training
Limited space available. Priority registration will be given to those working in Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based collaborative conversational style used to help strengthen an individual's own motivation and commitment to change. In this interactive, skills-based workshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice the spirit and relational skills of MI.
Note: Participants must complete Motivational Interviewing: Relational Skills (Level 1) to be eligible to attend the subsequent training in the MI series: Motivational Interviewing: Technical Skills (Level 2). Those who fully attend Level 1 will automatically receive an invitation to register to attend Level 2.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After completing Motivational Interviewing: Relational Skills (Level 1), participants will:
Have an introductory level understanding of the purpose, benefits, and challenges of MI
Understand and practice the four processes used in MI: planning, evoking, focusing, and engaging
Recognize differences between helpful client engagement vs. harmful client engagement
Prepare to apply the spirit of Motivational Interviewing to patient interactions
Observe and practice the core skills of MI: listening, open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summarization.
Training Dates:
Sessions will take place on April 30, May 7 and 14, 2025 from 8:30 AM–11:30 AM CT / 9:30 AM–12:30 PM ET.
NOTE: Participants must attend all sessions dates to receive NAADAC continuing education hours.
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Registrants who fully attend this training will be eligible to receive 9 NAADAC certified continuing education (CE) hours. CE certificates are sent via email within two weeks after the conclusion of the training.
TRAINER:
Laura A. Saunders, MSSW
Laura A. Saunders, MSSW is with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Engineering, CHESS. Since 2001, Laura has designed, facilitated, and delivered MI and SBIRT training and coaching in the fields of health care, human services, public health, and criminal justice. She has coached hundreds of learners to use EBP’s to fidelity. Laura has also conducted train the trainer events. She joined the International group of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2006
To ensure all participants get the most out of these interactive virtual trainings, we ask that everyone be prepared to do the following in every session:
The Great Lakes A/PTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
