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 diverse women presenting with substance use, SUDs, and who are in recovery. Women experience SUD in ways that are distinct from men. Historically, access to treatment for women has been limited, a disparity that persists today. 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 gender-specific services.
Topic 2 (Overview Session): Assessment and Screening of Co-occurring Disorders
This 30-minute overview session will introduce participants to the emotional, physical, and socioeconomic factors that uniquely impact women during treatment, and especially how these factors relate to the assessment and screening of co-occurring disorders.
Learning Objectives
This overview session will address the assessment and screening of co-occurring disorders in women with a special focus on the following information:
Women’s treatment history and current aspects of women-centered treatment in the United States, with a focus on the Midwest
The link between trauma, substance use, and other co-morbidities in women
Trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches for specific racial/ethnic women in recovery
Effective clinical strategies, interventions, and resources that help improve engagement, retention, and completion of treatment programs
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.
Trainer:
Carmela J. DeCandia, PsyD, is a licensed clinical child psychologist who has dedicated her career to advancing best practices and policies to support vulnerable children and families, and to improve the systems which serve them. In practice for nearly 30 years, her primary work focuses on building trauma-informed systems of care. Her specialties include: child and adolescent development, family homelessness, addressing the impact of traumatic stress, program development and systems change, neurodevelopmental testing and family assessment. A compassionate clinician and effective leader, she is nationally recognized as a writer, advocate, and public speaker. She has led direct service and national agencies including St. Mary’s Women and Children’s Center and The National Center on Family Homelessness. Currently, Dr. DeCandia is the Owner and President of Artemis Associates, LLC where she provides training and consultation to organizations to enhance resilience for children, families, and their providers. In addition, she maintains a clinical practice in neurodevelopmental and psychological testing of children at Strong Roots Counseling center, and is the Principal Investigator on a NICHD funded project to develop the screening instrument - NEST Early Childhood. Dr. DeCandia has published extensively in academic journals and educational reports, and lectures on lifespan development and psychological testing at Boston College Graduate school in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology. For her work, she was named the recipient of the 2016 Horace Mann Spirit of Service Award by Antioch University.
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
The Take 10! Transforming Care for Women with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and their Families series discusses current issues and challenges confronted by diverse women presenting with substance use, SUDs, and who are in recovery. Women experience SUD in ways that are distinct from men. Historically, access to treatment for women has been limited, a disparity that persists today. 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 gender-specific services.
Topic 3 (Overview Session): Considerations for Male Clinicians Treating Women with SUDs
This 30-minute overview session will introduce participants to the emotional, physical, and socioeconomic factors that uniquely impact women during treatment, and especially how these factors relate to considerations for male clinicians treating with women with SUDs.
Learning Objectives
This overview session will address the assessment and screening of co-occurring disorders in women with a special focus on the following information:
Women’s treatment history and current aspects of women-centered treatment in the United States, with a focus on the Midwest
The link between trauma, substance use, and other co-morbidities in women
Trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches for specific racial/ethnic women in recovery
Effective clinical strategies, interventions, and resources that help improve engagement, retention, and completion of treatment programs
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.
Trainer:
Tim Devitt, Psy.D., LCPC, CADC, is a clinician, trainer, consultant, researcher and executive leader with a 35+ year commitment to providing recovery-oriented services to individuals, families and organizations. He currently operates a clinical therapy and consultation practice in the Chicago Metropolitan Area with a specialization in integrated mental health and substance use care for adolescents and adults. His past programmatic development work has included leading the integration of mental health and substance use treatment in assertive outreach, residential and center-based outpatient and intensive outpatient programing. Tim has presented nationally and co-authored 20 peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter on the integration of evidence-based practices to best meet the comprehensive needs of people with substance use and mental health conditions. Tim is the proud recipient of the 2022 William White.
Lifetime Achievement Award (awarded by the IL Chapter of The National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Counselors, NAADAC), a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), a lecturer at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, a senior adjunct faculty at Adler University (MA in Military Psychology and MA in Applied Psychology), and serves as board member for Serenity Academy of Chicago, a start-up 501(c)(3) organization committed to the formation of alternative peer groups and a recovery high school for youth and families struggling with addiction and Edna’s Circle, a start-up recovery home and comprehensive recovery services program on the Westside of Chicago.
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
This learning collaborative will focus on the implementation of cultural responsiveness in behavioral health settings with the goal of helping community-based organizations, service providers, and individual community leaders to move from good intentions to actionable outcomes and sustainability. The learning collaborative is open to anyone and everyone who is committed to learning about and advancing DEI efforts, and the knowledge base gained through this series aligns with the National CLAS Standards and the NIATx Change Leader Academy curriculum.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Describe the trust level in your organization regarding DEI
Learn to reframe your thinking about DEI work as being driven by outcomes
Discover how DEI progress is helped or hindered by power dynamics
Explore a novel approach to identity/difference that builds on mutual understanding and defuses backlash
Gain an understanding of how to use the necessary tools for building an effective DEI strategy
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS:
This learning collaborative has a maximum capacity of 30 participants.
Participant registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.
Due to the limited capacity, individuals working in HHS Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) will be accepted into the learning collaborative first.
Individuals working outside HHS Region 5 are welcome to register and will be accepted into the learning collaborative on a first come, first serve basis to fill any remaining space until the max. capacity is reached.
TO REGISTER: Click the “register” button and complete the Zoom registration form. You will be notified via email if your registration has been approved and that confirmation email will contain the “join meeting” link.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 7, 2025
TRAINING SHEDULE:
All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom from 10:00 AM–11:00 AM CT / 11:00 AM–12:00 PM ET on the following dates:
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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.
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.