Northwest ATTC

Are you looking to discuss how you can enhance your Clinical Supervision Skills? Join us every 1st Tuesday of the month (9am PT, 8am AKT, 10am MT) to learn from other practicing professionals and receive consultation from Paul Hunziker MA, LMFT, SUDP and Lynsey Parrish (Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Turtle Mountain Chippewa), MSW, LICSW. These monthly consultation sessions will be open to all workforce members within Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) who have completed the Northwest ATTC Clinical Supervision training series. The sessions will be an opportunity to discuss implementation of the Clinical Supervision model and discuss successes and challenges you may be experiencing.  

Presenters: Bill O’Connell, EdD (UW Psychiatry) and Ursula Heflick (Spokane Falls Community College) The mental and behavioral health workforce shortage has hindered access to care in the United States, resulting in long waitlists for persons who need behavioral health care. Bachelor level practitioners are one solution to increasing available mental and behavioral health treatment across a variety of settings. A Behavioral Health Support Specialist (BHSS) will provide brief treatment for depression using behavioral activation, anxiety using CBT and engage in harm reduction for substance use issues.  This webinar highlights an innovative effort in Washington State to initiate a bachelor’s-level BHSS curriculum leading to credentialing to expand the mental health workforce and improve access to care. Learning objectives Participants will understand the relationship between approved bachelor programs in behavioral health, psychology, and social work and the new state BHSS credential. Participants will recognize the role and function of the BHSS in the various settings they can practice under supervision. Participants will distinguish the between substance abuse treatment work and BHSS interventions. About the presenters Dr. Bill O’Connell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Washington State with thirty-five years of experience providing mental and behavioral health services across a variety of settings.  Currently, Bill is Associate Professor and Director of the Behavioral Health Support Specialist Workforce Project in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.  Past experience includes Regional Director of Behavioral Health for One Medical Seniors, Department Chair for Leadership and Professional Studies at Seattle University and Associate Professor of Clinical Mental Health and School Counseling at Xavier University in Ohio.  Bill was a licensed chemical dependency counselor in Ohio and worked as assistant clinical director for one of the largest multiservice agencies in the state. Ursula Heflick has been an instructor at Spokane Falls Community College since 2013 and is the program lead of the Bachelor in Applied Science program in Integrated Behavioral Health. Before transferring to the IBH bachelor’s program, she served as program lead of the Addiction Studies and Integrated Community Services programs and taught a wide range of classes. Before becoming an instructor, Ursula Heflick worked as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Substance Use Disorder Professional with chronically mentally ill adults and youth with co-occurring disorders. Ursula’s primary interests are in student-centered teaching that acknowledges students’ individuality while exposing them to evidence-based practices that have the highest potential to improve health outcomes for community members. She currently is pursuing a doctorate in healthcare leadership and continues to educate herself on topics such as health inequities, trauma-informed care, and the integration of social justice in healthcare, behavioral health, and social services.

Are you looking to discuss how you can enhance your Clinical Supervision Skills? Join us every 1st Tuesday of the month (9am PT, 8am AKT, 10am MT) to learn from other practicing professionals and receive consultation from Paul Hunziker MA, LMFT, SUDP and Lynsey Parrish (Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Turtle Mountain Chippewa), MSW, LICSW. These monthly consultation sessions will be open to all workforce members within Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington) who have completed the Northwest ATTC Clinical Supervision training series. The sessions will be an opportunity to discuss implementation of the Clinical Supervision model and discuss successes and challenges you may be experiencing.  

Presenters: Scott Boyles and Mat Roosa, LCSW-R The collective struggle of healthcare systems to engage in timely and sustained implementation of the ASAM criteria and other EBPs has been well documented. Implementation science helps us to understand the key ingredients of effective implementation and sustainment and shows that didactic education is necessary but clearly not sufficient to ensure implementation success. This webinar offered a brief overview of the ASAM Criteria Implementation Guide, which is based on the NIATx model for improvement which has emerged during the last twenty years as a highly effective toolbox for implementation and improvement of EBPs. The Guide moves us toward a focused sequence of tested process tools for ASAM implementation (walk-through, flow chart, nominal group technique, data-driven PDSA cycles, etc.). Download the slides | View recording

Presented by: Rebecca Rossom, MD, MS and Stephanie Hooker, PhD, MPH In this session, Drs. Rossom and Hooker discussed the design and implementation of Opioid Wizard, a clinical decision support tool embedded in the EHR for primary care clinicians and developed as part of NIDA Clinical Trials Network protocol CTN-0095. The goal of the tool is to help clinicians identify, screen, diagnose and treat opioid use disorder (OUD). They also discussed one of the supplements to CTN-0095, which tested a training to reduce stigma towards people with OUD among primary care clinicians. This session was sponsored by the Northwest and Pacific Southwest ATTCs and the Western States Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. Download the slides | Watch the recording

Telehealth has become more common in the healthcare world, including for substance use disorder and mental health treatment, but not everyone has access to the technology needed to use it. In Idaho, the Department of Health and Welfare led an initiative to create telehealth pods in libraries and other community spaces to help expand access to care and worked to provide funding, technical assistance, and other supports. In an effort to support these libraries and other telehealth access sites, the Center for Advancing Addiction Health Services (CAAHS) at the UW Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI) has developed a free online toolkit with the goal of providing information that is crucial to providing safe, supportive, and accessible spaces in community settings where telehealth can be accessed. This webinar describes the Idaho library telehealth project and the development of the toolkit, then ends with a demo of the Third Space Toolkit itself. View slides | Watch recording