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The contingency management incentive examples below were provided by SAMSHA’s Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) grantees and include American Indian/Alaska Native-specific and more general ideas.

Presented by Gary Ferguson, ND, Naturopathic Doctor and Health Communities Consultant on February 26, 2020 Healing is holistic. As we look to address the root causes of addiction, we need to incorporate mind, body, and spiritual aspects in our approach to healing trauma. Current research, promising practices show a message of hope for practitioner and patient. In this talk, Dr. Ferguson covered nutrition, botanical medicine, mind/body, and incorporating spiritual healing/ceremony in our healing modalities, practice. As wounded healers, many of us also face our own journey of healing trauma. As we heal ourselves, be become an even brighter vessel of change, medicine for those we serve. Download slides | Watch recording Webinar category: Treatment - General  

This issue of Addressing Addiction in our Native American Communities focuses on the history of the opioid crisis. 

Mountain Plains ATTC offered a webinar entitled Options for Peer Support in Frontier and Tribal Communities for our Frontier and Tribal Behavioral Health Treatment Providers Workgroup. This presentation was done by consultant Melissa Witham of C4 Innovates on January 30, 2020.   Areas Covered: Roles of substance use disorders, mental health, and family peers Roles of peers vs. clinical staff Establishing the setting for peer support – integrated with primary care, as part of emergency care/first response, reentry, telephonic Reimbursement and supervision Certification of peers Getting started   Link to Video

Co-Director of Mountain Plains ATTC, Thomasine Heitkamp, interviews a national expert on trauma informed care, Dr. Tami DeCoteau, who offers insight to providers and educators interested in gaining a deeper understanding of trauma, including content on historical trauma and adverse childhood experiences. This 60-minute video interview presentation created by Mountain Plains ATTC is designed as a professional learning tool to explore how trauma affects the human population. The science of trauma-informed care compells us to look more deeply into the human physiological process and understand how DNA provides evidence of intergenerational trauma. Recent research has shown that emotional trauma often affects the human nervous system long-term. Study of epigenetic DNA demonstrates that the substance use disorder need for self-regulation via alcohol or drugs is actually a physiological process and not a moral choice. This video will address questions such as:  What is trauma informed care? How do we help society to recognize that substance use disorder is a chronic disease and must be treated as such? Why do we see intergenerational effects of trauma within certain communities or families?   The production is conveniently separated into topic modules with designated time codes to allow viewers to determine which subjects will be reviewed and how much time is necessary to cover each area of discussion.   Topic Modules  |  Time Codes Section I – Intro and General Overview                                            00:00 (10 min 54 sec)                           Definition and Explanation Triggers Adverse Childhood Experiences Addressing Trauma Brain Development Complex Developmental Trauma Trauma and Addiction     Section II -- Treatment for Secondary Trauma                                  10:54 (11 min 9 sec) Self-Regulation Skills Brain and Nervous System Epigenetics Research Integrated Care Returning Veterans Strategies for Self-Regulation                                                              Section III -- Evidence-Based Practices in Tribal Communities         22:03 (6 min 1 sec) Boarding Schools Relationship Trauma Intergenerational Effects Federal Legislation National Healthcare Model     Section IV – Integrated Trauma-Informed Care                                28:04 (13 min 56 sec) Substance Use Disorders Big Ts and Little Ts                      Section V – Moving Forward                                                              42:00 (17 min 39 sec) Education and Collaboration Role of Technology Clinical Advancements Specialties Wrap-Up   Presenter: Tami DeCoteau, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. DeCoteauTami DeCoteau obtained a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology in 2003 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with specialization in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders for adults, adolescents, and children. She has extensive experience working with patients who suffer from complex trauma, neurodevelopmental disorders, grief, anxiety, depression, and suicidal thinking. Her private practice in downtown Bismarck, North Dakota, is DeCoteau Trauma-Informed Care and Practice, PLLC, an outpatient facility where she heads a team of eight specialists in various fields of mental health. Dr. DeCoteau is a Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) practitioner. TBRI is a therapeutic model that trains caregivers to provide effective support for at-risk children. She is also trained in various trauma treatment modalities, including WEMDR, somatic processing, attachment intervention, neurosequential model of therapeutics (NMT) and TF-CBT. Dr. DeCoteau has worked in a variety of outpatient settings and with a diverse patient population, including Veterans and Native Americans. She has given numerous lectures on how trauma impacts attachment and brain development, in-school strategies for working with traumatized children, and historical trauma. She is a long-standing member of the American Psychological Association, an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation and a descendant of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Interviewer: Thomasine Heitkamp, LICSW, Co-Director, Mountain Plains ATTC/HHS Region 8, Professor, University of North Dakota College of Nursing and Professional Disciplines Ms. HeitkampThomasine Heitkamp is the Director of Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center that serves the six states in SAMHSA Region 8. She is also the Region 8 Administrator for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) grant to advance technical assistance for prevention and treatment of opioid use disorders. She is a Professor in the College of Nursing and Professional Disciplines at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in North Dakota. She has been an educator and administrator at the University of North Dakota for more than thirty years. Professor Heitkamp has served in a myriad of administrative capacities at UND, including her recent work as an Associate Provost and Chair of the Graduate Nursing Program. She has numerous publications and presentations describing her professional work including a recent study on the impact of the oil industry on interpersonal violence in the oil fields of Montana   

Sean A Bear I, Co-Director of the National American Indian- Alaskan Native ATTC gives an overview of some of the substances that are normally used within Indian Country as well as cultural factors that may assist with recovery efforts. View the recorded webinar: 

This presentation by Professor Katherine Sorsdahl discusses the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training model with applications in the South African context. Katherine Sorsdahl is a Professor and the Co-Director of the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health at the University of Cape Town. She also serves as Expert Curriculum Development Advisor for the South Africa HIV ATTC.

This presentation by Professor Bronwyn Myers discusses the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training model in application to substance use disorders. Professor Bronwyn Myers is a Chief specialist scientist in the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Use Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council. Professor Myers also serves as an Expert Technical Assistance Advisor for the South Africa HIV ATTC.

This webinar will discuss how historically menthol products have been predatorily marketed to marginalized groups and most conspicuously to African Americans. The results of predatory marketing has led to 85% of adults and 94% of teen African American smokers to smoke menthol cigarettes. Black folks die disproportionately from tobacco-related diseases compared to other races and ethnic groups. Menthol isn't deadly itself, but it allows the poison to go down easier.

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In this webinar, Dr. Dennis Donovan, PhD, of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, describes the Healing of the Canoe (HOC) project, a collaborative between the Suquamish Tribe, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (PGST), and the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) to plan, implement, and evaluate culturally grounded interventions to reduce health disparities and promote health with both Native American tribes. Download slides | Learn more about Healing of the Canoe | Watch recording Webinar category: Specific populations

Monthly electronic newsletter featuring Great Lakes ATTC training events and other topics.

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium: Reclaiming Our Roots: Rising from the Ashes of Historical Trauma This document is a compilation of the presentations given by invited experts at the National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC 2015 Second Annual Symposium: Reclaiming our Roots: Rising from the Ashes of Historical Trauma.

The Center of Excellence on Racial and Ethnic Minority Young Men Who Have Sex with Men and Other Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations (YMSM + LGBT CoE) presents the updated curriculum based on the 2001 SAMHSA publication, A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals.

This presentation discussed the consequences, assessment, and treatment of Hepatitis C in adolescents. Presented by Bradford Briggs.

Article featured in the Federal Probation September 2014 issue– Addressing Responsivity Issues with Criminal-Justice Involved Native Americans. Co-authored by PSATTC staff focusing on the use of Motivational Interviewing to engage Native American offenders.

This curriculum was written by American Indians for the benefit of American Indians. The authors were mindful of how frequently psycho-educational skills programs provided to American Indian participants have been culturally biased and consequently unsuccessful because of their inherent prejudices and inappropriateness. Research suggests a less prescriptive, more flexible program that promotes culturally relevant and appropriate psycho-educational group techniques to promote cultural identity, self-disclosure, processing, altruism and an emphasis on psychology’s strength model rather than on psychology’s traditional deficit model. Training Objectives: 1) Experience a world view of interpreting reality through heart and hand as well as head, 2) Gain awareness of one’s own attitudes, beliefs and perceptions about substance misuse based on cultural experience, 3) Gain awareness of how one’s attitudes, beliefs and perceptions are a product of one’s life experience. Primary Author: Rockey Robbins, Ph.D. (Cherokee and Choctaw), Associate Professor, College of Counseling Psychology at the University of Oklahoma  

This book comprises 20 essays in which family members described, in their own words, the most challenging part about having a family member with a substance use disorder, what it means to have a loved one find long-term recovery and explain why they are committed to recovery.

To encourage those who may be thinking about a profession in the addictions treatment and recovery services field and spotlight the vital role a qualified team of professionals plays in the recovery of millions of individuals, the ATTC National Office created the "In My Own Words ..." Essay Contest and this compilation of submissions and Leadership Profiles.

One-day training workshop focused on building the awareness of Family Members and Child Protective Services (CPS) volunteers about their role in facilitating change for CPS families impacted by substance use and behavioral health disorders. This curriculum includes a training manual, participant guide and a PowerPoint presentation. To order a hard copy of this product, contact Matthew Roy phone 602-942-2247, ext 144 Fax 602-942-0779 Email [email protected] Cost: $35