Products and Resources Catalog

Slides from the session Tribal Opioid Response Webinar: Native Soldier, Native Warrior. This event took place on November 30, 2021. Native American Heritage Month: Celebrating Traditional Medicine & Spiritual Beliefs and Practices & Honoring Native American Veterans/Warriors. The presenters are Sean A. Bear I, Meskwaki, Co-Director and Ray Daw, Navajo, MS., Advisory.

Handouts from the session ESAS: Treatment Planning. This event took place on December 1, 2021. This presentation focuses on treatment planning for Substance Use Disorders. Participants will learn how to define treatment planning and about the correlations between assessment and treatment planning, as well as the treatment planning process, history, and the MATRS model. 

El panfleto de SBIRT para adolescentes, desarrollado por el Northeast and Caribbean ATTC, presenta una práctica basada en evidencia que ha demostrado ser efectiva para el cernimiento, intervención breve y referido a tratamiento de aquellos adolescentes que están a riesgo de desarrollar un trastorno por uso de sustancias. La adolescencia se caracteriza por cambios físicos, incluyendo un proceso significativo de maduración cerebral, cognitivo y emocional, además de la aparición de algunos trastornos de salud mental (National Academy of Sciences, 2015). SBIRT para adolescentes es una herramienta que se utiliza entre otras cosas, para abordar el uso de sustancias como parte de la salud integral de los jóvenes a través de la identificación temprana de los jóvenes que están usando sustancias en riesgo de desarrollar trastornos por consumo de sustancias psicoactivas. De esta forma, fomentar la atención continúa, integrando los servicios de prevención, intervención breve y tratamiento.

Slides from the session Practicing MI: Actions to help Improve Practice. This event took place on November 17th, 2021. This webinar will rely on classic MI practice activities to help participants deepen and hone their integration of the basic concepts and skills of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Brief didactic presentation will focus on MI skills and tools to illustrate the practical applicability of these tools in clinical practice for the SUD and Co-Occurring patient populations.

Slides from the session TOR Sharing & Caring Through Technology. This event took place on November 10th, 2021. This session will be a guided discussion for TOR Grantees to share your expertise, unique tribal and community practices, and offer peer-to-peer support for your TOR program.

Slides from the session ESAS: Clinical Evaluation: Assessment. This event took place on November 4th, 2021. Clinical Objectives for this session: - Define Assessment Process - Identify Assessment Instruments - Define DSM-5 criteria for Substance Use Disorder (mild, moderate, severe) specifiers and other diagnostic considerations - Describe ASAM Dimensions (3rd Ed.) and the related diagnostic dimensional criteria including risk-ratings and level of treatment care

Slides form the session Finding and Working with Self Through Cultural Ways of Crafting. This event took place on October 20th, 2021.  In cultural ways everyone has a craft. Through crafting the individual, family, or group can stay grounded in a good way. They can find themselves and further develop their relationship with their inner-selves and become more at peace with their place in the the world around them. The tools they acquire and the lessons they learn about themselves become a stronghold for well being, growth, and understanding.

Please join us for our event: Stimulant Use Disorders: A Continuum of Care on October 7th, 2021. Featuring our guest speaker, Ed Parsells!  Start 9:30am CT

  This event took place virtually on Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM (ET).    The New England ATTC hosted the inaugural SAMHSA Region 1 Diversity Inclusion Project Showcase (DIPS): Promoting Recovery-Oriented Organizations! This showcase was introduced by Assistant Regional Administrator Taylor Bryan Turner, with remarks by national and state leaders Tom Coderre, Deidre Calvert, and Nancy Navaretta. Moderators Dr. Haner Hernandez, Michele Stewart-Copes, and Daryl McGraw introduced four recovery-oriented community-based organizations that serve historically marginalized communities: Recovery Support Services; New Life II Ministries; Stairway to Recovery; and STEPRox Recovery Support Center. Learn more about the showcase here. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________   The event agenda and each community-based organization's presentation slides of this session may be accessed by clicking on the "view resource" button above. Please click here to access the showcase recording.   ________________________________________________________________________________________________________   For more information about the history of the DIPS initiative, please contact SAMHSA's Public Health Fellow Tim Jean at [email protected].    

Slides from the session ESAS: Clinical Evaluation - Screening. This event took place on October 6th, 2021. This presentation focuses on the screening process for Substance Use Disorders. The first step in this process is determine whether the patient recognizes the need for change in his/her behavior. The next step is to interview the patient to determine whether he/she describes behaviors predictive of substance use disorders and then to ask specific questions that will further discern the extent of the problem or eliminate the need for further additional follow-up. 

View the slides from the presentation, “Adolescent Substance Use: An Evidence Update” with subject matter expert, Sarah Helseth, PhD, by clicking on the download button above.

Slides form the session ESAS: Adolescent Brain Maturation and Health: Intersections on the Developmental Highway. This event took place on September 22, 2021. Featuring Ken Winters, PhD! This session will cover what is actually happening in the brain of an adolescent as they mature, and how drug use can particularly affect the teen brain. The maturation of the adolescent brain likely contributes to behaviors that are characteristic of this developmental period. This maturation also informs our understanding of risk for substance use disorders and other behavioral disorders. Service providers can leverage teen brain science when working with adolescents and parents.

Slides from the session TOR Regional Meeting: Southwest IHS Regions. These included Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Navajo areasThese meetings are intended to allow grantees to share ideas, discuss difficulties, and learn from experts on managing your grant. We will also have open discussions on topics, issues, and questions that you are most interested in related to your TOR grant/program, so please let us know what you would like to discuss! 

In Part 2 of this behavioral health webinar, the presenters will offer suggestions on how to approach Indigenous peoples in a clinical way that also speaks to a worldview from an Ingenious perspective, and will conclude by providing some resources that may assist clinicians and community members in addressing the issues aforementioned.   Questions? Please email [email protected] Keaw’e K Bone has worked with the community of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, in the capacity of a childcare worker, cultural coordinator, targeted case manager, storyteller, Keaw’e is an (EBCI) member also has lineage with Lakota nation and Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) ancestry. Keaw’e is also the youngest storyteller in his tribe within six generations and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology with an interdisciplinary minor in Cherokee studies. Theresa Elizabeth Sault-Brill has a vast background due to traditional elder’s coming to her for various needs, concerns and issues over the span of her adult life. She did not seek to make careers in the criminal justice field or psychology fields. As a spiritual and cultural woman, she has learned that our solutions are in our culture. She only sought to gain the education, training, and experiences to obtain understandings in all aspects that impact her people and other Indigenous peoples. Through this she has been able to truly help in education, empowerment, and healings. Through her life experiences, educations, and trainings Theresa believes that we can show how our ways of learning, counseling, etc. is the most effective, and as Traditional Sovereign People we can prove and justify our cultural ways to implement our real and needed solutions.  

Slides from the session Essential Substance Abuse Skills Webinar: Group Counseling. This event took place on August 4th, 2021. It featured our special guest speaker: Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho. Our topic this month will be: Group Counseling

Slides from the session TOR Webinar Kratom on July 28th, 2021. 

Slides from the session Indigenous Psychology Part 1: History of Lost. This event took place on July 21st, 2021.  In Part 1 of this behavioral health lecture series, the presenters will review the merging traditional and clinical models used to treat indigenous populations. Discussion will include what story is, historical context, explaining the issues related to effectively engaging with Indigenous populations, and a statical analysis addressing the issues of this continually evolving concern. Presenters: Keaw’e Bone, EBCI, Lakota, and Hawaiian Theresa Sault-Brill, Aniishinabek and Menominee

Great Plains TTC Regional Meeting Slides 7-19-21. 

Handouts for the session Essential Substance Abuse Skills Webinar. This event took place on July 7th, 2021. Our topic this month will be: HIV & STI Prevention Featuring our special guest speaker: Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho.

Numerosos estudios e investigaciones han evidenciado la importancia de trabajar efectivamente con las personas con trastornos por consumo de sustancias. Es imprescindible utilizar modelos basados en evidencia que científicamente hayan demostrado efectividad. El Modelo Transteórico del Cambio surge por el interés de comprender y explicar la dinámica del cambio en el manejo de las conductas de personas con trastornos por uso problemático de sustancias.

Numerous studies and research have shown the importance of working effectively with people with substance use disorders. It is paramount to use evidence-based models that have been scientifically proven effective. The Transtheoretical Model of Change arises from the interest in understanding and explaining the dynamics of change when managing the behaviors of people with substance use disorders.

The New England ATTC, in partnership with the New England Association of Recovery Court Professionals (NEARCP), is continuing to offer a bi-monthly targeted technical assistance series for justice professionals to advance the treatment of persons with or at risk of substance use disorders involved in the justice system. These presentation slides are from the training session titled, "Complex Cases Facing Drug Courts" presented by Helen Harberts, M.A., J.D., and Brian Meyer, Ph.D., LCP, that took place on June 16th at 12PM EST. During this webinar, the panel discussed several actual cases from New England Drug Court Programs involving participants who have struggled with drug court program requirements and whose behavior has been especially challenging for the drug court team to manage and address successfully. Experts provided their recommendations on whether sanctions were appropriate, whether the team was considering all treatment options, and whether a termination was appropriate.

  Mary McCarty-Arias, M.A. Research Project Manager Division of Substance Use Disorders New York State Psychiatric Institute Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center Did you know that most codes of ethics include direction on self-care? It is the responsibility of the counselor to respond fully and be present for clients. Self-care enhances a counselor’s ability to do this. This course will review the definition of ethics and look at different codes of ethics (CASAC, NAADAC, CRC, and Social Work) and describe how self-care is important to maintain ethical practice.  

Slides and handouts from the session Essential Substance Abuse Skills Webinar: Professional Readiness. This event took place on June 2nd, 2021. It features our special guest speaker: Avis Garcia, PhD, LAT, LPC, NCC, Northern Arapaho.