Past Events

Methamphetamine and cocaine use rates and overdose deaths are rapidly increasing in much of the U.S. Dr. Rawson will review the clinical challenges presented by stimulant users and current protocols for addressing acute medical/psychiatric conditions. Evidence-based behavioral/psychosocial strategies are presented, along with pharmacotherapies currently considered promising.

The Mid-America Mountain Plains and the South Southwest Regional Addiction Technology Transfer Center are hosting the Women and Stimulants ECHO Series. This series will utilize a Project ECHO format to provide case-based learning and consultation for substance use and other health care providers working with women who use stimulants, including cocaine and methamphetamines. Using the Zoom videoconferencing platform, providers will be able to connect directly with leading experts in the field to build their capacity to provide evidence-based care. Each 90-minute session will include a brief didactic presentation and an interactive discussion on two de-identified client cases.  Registration is limited to 100 participants per session. Please register for each individual session by clicking on the session titles below. See webpage for detailed descriptions of the sessions and information regarding CEs. To learn more about what a Project ECHO session is like, view this brief video.  Women and Stimulant Use: Healthy Steps to Freedom October 16, 2019 from 11:30am- 1:00pm CT Anne Lindsay, PhD, Associate Professor and Extension specialist, University of Nevada, Reno This presentation will address core issues that are unique to female SUD treatment clients in comparison to their male counterparts regarding weight and energy as a driving mechanism to use, triggers for relapse, trends in drug use for women and the complexity of health-related complications and psychosocial needs, prescription medication and over-the-counter drug manipulation. Register Here!   

This session is the 2nd in the Women and Stimulant Use Project ECHO Series. The series will utilize a Project ECHO format to provide case-based learning and consultation for substance use and other health care providers working with women who use stimulants. Using the Zoom videoconferencing platform, providers will be able to connect directly with leading experts in the field to build their capacity to provide evidence-based care. Each 90-minute session will include a brief didactic presentation and an interactive discussion on two de-identified client cases.  Women and Stimulant Use: Healthy Steps to Freedom, will address core issues that are unique to female SUD treatment clients in comparison to their male counterparts regarding weight and energy as a driving mechanism to use, triggers for relapse, trends in drug use for women and the complexity of health-related complications and psychosocial needs, prescription medication and over-the-counter drug manipulation.  Objectives Recognize gender differences related to substance use/misuse  Describe triggers and methods for relapse prevention unique to women

Anne Lindsay, PhD, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Nevada, Reno This presentation will address core issues that are unique to female SUD treatment clients in comparison to their male counterparts regarding weight and energy as a driving mechanism to use, triggers for relapse, trends in drug use for women and the complexity of health-related complications and psychosocial needs, prescription medication and over-the-counter drug manipulation. Objectives Recognize gender differences related to substance use/misuse  Describe triggers and methods for relapse prevention unique to women

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss how health care organizations need to ensure that awareness, adoption, and implementation of the National CLAS Standards are incorporated to have a more inclusive definition of culture in order to better serve homeless and recovering individuals. OBJECTIVES: Define the CLAS standards, themes and recommendations Understand strategies for decreasing health disparities for people in recovery Learn types of peer support and value of services delivered by peer-led experts Explore key cultural and structural drivers of peer recovery (homelessness, poverty and other factors) PRESENTERS: JACQUELINE COLEMAN, MEd, MSM, BA, CPC, certified professional coach with extensive experience as a senior program manager. Jacqueline has expertise in workforce development, organizational development and contract management. She is a cultivator and trainer of professionals in multiple sectors.  Jacqueline provides strategic consultation on LEADERVATION (gender-tailored programs, equity and diversity initiatives, and systems change processes).   VINNIE VELAZQUEZ, MS, CAADC, LCDP, CPRS, advanced Chemical Dependency Professional with more than 25 years of experience working with communities of color. Vinnie has expertise with recognized programming for behavioral health clinical settings, outreach programs, and peer-led teams. She currently serves as Director of Special Programs for Amos House in Rhode Island.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is intended to strengthen personal motivation for & commitment to a change goal by eliciting and exploring an individuals own arguments for change. This evidenced-based practice is used in numerous settings including: addictions & mental health care, primary care, emergency rooms, public health care, criminal justice, street outreach & shelters, and child welfare. Registration: $110 per person. Student Registration: Enrolled students may receive a discount. Please email [email protected] for questions. Registration Link:  https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=473643&  

This training is by invitation-only for Multnomah County Health Department providers (Portland, OR).  

This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for participants who have already been trained in Motivational Interviewing to refresh both their knowledge and their skills with the method.

In October, the KCMO Workgroup of the KC Perinatal Recovery Collaborative will hold its meeting at Saint Luke's Hospital on the Plaza, 4401 Wornall Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111 in the Women's Heart Health Conference Room. The Saint Luke's team of nurses and social workers will tell us about their process and lessons learned in implementing Eat, Sleep, Console protocols.

The Judicial Academy of Puerto Rico and their Drug Court Program are interested in acquiring more knowledge on the screening and evaluation process and how to proceed with people who have Substance Use Disorders within the judicial system.

Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx adolescents in the US tend to grow up with intersecting Latino and American cultures and other influencing factors. Addressing maladaptive behavior with Latinx youth encourages a culturally informed approach that integrates an ecological understanding of their world, which tend to include family structure, adolescent development stages, peer pressure. Objectives: • Engaging and screening Hispanic and Latinx adolescents for substance use and mental health • Promoting recovery using elements of Hispanic culture • Evidence based practices versus culturally sensitive services • Strategies and program elements that can improve the quality of mental health services for Latino youth and their families Goal: To provide participants with insight as to how various aspects of culture and adolescent development stages intersect for Hispanic, Latino and Latinx teens; and strategies to help address substance use and other maladaptive behavior and promote recovery. Note: This three-hour (3) in length, delivered in two segments(1.5 hours each)webinar training is provided under New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Education and Training. Provider Certification Number (115) Training under a New York State OASAS Provider Certification is acceptable for meeting all or part of theCASAC/CPP/CPS education and training requirements. *To attain an"OASAS Certificate of Completion",participants are required to attend both sessions to receive CASAC hours.

The Great Lakes ATTC in partnership with Wayside Recovery Center is offering the Peer Support Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (PS ECHO), a free interactive online learning series for substance use disorder and mental health Peer Recovery Specialists, as well as Community Health Workers. PS ECHO is a movement to share knowledge, and amplify capacity to provide best practices, creating an online community for peers to: Share community and statewide resources Learn new skills and tools for doing peer work Meet and connect with other peers PS ECHO sessions take place via Zoom on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. Register and receive the Zoom link: Contact Lucia Diaz-French at [email protected]

Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx adolescents in the US tend to grow up with intersecting Latino and American cultures and other influencing factors. Addressing maladaptive behavior with Latinx youth encourages a culturally informed approach that integrates an ecological understanding of their world, which tend to include family structure, adolescent development stages, peer pressure. Goal: To provide participants with insight as to how various aspects of culture and adolescent development stages intersect for Hispanic, Latino and Latinx teens; and strategies to help address substance use and other maladaptive behavior and promote recovery. Objectives: • Reviewing and understanding Hispanic, Latino and Latinx terms of identity • Prevalence of substance use and mental health among Latino adolescents • Sociopolitical climate and distress among Latino youth • Adolescent development stages and tasks • Framing the Hispanic family structure member roles Note: This three-hour (3) in length, delivered in two segments(1.5 hours each)webinar training is provided under New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Education and Training. Provider Certification Number (115) Training under a New York State OASAS Provider Certification is acceptable for meeting all or part of theCASAC/CPP/CPS education and training requirements. *To attain an "OASAS Certificate of Completion", participants are required to attend both sessions to receive CASAC hours.

Safe, stable, and affordable housing is increasingly recognized as a vital part of recovery. What role can substance use disorder treatment and recovery programs play in providing this essential need for their clients? Find out the basics of housing and how to get started in this 6-session virtual learning community beginning in August 2019! By the end of session 4, participants will be able to: Identify at least three alternative housing types. Compare the pros and cons of different alternative housing types. Describe how alternative housing types benefit clients and the community.

The second part of this training, Cross-Cultural Communications Principles: The Global Dynamics of Interaction, will introduce Change Leaders to the forces at work in cultural communications and emphasize via case studies and group exercises the value behind knowing how to communicate cross-culturally with clients and staff. Once we have the Cultural Foundations, shared systems such as symbols, beliefs, attitudes, values, expectations, and norms of behavior become tools rather than barriers. Knowing how to navigate these systems is crucial to success in the diverse world we live in today. These guidelines and principles will help Change Leaders navigate the world in their clinical practice at home or in any multicultural environment around the globe.  This event is provided as a collaborative effort between the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC, the National Hispanic and Latino ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC, The Prevention Action Alliance, the Ohio Latino Affairs Commission, and the Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services.   This is a closed event. However, you can learn more about our upcoming training and technical events on the Great Lakes ATTC website under Upcoming Events. If no upcoming events are taking place near you, please contact your nearest state project manager to inquire about future training opportunities in your region.

Enhance your understanding of motivational interviewing, a goal-oriented evidence-based practice useful in treating clients for a variety of behaviors. Learn the components of the MI spirit, how to solicit change talk, and respond to client sustain talk in your practice. Participants are encouraged to attend MI Basics prior to this course.  Registration: $110 per person. Student Registration: Enrolled students may receive a discount. Please email [email protected] for questions. Registration Link:  https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=471220&

SBIRT, (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment), is an evidence-based practice that uses a preventive approach to identify and intervene with persons whose patterns of use put them at risk for, or are experiencing substance-related health and other psychosocial problems such as HIV and HCV. The SBIRT practice also identifies persons who may benefit from a referral to treatment. It’s critical that providers working with the Latinx communities develop an atmosphere that is culturally appropriate, trauma informed, and affirming. This interactive presentation will review the integration of trauma sensitive cultural elements, and inclusivity as essential and conducive to engagement for facilitating a substance use screen. The content will further inform on how taking a few minutes to conduct a person centered brief intervention can help motivate reduction of substance use.

In Ohio, as in many other states, the increase in the immigrant populations has highlighted the need for a culturally-informed workforce. The first part of this two-day intensive training, titled Cultural Foundations, Elements Needed for Treating Diverse Populations, will address elements of culture that affect access and retention in substance use and mental health services. This event is provided as a collaborative effort between the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC, the National Hispanic and Latino ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC, The Prevention Action Alliance, the Ohio Latino Affairs Commission, and the Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services.   This is a closed event. However, you can learn more about our upcoming training and technical events on the Great Lakes ATTC website under Upcoming Events. If no upcoming events are taking place near you, please contact your nearest state project manager to inquire about future training opportunities in your region.

Join us for a two- day meeting to discuss building capacity in New Mexico to address the opioid epidemic using evidence based practice. Everyone is welcome! The Opoid Response Network (ORN) STR-TA has been hosting a series of community education events about ORN and the opioid epidemic across the nation as part of a supplemental piece of the STR-TA grant. There are two free upcoming community education events in the Health & Human Services Region 6: September 25- 26, 2019 (Little Rock, AR) Register Here  October 7-8, 2019 (Albuquerque, NM) Register Here  Both events provide a variety of continuing education (CEs). If interested in attending, please register at the links above to be eligible to receive CEs. Feel free to share with any other interested colleagues in the community or staff members who may benefit from learning more about the opioid epidemic and the various technical assistance, training, and education available to them through the STR-TA Grant and Opioid Response Network.  To learn more about the ORN please visit their website.  Click here to view the full flyer. 

This will be a highly experiential, do, tell, and show workshop. We will focus on what we say and how we say it and watching how it lands on the person we are coaching. We will look at the essential spirit, skills, and structure of the conversation creating a parallel process of coaching and training using motivational interviewing. We place a special emphasis on noticing and being mindful of our "righting reflex" working with the trainees.  Motivational interviewing fits as well in working with supervisors & coaching as it does with clients, patients, and people we serve. This workshop will teach a respectful, compassionate model of coaching. We will use real play and role-play so that we can be reflective and analyze and redesign our own plan for coaching others. We will define supervision as a process in which a worker is given the responsibility to work with another person in order to achieve certain personal, professional, and organizational goals.  Supervision/coaching must be supportive and educational and have some quality accountability to protect the welfare of clients, patients, and people we serve. We will explore seven practices: self-responsibility, presence, authenticity, state shifting, empathy, appropriate boundaries, and skillful communication.

If you're attending the  Washington State "COD & Treatment" conference in Yakima, WA, October 7-8, be sure to drop by our exhibit table and also join our two workshops: Developing Clinical Supervision Skills (Paul Hunziker) Integrated Care: What Does It Look Like? (Denna Vandersloot)  

On Saturday, October 5, 2019 the Great Lakes ATTC along with Sober Squad members Colin Cash, Gary Branchaud, and Shanelle Friedman will partner with the Red Lake Nation for a day of facilitated discussion and visioning. The facilitated discussion, based on the work of Dr. Dietra Hawkins, is rooted in Appreciative Inquiry, Cultural Agility, and Asset Based Community Development will develop a comprehensive understanding of Red Lake Nation’s strengths and experiences within the recovery community. The goal of this TA project is to create a shared vision of a thriving recovery community for the Red Lake Nation. A clearly articulated vision gives meaning, purpose and direction to the grassroots recovery movement. This vision will serve as a framework for making systemic changes in the way behavioral health care is accessed by members of the community.   This is a closed event. However, you can learn more about our upcoming training and technical events on the Great Lakes ATTC website under Upcoming Events. If no upcoming events are taking place near you, please contact your nearest state project manager to inquire about future training opportunities in your region.

This two-day training will take place on October 4 (9am-4pm) and October 18 (9am-4pm). This Motivational interviewing (MI) training session provides social service, medical and behavioral health professionals with evidence-based methods for creating a person-centered approach to service delivery. MI is especially useful for partnering with patients and clients to conduct education and promote healthy behavior changes. This training will emphasize an engaging and skill-based instructional approach to appeal to learners of all types. Participants will be given many opportunities to observe, practice, receive feedback and interact with trainers and peers. The training is designed for professionals working in health care, mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and case management. Learning objectives Learn and practice the spirit, processes and skills of Motivational Interviewing; Learn and practice strategies for eliciting and responding to change talk; ​Practice using Motivational Interviewing skills to improve engagement, enhance motivation and decrease discord in relationships with clients; Create a motivational interviewing learning action plan.

The Judicial Academy of Puerto Rico and their Drug Court Program are interested in acquiring more knowledge on the screening and evaluation process and how to proceed with people who have Substance Use Disorders within the judicial system.