Past Events

*This learning collaborative session is for King County providers only, by invitation.  King County SBIRT Learning Collaborative Kick-off Meeting Join us for initial kick-off meeting for the King County SBIRT ED Provider Learning Collaborative. This initial session will be an opportunity to meet the other SBIRT ED providers and discuss current strengths and challenges in the SBIRT workflows. A presentation on the NIATx process improvement model and how it relates to the SBIRT process will be highlighted during this session. We will also discuss the format of the Learning Collaborative over the next two years and explore areas of interest for future presentations and webinars. Learning Objectives for the Session Understand the NIATx model of process improvement in behavioral health Begin application of the NIATx model to the SBIRT worksite Explore SBIRT challenges around implementation and priority areas Facilitators: Denna Vandersloot, M Ed; Jennifer Wyatt, LMHC, MAC, CDP *This learning collaborative session is for King County providers only, by invitation.   

As part of its “Enhancing Workforce Capacity to Provide Clinical Supervision for Substance Use Disorders” (CS-4-SUD) initiative, Mid-America ATTC is hosting a ten-session Clinical Supervision Project ECHO Clinic. Participants completed a 14-hour online course and a two-day in-person training on the ATTC Network’s curriculum, “Clinical Supervision Foundations.” In alignment with the Project ECHO model, each 1 ½-hour ECHO session involves a didactic presentation, an update from one or two of the participants who utilized feedback with their supervisee since their initial presentations, and two new case presentations on supervisee dilemmas to which recommendations are provided. Twenty-six clinical supervisors are in the Project ECHO Clinic, each presenting one or two case presentations in order to receive feedback. The clinic Hub team is Christina Boyd, LSCSW, LCAC, and Scott Breedlove, MS, CPS, MARS. The didactic topic for this session is: Helping Supervisees Understand and Manage Countertransference.  Registration is currently full, but this intensive learning opportunity will be repeated with a future cohort. Contact Project Manager Bree Sherry at [email protected] for more information.

This course is an introduction to "Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)" and is offered to participants in the Community Behavioral Health Collaborative. As a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach, SBIRT is used to identify persons with at-risk or problematic use of alcohol or illicit drugs before the onset of dependency. It can also be used to deliver referrals to treatment services for persons who may meet the criteria of a substance use disorder (SUD). This interactive training will discuss validated evidence based tools used in SBIRT, how to provide a brief intervention to modify risky substance use, and how to facilitate referrals to treatment services. The training is suitable for licensed clinical and non-licensed staff.

This training provides physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants an in-depth look at the theoretical foundations of the Criteria, including clinically driven services, biopsychosocial assessment, the six dimensions, continued stay and transfer/discharge criteria.

Motivational interviewing, a treatment approach developed by William Miller, has been well established as an effective way to promote behavior change in individuals. This face-to-face training course requires previous training and experience using motivational interviewing techniques in clinical practice. It will provide in depth instruction, practice, and feedback on fostering and utilizing change talk to increase client motivation, and movement toward change across all health, mental health and substance use conditions.  At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to: 1.    Define at least three (3) key principles of motivational interviewing 2.    Compare the effectiveness of motivational interviewing to traditional approaches to counseling individuals with substance use problems 3.    Describe and demonstrate the effective delivery of at least three MI micro-skills that will be used to help individuals increase motivation for substance use related         changes 4.    Explain how to apply motivational interviewing techniques in typical clinical circumstances 5.    Describe how ambivalence is the key characteristic to be resolved in order for change to occur

Trauma-informed care is a practice framework that recognizes the presence of trauma and its impact, and how to effectively minimize its effects without causing additional trauma.  This interactive course covers definitions of trauma and trauma-informed care, explores the impact of trauma on our client populations, looks at how trauma impacts brain development, outlines screening and assessment for trauma, and strategies to apply in prevention and treatment.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to enhance leadership knowledge and skills of the attendees, and build cohesion among the members of this leadership team. This will be achieved over the course of two days: the first being on January 31, and the second on March 14, 2019. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Understand and identify the similarities and differences between management and leadership Evaluate personal strengths and areas for growth for self-management in the leadership role Apply knowledge and skills in change management at the individual, program and systems levels PRESENTER: Holly Ireland Project Director, Central East ATTC   Download the flyer    

In the second session of the Region 7 Recovery Stakeholders Learning Community, Scott Johnston of Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers and Bobbi Jo Reed of Healing House, Inc. will present on "Recovery Housing Quality Standards and the Accreditation Process: A Missouri Perspective on a National Movement." The Region 7 Recovery Stakeholders Learning Community occurs the last Thursday of each month from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Participants join via Zoom, a free videoconferencing software. Each session contains a presentation on a recovery-related topic, following by networking and discussion among recovery stakeholders in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Registration is required for each session.  

This course will define and explore stress and the process of vicarious traumatization. A model of worker self-care will also be presented and participants will review their own self-care behaviors.

For this project, the ATTC has partnered with the Region III - Title X Family Planning Program to build capacity for its provider network to implement evidence-based screening tools, provide targeted counseling, and when appropriate, refer patients to treatment for substance use disorders. The launch meeting will orient participants to the project, and begin the process of developing their SBIRT implementation plans. Participants will embrace their role as implementation facilitator: making decisions, identifying needs, and overcoming challenges to improve their program's clinical practice. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Describe the importance of implementing SBIRT in Title X family planning sessions Have an understanding of the Intensive Technical Assistance 9-month project, and its role in implementation facilitation Apply implementation facilitation skills rehearsed in small-group sessions, and incorporate into their site's SBIRT Implementation plan FACILITATORS: Holly Ireland and Shelley Miller *THIS IS A CLOSED MEETING

Trauma informed care is a practice framework that recognizes the presence of trauma and its impact, and how to effectively minimize its effects without causing additional trauma. This interactive course will define trauma and trauma-informed care, explore trauma & stress disorders and symptomology, look at how trauma impacts on brain development, and strategies to prevent re-traumatization.

The intersection between poverty and disability runs throughout all domains of one’s life. While the traditional course of action in treating mental illness and substance use has been medically-based, and more recently recovery-based, little attention has been paid to the effects that living on public benefits has on one’s mental health. This ATTC-NYAPRS Costly Price of Benefits Learning Collaborative will focus on employment as the “therapeutic intervention” in helping people recover from mental illness and substance use. Using the “Costly Price of Benefits” curriculum, providers will learn to embed employment into the very fabric of their organizational culture.

The National Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center, a SAMHSA funded center located at the National Latino Behavioral Health Association, cordially invites you to its first webinar.

Professional boundaries set the parameters of effective and appropriate interaction between professionals and the persons they serve. They protect clients or patients as well as the provider.  This course will discuss professionalism and ethics, dual relationships, how to build a safe working environment and maintain professional boundaries that are essential for practice and achieving client goals. This three-hour 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 the CASAC/CPP/CPS education and training requirements. Important: To attain an "OASAS Certificate of Completion", participants are required to attend both sessions to receive CASAC hours.

This interactive daylong training will introduce participants to the subject of case management for working with clients and patients before, during, and following active treatment for a substance use disorder. The key differences between case management and clinical treatment will be explored. The training will introduce the foundational principles of case management theory and present the four prevalent models of case management including the  brokerage/generalist model and the strengths-based model. The training will present the core functions of case management framed as the 3 C’s (Connection, Communication, and Coordination), and explore the three types of agency coordination by which case management can be facilitated. Throughout the training, individuals will have the opportunity to operationalize concepts through active participation in multiple interactive exercises.  At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to: 1.    Describe at least three key differences between case management and clinical treatment 2.    Identify at least three principles of case management theory 3.    Describe at least two models of case management 4.    Explain how to apply the three key functions of case management to complex cases 5.    List the key steps necessary to perform a comprehensive case management assessment

This training is led by Shaheema Allie and Rehana Kaderfor Lifeline social workers and social auxiliary workers. Providers that attended this training gained knowledge and skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques in order to promote behaviour change related to substance use disorders: such skills are expected to improve HIV treatment outcomes through improved treatment of co-occurring alcohol or drug use disorders.

This training is led by Tara Carney and Rehana Kader for Lifeline social workers and social auxiliary workers. This training is focused on how to conduct screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and other illicit drug use. Attendees gained knowledge and skills in assessment, screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment for substance use disorders. Such skills are expected to improve HIV outcomes through increased detection and intervention of co-occurring and drug use disorders.

This training is for Multnomah County HIV Clinic providers only.

How do you engage with clients who are using marijuana heavily, but not interested in treatment? This webinar, presented by Denise Walker, PhD, of the University of Washington, will focus on the Check-Up model of intervention designed to attract voluntary participation from non-treatment-seeking marijuana users. The elements of the intervention will be described with a focus on topics of conversation utilized to enhance motivation to change marijuana use.

This interactive two-part webinar focuses on "cultural competence" and it's inherent limitations when seeking to provide services to LGBTQIA people. In order to engage and retain, the full-spectrum of people we want and need to reach, we may be required to change our life-style. "Cultural Humility", is not a "one sensitivity training and done", or simply study of the LGBTQIA Lexicon, it is a life long process. Join our learning community and contribute to the health and well-being of the people you have the opportunity to serve. *Important:  To attain an "OASAS Certificate of Completion", participants are required to attend both sessions to receive CASAC hours.

As part of its “Enhancing Workforce Capacity to Provide Clinical Supervision for Substance Use Disorders” (CS-4-SUD) initiative, Mid-America ATTC is hosting a ten-session Clinical Supervision Project ECHO Clinic. Participants completed a 14-hour online course and a two-day in-person training on the ATTC Network’s curriculum, “Clinical Supervision Foundations.” In alignment with the Project ECHO model, each 1 ½-hour ECHO session involves a didactic presentation, an update from one or two of the participants who utilized feedback with their supervisee since their initial presentations, and two new case presentations on supervisee dilemmas to which recommendations are provided. Twenty-six clinical supervisors are in the Project ECHO Clinic, each presenting one or two case presentations in order to receive feedback. The clinic Hub team is Christina Boyd, LSCSW, LCAC, and Scott Breedlove, MS, CPS, MARS. The didactic topic for this session is: Boundaries with Supervision.  Registration is currently full, but this intensive learning opportunity will be repeated with a future cohort. Contact Project Manager Bree Sherry at [email protected] for more information.

We will present an overview of the current opioid overdose epidemic nationally and locally, and explain how naloxone can be used to save a life in the event of an overdose emergency. We will teach potential lay responders how naloxone works and train them on how to prevent, recognize, and intervene in an overdose emergency using naloxone. We will provide critical information on who is most at risk, the importance of aftercare, the specific provisions of New York State’s Good Samaritan Law, and how to report an overdose reversal. Each person will be provided with a naloxone kit free of charge. Each trainee will also have the opportunity to handle the device and demonstrate competency in its use.