Past Events

This training will explore the impact of parental trauma, mental health challenges, and alcohol and substance use on children and families; and how professionals can help families build resilience.

This training is the first of six trainings for health professionals and lay workers at the Denis Hurley Centre. The Denis Hurley Centre serves thousands of homeless, refugees, and people living with HIV and TB. Attendees will gain knowledge around cultural competencies to better conceptualise the circumstances and care of their patients in order to improve HIV treatment outcomes through strategies such as increased detection and intervention of HIV and co-occurring mental, alcohol and other drug use disorders.

Telebehavioral health and recovery support can assist with the expansion of services and improve client outcomes. It is essential to ensure that professionals providing services using videoconferencing mediums obtain comprehensive and specific training and supervision to offer the best quality of care. This series will provide a 20-hour curriculum that covers topics essential to practicing in an online environment utilizing blended activities of group and self-study.

Working with persons from diverse backgrounds in any discipline requires that professionals engage in a culturally responsive manner that can essentially increase the likelihood of successful outcomes for both agencies and consumers. This skills building training is designed to instruct on agency level issues of culture, how bias and macroaggressions impact persons of marginalized communities, the influence of client culture on engagement and communication, and culturally informed strategies to integrate in practice.

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for individuals as well as health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services. OBJECTIVES: **Provide introductory overview of the Cultural and Linguistic Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards and their application in behavioral healthcare environments; **Outline themes for remaining sessions of the webinar series. FACULTY: 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.

Part II: August 1 & 2, 2018; Training to Train Welcome! Congratulations on making the decision to train others in SBIRT. As you well know, SBIRT is effective in terms of many important factors; cost, quality of life, increased health, fewer injuries, and loss of life. For more information, see the SAMHSA information sheet: Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral To Treatment (SBIRT) in Behavioral Health Care (https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/sbirtwhitepaper_0.pdf) Through your participation in this program, you'll be preparing to deliver training on an evidence-based approach that has been shown to work. In order for SBIRT to work, the interventionists have to do it with fidelity to the model. We'll be working hard to prepare you to train successful interventionists.

This training is for the University of Pretoria Department of Family Medicine mixed management level faculty members and other healthcare workers. Attendees will gain knowledge and skills in assessment, screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment for people living with HIV. After this training, attendees will be able to apply these skills to the care of their patients in order to improve HIV treatment outcomes through strategies such as increased detection and intervention.

Working with persons from diverse backgrounds in any discipline requires that professionals engage in a culturally responsive manner that can essentially increase the likelihood of successful outcomes for both agencies and consumers. This skills building training is designed to instruct on agency level issues of culture, how bias and macroaggressions impact persons of marginalized communities, the influence of client culture on engagement and communication, and culturally informed strategies to integrate in practice.

Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic model for evoking and enhancing people's intrinsic motivation to change unhealthful behaviors that are inconsistent with their values and goals. In this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of motivational interviewing and how to apply them in their clinical work, particularly in the context of substance abuse treatment.

This SBIRT training is designed for mental health and substance use disorders, and is offered for KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health workers. Attendees will gain knowledge and skills in assessing and screening for mental health substance use disorders, brief interventions, as well as problem solving techniques. Attendees will learn how to interpret the results in order to improve HIV treatment outcomes through detection, brief interventions and referral to treatment.

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.

Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic model for evoking and enhancing people's intrinsic motivation to change unhealthful behaviors that are inconsistent with their values and goals. In this workshop, participants will learn the techniques of motivational interviewing and how to apply them in their clinical work, particularly in the context of substance abuse treatment.

Workshop for clinicians and providers, Government Employees responding to self-harm and suicidality. Workshop to include an overview of self-injurious behaviors and suicidality, suicide myths, best practices for implementing safety plans, and techniques for differentiating between risk levels and lethality.

This is a two-part training. The second day is on August 10th. Please plan to attend both, full days of training to receive the CEU for this session. Partial credit not available. Clinical Supervision in Substance Use Disorder Treatment I is for the beginning supervisor as well as those who have experience in clinical supervision. Participants will have an opportunity to learn a model of Clinical Supervision that includes observing counselors, providing feedback, rating counselor performance, and writing a professional development plan. Training methods will include brief presentations, role play, and group interaction. The goal of this model is to provide a structure to improve counselor performance. The examples and materials used in this training are specific to Substance Use Disorder Treatment. Participants will learn to use TAP 21, The Addiction Counseling Competencies, the RUBRICS and TIP 52.

In this interactive one day workshop we'll prepare staff to deliver SBIRT in public health and primary care settings. This interactive training day will challenge participants to learn the necessary knowledge and skills needed to screen patients accurately, provide non-judgmental feedback, deliver motivationally based brief interventions, and make patient centered recommendations.

Would you like to enhance your current knowledge and also practice how to effectively use Motivational Interviewing (MI)? This series will provide a 20-hour curriculum that covers topics and provides interactive practice opportunities essential to the development and/or refinement of MI skills and relational style. Emphasis is placed on the “intentional use” of MI skills to identify a change goal, resolve ambivalence and increase motivation for change.

The ASAM Integration (ASAM-I) online learning series offers a unique interactive experience that provides real-time practice opportunities through consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, and discussion essential to the development and/or refinement of applying ASAM Criteria in a clinical setting. **This series is being offered to Wyoming providers only.

This training is for King County providers only. Behavioral health outcomes in the US are severely affected by widespread disparities resulting from past and present inequities, explicit and implicit bias and related barriers. This course will introduce the framework of cultural humility which equips us to successfully navigate these barriers, helping us to authentically partner with clients and peers, and to align our intent with our outcomes.

Telemental Health Ethics: What Clinicians and Supervisors need to Know and Do to Prevent Ethical Dilemmas.

In this interactive one day workshop we'll prepare staff to deliver SBIRT in public health and primary care settings. This interactive training day will challenge participants to learn the necessary knowledge and skills needed to screen patients accurately, provide non-judgmental feedback, deliver motivationally based brief interventions, and make patient centered recommendations.

Shedding the Light on Addiction for the Faith Community, then Integrating the Faith Community in the Opioid Epidemic

This Tutorial on Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health is presented by H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, CAS, FASAM, currently the Dean’s Executive Professor of Public Health at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. Video commentary on each chapter by Dr. Clark is included alongside downloadable and printable chapters of the report, with the opportunity to take notes and check your knowledge along the way. This resource was developed with support from grant nos. 1H79TI080205-01 and 1H79TI080816-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

This is the third webinar in a three part series on workforce recruitment and retention in behavioral health, with a specific focus on the field of addictions. In this webinar, Dr. Christine Chasek, Director of the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, will discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining skilled behavioral health professionals to rural areas. Dr. Michael Flaherty will offer insight on recruiting and retaining peer support workers.

The Motivational Interviewing - Into Practice series will provide a 20-hour curriculum that covers topics and provides interactive practice opportunities essential to the development and/or refinement of MI skills and relational style. Emphasis is placed on the “intentional use” of MI skills to identify a change goal, resolve ambivalence and increase motivation for change. **This series is being offered to North Dakota providers only.