The many barriers that the Hispanic and Latino population face when accessing cultural and linguistically competent care is well documented. This interactive training will inform on how integrating culture in practice can help address these barriers and effect successful outcomes for Hispanic and Latino clients with substance abuse disorders. Discussions will include the correlation between Latino culture and drug abuse, cultural factors that come up in treatment, and culturally informed strategies for practice.
Face-to-Face Training
You may know CPR. You can call 911. But can you administer first aid in a mental health crisis?
Mental Health First Aid is an 8 hour course where you can learn how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. You will learn to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and addictions.
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.
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.
Webinar/Virtual Training
The GLATTC Advisory Board will meet virtually on Wednesday November 15, 2017 from 1pm-2pm Central Time
The most effective means of treating co-occurring disorders (COD) is through evidence-based integrated treatment practice in order to provide persons with COD with the highest likelihood of successful disease management and quality of life. This interactive training will inform on evidence-based practice competencies for integrated mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services in health care settings.
The content will include the prevalence and overlapping bio-psychosocial factors of SUD, MH, and impact on health, essential behavioral and treatment skills and attitudes for clinicians treating COD, review of the screening and assessment process and tools to develop an integrated treatment plan, and the benefits of incorporating a trauma informed environment for both patients and providers.
Face-to-Face Training
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.
Face-to-Face Training
This three-hour workshop will introduce essential principles and skills associated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for adolescent substance use. Participants will learn how to conceptualize cases within a CBT framework, plan treatment, and apply basic CBT strategies to intervene with adolescent who misuse substances. Case examples and role plays will be used to demonstrate use of the following core CBT skills: positive activity scheduling, problem solving, thought changing, and affect regulation.
Face-to-Face Training
THIS IS A CLOSED EVENT FOR THE RIDOC
Trauma Informed Care is a strength-based framework that is responsive to the impact of trauma and involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma of persons in care. This interactive course will define trauma, and inform on commonly seen trauma and stress disorders and their symptomatology. Discussions will explore the impact of trauma on brain development and its correlation to reactive behavior, screening for trauma, and strategies to apply in prevention and treatment to create a trauma informed environment.
Face-to-Face Training
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.
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.
Face-to-Face Training
THIS TRAINING IS A CLOSED EVENT FOR TAUNTON STATE HOSPITAL.
This workshop provides an overview of Motivational Interviewing. It is designed to familiarize participants with the spirit, skills, and strategies of the model, and equip them to use those elements to begin work in this evidence-based practice. Methods used will include lecture and discussion, live and videotaped demonstration and coached practice. Motivational Interviewing is a person-centered, directional method of conversation that engages a person’s internal motivation to make positive changes in their lives. This evidence-based approach focuses on partnering with the person and drawing on their experiences and wisdom to develop reasons for change and strategies to achieve it.
Exclusive statewide event in NH for behavioral healthcare providers and organizations, including mental health and substance use disorders.
This training event, requested by PR SSA The Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration, will discuss the effects on survivors of a natural disaster such as the two hurricanes that hit PR during last September. The audience are responders and disaster relief workers that will work with communities that could experience a broad range of physical, psychological, behavioral, spiritual reactions that could cause enough distress to interfere with coping and recovery. Participants will aquire a broad comprehension of the causes and effects of trauma.
Face-to-Face Training
This training will present facts regarding:the history of opioid treatment in the United States, changes in the laws regarding treatment of opioid addiction and the implications for the treatment system, how medication will benefit the delivery of opioid treatment and the types of medications used to treat opioid use disorder.
This training is designed to help providers increase their capacity to incorporate elements of Hispanic culture when using the cultural formulations framework with Hispanics and Latinos with substance use disorders. Content is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on substance use disorders, client's treatment and recovery process.
Discussions include the benefits of an intercultural relationship, activities using case studies and skills practice with the cultural formulation interview (CFI) tool, and review of effective culturally informed interventions for when working with Hispanic and Latino populations
This half-day course will introduce participants to crystal methamphetamine use among MSM, which has increased recently in New York City among MSM of color. It will describe crystal meth, routes of administration, reasons why people use it, and some treatment options.
Face-to-Face Training
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.
Due to advances in medical treatment, HIV is now a chronic manageable condition. This half-day course will review the basics of HIV/AIDS, outline the changes in medications and medication management, and look at how these changes affect clients today. The course will review the co-existing disabilities of substance use, mental health, and hepatitis C and provide information on HIV prevention today.
This series aims to make Baltimore healthier by informing, educating and providing training to clergy and faith leaders about behavioral health care needs and strategies. Topics to be discussed: Managing HIV for; how to sustain faith and health care; and medications and their use. Speakers are Dorcas Baker with Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Dr. Keith Crawford with PharmD, NIH.
The 14th Annual Statewide Integrated Care Conference will be held in Universal City, California, at the Hilton Universal Hotel on October 25-26, 2017. This year's conference theme is Integrating Substance Use, Mental Health, and Primary Care Services: Resilience in a Changing Environment.
This year, we have created thematic tracks that recognize the importance of addressing the needs of specific populations and of system transformation. Attendees may follow tracks (including LGBT issues, primary healthcare, children and transition-age youth, and criminal justice, among others) through the breakout sessions, or mix and match content to meet their own needs. All workshop presenters will address how their specific topic area relates to the theme of integration from the ground up.
For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.uclaisap.org/dmhcod/html/statewide-integrated-care-conference.html
Face-to-Face Training
You may know CPR. You can call 911. But can you administer first aid in a mental health crisis?
Mental Health First Aid is an 8 hour course where you can learn how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. You will learn to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and addictions.
Face-to-Face Training
The Annual Candlelight Celebration is hosted by the ASU Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy & Mental Health Awareness Coalition to recognized and honor people who live with mental illness and come together to reduce the associated stigma.
