Past Events

This is a one day course on Opioid Use Disorders.

This training is designed for a mix of counsellors, psychologists, nurses, doctors, and other allied health professionals. Providers that attend this training will learn counselling skills for addiction interventions, especially as they relate to the PEPFAR 90-90-90 goals.

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.

THIS EVENT IS FOR KING COUNTY PROVIDERS; REGISTRATION BY SPECIAL INVITATION ONLY. This 1-day King County-sponsored workshop provides behavioral health counselors an opportunity to consider the potential impact of using Motivational Interviewing (MI) methods in facilitating counseling groups. The workshop includes brief instructional presentations, demonstrations, structured learning activities, and group facilitation skill practice, all within an MI framework. Clinicians who facilitate groups using a structured, manual-based format and those who utilize more process-focused methods will benefit equally from the workshop. It should be noted, however, that this workshop does not serve as a basic introduction to MI or to group facilitation. It is assumed that participants will have a basic understanding of MI and group facilitation.

This course is designed to train front-line staff to provide basic education about PEP/PrEP to clients who might benefit from the intervention.

Group therapy is a popular setting for the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction. As a result, a counselor will often experience their first and major role as an addiction treatment provider facilitating group therapy. Often the skills needed to conduct a group session are not formally taught within the treatment environment. Rather, professionals will gain their knowledge through practice and experience only. In response, this course will provide basic group counseling skills that apply evidence-based research into real world practice. In particular, skills that address heterogeneous group populations (various stages of their recovery process, age, gender, cultural diversity, sexual orientations, substance use, dual diagnoses, socioeconomic status, education, and support systems) unique to substance abuse treatment will be provided.

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.

Join us for our first webinar! This will be a chance for you to get to know NWATTC staff and learn about our areas of expertise and vision for the coming years.

This is a training event of the Clinical Supervision Foundations, ATTC Network course. This course introduces clinical supervisors, along with persons preparing to become supervisors, to the knowledge and skills essential to the practice of supervision. The curriculum is an introductory course intended as a first step in preparing clinicians to provide meaningful supervision.

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 is a closed event as the first training for service providers in a Federally Qualified Health Center that want to receive technical assistance to implement Motivational Interviewing in their clinical practice. These clinicians will work identifying signals and symptoms of mental health disorders. They will be utilizing MI to help people adhere and follow up treatment.

Training on CLAS standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) which offers consultation and training to help your organization meet the challenges of serving an increasingly diverse population.

Due to advances in medical treatment, HIV is now a chronic manageable condition. This 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.

(NEWLY UPDATED COURSE DESCRIPTION): 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 and systems level issues of culture including how bias and macroaggressions impact persons of marginalized communities, contrasting cultural values within the spectrum of dominant culture, the influence of client culture on engagement and communication for both provider and client and approaches to enhance collaboration, and culturally informed strategies for when visiting clients in their home.

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course covers the highest quality, evidence- based practices for treating patients with opioid use disorder. This course covers all medications and treatments for opioid use disorder, and provides the required education needed to obtain the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. This is an 8-hour blended course combining 4 hours of online learning followed by 4 hours of live learning. The live portion of the course builds off the content delivered in the online portion. Course faculty are expecting you to come to the live course with the online portion completed.

This two-day Motivational Interviewing (MI) Academy is a unique intensive workshop that includes multiple opportunities for participants to practice MI skills and receive individualized mentoring and feedback. Academy participants will learn and improve their MI skills through use of videos, real-plays, exercises, and scoring of recorded clinical sessions. Training participants can track their MI proficiency and skill development via the new MyMI web portal. Upon completion of the Academy, and submission of two work samples, participants will receive a completion certificate demonstrating their individualized MI proficiency level. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, goal-oriented method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. Studies on learning MI have shown, individual coaching and feedback contribute substantially to enhance of MI skills.

THIS EVENT IS FOR KING COUNTY PROVIDERS; REGISTRATION BY SPECIAL INVITATION ONLY. Developing Clinical Supervision Skills 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 observation of counselors, providing feedback, rating counselor performance, and writing a professional development plan to improve counselor performance. Training methods will include lecture, role play, and group assignments. The goal of this model is to improve counselor performance, structure clinical supervision, and provide a combination of teaching, training, and mentoring for counselors. Behavioral health professionals will find this training applicable in many clinical settings.

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 course will review the Ethics Code for OASAS Counselors. Topics include: definitions and foundations of ethics, principles and problem areas, professional responsibility and counselor considerations. Confidentiality will also be reviewed. There will be case studies, discussion, and information on technology and ethics.

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 EVENT IS FOR KING COUNTY PROVIDERS; REGISTRATION BY SPECIAL INVITATION ONLY. This King County-sponsored 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.

The South Africa HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) was launched on 17-18 January, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. The launch event was attended by representatives from 20 unique organisations. These included regional and national non-governmental organisations involved in the delivery of care for HIV, substance use disorders and mental illness; as well as provincial and national government. Attendees shared their expertise and provided strategic input to the newly formed ATTC. The launch event additionally marked the constitution of the National Advisory Board, whose ongoing strategic and technical contribution will greatly assist the ATTC in ensuring the appropriateness and relevance of our training and technical assistance offerings.

This interactive, one day course will provide an in-depth overview of the rationale, approach, and benefits of care to be more trauma-informed.

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.