Past Events

  Part II of Treatment Planning for Heartview (ND) will provide an opportunity for participants to receive technical assistance from the co-trainers as a follow-up to the Part I Treatment Planning training and learning activity assigned for review during this session.   THIS IS A CLOSED SESSION. Please contact the Mountain Plains ATTC at [email protected] for more information on this topic.  

Please join us for our Tribal Opioid Response Webinar on August 25th, 2021! Our topic this month will be: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Please note your time zone: 2-3:30 ET . 1-2:30 CT . 12-1:30 MT . 11-12:30 PT . 10-11:30 AKT Featuring our special guest speaker: Carolyn DeFord (Puyallup, Nisqually, Cowlitz) Carolyn DeFord is Puyallup, Nisqually, Cowlitz and mixed Pasted (settler) descendancy. She currently works for the Puyallup Tribe’s Community Domestic Violence Advocacy Program, where she supports program goals to address violence and abuse impacting the community. These important issues partnered with personal experience and being the daughter of a long term missing person have inspired her to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people, prevention, and the healing power of culture. In 2016, in an effort to bridge gaps in media, services, and awareness, Carolyn created Missing and Murdered Native Americans; a grassroots volunteer organization focused on supporting families, awareness, prevention and advocacy.

Behavioral health and health care settings offer a spectrum of programs including substance use, mental health, and medical and recovery services. Professionals providing these supports use an array of competencies to empathize and assist persons with substance use and other psychosocial problems. Always focused on helping others, professionals can experience challenges in practicing self-care for themselves. This interactive workshop provides an opportunity for providers to review wellness practices and experience the benefits of intentional, micro-structured, self-care interventions.

Esta Asistencia Técnica tiene el objetivo definir el concepto del autocuidado y describir la importancia de mantener un buen plan de autocuidado. Describir los eventos traumatizantes que el personal de justicia juvenil podría experimentar y que podrían llevar al trauma vicario. Definir el estrés organizacional y su impacto en el personal que trabaja en instalaciones de justicia juvenil./ This Technical Assistance aims to define the concept of self-care and describe the importance of maintaining a good self-care plan. Describe the traumatic events that juvenile justice staff might experience that could lead to vicarious trauma. Define organizational stress and its impact on staff working in juvenile justice facilities.

The Mid America Addiction Technology Transfer Center is partnering with the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, the Opioid Response Network, and Saint Louis University to develop a new series in response to the rising needs of serving clients with Stimulant Use Disorder (StimUD). The purpose of the Treating Stimulant Use Disorder Workshop Series is to provide education on treating clients with StimUD. There will be 4 virtual workshops that are 1.5 hours each that will include presentations from national experts in the variety of ways to address assisting people diagnosed with StimUD into the recovery process. This session is the 2nd session in the series.  Email Erika Holliday at [email protected] for any questions. 

This event is only open to those in SAMHSA Region 6 states (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). For more information on qualifications and participating please contact Mary Cook at [email protected].  Thank you! 

Nearly a third of all Americans have been affected by intimate partner violence (IPV) at some point in their lives. Health and behavioral health care professionals are well positioned to respond to cases of IPV. The trust within the provider and client/patient relationship offers opportunity to identify and support persons who may be victimized by IPV. This interactive webinar will review risk factors of IPV, screening tools for considerations, provider strategies for practice, and resources. 

Group work provides several effective important steps that help break the isolation often experienced by the client. This training will provide information on how to use groups as a treatment strategy and will address why using Motivational Interviewing in a therapeutic support group format is extremely effective. The training will explore issues of interpersonal interaction in the group process, group norms, empathy, and how to use the group format to lower resistance.

This is Session 6 of a 12-session Intensive TA series beginning 7/19/21 and ending 10/18/21.  The New England ATTC in partnership with the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital is hosting a series of Intensive TA consultation sessions with subject matter expert Myra Paull, LICSW.  This series begins on 7/19/21 and runs weekly for 12 sessions. The sessions build on current strengths that the staff have of facilitating groups for patients and discusses how to apply these skills to facilitating a consult group for their peers, in order to train new staff and provide oversight to existing staff to ensure fidelity to the curriculum. [This is a private event by invitation only]

Dates and times vary by course. For a list of sponsored courses view below. For a full detailed agenda, visit the Best Practices website. For 28 years, the New England ATTC has served as a proud regional workforce development partner for The Annual New England School of Best Practices in Addiction Services, commonly called Best Practices. This year, both the New England PTTC and MHTTC are joining us in supporting Best Practices activities from August 23-27, 2021. The School of Best Practices, developed from the New England Summer School, is an intensive 5-day learning opportunity for established addiction professionals to study an area of special interest in-depth, focusing heavily on evidence-based and promising approaches specific to addressing addiction. The New England ATTC will be hosting a number of plenary sessions and specialized courses focused on treatment and recovery support services to address specific needs of the regional workforce.  The New England ATTC is proud to sponsor several plenary sessions and courses including: PLENARY SESSIONS: Monday Opening Plenary Session: "Stigma, Drugs, and Treatment"  Wednesday Plenary Session: "Addressing Tobacco and Substance Use Disorders" Friday Closing Plenary: "The Future of Recovery" COURSES: 601.M.T.W: Clinical Supervision Foundations  * Meets: Monday, August 23 (2:00 pm – 5:15 pm ET), Tuesday, August 24 (10:30 am – 4:45 pm ET), and Wednesday, August 25 (10:30 am – 4:45 pm ET)  251.T: Stimulants and their Impact on Brain and Behavior – Best Practices and Approaches  252.T: Opioid Treatment in Correctional Settings  255.T: Ethics for Addiction Counselors 256.T Crisis Intervention Issues and Challenges  351.W: Helping people with Co-Occurring Substance Use & Mental Health Disorders from a Clinical Perspective 352.W: Mood Disorders and Substance Use 603.Th.F: Training of Trainers: Medication Assisted Treatment 101 and 201 *Meets for 4 Days: During Best Practices School: Thursday, August 26 & Friday, August 27 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm and Post-Program: Tuesday, August 31 & Wednesday, September 1 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm  451.Th: Advanced Clinical Supervision: What's Next? 453.Th: Violence against Women 456.Th: Stages of Change (Trans-Theoretical Model)  551.F: Addressing Methamphetamines 552.F: Cultural Considerations for Increasing Positive Outcomes for LGBTQ Individuals Across the Continuum of Care 554.F: Race and Violence in Our Communities  701.P: The Power of Groups: Group Work Using Motivational Interviewing *Meets Post-Program: Thursday, September 2 (10:00 am - 2:00 pm ET)    

Need assistance applying and/or integrating the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria? Join On-the-Spot the 3rd Friday of each month at 10:00 a.m. MT / 11:00 a.m. CT for a one-hour session with an ASAM professional who will answer and discuss questions related to: program development; 6-dimensional assessment and treatment planning; and continued service, transfer and discharge management.    Participants will have the opportunity to share case studies and receive guidance on how to use ASAM to make informed decisions with the client across the continuum of care. OtS is an open forum guided by the participants at each session. We look forward to meeting you and providing guidance on using ASAM.  No registration required, join anytime within the hour.   Join ASAM Integration and Application OtS anytime during the scheduled day/time using the Zoom login below: Step 1: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/761231872 Step 2:  Join by Telephone (ONLY if device does not have a microphone built in) Dial: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) Meeting ID: 761 231 872

Join the Mountain Plains ATTC for a special On-the-Spot Summer Series with sizzling hot topics and on-the-go tips to make your summer workflow easy and breezy.   Guided by participant questions, subject matter experts will take you on a deeper dive into Digital Ethical Dilemmas, Motivational Interviewing, Clinical Supervision, and Digital Peer Recovery Support to help you travel toward increasing knowledge, building skills, and changing practice through the adoption of evidence-based and promising practices.   So, hold on to your virtual device and ride the On-the-Spot wave this summer! Every 3rd Thursday of the Month, June-September, 12:00pm MT / 1:00 CT  Riding theSupervision Wave August 19th​  Grab your internet surfboard and learn more about clinical supervision! Discussions on how technology can provide an innovative way to approach clinical supervision, supervision on the fly, and more will be discussed. To join On-the-Spot Summer Series use the Zoom login below: Step 1: Click HERE to Join the Zoom Meeting Room Step 2: One tap mobile              +1 669 900 6833              Meeting ID: 930 8052 4762              Find your local number here

Esta Asistencia Técnica tiene el objetivo definir las estrategias de manejo para la supervivencia e introducir algunos ejemplos del uso que podrían darle los jóvenes. Introducir el concepto de un plan de seguridad informado para el trauma y describir su uso. Educar al personal sobre formas en que pueden ayudar a los jóvenes. / The objective of this Technical Assistance is to define management strategies for survival and to introduce some examples of the use that young people could give it. Introduce the concept of a trauma informed safety plan and describe its use. Educate staff on ways they can help youth.

  This session will be a guided discussion for TOR Grantees to share your expertise, unique tribal and community practices, and offer peer-to-peer support for your TOR program.   In 2021, we will be holding this session on the second Wednesday of each month for an hour and a half: 4 - 5:30 EST . 3-4:30 CST . 2-3:30 MST . 1-2:30 PST . 12-1:30 AKST

  Part II of Treatment Planning for Heartview (ND) will provide an opportunity for participants to receive technical assistance from the co-trainers as a follow-up to the Part I Treatment Planning training and learning activity assigned for review during this session. THIS IS A CLOSED SESSION. Please contact the Mountain Plains ATTC at [email protected] for more information on this topic.  

In Part 2 of this behavioral health webinar, the presenters will offer suggestions on how to approach Indigenous peoples in a clinical way that also speaks to a worldview from an Ingenious perspective, and will conclude by providing some resources that may assist clinicians and community members in addressing the issues aforementioned.  Presenters:  Keaw’e Bone, EBCI, Lakota, and Hawaiian Theresa Sault-Brill, Aniishinabek and Menominee   Please note your time zone: 1-3 ET . 12-2 CT . 11-1 MT . 10-12 PT . 9-11 AKST

Presenter: Tana Russell and Maureen Greeley, Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling  Problem gambling can have devastating impacts on individuals, families, and communities. It can have an impact on personal finances, individual well-being, family and business relationships, employment, mental health, suicidal thoughts or attempts, and more. Compared to other addictive disorders, problem gambling (including Gambling Disorder) is associated with a high rate of suicide attempts. This session will offer a broad overview of problem gambling and its impacts. It will include an overview of gambling, recreational gambling, problem gambling, and Gambling Disorder. Information on how to pursue Gambling Counselor Certification will also be provided in the session. Learning Objectives: Understand the difference between recreational gambling, problem gambling, and Gambling Disorder. Know where to go to get more information and training, and where to refer clients for gambling help services. Know where to go to learn more about becoming a Certified Gambling Counselor   Download/share flyer  

  Join On-the-Spot the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. MT / 11:30 a.m. CT for a one-hour session with knowledgeable providers and subject matter expert(s) who will answer questions and lead discussions around a variety of topics related to successes and challenges of using videoconferencing to offer clinical/peer recovery services via digital technologies. Please join anytime during the session to ask your questions and share your thoughts and experiences regarding the transition of services to the use of videoconferencing methods.   SPECIAL GUEST: Julie K. Bonnell, MA, LPC, LAC   Julie has worked with clients with co-occurring disorders and in the behavioral health field for 16 years. She made a huge shift from all in-person to all virtual services when the COVID-19 public health emergency occurred in March 2020. Since then, Julie has been using virtual technologies in her work with Outpatient Clinics to provide court and DMV-ordered Education and Therapy classes for Impaired Driving Offenses consisting of 6 two-hour groups per week coupled with individual clinical sessions. Join us on this special guest event to hear how Julie successfully moved her practice online, the challenges and triumphs experience, and more importantly, the client successes.   OtS is an open forum guided by the participants at each session. We look forward to meeting you and providing guidance on using Videoconferencing.    No registration required, join anytime within the hour. To join Videoconferencing to Deliver Treatment and Recovery Services OtS use the Zoom login below on the scheduled time and day: Step 1: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/99479731969 Step 2:  Join by Telephone (ONLY if device does not have a microphone built in): Phone: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)  Meeting ID: 994 7973 1969  

This event is only for those attending the South Dakota Area Health Education Center’s hybrid event, "Mission: Possible | Reducing the Impact of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness in Our Communities," on August 18-19, 2021. If you would like more information about this presentation please reach out to Abby Moore at [email protected]

This is a two-part training (August 17 & 18 from 1pm-4pm). You must attend both sessions to receive credit. One registration signs you up for both days. The cost is free. Recovery Ready Workplaces support their communities by recognizing recovery from substance use disorder as a strength and by being willing to work intentionally with people in recovery. Encourage a healthy and safe environment where employers, employees, and communities can collaborate to create positive change and eliminate barriers for those impacted by addiction. During this training, participants will learn about: The impact of substance use disorders in the workplace Potential barriers to employment The benefits of hiring people in recovery What is recovery? Language and stigma; Why words matter How to cultivate a recovery-ready workplace Who should attend: Mental health professionals; mental health advocates; mental health caretakers; behavioral health professionals; and the general public. All persons who interact with patients, which may include intake staff, reception area personnel, drivers, maintenance staff, as well as professional staff. Presenter: Andre Reid is the founder and president of Philadelphia's National Alliance of Medication Assisted Recovery (NAMA), an organization created to advocate for the expansion of MAT for people from diverse backgrounds and communities. Andre gains his knowledge from working at Philadelphia Office of Addiction Services in combination with his lived experiences which provides him a unique perspective on lack of equity in healthcare, socioeconomic benefits and community support.

The Mid America Addiction Technology Transfer Center is partnering with the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, the Opioid Response Network, and Saint Louis University to develop a new series in response to the rising needs of serving clients with Stimulant Use Disorder (StimUD). The purpose of the Treating Stimulant Use Disorder Workshop Series is to provide education on treating clients with StimUD. There will be 4 virtual workshops that are 1.5 hours each that will include presentations from national experts in the variety of ways to address assisting people diagnosed with StimUD into the recovery process. This session is the 2nd session in the series.  Email Erika Holliday at [email protected] for any questions. 

Esta Ayuda Técnica tiene el objetivo de trabajar con las tareas de desarrollo infantil y centrarse en las tareas claves del desarrollo adolescente. Proporcionar ejemplos del impacto del trauma en las tareas de desarrollo. Alentar a los participantes a que crean en que pueden hacer una diferencia en la vida de los jóvenes./ This Technical Aid is intended to work with child development tasks and focus on key adolescent development tasks. Provide examples of the impact of trauma on developmental tasks. Encourage participants to believe that they can make a difference in the lives of young people.

Aggressive and drug-seeking behavior creates unique and often frustrating challenges in clinical settings, often these behaviors are fueled by substance use and trauma related disorders.  This presentation will offer strategies for addressing these behaviors in an assertive and therapeutic approach while retaining patient engagement.  This interactive and experiential presentation offers an overview of the impact of trauma on the recovery process from a social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspective and will provide clinicians with skills to work with people affected by substance use and trauma throughout their recovery, as well as, understanding the conceptual framework of trauma-informed practice. [This is a closed event]

Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based, conversation model for evoking and enhancing intrinsic motivation to change behaviors. In this video-conversation, participants will discuss the core components of this model and practice using the skills of Motivational Interviewing, particularly in the context of substance use behavior change(s). Prior knowledge of Motivational Interviewing is not required. This learning community is open to everyone engaging in conversations about behavior change - educational degrees or credentials are also not required.