Past Events

The New England ATTC is providing this training for the state of Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services employees. Stigma is a major barrier preventing millions of people who are struggling with substance use from entering treatment today. This presentation is designed to help professionals break that stigma that creates an unnecessary barrier to treatment by understanding recovery oriented language and strategies that can be integrated into practice immediately. [This is a closed event]

This is a closed training for mentors and mentees in the American Indian and Alaska Native Leadership Academy, featuring Professor Amy Colbert from the Tippie School of Business at the University of Iowa.

Numerous private and public agencies are collecting and reporting out information on state opioid policies to facilitate greater analysis and dissemination of state approaches for tackling the opioid epidemic. Most agencies focus on laws/statutes, which means that this is where the bulk of the research is happening. Definitions of many policies differ across some of the most commonly relied upon sources, which contributes to uncertainty regarding their impact. In this workshop, we will discuss some of the most common definitions being used for various policies, discuss how differences in assumptions regarding the meaning of “effective date” can have important implications regarding the likelihood of finding an impact through analysis, and discuss the importance of considering multiple policy domains.

Psychopharmacology is the study of substances that influence mental states. Such agents induce changes in mood, sensation, thinking, or behavior, and may be derived from plants or other natural sources or chemically synthesized in a laboratory. More information to come. Objectives: TBD Trainer: Jasmine Carpenter   This is a closed event.

In recent years, treatment centers have focused on creating trauma informed settings by integrating safety protocols and avoiding re-traumatization in service delivery. The emergence of COVID-19 as a pandemic has increased rates of trauma and stress in our communities to levels that most of us have not experienced. Still, providers need to be equipped to address the traumatic impact of the current environment. This webinar will look at some of the basics of trauma, as well as some of the effects of COVID-19 on trauma and look at ways to heal.

This interactive course will inform on substance use disorders, as defined and diagnosed by the DSM-5, (Diagnostic Statistical Manual, 5th Edition). Content will provide a focus on alcohol and opioids, cognitive impairments and consequent substance related behavior. With various factors potentially impacting communities in need, universal screening is recommended and may warrant referrals to an appropriate resource for further assessment. This content will discuss how substances impact the brain and how substance use changes neurological processes that can affect provider/client interactions. and require targeted approaches. Content will also review considerations for facilitating an evidence based, substance use screen within a culturally and trauma informed framework, and essential components of an effective referral.  Credits: This training meets the requirements for 1.5 renewal hours (CASAC, CPP, CPS) and 1.5 initial hours (CPP, CPS) through New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS). Participants must attend the session IN ITS ENTIRETY to receive a certificate of completion. 

The purpose of this webinar is to train personnel related to health services in general, regarding the use and risks of the use of vaping and its effects in the short and long term. The objectives are: Define the different types of electronic cigarettes and their components Discuss the risks of use, in children, adolescents and young adults Effects of nicotine with the use of electronic cigarettes CDC Recommendations and Epidemiology of Vaping Discuss the different prevention programs, aimed at parents, health service providers, teachers, and community leaders

    Many people can trace patterns of addiction, trauma, dark secrets, and drug related fatalities in their family for four or five generations. This virtual presentation is sponsored by the Southeast ATTC Regional Center and will focus on prevention, intervention, and treatment strategies to help break intergenerational patterns of addictions, trauma, and dark secrets in families. We will discuss the role of prevention specialists, therapists, providers. Trauma specialists, persons in recovery, families, and entire communities in breaking these patterns. Other topics include: how to create a healing forest to help break intergenerational patterns; the entire community as the prevention and recovery center; the unique risk and protective factors for children of parents with substance use disorders and prevention strategies; fetal alcohol spectrum as a risk factor and intervention strategies; the impact of siblings on the intergenerational transmission of addiction and prevention strategies in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina. Treatment providers, peer support communities, and community-based organizations in Region 4 are encouraged to register for free. Questions about Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (Southeast ATTC) or this training? Contact Michelle Harrison ([email protected]).      Six risk factors for intergenerational patterns of addiction in families. The role of prevention specialists, therapists, trauma specialists, and behavioral health specialists in breaking intergenerational patterns of addiction, trauma, and dark secrets. The roles of persons in recovery and families in breaking intergenerational patterns. The unique risks for children of substance-using parents. The impact of siblings on the intergenerational transmission of addiction and prevention strategies. How to create a healing forest to help break intergenerational patterns.   ====================================     Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant in the behavioral health field whose work has reached thousands throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Caribbean and British Islands. Mark has been a certified addictions counselor for 34 years. Mark is co-founder of Serenity Academy of Chicago, the only recovery high school in Illinois. He is past president of the board of the Illinois Chapter of NAADAC. He has had a 30-year career as a university educator having taught at the University of Chicago, Illinois State University, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, and Loyola University of Chicago, School of Social Work.   

COURSE DESCRIPTION Do your presentations inspire and influence your audiences? Do you know how to tackle tough topics and information overload? We use presentations as one of our primary strategies to share content knowledge, build skills, ignite calls to action and affect culture change. Many of us have attempted to create compelling presentations, however, most of us never receive any formal training in presentation design - despite all we expect presentations to do for us. In this three-hour virtual workshop, participants will learn practical skills to plan and deliver exceptional presentations using the tools and resources they already have. Please note: There is limited capacity for this event. If registration for the training is full, you will be added to a waitlist and notified if space opens up. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Apply a four-step process to create brain-friendly presentations List the most common presenter mistakes and understand how to prevent them Use tools and techniques that enhance learning Increase audience engagement and participation Use and display data effectively   Contact Hours: 3 NAADAC PRESENTERS Jamie Comstock and Robin Carr founded Info Inspired in 2014, after many years of designing and giving presentations with no formal training in this area, and watching their public health colleagues struggle with the same skills gap. Both are certified prevention specialists with 30 years’ combined experience in the field. They’ve spent the last several years researching and testing ways to not only capture and hold an audience’s attention but to also inspire audiences. They’ve spent countless hours refining the presentation planning process, identifying free resources, and learning how to maximize the tools they already had. It’s also important to know that they aren’t graphic designers, artists, or especially tech-savvy. Everything they do, you can do too. They’ve presented at the Community Anti Drug Coalitions of America’s Leadership Forum, the Maine Public Health Association Annual Meeting, the New England Institute of Addiction Studies, the New England School of Best Practices, and provided training and technical assistance to non-profit organizations throughout New England. They have been featured on the Organizing for Change podcast and have an on-demand webinar available through the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center.   This webinar is a collaboration between the Central East ATTC, the Central East MHTTC, and the Central East PTTC.

The New England ATTC is providing this training for the state of Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services employees. This course presents a protocol for providing clinical intervention that incorporates stages of recovery and the stages of change (trans-theoretical theory). A generic outline of treatment objectives is followed by discussions of how this model will benefit working with persons with co-occurring medical disorders (chronic pain), co-occurring psychiatric disorders, women who are pregnant, adolescents and young adults, and those with multiple substance use. Participants should have a working knowledge of Opioid Use Disorder and the three FDA-approved medications to assist persons in their recovery efforts. Participants should come prepared to share some of the challenges they've experienced while working with this populations. [This is a closed event]

  This virtual dialogue is sponsored by the Southeast ATTC Regional Center and will focus on how partnerships between primary care and behavioral health and comprehensive strategy can lead to health equity in underserved communities that are experiencing SUDs in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina.

This series of sessions features traditional Native American storytelling, along with time for discussion on what can be learned from the stories, as well as the ways these stories can be incorporated by Native American providers into their work with patients. Please note that while we encourage non-Native providers to attend these sessions to increase your cultural understanding and sensitivity, we ask that out of respect for cultural traditions, you do not use these stories as your own if they are not a part of your culture. Native storytelling is an long honored way of teaching lessons of life. We, as Native people, need to laugh while learning. For example, laughing at how Coyote makes funny mistakes. This can teach people how to avoid behaving as Coyote does. Further, Native legends can offer stories about Creation or the Trickster. However, some stories can only be told during certain times of the year. For example, Coyote legends are only told during the winter time because that is often when Native people would be in their lodges practicing survival skills to help the tribe thrive in difficult times. Traditionally, the storyteller needed to be an excellent psychologist and able to understand peoples’ perspectives. A story might be used in treatment to help a patient come to a realization in a culturally informed way. TUESDAYS, November 10 and 24, Dec 8 and 22 3-4 EDT . 2-3 CDT . 1-2 MDT . 12-1 PDT . 11-12 AKDT

3 Consecutive Tuesdays, 11/10, 11/17, and 11/24 Mid-America ATTC is sponsoring a virtual 3-part training on Hepatitis C basics. This presentation targets people who work in substance use treatment facilities and similar behavioral healthcare professionals who are interested in expanding services involving Hepatitis C testing and treatment in their organization.    This free learning opportunity will include: Review the basics of Hepatitis transmission and local/national viral Hepatitis trends.  Explain Hepatitis C testing and treatment protocols and discuss care guidelines with other professionals in your state. Identify tools to integrate testing and treatment into healthcare settings.   Click on the session dates below to register Tuesday, November 10, 1-2 p.m. (Central) Tuesday, November 17, 1-2 p.m. (Central) Tuesday, November 24, 1-2 p.m. (Central) Participants must register and attend all 3-sessions to receive a certificate of completion. The series is intended for behavioral healthcare professionals who provide services in IA, KS, MO, or NE. Questions? Contact [email protected]. 

3 Consecutive Tuesdays, 11/10, 11/17, and 11/24 Mid-America ATTC is sponsoring a virtual 3-part training on Hepatitis C basics. This presentation targets people who work in substance use treatment facilities and similar behavioral healthcare professionals who are interested in expanding services involving Hepatitis C testing and treatment in their organization.    This free learning opportunity will include: Review the basics of Hepatitis transmission and local/national viral Hepatitis trends.  Explain Hepatitis C testing and treatment protocols and discuss care guidelines with other professionals in your state. Identify tools to integrate testing and treatment into healthcare settings.   Click on the session dates below to register Tuesday, November 10, 1-2 p.m. (Central) Tuesday, November 17, 1-2 p.m. (Central) Tuesday, November 24, 1-2 p.m. (Central) Participants must register and attend all 3-sessions to receive a certificate of completion. The series is intended for behavioral healthcare professionals who provide services in IA, KS, MO, or NE. Questions? Contact [email protected]. 

Talking circles are based on the tradition of sharing circles.  Please join us together for our fourth virtual talking circle event. This event is held bi-weekly. This group will be facilitated by a Native guest and will focus on concerns about yourself, your family, your work, and/or your tribal community that you may be experiencing during these uncertain times. There is no fee or expectation to participate in this event. This is a respectful meeting space. Come share your concerns, offer support, and respect the group’s privacy. 1:30-3 EDT . 12:30-2 CDT . 11:30-1 MDT . 10:30-12 PDT . 9:30-11 . AKDT

This full day training will focus on working with street gangs in the Northeastern part of the United States. Participants will hear about the factors that contribute to the trajectory of U.S. adolescents and young adults becoming gang members, maintaining their gang affiliation and ceasing their membership.  The sessions will also address the vulnerability of local communities to street gangs and will discuss the variations, functions, risk and protective factors, and consequences.  Additionally, what function the gang serves in satisfying the psychological and social needs of their members will be addressed.  In order to continue to build health equity the training will address the complex relationship between street gangs, criminal justice, drugs, addiction, violence, health problems, family issues, and access to culturally competent services. Outcome objectives - the participants will: have a greater understanding of the complexity of street gangs, how they interact with community, and their impacts; increase knowledge of risk/protective factors, criminal justice, drugs, addiction, violence, health, and family issues; increase skills and strategies for engaging street gangs and creating meaningful access to health and human services (Building Health Equity); and identify and increase opportunities for collaborations with organizations that work with street gangs (community and faith based, health and human services, criminal justice, etc.). [This is a closed event]

An abundance of research has pointed to poor treatment outcomes for people with co-occurring trauma and addiction. Traditional addiction treatment has ignored the significant impact of trauma on personal recovery and subsequently people have continued to struggle as a result. With recent advances in understanding the impact of trauma, it is time for a change in the approach taken toward trauma and addiction. 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 trauma throughout their recovery, as well as, understanding the conceptual framework of trauma-informed practice.

How are our veteran patients faring during quarantine? What can we, as providers, do to support them during this time? These questions are on our minds and we hope to share strategies, resources, and support each other as we work with and care for our veteran patients, especially those in Native communities. If you work with veterans, or are a veteran who supports others, we welcome you to join us for these discussions. We hope to offer support and guidance and answer questions you may have about this issue, so please feel free to get in touch and share your ideas if there are any specific topics you would like to have covered. We look forward to sharing with you.

This course will introduce participants to stigma and discrimination around substance use disorders (SUDs). Other disabilities will be discussed, including mental health disorders and HIV. Participants will be able to reflect on their own practice and their agencies. 

The Mountain Plains ATTC is proud to collaborate with the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA) to sponsor a training series with the of goal increasing knowledge and skills regarding individuals with brain injuries and mental health and substance use disorders. Specifically, this series will highlight individuals with SUDs and a brain injury; youth with co-occurring disorders, and justice-involved individuals with brain injuries. Implications and recommendations for assessment and treatment will be highlighted in each of the 75-minute sessions.   Brain Injury and Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Justice-Involved Populations Gain an understanding of the prevalence of brain injury and co-occurrence of mental health and addictions in criminal and juvenile justice settings Learn strategies for identifying justice-involved individuals with brain injury Learn about the importance of psycho-education approaches in serving this population Gain an understanding of simple accommodations and supports to improve outcomes for this population   Presenter: Judy Dettmer, BS Judy Dettmer, BS has been working in the field of brain injury for 30 years. Ms. Dettmer serves as NASHIA’s Director for Strategic Partnerships and a Technical Assistance Lead for the Traumatic Brain Injury Technical Assistance and Resource Center at the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators. Ms. Dettmer has worked extensively with adults, children, and family members of individuals with brain injury. She has provided direct and systems consultation to improve the lives of individuals with brain injury. Finally, Ms. Dettmer has assisted with research efforts related to brain injury and conducted countless presentations, classes, and seminars on brain injury both in the state of Colorado and nationally.

Join us for this weekly discussion and TA hour for Tribal Opioid Response grantees. 3:00 – 4:00 pm CST

  Objectives for this session: Define Assessment Process Identify Assessment Instruments Define DSM-5 criteria for Substance Abuse and Dependence, specifiers and multi-axial assessment Describe ASAM levels of care and diagnostic and dimensional criteria 1-2:30 EST . 12-1:30 CST . 11-12:30 MST . 10-11:30 PST . 9-10:30 AKST

This is 6th session in part 3 of the larger series: Enhancing Workforce Capacity to Provide Clinical Supervision for Substance Use Disorders. Part 3 uses case-based learning via Project ECHO. Each ECHO session will last 1.5 hours and will include a 15-minute lecture on a topic in clinical supervision followed by 1-2 case presentations and reviews. The didactic topic for this session is Boundaries This cohort is full. If you are interested in participating in a future cohort, please email Bree at [email protected].  

The New England ATTC is providing this training for the state of Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services employees. This workshop is designed to highlight and explore the needs of treatment professionals working with culturally diverse individuals, organizations, and communities.  The participants will learn about Health Disparities, Cultural Intelligence, CLAS Standards and proven techniques and strategies for engagement and improving outcomes. [This is a closed event]