This training will address key topics in working with people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Specific therapeutic and effective treatment strategies based on best practices will also be reviewed. CEUs - 6 For more information and details...
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Community Organizing for Prevention, Treatment and Recovery
Engaging leaders and other influencers in a community has always been critical for organizing efforts to support prevention, treatment and recovery. Effective community organizing skills are more important than ever in a social service environment where change is...
Ethics for Peer Recovery Specialists and Coaches
This training, designed for Peer Recovery Specialists, will explore key ethical issues including confidentiality, boundaries, and dual relationships. This training also provides participants with a forum for examining contemporary ethical, legal, and socio-cultural...
Ethics for Peer Recovery Specialists and Coaches
This training, designed for Peer Recovery Specialists, will explore key ethical issues including confidentiality, boundaries, and dual relationships. This training also provides participants with a forum for examining contemporary ethical, legal, and socio-cultural...
Gender Specific Care: From Initiation to Aftercare, Understanding the Needs of Women in Substance Use Treatment
In order to enhance client care and increase cultural competency the presentation will use research and case examples to highlight the importance of gender specific substance abuse treatment for women. Women often become addicted within the context of close...
Cultural Competency: Building Health Equity in the Workplace
This workshop is designed for the professional who hopes to gain a better understanding of culture and cultural competency issues and the ways to improve upon identifying and communicating with members of diverse populations. The participant will discover their own...
Addressing the Complex World of Personality Disorders
A personality disorder is a way of thinking, feeling and behaving that deviates from the expectations of the culture, causes distress or problems functioning, and lasts over time. Common to all personality disorders is a long-term pattern of behavior and inner...
Crisis Response: Neurobiology, Medical Consequences, and the Treatment of Alcohol Overdose and Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
This training will focus on the impact of alcohol on the entire system including neuro-biological change as well as medical complications from continued alcohol use. The participants will be able to identify symptoms of alcohol intoxication and impairment and alcohol...
PTSD: Trauma Informed Care
PTSD: Trauma Informed Care is an all day training in which participants will learn skills that assist in treating PTSD, include understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. This training will provide an overview of trauma related...
Pregnancy and Addiction
This three-hour workshop provides participants with a comprehensive overview on pregnant women and addiction. The session emphasizes early intervention, and how crucial it is in the outcome for mother and child, as well as the specific and more unique treatments...