Wednesday, August 27, 2008
8:30-10 a.m.
Recovery Services
Henry Lozano, Corporation for National & Community Service Facilitator: Phil Orrick
Henry Lozano will be the morning keynote speaker. Lozano is a member of the Board of Directors for the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) and a Commissioner for President George W. Bush’s Advisory Commission on Drug Free Communities in the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He is a graduate of Teen Challenge, a faithbased, global ministry program for substance abuse treatment, and served as the director of Teen Challenge in California from 1974 to 1985. He is also the CEO of Californians for Drug Free Youth, Inc.
Lozano is a Board member of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), and has served three Presidents in substance abuse rehabilitation advisory positions. He is currently promoting President George W. Bush’s Access to Recovery Initiative, a competitive grant program providing federal funds to states and tribal governments for voucher programs that expand access to a range of effective substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services, including those provided by faith- and community-based programs.
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Skills Building Workshop
Motivational Interviewing
Sarah Kapostasy, Texas HIV Connection
This course is designed to introduce counselors to a counselor-guided, client-centered counseling approach intended to help clients express, explore and resolve ambivalence about behavioral change. It was adapted from the curriculum presented in the book "Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior" by William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick. In addition to learning the basics of this exciting counseling methodology, trainees will also learn Prochaska, DiClemente and Norcross model of the stages of change model. Participants will have the opportunity to practice their new counseling strategies through interactive role plays during the training.
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Criminal Justice
Addiction and Criminal Behavior
Delbert Boone, FMS Productions
During the past decade, the most significant advances in treating individuals with criminal involvement and addiction issues as separate populations have been in the field of cognitive behavioral psychology. This session will address the art of cognitive-behavioral treatment for clients who are dually affected with criminal conduct and substance abuse. By attending this session, participants will learn to: identify the parallels between addiction and criminal behavior; recognize pathological behaviors of clients that may sabotage restoration to physical, psychological, social and spiritual health; redirect unproductive client defense mechanisms; identify barriers to successful reintegration into society and appropriate counter measures to resolve them.
Counseling Essentials
Working with Adolescents with Dual Diagnoses: An REBT Approach, (Part 1)
Robert Adelman, Sundown Ranch
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) has many advantages for working with the adolescent population, yet is under-utilized with adolescent clients. Clinicians, if more aware of these advantages and how to match REBT methods to the specific needs of adolescents, will be more likely to use REBT in a powerful manner. With proper education and training, adolescents can learn to apply REBT directly to their emotional upsets and frustrating life events. That is; REBT can also be taught to adolescents to improve their emotional coping skills, or as Dr. Albert Ellis put it, to provide them with "an emotional education". REBT can be used to educate families about the origin of adolescents’ self-defeating behavior. Thus; effective treatment of the adolescent population promises the dual benefits of producing more harmonious, healthier functioning families, as well as prepares young people for having more meaningful and socially contributing lives. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their difficult cases to the workshop, or to be prepared to role-play a difficult case with the presenter.
Treatment
Counseling the Alcohol and Drug Dependent Client, (Part 1)
Alex Appiah, Eastfield College
The session will examine the qualities and characteristics of a good counselor specifically relating to Chemical Dependency. Ethical issues will also be discussed as they relate to professional practice. In addition, various approaches to counseling individuals with addictive problems will be explored.
Prevention
A C.A.R.E.ing Approach to Violence Prevention
Regina Birrekott, Mendez Foundation
This workshop will give participants an overview of research-based strategies and concepts used in comprehensive school-based violence prevention programs. It will include recent scientific and behavioral research findings on the effectiveness of these strategies. Examples of lessons in conflict resolution, anger management, respect for self and others and effective communication will be presented. Participants will get hands-on examples of ways to turn their school into a peaceable place.
Youth and Family
Inside the Mind of an Addict
Lenny Harner, Sundown Ranch
This session is designed to educate individuals on the disease concept of addiction, define parental denial, enabling and adequately arm individuals by exposing how addicts think, feel and behave.
Participants will learn that addicts have two people inside one body. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adequately describe this phenomenon. Participants will travel down a correlative journey that compares chemical dependency to Dissociative Identity Disorder. Exposing Mr. Hyde and learning how to defend against the manipulation by implementing cognitive/behavioral techniques like Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, and Thought Stopping will ultimately decrease family system chaos, misery and ultimately the death of the addict.
Improving the Workforce
Diversity Strategies for the Nonprofit Organization, (Part 1)
Patricia Lewis, Arizona State University
In today’s environment of shrinking resources, growing demand and competing priorities, managers need information in order to make sound decisions about where and how to focus resources to achieve desired results that are consistent with the agency’s purpose. This class covers the design and implementation of a results oriented program evaluation system that produces valid, credible and useful information.
Non-Profit Leadership
Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: A Framework for Effective Planning
Peggy Outon, Robert Morris University
This session will introduce participants to the provocative five questions posed by Peter Drucker, the father of modern management. Drucker’s five questions have aided thousands of nonprofit leaders as they seek to think comprehensively about their future. As participants seeks to answer - What is your mission? Who is your customer? What does your customer value? What results do you seek? What is your plan? - they will be drawn to scan the environment, listen to those they serve and build plans that are responsive and forward-looking. The workshop will apply this framework to a practical approach to excellence in planning.
Community Issues
Poverty as a Culture
Dr. Kwame Bruce, Department of State Health Services
The majority of DSHS clients are indigent and the state of being indigent means poverty. Poverty as a culture has specific and unique characteristics that require the counselor to understand those characteristics, and leverage them to the benefit of the clients. These include, but are not limited to: lifestyle, communication styles, attitudes, family relationship issues, food preparation, problem-solving, etc. that distinguish them from other classes, including that of the counselor. This understanding will help reduce or eliminate transference and counter-transference that may negatively impact the counseling relationship and outcome.
1:30 - 3 p.m.
Criminal Justice
The Mental Health Court: Bridges to the Community
Janis Blenden, Florida Department of Children and
Families
Broward County (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) has the country’s first Mental Health Court. The court is a misdemeanor treatment court which serves the mentally ill population. The goal of the court is to provide a treatment alternative to those who suffer from mental illness and other disorders. The session will give the nuts and bolts of the court, its history and its positive impact to the community and the country as a whole.
Counseling Essentials
Working with Adolescents with Dual Diagnoses: An REBT Approach, (Part 2)
Robert Adelman, Sundown Ranch
Treatment
Counseling the Alcohol and Drug Dependent Client, (Part 2)
Alex Appiah, Eastfield College
Prevention
Substance Abuse and MH / Prevention 101: Back to the Basics, (Part 1)
Janet Mitchell, Rainbow Days
Substance abuse prevention is an ever growing field with new specialists being hired by programs every day. They are often expected to already know and understand the basics of prevention when in reality, they do not. This workshop will review those basics and equip participants to be more effective in their work with children and youth.
Youth and Family
Transforming the Difficult into the Delightful, (Part 1)
Kathy Hess Reneau, KDR Consultants
This session will provide an overview of the many types of challenges that exist in young people. A model for changing behavior is included. Also, tools and techniques for making an impact on youth who are bullied, bully or stand by and watch will be covered. If you work with young people who are in ‘high risk’ situations, you will find this session encouraging, empowering and enlightening. Come ready to interact and have fun with this entertaining presenter.
Improving the Workforce
Diversity Strategies for the Nonprofit Organization (Part 2)
Patricia Lewis, Arizona State University
Non-Profit Leadership
It’s Lonely at the Top: Coaching to Support Peers While Lifting Ourselves
Peggy Outon, Robert Morris University
Are you stuck? Not sure what to do next? Bored, maybe? Need new insight? A little encouragement? A new jolt of enthusiasm? Learn about two strictly confidential programs that are sure to help revitalize and move you in new ways and new directions:
- Executive Advising, which pairs you with a seasoned management professional for a whole year of advising and support.
- Leaders Circles, in which a small group of peers meets regularly and sets its own agenda with the guidance of a trained facilitator.
Community Issues
Older Adults, Medication, Alcohol Misuse and Prevention
Shane Koch, Southern Illinois University
This workshop offers an innovative approach for the treatment and recovery of older adults having problems with substance use disorders. Participants will identify the unique features of older adults in treatment and will be introduced to the principles of Positive Psychology and intervention strategies that promote resiliency, hope, and strength in this population. Participants will leave with an understanding of how traditional assessment tools and treatment strategies do not apply to older adults and understand which tools are most effective. The speaker will introduce positive psychology interventions that can be effectively applied to substance abuse treatment and recovery for older adults, and teach participants how Positive Psychology principles encompass spirituality, especially for older adults.
3:30 - 5 p.m.
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Agency Updates (Panel)
Pamela Thielke, Community Justice Assistance Division
Carey Welebob, Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Erin Espinosa, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
Richard Nedelkoff, Texas Youth Commission
Criminal Justice Agencies will offer an update on substance abuse and mental health services going on within their agencies and give the audience an update from the state agency perspective. Criminal Justice Agencies will address both a substance abuse and mental health audience. Each agency will take their turn in speaking, and then have Questions and Answers at the end of the session.
Counseling Essentials
Assessment and Dual Diagnosis
Dr. Patrick DeChello, D&S Associates
Explore the world of the personality disorder as it was initially conceived and its transition to what today causes clinicians to cringe and insurance companies not to pay. Personality disorders are diagnosable and treatable. Come learn how. Based on his new book by the same name, Assessment and Dual Diagnosis.
Treatment
Suicide among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
Mark M. Leach, University of Southern Mississippi
The presentation will focus on cultural variables that have often been overlooked with suicidal behaviors. Those in attendance will be introduced to cultural components that can be included in suicide prevention programs and intervention. Topics will include race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and spirituality, age, and other within-group areas of importance.
Prevention
Substance Abuse & MH / Prevention 101: Back to the Basics, (Part 2)
Janet Mitchell, Rainbow Days
Youth and Family
Transforming the Difficult into the Delightful, (Part 2)
Kathy Hess Reneau, KDR Consultants
Improving the Workforce
Get It Together Without Coming Apart: Time Management for the Rest of Us
Peggy Outon, Robert Morris University
Get your workload and your lifeload under control using the most effective methods of the world’s leading productivity gurus. We’ve done all the reading, so that’s one less thing you have to do! Learn how to:
- Manage your time better
- Create balance between your work and personal lives
- Increase your productivity and satisfaction
- Experience less stress
Non-Profit Leadership
The Press, Power and Politics
Patricia Lewis, Arizona State University
This course develops the knowledge and skills for: nonprofit cause-centered advocacy; building a campaign; mobilizing citizens/constituents for effective action; organizing public messaging; and, providing ideas and skills for how nonprofits can make their "message" known to external groups. The session will also provide techniques for practitioners to use when working with elected officials and media. It will cover the basic legal requirements for lobbying as well as provide simple techniques for communicating effectively to outside groups. The lecturer will provide real world suggestions on how to work with external constituencies and participants will practice these techniques in mock-scenarios.
Community Issues
The Texas Quitline: Translating Research into Practice
Vance Rabius, American Cancer Society
In 2000, the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Texas Department of Health, now the Department of State Health Services (DSHS), collaborated in a clinical trial to test the effectiveness of telephone counseling for smoking cessation. That clinical trial gave rise to the ACS Quitline®. Then in 2002, Texas contracted with ACS to provide Quitline services to residents of Texas and that contract has continued to date. This workshop will detail the development of the Quitline and its reach and effectiveness in Texas. The speaker will also focus on specific examples of how research has informed practice at the Quitline over the past seven years. This will include examples from randomized clinic trials and a discussion of when and how it is appropriate, or not, to use post hoc analyses as a basis for modifying practice.
6-9 p.m.
HIV/AIDS Update
Sharita Ambrose, Texas HIV Connection
This course provides an update on HIV/AIDS information that includes a review of the latest research and developments regarding statistical trends, treatments and testing. Information relating to perinatal transmission of HIV, evolving high-risk groups and discussion of prevention efforts is also included. Information on the interaction of HIV medications and recreational drugs is discussed, as the course looks substance abuse and HIV. Resources are provided on all the topics included in the workshop.
Fundamentals of Chemical Dependency Clinical Supervision
Glenn Richardson, Department of State Health Services
Historically, Chemical Dependence treatment has focused resources on providing direct client care but has not provided sufficient resources for clinical supervision, an activity critical to ensuring service quality and effectiveness. Counselors often are promoted into supervisory positions on the basis of seniority, academic training, or their competence as counselors. Although a high level of counseling proficiency is an important prerequisite, it is not the only qualification of a competent clinical supervisor. Clinical supervision requires a new set of knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as assumption of a different professional role. Many new supervisors receive little or no training in clinical supervision, leading to enormous inconsistency in the quality of supervision available in the field. As a result, many counselors receive inadequate clinical training and supervision. This introductory presentation will address the benefits of clinical supervision to the treatment field, substance abuse counselors, and their clients. Discussion will include models and methods of clinical supervision, the competencies necessary for effective clinical supervision, and the roles of the clinical supervisor. As the clinical supervisor’s knowledge and skill are accumulated over time the supervisor’s proficiency increases proportionally. The goal of this workshop is to provide a foundation on which to build clinical supervision competency.
Ethics
Shane Koch, Southern Illinois University
This session will focus on ethical and professional decision making that will be necessary in our clinical practice. The presenter will focus on screening and assessment issues, case management challenges, medication management, and coexisting disabilities. This presentation will focus on research based “best practices” that can be directly applied in clinical settings.