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Finding Joy in the Workplace: Ethical Considerations in Addressing Trauma-Related Employment Stress (TRES) Part 2

Room: Paradise B

Speaker(s): 

Terri Cooley-Bennett, DSW

Presentation: Vicarious trauma can negatively impact practitioners, clients, colleagues, supervisors, and entire organizations. In recent years, the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) have updated their professional codes of ethics to include self-care as an ethical responsibility. The Missouri Credentialing Board (MCB) addresses self-care and impairment within its ethical codes. Vicarious trauma is termed by Van der Merwe as trauma related employment stress (TRES).

This workshop will examine Vicarious Trauma and what the research indicates. Causes, prevalence, consequences, and prevention will be discussed with an emphasis on self-care practices. Part 1 will focus on the research, causes, prevalence, and consequences, while Part 2 will focus on prevention and self-
care.

Objectives:

  • Examine the research and enhance understanding of the different aspects of Vicarious Trauma
  • Describe ethical approaches for managing Vicarious Trauma
  • Identify prevention techniques and evidence-based self-care practices

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Trauma Informed Care for Supervisors

Room: Paradise C

Speaker(s): 

Le’Anne Schlotzhauer, BS

Presentation: This presentation provides a structured overview of trauma-informed care principles tailored for supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It explains what trauma is, how it uniquely impacts people with IDD, and practical ways staff can apply these principles in daily care.

Objectives:

  • Describe the core principles of Trauma Informed Care
  • Define Trauma in the IDD context
  • Discuss Trauma Informed Supervision Principles

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Improving Care for People with Complex Needs: Real Solutions That Make a Difference

Room: Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s): 

Dana Silverblatt, MA

Kathleen Murray, MS

Presentation: Millions of Americans are living with complex health-related and social needs, characterized by combinations of chronic illness, functional impairments, mental illness, housing instability, and inadequate social support. As these individuals experience impairments that are cyclical, they often endure further chronic issues, such as food insecurity or ongoing homelessness. This makes receiving adequate support especially challenging, and they frequently enter multiple systems such as health care, social service, behavioral health, law enforcement, courts, housing, and others. Many of these individuals turn toward hospital emergency departments (EDs), which are intended to address acute physical health concerns episodically. Due to the long-lasting and progressive nature of the needs of patients with complex needs, they often leave EDs without having their needs fully met. People with complex needs who frequently utilize hospitals and other systems experience fragmented care and poorer outcomes due to a lack of coordinated, integrated services within their regions. In the St. Louis region, organizations and leaders in healthcare coordination have begun to address this issue in our own community. During this presentation, you will learn about the complexity of this populations needs and solutions with proven results. You will get an in-depth look into two local programs, Hospital to Housing (H2H) and Building Engagement to Address Complex Needs (BEACN), that are using national best practices to improve outcomes for individuals and reduce preventable and costly hospital utilization. You will also learn about the planning and coordination for a complex care model underway that aims to draw lessons learned from the existing programs for a regionwide approach, including opportunities for local and state systems, behavioral health providers, housing supports, advocacy groups, and funders.

Objectives:

  • Identify best practice components of a complex care model
  • Identify at least 3 outcomes/metrics core to St. Louis area complex care programs
  • Describe challenges and opportunities for improving lives of people living with complex health and behavioral health conditions

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Integrated Support: Serving the Whole Person

Room: Windgate 62-63

Speaker(s): 

Amber Stockreef, DHS

Presentation: Participants will learn of Missouri history with the BHIDD efforts, current best practices and future efforts in supporting the dual behavioral health and developmental disability population.

Objectives:

  • Discuss MO BHIDD history
  • Describe current best practices
  • Review current and future BHIDD efforts in Missouri

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Community Based Competency Restoration – Part 3

Room: Windgate 60-61

Speaker(s): 

Angela Torres, PhD, ABPP

Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.

Objectives:

  • Understand the foundation competency to stand trial.
  • Learn the basics of competency restoration, with a special focus on community-based restoration.
  • Understand the role of restoration providers in the continuum of care and the criminal-legal system.
  • Address stigma about common perceptions about forensic consumers.
  • Review strategies to address barriers to community-based restoration.

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Community Based Competency Restoration – Part 2

Room: Windgate 60-61

Speaker(s): 

Angela Torres, PhD, ABPP

Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.

Objectives:

  • Understand the foundation competency to stand trial.
  • Learn the basics of competency restoration, with a special focus on community-based restoration.
  • Understand the role of restoration providers in the continuum of care and the criminal-legal system.
  • Address stigma about common perceptions about forensic consumers.
  • Review strategies to address barriers to community-based restoration.

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Missouri’s Youth Behavioral Health Liaisons

Room: Paradise A

Speaker(s): 

Amber Stockreef, MEd, DHS

Presentation:

General overview of the Youth Behavioral Health Liaisons and how they impact Missouri’s system for supporting youth and families in the community.

Objectives:

  • Define a Youth Behavioral Health Liaison
  • Identify how to locate a Youth Behavioral Health Liaison
  • Describe the multiple systems and supports a Youth Behavioral Health Liaison provides

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Ethical Approaches to Vicarious Trauma, Self‑Care, and Professional Conduct- Part 1

Room: Paradise B

Speaker(s): 

Terri Cooley-Bennett, DSW

Presentation:

Vicarious trauma can negatively impact practitioners, clients, colleagues, supervisors, and entire organizations. In recent years, the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) have updated their professional codes of ethics to include self-care as an ethical responsibility. The Missouri Credentialing Board (MCB) addresses self-care and impairment within its ethical codes. Vicarious trauma is termed by Van der Merwe as trauma related employment stress (TRES).
This workshop will examine Vicarious Trauma and what the research indicates. Causes, prevalence, consequences, and prevention will be discussed with an emphasis on self-care practices. Part 1 will focus on the research, causes, prevalence, and consequences, while Part 2 will focus on prevention and self-care.

Objectives:

  • Examine the research and enhance understanding of the different aspects of Vicarious Trauma
  • Describe ethical approaches for managing Vicarious Trauma
  • Identify prevention techniques and evidence-based self-care practices

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Preventing Burnout Through the Power of Fun

Room: Paradise C

Speaker(s): 

Le’Anne Schlotzhauer, BS

Presentation: Preventing Burnout Through the Power of Fun is an engaging training that helps professionals recognize the signs of burnout and discover how fun can be a powerful tool for resilience. Participants will explore how stress impacts health, relationships, and work performance, and learn practical ways to recharge through play, laughter, and connection. By prioritizing fun, you can boost energy, improve mood, strengthen relationships, and create a healthier work-life balance. This session reframes fun not as a luxury but as an essential strategy for preventing burnout and thriving both personally and professionally.

Objectives:

  • Describe burnout and it’s effects
  • Discuss how to prevent burnout
  • Examine fun and how it works to prevent burnout
  • Discover ways to find and prioritize fun

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From Research to Practice: Diverse Approaches to Understanding and Addressing Substance Use

Room: Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s): 

Rachel Winograd, PhD

Kanila Brown, MA

Presentation: Bridging substance use related research with clinical practice is essential to improving outcomes, ensuring equitable care, and translating evidence into real-world interventions that reduce overdose risk and promote recovery. By integrating research on contextual insights from affected communities, stigma, and implementation science, clinicians and researchers can develop approaches that are both compassionate and evidence-based, advancing the collective goal of reducing harm and improving quality of life for people who use drugs. There are many ways to study drug use, addiction, and the services designed to address them. In this presentation, Dr. Rachel Winograd, Director of the Addiction Science team and the Addiction, Science, Practice, Implementation, Research and Education (ASPIRE) Lab at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and four ASPIRE Lab graduate students, will discuss the current landscape of Missouri’s overdose crisis and how they are applying various research methodologies to better understand and improve substance use services. Specifically, they will demonstrate the critical roles of working with medical examiner death data and neighborhood deprivation indices, the value of forming and working closely with a Community Advisory Board to enrich both research and clinical practice, the need to measure and mitigate stigma toward people who use drugs and toward the interventions designed to serve them, and the application of implementation science to improve the adoption and delivery of effective substance use services.

Objectives:

  • Describe recent changes to Missouri’s overdose death trends by region, demographic group, and substance type
  • Discuss the importance of assessing demographic and structural risk factors in individuals substance use outcomes
  • Describe how community advisory boards (CABs) of people with lived experience with drugs may help to enhance substance use research and community-informed practice
  • Recognize the importance of measuring stigma surrounding people who use drugs and associated interventions to better understand its nature, impact, and potential leverage points
  • Define implementation science and describe its primary goals in bridging the gap between substance use service research and practice

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