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Kanila Brown, MA, MS

Kanila is a student in UMSL’s Clinical Psychology PhD program. She earned her BA in Psychology from Talladega College in 2017. In 2019, she earned her MA in Clinical Psychology and MS in Quantitative Psychology at Ball State University. There, her Masters thesis examined social cognitive predictors of substance use and sexual risk behavior among emerging adults. Broadly, Kanila’s interests include understanding behavioral and mental health disparities, predominantly among Black people. More specifically, she is interested in understanding the cultural mechanisms of substance use trajectories among Black people across the lifespan and culturally responsive interventions. Her thesis used qualitative data to build a model of cannabis use among Black adolescents through a social-ecological framework. Her specialty proposed a framework of racialized drug socialization among Black people. Her dissertation will use qualitative methods to identify themes for how Black primary caregivers educate their kids ages 11-17 about drugs and alcohol. The purpose of her study is to reveal intergenerational strategies used by Black caregivers at the intersection of race and drug socialization of Black youth. Her findings will help inform how Black caregivers can educate to their kids about drugs and alcohol and will result in the facilitation of a series of community discussions with Black caregivers in the St. Louis region.

Presentation(s): 

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

 

 

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Hannah Meyer, MSW, LCSW

Hannah Meyer, LCSW is the Clinical Social Work Manager at Optimistic Beginnings, a state operated 8 bed treatment program within Northwest Community Services. The program serves individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities who also have severe mental illness. Hannah has been with the program for the last 9 years utilizing DBT, EMDR and Trauma Recovery models to support individuals in development of emotion regulation and stabilization. She obtained her master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Social Work in 2013.

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Falling Through the Cracks: The Lives We Overlook

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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

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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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Falling Through the Cracks: The Lives We Overlook

Room: Windgate 62-63

Speaker(s): 

Hannah Meyer, MSW, LCSW

Presentation: Optimistic Beginnings approach to treating the individuals no one could. Innovative and creative treatment for individuals that struggle with living successfully in community settings- who also have experienced significant trauma along with their intellectual/developmental disability and mental illness. Learn how our program has utilized various approaches resulting in successful outcomes and individuals who are able to live a fulfilling, safe life.

Objectives:

  • Discuss the prevalence and recognizing the signs of trauma in the BHIDD population
  • Describe therapeutic approaches, including biases and adaptations, to treatment (specifically DBT, EMDR and Trauma Recovery)
  • Introduce the EMPOWER model- a compassionate framework developed to guide providers in supporting individuals within the BHIDD population
  • Understand the value of “outside the box” thinking, adaptability and teamwork to provide the best outcomes.

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Karim, Ahmed, MD

Dr. Ahmed Karim is a Psychiatry resident at UMKC, dedicated to advancing mental health care through evidence-based practices. His clinical interests include psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and innovative treatments like Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).
Before residency, Dr. Karim worked with Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders), where he provided critical medical care to refugees and addressed complex mental health challenges, including PTSD and stress-related disorders.
Dr. Ahmed Karim presenting on “Schizotypal Disorder: Management Challenges with Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis,” highlighting the complexities of treating schizotypal disorder and addressing rare but serious medication-related complications.

Presentation(s):

Schizotypal Disorder: Management Challenges with “Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis” 

 

 

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Doherty, Stephen, MEd, LPC, CRADC, CCJP

Steve Doherty is a Senior Regional Director for Gateway Foundation Inc., a national not-for profit, where he provides clinical and administrative oversight of substance use and reentry program operations contracted with state criminal justice and mental health agencies in the community and in correctional institutions in five states. Steve has worked in the field of Behavioral Health treatment for over 35 years, most of which providing oversight of behavioral health, reentry and community services to persons who are criminal justice involved. Steve has been an adjunct faculty member at Missouri Baptist University and Washington University’s Brown School of Social Work in St. Louis Missouri, teaching graduate and undergraduate counseling and substance use disordercourses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Education degree in Counseling from Stephen F. Austin State University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Reciprocal Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor and Certified Criminal Justice Addictions Professional.

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Strategies for Optimizing Client Relationships and Self-Management