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What you need to know about 988 in Missouri

Speaker(s):

Williams, Stacey, MSW, LCSW

Muckler, Casey MPH

Presentation:

During this panel discussion you will learn everything you need to know to be ready for 988. In July 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) designated 988 as the new three-digit crisis number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL). By July of 2022, all telecommunications companies will have to make the necessary changes and be ready to go live. 988 will be promoted Nationwide as the three-digit helpline for all mental health and suicide crises. Missouri has 7 active NSPL members. These call centers have trained staff to answer calls from individuals at risk for suicide as well as those experiencing other mental health and substance use related emergencies, as well as connection to ongoing services. 988 will transform our current crisis system of care nationwide and Missouri is actively preparing our system to align and provide the most evidence-based practices for a comprehensive continuum of care.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the history of 988 and why do we need it
  2. Define what the benefits of 988 and how much will it cost
  3. Identify how 988 will impact Missouri’s crisis system and what we are doing to prepare
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What Can I Say?

Speaker(s):

Cooper, Caroline, MS

Presentation:

Sharing our recovery journey is beneficial to others and ourselves. When we tell our story, we encourage others and give them hope that they, too, can live full, productive, meaningful lives even while living with their disability. In the process, we remind ourselves that through the ups and downs of our journey, we have persevered, and can continue to do so. Session attendees will learn how to plan, prepare, and practice their stories. Presentation content includes: (1) choosing what to say and what not to say; (2) knowing their listeners; (3) preparing to share; (4) communicating effectively; and (5) creating a presentation. Practice exercises are provided throughout the presentation to guide individuals in the planning process. Most importantly, the presenter will encourage each person to recognize the uniqueness of their journey and the comfort and motivation they can bring to someone else who may need to hear their story.

 

Objectives:

  1. Be confident that their story is worth sharing
  2. Determine the audience they want to reach (even if 1 person)
  3. Write their story
  4. Prepare notes or an outline for sharing/presenting
  5. Communicate effectively both verbally and nonverbally
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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Self-Healing Communities

Speaker(s):

Clary, Pam, Ph.D., LCSW, LSCSW

Frye, Jana, MSW

Presentation:

This presentation will focus on the ACE Framework which is designed to promote an understanding of the significance and potential of ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) education. Understanding N.E.A.R (neuroscience, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resilience) will be a focus of this presentation. The ACE Study is the largest study of its kind with over 17,000 participants. The data collected from this study has the potential to change the public health crisis our nation is facing. This presentation will be about discovery, about hope, about our future. The action to prevent ACEs will be the largest public health discovery of our time. This presentation will discuss how our action to prevent ACEs, will profoundly impact our future.
  

Both presenters (Jana Frye and Dr. Pam Clary) are trained Master ACE Trainers by Dr. Rob Anda, one of the co-principal investigators of the ACE Study.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the science associated with adverse childhood experiences.
  2. Recognize that accumulative experiences matters, especially during formative years.
  3. Describe the ACE Framework.
  4. Understand the interrelationships between the individual and the social, physical, political, and economic environments.
  5. Identify the most powerful determinant of health: ACE.
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The Current State of Missouri’s Overdose Crisis & Recent Mitigation Strategies

Speaker(s):

Winograd, Rachel, PhD

Presentation:

This talk will describe the recent landscape of drug use and overdose deaths in Missouri, including the ever-expanding role of fentanyl in our drug supply and the increase in deaths involving stimulants like methamphetamine and cocaine. Though ongoing initiatives funded by the State Opioid Response grant have understandably continued to focus on increasing access to medical treatments for Opioid Use Disorder and opioid-related harm reduction initiatives, the necessity of greater implementation of stimulant-focused intervention strategies is clear. To that end, this presentation will provide an overview of Missouri’s Contingency Management pilot programs for people with Stimulant Use Disorder, as well as harm reduction training, education, and drug checking resources designed for people who use stimulants. Additional attention will be paid to the widening racial disparities between Black and White Missourians regarding addiction treatment outcomes and overdose fatalities, including highlights of what is being done at the state and local levels to reduce deaths among those at highest-risk. Strategies for data-driven drug policy, funding, and community engagement will be highlighted.

 

Objectives:

  1. Describe the difference between fentanyl and stimulant contamination vs. co-use of both substances
  2. Define the behavioral basis of Contingency Management as a treatment approach
  3. Describe how and why individuals who use drugs may benefit from using fentanyl test strips
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Self-Care is NOT Selfish: 10 Creative Tools for Boosting Your Resiliency

Speaker(s):

Glidden, Kay, MS

Reynolds-Lewis, Beth, BS

Presentation:

You have been working very hard most recently through a global pandemic. You are balancing your family needs and you are working diligently to meet the demands of the people you serve.

We now have over two decades of research that working in high stress, trauma-exposed professions carries risk to the staff.

The level of compassion fatigue staff experience can ebb and flow from one day to the next. Even very healthy staff with optimal life/work balance and self-care strategies can experience compassion fatigue.

Participants will improve their understanding of compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout and will be given ten practical take-away tools, resources and strategies to include in daily self-care planning for improving health and resiliency.

Objectives:

  1. Define compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout.
  2. Identify the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout.
  3. Utilize ten hands-on tools and resources for building resiliency.
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Risk and Resiliency in Adverse Childhood Experiences: Implications for Prevention and Intervention

Speaker(s):

Welch, Tim, PhD, LMFT

Holguin, Julianna, BS

Hartenstein, Jaimee, PhD, CFLE

Presentation:

This presentation will first provide a definition of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and discuss relevant research on the association between exposure to multiple ACEs and numerous negative physical, emotional and mental health outcomes in adulthood. The presentation will examine exposure to ACEs through the lens of the Family Stress and Resilience theoretical framework. This approach highlights the role and value of enhancing protective factors to promote resiliency in the context of exposure to ACEs. This presentation will describe modern approaches to addressing the impact of adverse childhood experiences and discuss prevention and intervention implications for clinical and mental health practitioners.

Objectives:

  1. Define adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
  2. Describe the negative effects of exposure to ACEs in adolescence and adulthood
  3. Identify relevant protective factors to the harmful effects of exposure to ACEs
  4. Describe approaches for addressing the effects of of ACEs 
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Providing Effective Staff Supervision using Trauma Informed Care Practices

Speaker(s):

James, Belinda, MSW, LCSW

Presentation:

This workshop will provide attendees with a foundation of knowledge on trauma informed care supervision. Professional development stages of staff will be reviewed to identify effective supervision strategies. Motivational interviewing skills will be practiced to address staff productivity, emotional wellness, compassion fatigue and burnout.

Objectives:

  1. Review central principles of supervision
  2. Increase awareness of cultural and contextual factors in supervision
  3. Practice trauma informed care strategies to address compassion fatigue and burnout

 

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Watson, Lori, PHR

Lori J. Watson is enrolled in Webster University’s Master of Arts program in Professional Counseling (Clinical Mental Health emphasis). She has a bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Concordia University, Ann Arbor, and a Professional in Human Resource (PHR) certification. Watson’s research focus is in secondary traumatic stress/vicarious trauma, specifically compassion fatigue (CF) and the impact of CF on first responders, law enforcement professionals, and other helping professions. She has written about the neurobiology of trauma, the effects of compassion fatigue on law enforcement officers and other helping professions, and on the effects of secondary trauma on first responders’ postvention practices. She has presented on secondary traumatic stress in nurses and among law enforcement officers; specifically recognizing the signs and differences between burnout and compassion fatigue when secondary traumatic stress is present. Watson’s manuscript on CF in law enforcement officers is currently in review mode for publication at the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, an international criminal justice publication.

Watson’s current professional role is Deputy Title IX & HR Coordinator at Webster University; before this role, she served as a paralegal at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy where her interest in law solidified. At Webster, Watson provides educational programming on sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking and conducts investigations on sexual harassment claims which ignited her interest in the impact of vicarious trauma. She also provides wellness and mental health programming for the University at large. She has participated in a variety of legal and human resource training and education including Clery Act and Violence Against Women Act compliance, Court Appointed Special Advocate techniques, Interpersonal Communication, Workplace Harassment Prevention, and Management, Restoring the Soul After Sexual Trauma, and Understanding Transgender Issues in the Workplace. Watson is a member of the National Association of Legal Assistants, the Missouri Peace Officers Association, the American Counseling Association, and the Association of Title IX Administrators.

Presentation(s): 

Compassion Fatigue among First Responders


 

 

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Not Just a Cough: Psychiatric Complications of COVID-19

Speaker(s):

Bellman, Val, MD, PsyD

Presentation:

There is an increasing number of patients with no previous psychiatric history who develop COVID-19–associated psychosis with severe behavioral changes weeks to months after contracting the virus. We present a case of a 60-year-old previously healthy Caucasian male with no psychiatric history who presented to the ED with recent onset of severe psychosis three months after recovering from COVID-19 infection. The objective of the current report is to discuss the clinical presentation and provide an updated data review of the psychopharmacological management of psychosis in COVID-19 survivors with no previous psychiatric history, while identifying the etiopathogenic aspects and clinical correlations between COVID-19 and psychotic symptoms. We also discuss the role of ICU-related psychological trauma in the development of psychosis later in life.

Objectives:

  1. Understand more fully neuropsychiatric presentations, complications, long-term effects and mechanism of behavioral disturbances in the context of COVID-19
  2. Define Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) and COVID-19 associated delirium
  3. Recognize COVID-induced and post-COVID 19 manic and psychotic syndromes
  4. Identify strategies for assessing and addressing patients’ emotional health and the supports they may need to manage affective and psychotic symptoms

 

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Implementation of an Evidenced-Based Trauma Treatment in a Virtual Environment

Speaker(s):

Riedel, Edward, MSW

Clark, Zachary, BA, CRADC

Presentation:

Preferred Family Healthcare along with four drug courts received a SAMHSA grant to implement alternative services for drug court participants who have barriers to accessing traditional substance use treatment. This presentation will focus on the implementation and outcomes of a virtual, evidence-based trauma education group during the first three years of the project. Information about the Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model (TREM), the modifications for the virtual environment, will be presented along with outcome and participant satisfaction data.

Objectives:

  1. Define the components of TREM, an eivdence-based trauma treatment
  2. Explain the EBP modification process for a virtual environment
  3. Identify key outcomes of virtual trauma treatments
  4. Describe participant emotional safety strategies for virtual treatment