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Implementing the Principles of Supported Employment

Speaker(s):

David Lynde, MSW, LICSW

Christine Powers, MSW, LICSW

Presentation: This session will provide information regarding the fundamental 8 Principles of Supported Employment/Individual Placement and Supports (IPS) and examine organizational opportunities, challenges, strategies and strengths in effectively implementing these principles to increase competitive employment outcomes.

Objectives:

  • Identify the 8 Principles of Individual Placement and Supports (IPS)
  • Provide a working definition of at least 4 of the IPS Principles
  • Identify two effective organizational strategies for implementing the IPS Principles
  • Examine agency actions and challenges regarding implementing the IPS Principles

Slides and Handouts:

Lynde_Implementing_SE_principles.pptx

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lynde, David, MSW, LICSW

David is an independent mental health services consultant and trainer who specializes in the effective implementation of Evidence-Based Practices. David provides consultation and training regarding the implementation and sustainment of Evidence-Based Practices to a variety of States and mental health systems across the country. David has worked in critical national positions on numerous federal and state employment projects including the Recovery After Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) program for the National Institute of Mental Health (Supported Education and Employment); the National Implementing Evidence Based Practices Project for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Supported Employment); the Johnson & Johnson – Dartmouth Supported Employment Program; and the National Homeless Veteran’s Supported Employment Program (HVSEP) and the National implementation of Supported Employment services for the Veteran’s Administration. David serves as an Associate for Marc Gold & Associates regarding the development of a National Integrated Employment Program for adults with significant disabilities.

Presentation(s):

Overview of Supported Employment and Education Principles & ACT/TAY Services Integration in Missouri

Effective Strategies, Tips and Considerations to Use When Providing Employment Services for People with Co-existing ID/DD and Mental Health Challenges

Implementing the Principles of Supported Employment

Supported Employment Stages of Change and Motivational Strategies

Developing an Agency Culture for Employment

 

 

 

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Firebaugh, Marie-Laure, MSW

Marie-Laure Firebaugh, LMSW completed her Master of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and is now a Clinical Research Specialist at Washington University School of Medicine. In this role, she serves as the Director Missouri Eating Disorders Council’s initiatives: Body U and 360 Eating Disorders Training program. Body U is a state-wide initiative to screen treat and prevent eating disorder in adults and adolescents founded in 2013. Body U offers online eating disorder screening and a suite of tailored online/mobile interventions aimed at promoting healthy behaviors and addressing eating disorders to all Missourians. In her work with the 360 Eating Disorders program, Ms. Firebaugh organizes workshops across the state to train clinicians in evidence-based practices for EDs and has co-created an eating disorders training curriculum with Dr. Jenny Copeland. Ms. Firebaugh is very passionate about this work and she has harnessed this passion to fuel her work to promote eating disorders awareness, prevention, and evidence-based in Missouri through presentations and workshops to raise awareness of eating disorders and educate Missourians on ways to improve body image.

Presentation(s)

Filtered Realities: Addressing the Impact of Social Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders 
 

 

 

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Self-Care Room Presentation | Mindfulness Meditation: An Easy and Effective Self-Care Skill | Limited Seating

Please note that seating for presentations in the Self-Care Room (Parasol I) are limited to 25 seats. This presentation will last from 10:30am – 11:30am.

Speaker(s):

Chun-Zi Peng, PhD

Presentation: Through mindfulness meditation, we will find inner peace and befriend our discomfort (physical or mental) to be healthier and happier.

Objectives:

  • Articulate the definition and myths of mindfulness meditation
  • Provide scientific evidence for how mindfulness meditation works
  • Guide audience through meditation to be inspired to learn more on meditation for self-care purposes or to integrate into their practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans and Service Members

Speaker(s):

David Tate, PhD

Presentation:  This presentation will focus on diagnostic and research issues surrounding two common comorbid disorders in active duty service members and veterans, namely post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). The presentation will cover the issue of overlapping symptom presentation, briefly describe the basic biology that may underlie symptom presentation, and the implications these issues may have for treatment.

Objectives:

  • Review current epidemiology of PTSD and TBI in Service Members and Veterans.
  • Describe the issues of differential diagnosis especially in a population where these conditions are often co-occur.
  • Review the biological underpinnings of these two disorders.
  • Review the treatment issues and help attendees understand the current strategies for treatment of the comorbid conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Missouri’s State Targeted Opiod Crisis Grant: What We’re Doing and Why

Speaker(s):

Rachel Winograd, PhD

Presentation: Funds from the Federal 21st Century Cures Act were distributed to states by SAMHSA in Spring, 2017, to address the opioid crisis in the form of State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (Opioid STR) grants. Missouri’s is led by Dr. Rick Gowdy, Director of the Division of Behavioral Health, Missouri Department of Mental Health, and directed by Dr. Rachel Winograd of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health-University of Missouri, St. Louis. Collaborative partners include substance use and healthcare agencies, organizations, and academic affiliates throughout the state. This talk will describe the landscape of opioid use and overdose deaths in Missouri and how the Opioid STR project plans to curb the trend and change the system of care in our state. The primary goals of the Missouri Opioid STR project include: 1) Increase provider and consumer-focused opioid use and overdose prevention initiatives and programs (through school-based prevention, telehealth consultation on safe opioid prescribing in primary care, and expanded overdose education and naloxone distribution efforts); 2) Increase access to evidence-based Medication Assisted Treatment for uninsured individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) (through rigorous provider training, direct service delivery, healthcare integration, and improved transitions of care in hospital and outpatient settings); 3) Increase the number of individuals with an OUD who receive recovery support services (through four new Recovery Community Centers, supportive recovery housing, and peer specialist services); and 4) Increase the likelihood of sustainability through policy and practice change as well as demonstrated effectiveness of grant-supported protocols.

Objectives:

  • Describe the regions and populations in Missouri most heavily impacted by opioid use and overdose death
  • Describe the role of agonist and partial agonist medications (e.g., Suboxone) in an evidence-based approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder
  • Review the primary objectives of the Missouri State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grant in the areas of prevention, treatment, and recovery support

Slides and Handouts:

Winograd STI Missouri Opioid STR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Buprenorphine for Heroin Dependence: An Update

Speaker(s):

Luis Giuffra, MD, PhD

Presentation:  Dr. Giuffra will describe the result of scientific data on how to use buprenorphine successfully in the treatment of heroin dependence.

Objectives:

  • Review the role of medications in the treatment of heroin dependence.
  • Describe the best methods of using buprenorphine.
  • Discuss the role of psychosocial interventions in the context of buprenorphine use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Develop a Deeper Understanding of Yourself While Internalizing the Emotional Milestones of Young Children

Speaker(s):

Stephen Zwolak, MEd

Presentation: This interactive Prezi presentation will allow participants to apply Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation primary prevention concepts in the classroom, clinician’s office, and home addressing the mental health concerns of children, educators, and families. Through mixed media (videos and photos), reflection, and break-out discussions, participants will learn about themselves, trauma in early childhood, children’s emotional milestones, and how they can use this knowledge to strengthen relationships with children and families while advocating for children’s mental health.

Objectives:

  • Express the importance of understanding ourselves, so we can better understand children and improve our day-to-day practice.
  • Identify emotional milestones that will enhance their relationships with children and families.
  • Express participants become advocates for promoting the mental health of children.

Slides:

Zwolak_Develop a Deeper Understanding of Yourself.Steve Zwolak, M.Ed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Integrating the Six Principles of Trauma Informed Care with the Six Principles of Strengths-Based, Person-Centered Model of Interpersonal Helping

Speaker(s):

Walter Kisthardt, PhD, MSW

Presentation:  Behavioral Health professionals have become increasingly aware of the importance of integrating the 10 principles of Trauma Informed Care into all aspects of interventions that are designed to promote social, psychological, physical and spiritual well-being. Research has also demonstrated how Strengths-Based, Person-Centered practice may generate increased proactive goal attainment on the part of a diverse group of service participants. In this workshop, Dr. Kisthardt demonstrates how the principles of Trauma Informed Care are inextricably linked to, and supported by, the principles of the Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice. Participants then will explore how to consciously incorporate strategies into their work that increase the level of participant engagement in the interpersonal helping process; how to utilize the Person-Centered Strengths Assessment to assure attention to addressing how trauma may impact current and future goal attainment; and how the use of collaborative planning and documentation on the Personal Wellness/Recovery Plan promotes movement at the participants’ own pace and attends to positive, hopeful accomplishments that fuel recovery. Those who have attended Dr. Kisthardt’s workshops over the years have reported feeling affirmed, challenged, informed, aware of creative ideas to incorporate in challenging situations, while at the same time have fun in the process.

Objectives:

  • Introduce skills identified by the research that serve to promote engagement and the development of a trusting collaborative helping partnership
  • Explain how to integrate the Person-Centered Strengths Assessment as developed primarily by the service participant to reflect expression of trauma-informed principles
  • Describe how the Personal Wellness/Recovery Plan may be utilized to promote social/behavioral goals and outcome oriented practice.

Slides:

Kisthardt Strengths and Trauma

 

 

 

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Rational Approaches for Medicating Children and Adolescents

Speaker(s):

Joseph Wegmann, RPh, LCSW

Presentation: Age is not a factor when it comes to the emergence of mental disorders, yet there is little reliable data that addresses the use of psychiatric medication in children and adolescents. A few of the many possible headwinds associated with this include: Maturational and developmental issues regarding how young people respond to psychiatric medication; safety factors; sensitivity to side effects and the vulnerability of youth to diagnostic fads. This presentation will address the mental disorders that typically emerge during childhood and adolescence together with their medication management.

Objectives: 

  • Discuss the maturational and developmental issues regarding response to medication in youth.
  • Examine the mental disorders that typically emerge during childhood and adolescence.
  • Explore the symptoms to observe for; how to differentiate among disorders and medications employed for these disorders.