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Heather Williams, BA, CCJP, MARS
Our presentation will cover: statistics associated with substance abuse/dependence and increased risk for suicide, factors that make this a high risk population. We will also cover things that professionals, other staff, community members, family and friends can do to help recognize the warning signs of suicide and help provide appropriate support to help reduce the risk of suicide.
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Substance use disorders have been found to affect the whole family, not just the person that is using or drinking. Children of an addicted parent are at much higher risk for addiction themselves. This presentation will bring more light onto how this is a family disease and, in particular, how young children and teens can be helped through their own recovery. Concepts that will be shared are Warning Signs, the 5 Cs, At-risk Kids, the Reaction Spiral, Effects of Stress, How Adults Can Help and the importance of a Safety Plan. This will be an interactive presentation utilizing worksheets, Power Point, and class participation.
Keller The Impact of Parental Substance Use on Young Children and Teens – Slides in PDF format
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Traumatic Brain Injury in relation to recent wars, clinical presentation of TBI, how to diagnose TBI and treatment approaches and referrals to appropriate facilities with specialized care.
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This presentation will begin with an overview of the various ways an intervention can be considered evidence based. It will also explore the benefits of choosing an evidenced based intervention (and a few challenges). Finally, we will review the NREPP list for things to consider when selecting an evidenced based program.
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With the reduction in mental health inpatient bed-space, law enforcement and courts across the country have had to spend an increasingly large percentage of their time working with people who have complex mental health and/or substance use disorders, which law enforcement and courts are often ill-equipped to adequately serve. Emergency Departments (ED) have also become a revolving door for individuals with behavioral health disorders, whose inpatient stays could often be avoided with a connection to a treatment provider. In 2013, Governor Nixon’s initiative to Strengthen Missouri’s Mental Health System, created two programs (the Community Mental Health Liaisons (CMHL) and the Emergency Room Enhancement (ERE)) to address these problems. The CMHLs were created to be a “boundary spanner” between the mental health and the criminal justice systems. Likewise, ERE program was created to divert costly and unnecessary hospitalizations and to reduce ED use. These initiatives have led to stronger community partnerships, improved crisis systems, and more appropriate treatment for individuals with behavioral health disorders. This session will also explore how Missouri identified a care gap through these programs, and in turn, developed an application for an 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver.
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Across professions, workers spend more time listening than reading, writing, & speaking combined. THIS, while the average untrained worker forgets more than 50% of what’s heard within 24 hours. Participants will discover why over 60% of Fortune 500 companies offer formal listening training to new employees. In this high energy & interactive seminar, participants will learn the 6 Strategies of Effective Listening, the 5 Barriers to Effective Listening, and will become able to take their work with mental health clients to a higher level!
Zero Suicide is a systems based approach to suicide prevention in health and behavioral healthcare. Zero Suicide has been implemented in State Operated Psychiatric Facilities and in several Community Behavioral Healthcare Centers in Missouri. In 2015, Ozark Center in Southwest Missouri served as the pilot for the Zero Suicide Breakthrough Series in partnership with the Department of Mental Health and the National Council for Behavioral Health. Since then, Behavioral Health Response and Crider Center in the St. Louis area have implemented Zero Suicide. This presentation focuses on workforce competency and organizational processes in a Zero Suicide culture. Workforce survey results show how staff rate themselves in being both competent and confident in providing suicide safer care. Organizational self-assessment results show how staff training, policy development, evidence based practices and follow-up care impact suicide safer care.
Andrews.Christmas.ShowMeZEROSuicide Slides in PDF format
Andrews. Christmas Zero Suicide Workforce Survey Questions_0
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This presentation will address the challenge of providing individualized psychotherapeutic interventions for inpatients with a wide variety of diagnoses and behaviors that cannot be conceptualized from a unitary theory or model. Presenters will describe the “Recovery Academy” – a multidisciplinary treatment program structured as an academic/college program through which patients “major” in one of three evidence-based treatments, complete “core curriculum” groups, and choose “electives” at the beginning of each new “semester” with assistance from an “advisor.” Attendees will learn about the creation and implementation of this treatment program.
Anderson Recovery Academy 2016 SAnderson – Slides in PDF format
