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NASW-VT 2014 Annual Conference:
Social Work Matters for Vermont
Co-Sponsored By The New England ATTC
Join us in beautiful Killington, Vermont for two days of learning, connecting, and expanding your work. This conference is open to all interested professionals and students, not just social workers.
We look forward to seeing you!
Social Work CEUs available for all workshops (6 CEUs per day)
LADC CEUs: 12 CEUs for full 2-day Motivational Interviewing Assessment training; 3 CEUs each for Recovery Oriented Systemes of Care & Buprenorphine Treatment; 3 Counseling Hours for Beginning Motivational Interviewing
COFFEE AND LUNCH INCLUDED BOTH DAYS.
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: 8:30-9:00
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING ASSESSMENT: SUPERVISORY TOOLS FOR ENHANCING PROFICIENCY: full two day training MIA:STEP is a toolkit for those who supervise or mentor treatment providers in a clinical setting. MIA:STEP tools and resources are meant to be used by clinical supervisors or mentors to enhance supervisees’ existing MI skills and to help them use the MI Assessment protocol effectively and appropriately.Feedback and coaching are most effective when based on firsthand observation of a counselor engaged in working with a client or group of clients. However, clinical supervisors often lack access to samples of clinical practice they can use to demonstrate or explore exemplary practices such as MI in the course of providing feedback. The mentoring products included in the empirically supported MIA:STEP toolkit support observation-based supervision, enhance treatment providers' Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills and improve provider skills beyond the realm of MI. Using MI effectively will strengthen practitioners' ability to provide structured, focused, and effective treatment for patients and clients. Part of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Blending Initiative, this course is designed to reduce the gap that exists between the publication of research results and impact on treatment delivery. LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 3, 6, 7, 11, 15-18
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Stephen R. Andrew, LCSW, LADC, CCS, Consultant/Trainer &Author maintains a compassion-focused private practice, where he facilitates a variety of groups. He also provides supervision/ coaching and support to addiction and health-care providers. He is the Chief Energizing Officer of Health Education & Training Institute and the creator of the SpiritWind CD/Tape Series for personal and professional growth. Stephen has recently co-authored a book “Men’s Healing, Toolbox for LIFE” with Allan Lyme LCSW and David Powell Ph.D. He is the “Visionary” of InnerEdge, an alternative mental health clinic that experiments with the idea that compassion is the central guiding principle of therapeutic care when working with people. Stephen is co-founder of the Men's Resource Center of Southern Maine. He is a former Substance Abuse Coordinator for a public school system, former Executive Director of an adolescent substance abuse prevention and treatment agency. He is a member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2003 and has completed over 100 hours of training in Motivational Interviewing. He is a MIA-STEP trainer for the Northeast ATTC.
TRANS*-AFFIRMING SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: Thursday 9-12:00 The American cultural norms of being heterosexual and cisgender have specific consequences for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) community members seeking to access social work services. This interactive workshop will provide an overview of sexual orientation and gender identity as it relates to the lives of LGBTQ individuals. Using the context of a hetero- and cis-normative society to frame the barriers to services, we will explore best practices for service providers and allies. If you want to do your part to help create more equitable and affirming services for trans*-identified youth and adults, come be a part of this workshop. Training exercises, youth perspectives, and large/small group discussions are some of the techniques that may be used to invite participants into this critical conversation.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Jean Sienkewicz is a social worker and advocate in the SafeSpace program at the RU12? Community Center for LGBTQ Vermonters, where she proveds direct services to survivors of violence as well as LGBTQ cultural awareness education and outreach to a variety of audiences, including social workers, law enforcement, physical and mental health providers, and legal professionals. She is also an educator with faculty positions in both UVM's Department of Social Work and CCV's College of Educaiton and Social Sciences. Jean has a BA in liberal arts from Goddard College (2000) and a MSW degree from the Universtiy of Vermont (2004). She has been with RU12? since 2011.
Dana Kaplan is on a mission to make Vermont a safe and celebratory place for all queer and questioning youth to be themselves. Responsible for all things education related at Outright Vermont in Burlington, Dana works in partnership with youth, bringing critical conversations to schools and community organizations to folks understand what it means to live a queer life and why that matters. Dana has a Bachelors in Social Work and a Masters in Mediation & Applied Conflict Studies, and that lens of question-asker and relationship-builder is woven into how he approaches his work as a queer & trans* activist and educator.BUPRENORPHINE TREATMENT: Thursday 9-12:00 Multidisciplinary professionals need to be informed about all effective opioid treatment options. Expanding treatment choices can make treatment more attractive, expand access and reduce stigma. This training will provide a broad overview of buprenorphine as a treatment option. With its partial agonist effects, buprenorphine is mildly reinforcing which encourages medication compliance. Specific topics that will be addressed include the role of multi-disciplinary addiction professionals in supporting buprenorphine treatment of opioid dependent patients (including adults who are dependent on prescription opioids); an overview of The Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 2000, which made buprenorphine eligible to be prescribed by certified physicians in office-based settings as well as by Opioid Treatment Programs; patient selection criteria; and therapeutic and counseling issues for clinicians when treating with this medication. Based on an innovative partnerships between the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), known as the Blending Initiative, this product accelerates the dissemination of research-based drug abuse and addiction treatment findings into community-based practice. Participants will gain a broad understanding of the utility of medication treatment in general and buprenorphine treatment specifically.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Margaret O'Hagan-Lynch, MS, LPC is the Director for Clinical Operations at River Valley Services in Middletown, CT and maintains a private practice in Wallingford, CT. She has worked in the behavioral health field for over 25 years and is known for her expertise in working with people who have co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders. Her degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, with a concentration in psychiatric rehabilitation, brings a unique perspective to treatment issues. She has vast experience in program design/implementation, staff development, training and consultation, community networking, and remains active in addressing treatment needs on both a local and statewide level. She has experience working in various levels of care in both the private and public sectors. She has implemented and maintained several Evidence Based Practices throughout these treatment settings. She has been working with the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England at Brown University since 2003 and is a faculty member of the New England School of Addiction Studies.
SUPERVISION IN SOCIAL WORK: 1-4:00 Participants spending the afternoon together in this workshop will explore the authentic nature of relationship in supervisory practice. From the more concrete elements (hiring/firing, paperwork, etc) to the more fluid (supervisory meetings, evaluations, etc.), we will tell stories and challenge one another to think creatively and intentionally. Through small and large group activities we will discover together how relationship to self, one another, and the larger world impacts our most important social work practice relationship -- our relationship to the "actual work", itself and therefore, those who stand to benefit from our efforts.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: JB is the current Field Education Coordinator in the Department of Social Work at the University of Vermont. She is coming to the end of her 14th year in that position. Prior to that she practiced for 17 years in both Burlington and Los Angeles in the areas of residential treatment for young children, IFBS work, inpatient and outpatient therapy with adolescents, clinical supervision, program administration, and organizational culture change work. She believes strongly that a relational authentic approach to all levels of social work practice is desperately needed for true change to occur and sustain itself.
RECOVERY ORIENTED SYSTEMS OF CARE: Thursday 1-4:00 Recovery Oriented Systems of Care and the Reentry Population in VermontWorkshop Description:Sponsored by the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New EnglandThere were 3,892 individuals released from sentenced incarceration in Vermont during 2012. Community reentry involves the need for recovery. One of the fundamental principles of recovery-focused care is that there are many pathways to recovery that are unique based on specific needs, strengths, goals, health attitudes, behaviors and expectations for recovery. Pathways to recovery are highly personal, and generally involve a redefinition of identity in the face of crisis or a process of progressive change. The pathway to recovery may include one or more episodes of psychosocial and/or pharmacological treatment. For some, recovery involves neither treatment nor involvement with mutual aid groups.” Grounded in the work of William White, this course will explore the varieties of the recovery experience, including scope of recovery, depth of recovery, types of recovery, context of recovery initiation, frameworks of recovery initiation and temporal styles of recovery initiation. As well as the role of Social Work in supporting recovery for the reentry population in Vermont.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
STEPHEN J. GUMBLEY, MA, ACDP II, Director, New England ATTC, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown UniversitySteve Gumbley began working in human services in 1968, and has been specializing in advocacy, education, prevention, treatment and recovery of substance use disorders since 1988. A master’s level, certified chemical dependency professional, he has served as clinical and programmatic administrator of a wide range of treatment modalities and programs. He is presently the Director of the New England ATTC at Brown University, and is a national trainer on recovery issues.Steve is immediate past chair of the board of Faces & Voices of Recovery, a national recovery advocacy organization, and also chairs the Steering Committee for the Institute for Addiction Studies at Rhode Island College. He serves on the board of RI Communities for Addiction Recovery (RICARES). He has been in recovery from addiction since 1986.
Michael Torch, MA,MLADC, is a Criminologist and addiction treatment provider with over 35 years of experience. A SAMHSA Recovery Oriented Systems of Care Trained Facilitator. He is the Senior Technology Transfer Specialist with Brown University/New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center in its efforts to disseminate Evidence-Based Practices. His professional experience includes practice in public schools, correctional environments, treating law enforcement personnel, inpatient chemical dependency programs, outpatient practice and as a consultant to a First Nation Healing Program. He currently serves as a member of the US Probation Service’s New England Critical Incident Stress Management Team. Is a certified Trainer with The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc. and provided Critical Incident Stress Debriefing to the Boston Police Department subsequent to the Marathon Bombing.
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: 8:30-9:00 with Dr. Dee Burroughs-Byron, MN, MSN, MD, Health Services Director of the Vermont Department of Corrections
THE SHARED PARENTING INTERVENTION AT CHITTENDEN REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY: FAMILY STRENGTHENING IN THE CONTEXT OF MATERNAL INCARCERATION: Friday 9-10:30 Maternal incarceration profoundly impacts the lives of children and their caregivers. Bobby Blanchard-Lewis, Senior Staff Associate at the Center for Children and Families, Columbia University, and consultant to Lund and their Kids A Part program, will describe a unique intervention currently being implemented at CRCF to encourage and enable incarcerated mothers to examine and strengthen their relationships with their children's caregivers and define maternal roles for themselves grounded in their childrens' needs, experiences and realities. She'll be joined by Jo Berger, MSW and Crystal Fisher, LMSW, the Lund social workers facilitating the implementation.
TAKING YOUR PRACTICE INTO POLICY WORK: Friday 10:45-12:00 Whether you are a clinical social worker in private practice, or a legislative advocate, public policy decisions deeply impact both our profession and the individuals with whom we work. This session will begin with an interactive exercise designed to refocus you on the critical public policy issues in your field and inspire you to effect large scale policy change. You will also hear from a panel of social workers who infuse policy and advocacy into their professional roles, and leave with concrete ideas about how to do the same.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: NASW-VT Board member Sarah Robinson, MSW brings a broad range of organizational and leadership experience to this year's conference. Currently, she is the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Coordinator at the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In this role, she is focused on enacting large scale systems change to identify and prevent high-risk domestic violence incidents. From 2006-2011, Sarah worked at Hunger Free Vermont where she served in management and leadership roles with a team of professionals working to end the injustice of hunger and malnutrition in Vermont. Sarah also served as a City Councilor in the City of Winooski from 2010-2014. As part of this role, she maintained oversight of the health and public safety functions of the small and diverse City. Sarah Robinson is a 2012 graduate of the UVM MSW program. While at UVM, her academic focus was on policy practice and feminist social work, and she completed field practicums at the Vermont Department of Health in the HIV/AIDS/STD program and at the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
BEGINNING MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING with Robert Jope: Friday 9-12:00 This brief introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI) will familiarize participants with the basic tenets and theoretical orientation of the model. The spirit, skills, and strategies of MI will be discussed, along with some of the research under girding the approach. Examples of the model in action will be presented and processed, and participants will have an opportunity to experiment with elements of MI.
About the Presenter: Bob Jope is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He teaches Motivational Interviewing for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and as adjunct faculty at Salve Regina University; he has also consulted with the Addiction Technology Transfer Center at Brown University and currently works as a Motivational Interviewing coder for a nationally-recognized coding agency. Holding a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology, Bob has worked in the mental health, child welfare, and substance abuse fields for the past twenty years. He was originally trained in Motivational Interviewing by Stephen Andrew in 2007, and has since trained with Ali Hall and Alan Lyme. Bob has also developed and taught program-specific MI training applications, and has trained hundreds of people in basic, intermediate, and advanced motivational interviewing
COMMUNICATION UNDER DURESS: Friday 1-4:00 This workshop draws on The Internal Family System's approach to help participants learn skills for dealing and speaking under difficult interpersonal dynamics. Participants will learn: 1. An overview of IFS (internal Family Systems therapy); 2. Develop skills on how approach difficult conversations; 3 Bring an awareness to their own internal states that both hold resources and states of distress; and 4. Have skills that help in communicating with with patients, co-workers and others. The workshop will include didactic materials, group conversation and work in triads, developing skills and language that helps build skills for both self-awareness and communication.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Alexandra Forbes has been a licensed Psychologist-Master, in Central Vermont for over 25 years. She worked at the Washington County Mental Health Agency for several years, spent 6 years directing the Goddard College counseling and training center and taught counseling and communications classes and workshops at Woodbury College, Vermont College and at National life. She offers innovative and interactive group psychotherapy and group treatment retreats for the last 10 years with a focus on transformational healing. She is currently using the Internal Family Systems therapeutic process as well as other mindful and hypnotic approaches. She is also the legislative chair for the Vermont Psychological Association.
DELIVERING MATERNAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION ALONG THE RURAL ROUTE: HOW TO BUILD, IMPLEMENT, PROMOTE, AND SUSTAIN A PROGRAM: Friday 1-4:00 Learn how to make thoughts turn into reality. This workshop by will examine the key elements of program creation to include Needs Assessment, Building Capacity, Implementation, and Evaluation. At the conclusion of the workshop the participants will: 1. Discuss the population-based concepts of programs designed for universal application, selective application, and indicated application; 2. Recognize the components needed for program design to program evaluation; 3. Describe program evaluation methods and their importance; and 4. Explain the research review processes for effective Human Services programs.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Trudee Ettlinger, PhD, APRN, LADC. Dr. Ettlinger's clinical practice and research is focused upon Substance Abuse Prevention for lower income pregnant and parenting women. She designed an SA prevention program for this group. The program has been sustained and expanded over the past 13 years. Trudee has conducted extensive program evaluation research and is most familiar with the design, implementation, and assessment of science-based intervention programming for Substance Abuse.
