8th Annual Co-Occurring Live Video Conference: “A Relational Approach to Care”
This conference emphasizes the power of relationships when providing integrated care for people with mental health and substance use issues.
Questions can be directed to: cgadient@mhresources.com
Conference Objectives:
• Identify how relational dynamics (including maladaptive ways of connecting) contribute to the individual’s experience of substances, the impact on the reward circuitry, and the transmission of intergenerational trauma.
• Discuss a relational approach for helping people with Borderline Personality Disorders that not only targets problematic behavior and teaches skills, but also examines patterns of behavior developed throughout a person’s lifespan. This approach represents an alternative to DBT, which has dominated the clinical landscape.
• Explore common threads and challenges with pain and opioid use disorders, discuss the lack of effectiveness of opioids analgesic medications in treating chronic pain, and identify the benefits methadone/buprenorphine.
• Engage in a wellness activity during the lunch break.
• Learn how the Sanctuary Model is used in trauma-informed care and offers professionals a roadmap toward developing a recovery milieu that supports the healing process for the helper as well as the individuals they serve.
• Develop a greater understanding of the role of peer services, including the training and certification process, challenges for peers, and their supervision needs.
• Discuss the needs of family members/concerned others of those we serve. Identify guidelines to help them be more effective with their loved ones, while also focusing on self-care.
• Learn community-based interventions to help people with co-occurring issues that emphasize the power of engagement, create a vision of recovery, build in action steps, and support accountability.
Conference Agenda:
• 8:00 - 8:30 Introductory Comments – Paula Brandt, MS, and Julie Rohovit, PhD
• 8:30 - 9:30 The Critical Intersection of Attachment and Substance Use Disorders
-ThanhVan Vu, MPS, LPCC, LADC
• 9:30 - 9:45 Break
• 9:45 - 10:45 Relational Care for People with Personality Disorders
-Tanya Freedland, MPS, LADC
• 10:45 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Pain and Addiction: Common Threads – David Frenz, MD
• 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch Break and Wellness Activity
-Sally Sales, MA, & Jourdan Togstad, BA
• 12:30 - 1:30 Using the Sanctuary Model for Trauma Informed Care
-Steve Carlson PsyD., & Jillian Wright-Martin MPS, LADC
• 1:30 - 1:45 Break
• 1:45 - 2:45 Understanding Peer Services
-Melissa Evers, CPRS-R, & Caddy Frink, Training Manager
• 2:45 - 3:00 Break
• 3:00 - 3:45 Helping Families/Concerned Others – Paula Brandt, MS
• 3:45- 4:30 Community Interventions – Paula Brandt, MS
About the Presenters:
The Center for Practice Transformation is a Minnesota Department of Human Services-designated “Center of Excellence” housed within the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. They are a multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals dedicated to creating and providing learning opportunities through their research, training, and consultation that inspire, challenge, and motivate practitioners toward exceptional, empirically informed, and effective recovery-oriented care.
• The Center’s staff presenting at the conference include: ThanhVan Vu, Jillian Wright-Martin, Steve Carlson, and Tanya Freedland.
Mental Health Resources (MHR) is a mission-driven non-profit organization that provides community mental health and substance use disorder services to help people achieve their recovery goals. MHR emphasizes person-centered care and strives to promote racial equity and inclusion and reduce the health disparities of those served.
• MHR staff presenting at the conference include Paula (DeSanto) Brandt and the Wellness Team:
Sally Sales and Jourdan Togstad
Other presenters include:
• Dr. David Frenz, who earned his medical degree and completed his family medicine residency at the University of Minnesota, is also board certified in addiction medicine. Dr. Frenz serves as the system medical director for addiction medicine for Allina Health.
• Melissa Evers is a Certified Peer Specialist, Reciprocal at NuWay
• Caddy Frink is the Training Manager for Minnesota Recovery Connection.
This conference provides a great chance to earn the required 8 hours of annual training for clinicians working in licensed treatment programs and includes a fantastic group of presenters. Due to social distancing, they will be “in studio” through the U of M, but you can see and hear them online with live interactions and Q & A. Once registered for the conference, you will be sent detailed instructions regarding how to access the LIVE conference as we near May 15th.
Questions can be directed to: cgadient@mhresources.com
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