Thursday September 22, 2011

12:45 pm to 2:00 pm Welcome and Keynote

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions

• How to be a Really Great Community Support Specialist - Linda Mazuranic, MEd, LPC
  

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

• Using the Housing Toolkit - Francie Broderick, MS
• Stress Management for Frontline Staff
  James Hunter, MS, MSW, LCSW

Friday September 23, 2011

8:00 am to 9:00 am General Session

9:15 am to 10:30 am Concurrent Sessions

• Preserving Consumer Public Benefits Through Special Needs Trust - Lynn Carter, MSW, LCSW
• Shared Decision Making: Partnering with People to Support Informed Healthcare Decisions Etta Mitchell, MSW

10:30 am to 11:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

• Chronic Health Conditions - Joe Parks, MD

• Substance Abuse Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals - Jan Wrolstad, MDiv

11:45 pm to 1:00 pm Luncheon Presentation

• Public Mental Health - Joe Parks, MD

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Concurrent Sessions

2:15 pm to 3:15pm Closing General Session

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8:00 am to 9:30 am Keynote

• Beyond Benefits - Getting a Life Through Work - Mike Mayer

10:00 am to 11:30 am Concurrent Sessions

• Problem Gambling, Impulsivity and Executive Function. How are the Brains of Gamblers Different? - Dave Ledgerwood, PhD
• Employment First: Making Competitive Employment a Priority - Nancy Nickolaus, LMSW, Virginia Selleck, PhD, Tish Thomas, MS, Bianca Farr, MSW, LCSW, MATS
• Connect.Accept.Respond.Empower – How to Support LGBTQ Youth - Nathan Belyeu
• The Faith-Based Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12-Step Method of Addiction Recovery - Linda Mercadante, PhD
• An Overview of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports - Danielle Starkey, Susan Brawley, Tom Hairston
• Surviving the Absent Father - Guy Wheeler
• Clients Creative Service Provision: Achieving Recovery Through Creativity - Kasey Harlin, MA, CSAC I, CCDP-D
• Health Care Reform: Implications for the Regional Workforce - Pat Stilen, LCSW

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Super Sessions

• Moving the Field Forward: First Steps for Providers, - Patrick Gauthier
• Mask-U-linity: Why Good Boys Become Bad Men, - Khalil Osiris, MA
• Adolescent Drug Trends - Vicky Ward

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

• Predictors of Treatment Participation and Outcome among Problem Gamblers. Where should we Focus Treatment Efforts? - Dave Ledgerwood, PhD
• Parity 101: How Macro-economic Forces are Changing the Business of Addiction Treatment - Patrick Gauthier
• What is FASD, and How Can We Prevent this Brain-Based Disability - Leigh Tenkku, PhD, MPH
• Spirituality and Recovery - Guy Wheeler
• Family Leadership Training: Learning Skills to be Effective Family Leaders - Lu Ann Reese
• Integrating Mental Health and Corrections: The Sequential Intercept Model - Robert Reitz, PhD, Felix Vincenz, PhD
• Using Effective Language to Rapidly Relieve Psychological Trauma - David Kohlhagen, MEd
• Librarian411 Update - Nancy Nickolaus, LMSW

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

• New Research on the Susceptibility to Develop a Gambling Disorder - Wendy S. Slutske, PhD
• Creating an Organizational / Provider Culture to Promote Employment - Mike Mayer
• State Epidemiological Workgroup: New Routes to Gathering Data - Susan DePue, PhD
• ROSC is Setting Sail! Don’t miss the Boat - Scott Breedlove, Brenda Schell
• Project RECONNECT: An Implementation Model for Bringing TIP to your Community - Deborah Craig, MA, Tiffany Sturdivant, MSW, LCSW, Hanni Woelk, MS, PLPC
• Essential Systems of Care for Justice-Involved People with Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Disorders - Rick Gowdy, PhD
• Catching Them Before They Fall: Integrating SBIRT Services in MO Healthcare - Barbara Keehn, BSN, Rita Adkins, MPA, Mary Dugan, PhD
• Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals - Jan Wrolstad, MDiv

5:45 pm to 7:00 pm Special Evening Session

• Avatar Assisted Therapy and Other Innovative Technology - Dick Dillon

Friday May 20, 2011

7:45 am to 8:45 am Super Sessions

• Health Care Reform, - Mayme Young & Jan Heckemeyer
• Wounded - Guy Wheeler
• Medication Assisted Treatment from a Counselor’s Perspective: Integrating MAT with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and 12-Step Principles in the Treatment of Addictions - Ned Presnall, MSW, LCSW, Percy Menzies, MPharm

9:15 am to 10:45 am Concurrent Sessions

• New Research on Natural Recovery from Disordered Gambling - Wendy Slutske, PhD
• Preparing People to Change: A Skill Building Training - Craig Miner, MA, LPC, CASAC, CCDP-D, Katie Franklin, MSW
• Sexting and Internet Misuses Harmful to Youth: Key Issues - Sgt Paul Cordia
• The Role of the Peer Specialist in Person Centered Planning - Petra Robinson, CPS
• Navigating Rough Waters: Transition Practices for Preparing and Facilitating Young People with SED into Adulthood Roles - Wayne Munchel, LCSW
• Culture of Confinement: Lived Experience of Criminal Justice Involved Clients - Duane Cummins, MS
• Therapy with HIV+ Patients: Clinical Practices to Use Now - Sara Nelson-Johns, LCSW, MSW
• Healthy IDEAS-Older Adult Depression - Sally King, MSW, LCSW, Pam Stoelzel, MS

11:15 am to 12:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

• Motivational Interviewing for Problem Gamblers - Ty Lostutter, PhD
• Lessons Learned from the Missouri Foundation for Health Co-Occurring Initiative - Andy Homer, PhD, et al
• The Advantage of Blending Wellness and Behavioral Health - Chad Morris, PhD
• Healthy Eating: Feeding the Body & the Soul - Randall C. Flanery, PhD
• Emergency Preparedness: New Opportunities for Strengthening Community Resilience and Helping Children and Youth - Anita Chandra, PhD
• Circle of Courage Mentoring Program: A Positive Behavioral Support Model - Khalil Osiris, MA
• Treatment Issues in Combat Related PTSD: Effective Approaches - Shawn O’Connor, PhD
• Professional Self-Care: What Are My Ethical Obligations? - Tamitha Price, ACSW, CSWM, LBSW-IP, BSBA

1:45 pm to 3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions

• Suicide Risk Assessment, Intervention and How it Relates to Problem Gambling - Ty Lostutter, PhD
• Developing Local Funding for Mental Health Services in Your County - Bruce Sowatsky, Rita McElhany
• Prescription Drugs: Legal - NOT Harmless - Marilyn Bader, MS
• ROSC Part II - Implementation - Scott Breedlove, Brenda Schell, Jane Frances Pfefferkorn, B.S., CCJP, MRSS, MATS, OES, Adriatik Likcani, BA, MSW, LMFT, CASAC, CRAADC
• The Department of Mental Health-Department of Corrections Canine Connection in Promoting Mental Health - George A. Lombardi, Keith Schafer, EdD
• When the Money Runs Out - Nancy Box, MA, Angela Casimere, Sherre Waggoner
• Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury and Differentiating TBI from Psychiatric Illness - Thomas Martin, PsyD, ABPP, John Bennett, MS, CCC-SLP
• High Risk Ethical Dilemmas - Ben Shriver, MS, MPH

3:45 pm to 5:00pm Closing Keynote

• Fueling the Flame of Compassion… Harnessing the Power of Creativity and Joy in Our Lives and in Our Work! - Walter Kisthardt, PhD

3:45 pm to 5:00pm Closing Keynote

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If you are unable to attend, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible. Cancellations received in writing five business days prior to the date of the program will be refunded, less a $25.00 processing fee. You may send a substitute, but we ask that you notify us in writing of this change. If you do not attend or send a substitute, you or your employer will be billed the full registration fee.

A Pre-Conference workshop for mental health professionals will take place in the Red Bud Conference Room on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.  The registration for the pre-conference is a separate process from the regular conference registration process.  To register for the pre-conference use the following link:

http://sprc.cvent.com/event/sprtraining

The Missouri Suicide Prevention Project is making this workshop available at a special discounted registration fee of $35.00 per person.  The following continuing education credits (6.5) are available at no additional charge:

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Deadline for registration has been extended through May 16, 2011.  Seating is limited.   Pre Registration is required.  No walk – ins allowed.

Questions?  Contact:  Scott Perkins at (573) 751-8155 or Scott.Perkins@dmh.mo.gov

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals

The workshop focuses on competencies that are core to assessing and managing suicide risk and is a collaboration of the American Association of Suicidology and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center.  Participants will be provided pre-workshop reading (about 20 pages) and will earn 6.5 hours of face-to face training, comprised of an engaging mixture of lecture and exercises. Additionally a Participant Manual (75 pages) will be provided to all participants that includes an extensive bibliography for each section in the workshop, the curriculum content itself, workshop exercises, and space for note-taking and journaling.  The course recognizes that complex ethical issues must be considered when providing care to suicidal clients and weaves threads of these discussions throughout the curriculum. Additionally, the course introduces the principles of The Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE), an innovative method for eliciting suicidal ideation. The result is an engaging mixture of lecture, video demonstrations, and exercises that leave clinicians more knowledgeable and confident when faced with suicidal clients. Participants rate this workshop very highly and in overwhelming portions said they would recommend it to their peers. 

Presenter:  Amy M. Shoffner, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist and founder of Northland Behavioral Health & Wellness. Dr. Shoffner specializes in treatment of mood disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder.  She administers fully adherent Dialectical Behavior Therapy with suicidal and self-harming populations with a primary goal to develop a “life worth living.” In 2009 Dr. Shoffner was named “Provider of the Year” by Tri-County Community Mental Health Services.

Learning Objectives

By completing the required pre-workshop reading, you will:

• Become familiar with core competencies that enable mental health therapists to assess and work more effectively with individuals at risk for suicide
• Define terms related to suicidality
• Become familiar with suicide-related statistics
• Identify major risk and protective factors
• Understand the phenomenology of suicide

By the end of this course, you will:

• Increase your knowledge in the following core competencies:
  • Manage one’s own reactions to suicide
  • Reconcile the difference (and potential conflict) between the clinician’s goal to prevent suicide and the client’s goal to eliminate psychological pain via suicidal behavior
  • Maintain a collaborative, non-adversarial stance
  • Elicit suicide ideation, behavior, and plans
  • Make a clinical judgment of the risk that a client will attempt or complete suicide in the short and long term
  • Collaboratively develop an emergency plan
  • Develop a written treatment and services plan that addresses the client’s immediate, acute, and continuing suicide ideation and risk for suicide behavior
  • Develop policies and procedures for following clients closely, including taking reasonable steps to be proactive
  • Follow principles of crisis management
• Experience a shift in perspective in working with individuals at risk for suicide.
  • We expect you will experience changes in perceptions of working with suicidal clients. For example, you may experience an increased willingness, confidence, or clarity in working with individuals at risk for suicide.
• Identify changes to make in your practice specific to the assessment and management of individuals at risk for suicide.

Workshop Schedule

8:30 – 8:45	Introduction and overview of the course
8:45 – 10:30	Attitudes and approach
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:05	Understanding suicide
11:05 – 12:15	Eliciting suicide ideation, behavior and plans
12:15 – 1:15	LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:15 – 2:15	Formulation of risk
2:15 – 3:00	Treatment planning
3:00 – 3:15	BREAK
3:15 – 3:45	Treatment planning (continued)
3:45 – 4:15	Management of care
4:15 – 4:30	Documentation
4:30 – 4:45	Legal and regulatory issues
4:45 – 5:00	Summary and evaluation