Who should attend: Priority will be given to in-direct behavioral health provider staff such as reception, fiscal, front office, support staff, maintenance, housing, and any other non-clinically licensed individuals. However, individuals holding a clinical license may also attend. CEUs are pending.
About this event: This is a 3-hour interactive presentation on adverse childhood experiences and their impact across the life course. It will include sections on the neurobiology and brain development of children, epigenetics, the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, and Resilience. It will include small and large group dialog, time for reflection, and actions going forward. This training will assist you in understanding how your own experiences impact your interaction with others in the work environment. Being aware of how you interact (what you say and how you communicate it) with people seeking services at your organization is important to how the person feels about the agency, their services, and even whether they return.
This training will give clinicians tools to:
– Explore the implications of their own trauma in relation to the clients. It’s difficult to help someone address their trauma if the clinician doesn’t recognize and address their own.
– Have a deeper conversation with clients about what may be at the root beyond the diagnosis and established treatment plan.
– Offer an opportunity to develop a deeper clinician to client trust.
Learning Objectives:
– Identify and name at least three culturally and linguistically appropriate approaches.
– Understand common stressors experienced by a diverse Latinx community.
– Define social determinants of health and understand its impact on behavioral health outcomes for both US born and immigrant Latinx communities.
– Learn actionable steps to implement both evidenced-based and promising practices to better serve their community.
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Education Credits: 3 CEUs
General Continuing Education: Counselors and Social Workers
P6 – Professional Growth & Responsibility: OCPC, OCPS, OCPSA
C2 – Counseling Procedures & Strategies with Addicted Populations: CDCA, LCDC II, LCDC III, LICDC
Registration: Limited space, please register by October 6, 2021
The Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery is an approved provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board for Social Workers RSX109202 and Counselors RCX119207 and an approved provider of CEUs by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board. CEUs are pending for this workshop per 50-17839.
The Opiate Task Force is a community based coalition with the purpose of reducing opiate use, abuse, overdose and deaths in Stark County. It is open to anyone interested in being a part of a group of people concerned about, and willing to address the epidemic of prescription drugs and specifically, opiates in the community and in the State of Ohio.
* Stark County providers will have priority for registration.
Who should attend: Direct care staff may include: Case managers, peer specialists, care managers, nurse assistants, ACT team members, day treatment staff.
About this event: AMSR Direct Care Outpatient is a 3.5-hour workshop for staff who support providers and teams trained in AMSR Outpatient so that they can communicate in a similar language with all treatment staff across disciplines to help coordinate care with those who provide treatment. These staff members work directly with clients but are not the lead clinician making care decisions or developing risk formulations. The training focuses on teaching the AMSR model while understanding the scope of their role within the team.
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Education Credits: No
Registration: Limited space, please register by October 8, 2021
* Stark County providers will have priority for registration.
Who should attend: AMSR Outpatient is designed for health care providers who have a master’s or doctoral degree in a behavioral health field, including: Social workers, professional counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses.
About this event: AMSR for Outpatient Settings is a dynamic one-day workshop that equips new and experienced clinicians with the skills to address clinical dilemmas encountered while assisting individuals at risk for suicide. Using a combination of expert teaching, video modeling, practice exercises, and small and large group discussion, AMSR provides an up-to-date review of what experts consider to be the most essential knowledge, attitudes, and skills for providing suicide safer care. AMSR meets objectives included in the U.S. Surgeon General’s National Strategy for Suicide Prevention urging organizations and clinicians to create an environment where clients feel safe to disclose suicidal thoughts; collaborate with their mental health providers; and expect that care is informed by clear and contextually appropriate frameworks for assessment and intervention.
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Education Credits: 6.5 CEUs
General Continuing Education: Counselors and Social Workers
C2 – Counseling Procedures & Strategies with Addicted Populations: CDCA, LCDC II, LCDC III, LICDC
Registration: Limited space, please register by October 8, 2021
Who should attend: Law Enforcement, Fire Department, EMTs, First Responders working in Stark County.
About this event:
Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery supports the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training of law enforcement professionals in our community. Crucial to reducing violence and ensuring successful intervention of mental health and substance use situations, officers are trained in proven and effective communication techniques.
The CIT model was first developed and implemented in 1988 by the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department. The Team was developed to address the special challenges to law enforcement posed by persons with mental illness and to better serve the community.
Local training is led by StarkMHAR and Law Enforcement Partners and involves area mental health/drug and alcohol service providers, NAMI of Stark County, and consumers of mental health/drug and alcohol services and their families. This specialized training has the following goals:
- To better prepare police officers to handle crises involving people with mental illness and substance use disorders
- To increase mental health/substance use consumer safety
- To increase law enforcement officer safety
- To increase the feeling of safety in the general community
- To make the mental health/drug and alcohol system more understandable, accessible and responsive to law enforcement to the greatest extent possible with community resources
- To divert persons with mental illness/substance use disorders to the mental health/substance use system, when appropriate, and not to incarceration
Since 2004, Stark County’s CIT Training program has certified hundreds of officers and first responders. Comprehensive 40-hour courses have been provided twice each calendar year. Law enforcement officers are selected by their Chiefs, Sheriff or their designers to attend this training. Participants should be volunteers and ideally should have good communication and interpersonal skills. The goal for all law enforcement agencies is to have, at a minimum, 25% of their first responders trained.
Location – Stark County Law Enforcement Training Center
Cost – This is a free training.
Education credits – Not Applicable.
Registration: Limited space, please register by November 1, 2021
Who should attend: Open.
About this event: The Cultural Competency Training (CCT) will cover topics that are fundamental to cultural competency and cultural humility, which will assist with the understanding of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) and develop skills in understanding diverse communities. The CCT curriculum includes but is not limited to: Compelling Reasons for Cultural Competence, The Dynamics of Diversity, The Impact of Personal Culture on Communication, The Cultural Bumps, and Communicating Effectively through an Interpreter.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the concept of cultural competency and its relevance to your role and your organization’s mission.
- Establish a clear and shared understanding of the concepts of culture and healthy equity.
- Develop an awareness of the impact of culture on human development and dynamics.
- Develop an awareness of the impact of power on social, institutional, and individual relationships.
- Develop practical applications of the tools of cultural competency.
- Establish the importance and relevance of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.
- Understanding and being able to apply Cultural Humility.
Cost: Free
Location: First Christian Church – Heritage Hall
Education Credits: Pending
Registration: Limited space. Please register by November 12, 2021.
The Opiate Task Force is a community based coalition with the purpose of reducing opiate use, abuse, overdose and deaths in Stark County. It is open to anyone interested in being a part of a group of people concerned about, and willing to address the epidemic of prescription drugs and specifically, opiates in the community and in the State of Ohio.
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