Dianne is the Director of Behavioral Health Workforce Development for Truman Medical Center, she has also worked as a substance abuse QMHP on the inpatient psychiatric unit at Truman Medical Center. She previously worked as a Consultant/Trainer for Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment at the University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare for over 15 years. Dianne recently completed work with SAMSHA as part of a national expert panel to develop a revised evidenced based toolkit for co-occurring disorders treatment. She also served as a faculty/consultant for the California Institute of Behavioral Health Advancing Recovery Learning Collaborative from 2012-2014.   Dianne completed training with Dr. William Miller to be a Motivational Interviewing trainer and has been part of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2002. Dianne provides training and consultation on a variety of topics including:  Trauma Informed Care, Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment, Motivational Interviewing and Supervision of Evidenced Based Practices in Mental Health, throughout the State of Kansas, Kansas City and nationally. She has also worked as a Case Management/Supported Housing Team Leader and Case Manager in a community support program for 11 years working with adults who have a severe and persistent mental illness. Additionally, she has over 2 years’ experience working with adolescents in a drug and alcohol outpatient program.

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Person Centered Supervision That Works!

Mirna Herrera MA, MTBC is the Director of the Consumer Operated Service Program, Prime Time, at Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City. Prime Time is a drop-in center with a mission to help consumers with recovery through peer support. She is involved with the RESPECT Institute, which helps consumers tell their stories in in public settings in order to help decrease the stigma of mental illness in the community. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in psychology and musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a Master’s degree in music therapy from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

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Building a Haven for Engagement and Recovery: The Marriage of Homeless Outreach and Consumer Operated Service Programs

Sara Schwab is a Licensed Professional Counselor and is the Team Leader and PATH Project Director for Truman Behavioral Health Assertive Community Outreach. She has been working in community mental health since 2006 and specifically with individuals experiencing homelessness and mental illness since 2011. Her work has been as a case manager, counselor, intake therapist, and outreach coordinator, her current position includes clinical oversight for outreach and clinical services, as well as direct client care. and the supervision of the allocation of grant monies. Sara is committed to ending chronic homelessness, particularly as it relates to those experiencing mental illness.

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Building a Haven for Engagement and Recovery: The Marriage of Homeless Outreach and Consumer Operated Service Programs

A. Benjamin Srivastava, MD, is a third-year psychiatry resident at Washington University in Saint Louis. He earned his undergraduate degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan and his MD from the University of Florida College of Medicine.

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Shelly graduated from Lindenwood University in 2016 with an M.A. in Professional Counseling. She has worked for Children’s Division for 13 years in a variety of roles including case manager, investigator, and supervisor. Currently Shelly is a provisional counselor under the supervision of Andy Anderson at Parenting and Child Conduct Counseling.

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Parent Management Training Evidence-Based Treatment for ODD and Conduct Disorder

Tracie is one of four Certified Specialists in the Kazdin Method™ Parent Management Training out of Yale University. She worked at the prestigious Yale University Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic with Dr. Alan Kazdin from 2006-2013 as a CBT Therapist, Certified PMT Specialist, and as a Behavioral Consultant. While at the Center, she helped devise and implement the current parent and professional online PMT training and the Certification in PMT for professionals. Tracie is the founder and Executive Director at the Parent Management Training Institute where she continues certifying professionals and training parents from around the world in PMT.

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Parent Management Training Evidence-Based Treatment for ODD and Conduct Disorder

Andy has worked with kids for 38 years as a teacher, school counselor, and LPC in private practice. He is a Certified Clinician in the Kazdin Method℠ Parent Management Training. Currently, he owns a counseling practice in St Charles and supervises provisional counselors and interns.

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Parent Management Training Evidence-Based Treatment for ODD and Conduct Disorder

Jeremy Lotz is a national board certified therapist specializing in domestic, sexual & complex trauma. He has offered clinical services in long-term residential since 2005, led workshops for 40+ organizations & built a violence prevention program he implemented in 20+ schools.  Jeremy serves as Director of Training & Leadership at Shelterwood, a therapeutic boarding school for struggling teens.

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Is Anybody Really Listening!?!

Mark S. Gold is a translational researcher, author, and inventor best known for his work on the brain systems underlying the effects of opiate drugs. He proposed a novel model for opiate action, dependence, and withdrawal changing the way opiate action was understood. This locus coeruleus theory of opiate and drug withdrawal is a mainstay of 2014 theory and practice, even though he proposed it in 1978. Gold is the senior author on the discovery paper and was awarded a patent for the discovery of new uses for clonidine which remains widely used for opiate withdrawal and pain management. Drs. Gold and Herbert Kleber were the first to suggest sequential use of clonidine and Naltrexone. During 1980s Gold and colleagues developed a new theory for cocaine action, dependence, and withdrawal based on his understanding of the dopamine-rich areas of the brain. While most at the time did not consider cocaine addictive because of the lack of a classic withdrawal syndrome, Gold proposed a dopamine theory of pathological attachment, loss of control and addiction. He also has worked for over 30 years trying to understand overeating as related to drug of abuse or addiction models. He described Food Addiction in several classic papers and texts. He has served on numerous governmental as well as private psychiatric boards and panels. His work reduced stigma, served as the basis for many educational and prevention campaigns and changed the lives of addicts with basic and applied science leading to new evidence-based treatment. Dr. Gold is a multiple patent holder, author of nearly 1,000 publications. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Washington University, University of Florida and Yale University. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St Louis and the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Boards for RiverMend Health.

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My Career in Translational Research: From 1972-Present

Ryan R. Lindsay, MSW, LCSW is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of the St. Louis Center for Family Development, LLC. STLCFD provides high quality mental health services in order to improve the lives of individuals in the St. Louis region. Through innovative, state-of-the-art, trauma-informed interventions, STLCFD has been able to touch the lives of over 300 individuals and families per year. STLCFD’s training institute provides consultation and skill development programs for providers and organizations wishing to adopt a trauma-informed organizational culture and/or wishing to adopt evidence-based treatments. Mr. Lindsay has led several large scale and organizational implementation efforts to adopt, train, and support evidence-based mental health treatments in various settings. In addition to his work at STLCFD, Mr. Lindsay is also the Assistant Dean for Social Work, an Associate Professor of Practice and Mental Health Concentration Chair at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Building Organizational Contexts for Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments