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Safer Homes Collaborative: Preventing firearm suicide through an unconventional collaboration of professionals

Speaker(s):

Ellison, Kathleen, MS, MA, NCC

Presentation:

Over 1,100 residents die by suicide each year in Missouri. Three out of five suicide deaths in the state involve the use of a firearm – well above national average for gun suicide. Access to firearms, particularly easy access to firearms during a period of crisis or emotional despair is a key risk factor for suicide. Yet, many individuals and organizations working in suicide prevention have been uncomfortable to address firearms, given the current social and political climate in the gun right and gun violence conversations. The Safer Homes Collaborative, a grass roots, firearm-suicide prevention initiative is embracing the challenge; bringing together gun owners, gun retailers, behavioral health professionals, medical providers, and suicide prevention advocates to the table to talk about how they all play a role in preventing. In this presentation, participants will learn about the Safer Homes Collaborative and how they’ve brought experts in firearms, suicide prevention, mental health and physical health together to work towards the shared goal of preventing firearm suicides.

Objectives:

  1. Define the Safer Homes Collaborative and mission to prevent firearm suicide
  2. Identify lethal means reductions strategies to prevent firearm suicide and the evidence behind why it works
  3. Describe the impact the Safer Homes Collaborative has in creating systems change through their collaborations across the state
  4. Ask the suicide question and ask about access to firearms.
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Women in Recovery – An Approach to Sustainable Empowerment

Speaker(s):

Larkin, Nicole, MS, CDAC

Hartenstein, Jaimee, Ph.D, CFLE

Martin, Carol, CPS

Presentation:

Women in recovery are a unique population with varying experiences. In a group setting establishing a safe space is vital to the experience of the women in the group. A facilitator of a group has an opportunity to be transparent with the group and utilize various techniques to establish a safe space. Empowerment is one component of recovery and helping the women to feel empowered and share their voice is one aspect of recovery. Techniques and opportunities used by the facilitator as well as activities with the group are one way the group can begin to feel empowered. Presenters will share from their experience how this blend of interventions works in real practice. This approach meets the unique needs of building peer relationships for collaboration and continued emphasis on trustworthiness and empowerment for women in recovery.

Objectives:

  1. Provide perspectives on approaches to facilitating groups for women in recovery.
  2. Gain an understanding of establishing and facilitating a safe space for women in recovery.
  3. Discuss techniques to utilize with women in recovery to build empowerment.
  4. Exploring opportunities to empower and give a voice to women in recovery groups.
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Martin, Carol, CPS

Carol A Martin is a Certified Peer Specialist at Recovery Lighthouse in Sedalia, Missouri.  She is a person in long term Recovery and celebrates 4 years abstinent from all mind and mood altering substances. Carol obtained her HiSet in August 2020 and is in her 2nd year at State Fair Community College.  She is the General Service Representative of the Sedalia Narcotics Anonymous group.  Carol is a huge recovery advocate in her community. Carol has partnered with Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler and spoke at several high schools in the mid Missouri area raising awareness to addiction and finding recovery. Carol has participated in two recovery advocacy days at the state capital and enjoys partnering up with different agencies in her community to show that recovery is real and you can find a new way to live. Carol currently facilitates the Women is Recovery matrix group offered at Recovery Lighthouse and co-facilitates the Department of Corrections sponsored Road to Re-Entry program. Carol has successfully completed a five year SIS supervised state probation that she was placed on in 2016. In the future, Carol is looking forward to bringing Narcotics Anonymous meetings into the Pettis County Jail. She is full of life and love and most of all hope. She shares the most important message which any addict can stop using and find a new way to live.

Presentation(s): 

Women in Recovery – An Approach to Sustainable Empowerment


 

 

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Likcani, Adriatik, PhD, LMFT

Dr. Adriatik Likcani is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program at the University of Central Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University, two master’s degrees: one in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Missouri Kansas City, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Medical Family Therapy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Likcani is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the state of Missouri and was appointed in 2019 to the State Committee of Marital and Family Therapists, where he serves as Chairperson. He is a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Dr. Likcani is a former President of the Missouri Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is the founder of Recovery Lighthouse, Inc., a community-based organization in central Missouri that provides recovery support services, family recovery programming, re-entry, and recovery court services. Dr. Likcani has extensive experience with mental health and substance use disorder treatment, peer recovery support services, prevention, and research, including peer-reviewed publications.

Presentation(s): 

Contemporary Ethical Issues: Personal Worldview and Professional Acculturation


Engaging Families in Services: The Family Recovery Program

 

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Larkin, Nicole, MS, CDAC, SMFT

Nicole R. Larkin is a Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor and a Supervised Marriage and Family Therapist with Recovery Lighthouse, Inc. in Sedalia, Missouri. Nicole earned her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Development at the University of Central Missouri. Nicole has worked alongside University professors to co-author for the Systemic Handbook of Marriage and Family Therapy, published Fall 2020. Nicole acts as lead Treatment Provider and Program Coordinator for the 18th Circuit Recovery Court of Pettis and Cooper Counties, Missouri and the MO Department of Corrections sponsored Road to Re-Entry program.

Presentation(s): 

Contemporary Ethical Issues: Personal Worldview and Professional Acculturation

 

Engaging Families in Services: The Family Recovery Program

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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Self-Healing Communities

Speaker(s):

Clary, Pam, Ph.D., LCSW, LSCSW

Frye, Jana, MSW

Presentation:

This presentation will focus on the ACE Framework which is designed to promote an understanding of the significance and potential of ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) education. Understanding N.E.A.R (neuroscience, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resilience) will be a focus of this presentation. The ACE Study is the largest study of its kind with over 17,000 participants. The data collected from this study has the potential to change the public health crisis our nation is facing. This presentation will be about discovery, about hope, about our future. The action to prevent ACEs will be the largest public health discovery of our time. This presentation will discuss how our action to prevent ACEs, will profoundly impact our future.
  

Both presenters (Jana Frye and Dr. Pam Clary) are trained Master ACE Trainers by Dr. Rob Anda, one of the co-principal investigators of the ACE Study.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the science associated with adverse childhood experiences.
  2. Recognize that accumulative experiences matters, especially during formative years.
  3. Describe the ACE Framework.
  4. Understand the interrelationships between the individual and the social, physical, political, and economic environments.
  5. Identify the most powerful determinant of health: ACE.
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Providing Effective Staff Supervision using Trauma Informed Care Practices

Speaker(s):

James, Belinda, MSW, LCSW

Presentation:

This workshop will provide attendees with a foundation of knowledge on trauma informed care supervision. Professional development stages of staff will be reviewed to identify effective supervision strategies. Motivational interviewing skills will be practiced to address staff productivity, emotional wellness, compassion fatigue and burnout.

Objectives:

  1. Review central principles of supervision
  2. Increase awareness of cultural and contextual factors in supervision
  3. Practice trauma informed care strategies to address compassion fatigue and burnout

 

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How to Improve Your Community: Encourage and Promote Indigenous Helping

Speaker(s):

Memmott, Jay, MSW, Ph.D.

Presentation:

Every community contains natural or indigenous helpers–people who are sought out by friends, neighbors, and relatives because of their knack for effective problem solving and social support. More often than not, indigenous helpers are the first-line providers of informal health, social, addiction, and mental health services. Indigenous helpers represent every walk of life and the help they render is in most cases free of charge. Using an ecological framework and illustrations drawn from in-depth interviews with indigenous helpers, Dr. Memmott will discuss the impact this important human activity has on individuals, families, groups, and larger organizations. In addition, Dr. Memmot will offer tips on how to encourage and promote indigenous helping to make our communities healthier, safer, and more livable.

Objectives:

  1. Define indigenous helping and provide examples from their own lives.
  2. Identify and describe the types or helping styles of indigenous helpers.
  3. Discuss the helping methods employed by indigenous helpers.
  4. Explain how indigenous helping improves the quality of life in a community.
  5. Discuss ways to encourage and promote indigenous helping in neighborhoods and communities.

 

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Benefits & Employment – You Have the Knowledge with MO DB101

Speaker(s):

Love, Nicholas, SME

Presentation:

Lack of information or worse misinformation on how benefits and employment interact does not lead to informed decisions. Accurate information on health coverage and disability benefits is a key factor for people who have disabilities when making career decisions. Missouri Disability Benefits 101 (DB101) is an online tool that can help navigate the complexity of benefits and employment interactions. DB101 provides information and tools on employment and career planning, health coverage, disability benefits, and more all in one location. Learning how to incorporate Missouri DB101 (www.mo.db101.org) is vital for all service providers. Come learn how to embed MO DB101 into the work you already do to motivate and support people in competitive integrated employment decisions without having to learn a whole new skill-set.


Objectives:

  1. Learn how to access the rules governing SSDI/SSI, Social Security work incentives, Medicare and Medicaid, employment impact on state/federal benefits, and other work-related concerns through MO DB101.
  2. Increase knowledge of all service providers on the complex interaction of public disability benefits and competitive integrated employment without having to learn a whole new skill-set.
  3. Understand how the utilization of MO DB101 responses to federal and state directives – ex. WIOA.
  4. Incorporate MO DB101 as a supplement existing work to motive and support for competitive integrated employment without having to learn a whole new skill-set.

 

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Advancing Understanding Of Trauma To Include Childhood And Community Experiences As Informants Of Discrimination-Based Developmental Trauma

Speaker(s):

Boddie, Courtney R., Ph.D.

Thompson-Gibson, Lisa, MA, MA, LCPC

Presentation:

“Ellis and Deitz (2018) discussed the addition of community and environmental factors to the familiar factors present as part of the adverse childhood experiences (ACES) framework. They put forth the idea that a greater range of social determinants of health (e.g., discrimination) contribute to developmental trauma, along with ACES, given their adverse nature. This presentation explores implications of these findings to consider updating the existing ACES questionnaire, with particular focus on additional social and community factors. Using findings from Ellis and Dietz (2018), and exploring applications of Polyvagal Theory (Dana, 2020; Porges, 2006), and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (Perry & Dobson, 2013), session participants will develop strategies for trauma-informed interventions in the conceptualization and treatment of discrimination-based developmental trauma among adults.”


Objectives:

  1. Conceptualize discrimination as a broad community/environmental factor that can disrupt human development
  2. Examine the influencing role of discrimination in early childhood development (e.g., access to resources, help-seeking tendencies, development of self-regulatory processes, parenting practices)
  3. Explore interventions that are a by-product of conceptualizing the role of various forms of discrimination as a developmental stressor