Mr. Adams has been in the treatment and prevention field for over 30 years, spending the last 30 with Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health. Dan was in the first Missouri cohort to receive Medication Assisted Recovery (MARS) certification. Currently, he is the Director of Program Services with SEMOBH and oversees programming in SEMO’s 17 sites in Missouri.
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Janice Bunch, MA, LPC, NCC, SQP, MARS
Presentation: Describing and outlining the set up and implementation of a medication first model in conjunction with psychosocial services in response to the Opioid National Crisis via a Power Point Presentation with an interactive panel discussion. This presentation is intended to allow the audience to leave the presentation and return to their respective organizations with necessary knowledge and tools which will allow them to being or enhance their current medication first program.
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Ryan Lindsay’s career has focused on training new and experienced providers in various evidence-based treatments, consulting with organizations on how to implement evidence-based programs, and aiding organizations in program development utilizing evidence-based principles. At the Brown School, he chairs, teaches and advises students within the Mental Health concentration in the Master of Social Work program.
Lindsay completed a post-master’s fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Social Work within the University of Michigan Health System. As a result, he developed specialties in several evidence-based treatments. Currently, he is a Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist by the Linehan Board of Certification, an expert in the application of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for complicated PTSD, and a trainer in Motivational Interviewing.
Lindsay’s early experience working in both the public and private sectors sparked a desire to increase community access to evidence-based treatments and programs. In 2009, Lindsay co-founded the St. Louis Center for Family Development, a social enterprise which provides mental health services that are trauma-informed and evidence-based.
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Presentation: Assessing, Intervening, and Managing Suicide in Schools is a comprehensive program aimed at providing school districts with effective policies, protocols, and training to improve suicide risk responses within schools. The program includes the following: 1) assessment of current policies, procedures, and protocols to determine fit between district goals and best practice approaches, 2) technical assistance and advising on modifications to policies, procedures, and protocols to reflect best practices, help to implement a collaborative assessment procedure, and assistance to ensure protections for both districts and students, and 3) workforce development around understanding, assessing, intervening, and managing suicide risk in schools utilizing a collaborative response framework.
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Jeremy Lotz, MA, LPC, NCC is a Nationally Board certified therapist and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri. Mr Lotz served as a therapist and training director in long-term adolescent residential programs full-time for 12 years until opening a private practice in 2017. Mr. Lotz’ private practice is based in Kansas City, MO where he specializes in adolescence and family issues. Mr. Lotz has facilitated workshops for 75+ organizations and designed a violence prevention program he implemented in 20+ schools across 3 metropolitan school districts. He enjoys fitness, nutrition, movies, reading, and being outdoors with his family & friends. Mr. Lotz’ full bio is available at: www.lotztherapy.com
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Proven Ways to Incorporate Client Health & Wellness into Your Work with Difficult Cases
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Presentation: Bad sleep, endless screen time, sedentary lives, and junk food! Do you encounter clients who are frustrated, not meeting their goals, and for whom nothing seems to help? As society becomes less and less healthy, mental health services are being increasingly tasked with needing to offer support and challenge to our clients in areas of health and wellness. Deficits in health and wellness practices are increasingly being observed in the mental health community as foundational to helping our clients meeting their goals.
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Presentation: Neuroscientists now tell us that 80% of what our brain is up to at any given moment is thinking about social relationships. This keynote explores some revolutionary findings about our social brains and the implications these findings will have on our service system. Helping people to heal and recover will depend on our capacity to support them in developing enduring, positive relationships.
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David Pitonyak received his PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Urban Services Program and is currently the Director of Imagine, Blacksburg, VA (www.dimagine.com). Dr. Pitonyak provides consultation and training for individuals, families and professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, England, and the Republic of Ireland. The largest part of his work involves meeting individuals who are said to exhibit “difficult behaviors”. Most of these individuals exhibit difficult behaviors because they are misunderstood and/or because they are living lives that don’t make sense. Often they are lonely, or powerless, or without joy. Often they are devalued by others, or they lack the kinds of educational experiences that most of us take for granted. Too often their troubling behaviors are the result of an illness, or even a delayed response to traumatic events. You might say their behaviors are “messages” which can tell us important things about their lives. Learning to listen to an individual’s difficult behaviors is the first step in helping the individual to find a new (and healthier) story.
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Strategies for Helping People to Connect to Enduring, Positive Relationships
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Presentation: Many people served by our system are relationship impaired. Many have become relationship resistant. This workshop examines the impact of anxiety on each person’s capacity to develop healthy relationships and what we can do to help build self-confidence in the people we serve.
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Dr. Senter earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Missouri and a doctoral degree in counseling and family therapy from Saint Louis University. Before coming to Washington University, she worked for several years as a mid-level administrator, domestic relations specialist and divorce mediator in the Family Court System. She was later employed as a family therapist in a local community counseling center/residential treatment facility and worked part-time as the Training Coordinator for the Center for Counseling and Family therapy (CCFT) at Saint Louis University. Interests include: Family and relationship issues, couple’s and group counseling, the role of spirituality & forgiveness in the healing process, diversity issues and the promotion of good self-care and healthy interpersonal relationships.
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