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Likcani, Adriatik, PhD

Dr. Adriatik Likcani is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) form Kansas State University, two master’s degrees: MFT from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and MSW from 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. He has served as President of the Missouri Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Co-Chair of Family TEAM for Missouri organized by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Dr. Likcani is a Clinical Fellow with AAMFT and Alumni of the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), where he also served for two years as member and one year as chair of the MFP Advisory Committee. He has extensive experience in residential and outpatient treatment and recovery support programs for substance use disorders. Dr. Likcani is invested in bridging academia with practice in order to provide his students the best training and networking possible. His goal is for students to leave UCM with a culture of service, and the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed and lead in the region, state, nation and the world.

Presentation(s): 

Social & Emotional Loneliness

Family Recovery: Partnering with Families to Combat Opioid Use Disorders

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Mallula, Kate, MPH, LMSW

Kate Mallula, MPH, LMSW is a Senior Project Manager with Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center. She has over eight years of experience working with clients experiencing domestic violence, SUD, complex trauma, child welfare involvement, immigration, and homelessness. Mallula’s focus on improving maternal and child well-being across the life-course stems from her work as a hospital-based domestic violence program coordinator where she supported women and families recovering from the health impacts of DV/IPV. She has had numerous opportunities to use both data, and clients’ lived experiences, to design programs and deliver clinical services that are trauma-informed and culturally-responsive. This background continues to inform Mallula’s approach to program planning and evaluation in the SUD field.

Presentation(s): 

Considering Culture & Self: Provider Bias & Cultural Influences in Mental Health & SUD Setting

More than Physical: Substance Use & Mental Health Coercion in Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence

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Brown Girl T/Drauma: Women of Color & Trauma Today

Speaker(s):

Gladys Smith, PsyD, MEd, MHs

Presentation: The presentation will increase your knowledge and awareness about the link between historical and intergenerational trauma, and the current challenges for women of color. The presenter will discuss culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed practices you can use with your clients in individual and group sessions. The purpose is to have a transparent, informative discussion about the status of Women of Color in our offices, our treatment centers and in our communities.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the link between historical trauma and the challenges faced today by Women of Color
  2. Identify culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed practices with individuals and communities
  3. Recognize and discuss your own conscious and unconscious perceptions that could interfere with treatment
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Steffen, Ann, PhD, ABPP

Ann Steffen, Ph.D., ABPP is currently a professor of psychology and gerontology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she has spent her career in teaching, research, supervision and direct clinical services. Dr. Steffen is a faculty clinician at the UM-St. Louis Community Psychological Service, and is dual board certified in Behavioral & Cognitive Psychology and in Geropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).

Presentation(s): 

Culturally-Attuned Behavioral Activation to Support Psychological Resilience

CBT to Support Healthy Grief in the Face of Loss

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Johnston, Scott, MUA

Scott earned a Master’s Degree from St. Louis University in Urban Affairs with an emphasis on criminal justice policy. He worked as a probation and parole officer in St. Louis, before being appointed to the position of Planning and Policy Specialist for the Department of Corrections in 1987. In 1992 he was appointed as the Department’s first Chief of Substance Abuse Services and subsequently as the Assistant Division Director over Substance Abuse Treatment Services. In 1997 Scott returned to the Board of Probation and Parole, where he served as Assistant Division Director and then Chief State Supervisor until his retirement in 2010. Currently, Scott provides consulting services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health, concentrating on behavioral health and recovery support services. For the past two years he has focused his services on recovery housing by facilitating the affiliation process with the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and implementation of a recovery housing accreditation process for the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers. He is also now Vice President of the Missouri Recovery Network, President of the Board of Directors for the Healing House and New Beginnings, Inc., and Secretary for the Koinonia House Board, both transitional housing programs in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Presentation(s): 

Access to Recovery (ATR) Legacy to the Future

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Powers, Christine, MSW, LICSW

Christine Powers is a licensed independent clinical social worker who earned her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of New Hampshire. Christine serves as Consultant and Trainer regarding Evidence-Based Practices for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to the New Hampshire Bureau of Mental Health Services, where she works on the implementation, development, monitoring and quality improvement for Supported Employment (SE), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Illness Management and Recovery (IMR), and First Episode Psychosis Services (FEP). She provides training, consultation and fidelity evaluation for Community Mental Health Centers and the State mental health system. Christine maintains a private practice where she provides individual and family counseling, consultation and supervision. Christine has experience in community and inpatient mental health settings. She has experience worked in a Community Mental Health Center on an intensive services team and as a Senior Social Worker at New Hampshire Hospital.

Presentation(s):

Overview of Supported Employment and Education Principles & ACT/TAY Services Integration in Missouri

Effective Strategies, Tips and Considerations to Use When Providing Employment Services for People with Co-existing ID/DD and Mental Health Challenges

Implementing the Principles of Supported Employment

Supported Employment Stages of Change and Motivational Strategies

Developing an Agency Culture for Employment

 

 

 

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Zeger, Jessica, CRADC, CS

Jessica Zeger is a Clinical Supervisor for Gateway Foundation, Inc. at the women’s treatment program located in the Chillicothe Correctional Center. Current responsibilities include planning, organizing, and managing the delivery of quality client services and related administrative and support activities within the program; reviews treatment activities, results and documentation; ensures compliance with program/agency standards and objectives. Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Zeger began working in the treatment program at Chillicothe Correctional Center in 2012. She was promoted to a Clinical Supervisor in 2014. She has be working in the Substance Use field for almost 6 years and has gained and continues to gain knowledge and the  understanding for treatment as well as attending and facilitating training’s covering motivational interviewing, therapeutic community practices, trauma-informed care, medication assisted treatment, co-occurring disorders and evidence-based practices. Ms. Zeger has a Bachelor’s degree in General Studies.

Presentation(s): 

Best Practices in Providing Trauma-Informed Care to Women in Institutional Treatment

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Newton, KaeLee, MS

KaeLee Newton is a Quality Assurance Specialist for the state of Missouri working at Saint Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center (SLPRC) in St. Louis, MO. She has worked at the facility for nearly 15 years (A fact she can hardly believe when she thinks about it!) starting as a Psychiatric Technician during graduate school. In her role as Quality Assurance Specialist, Ms. Newton enjoys playing with data and making pretty charts and graphs to help translate sometimes overwhelming information into more easily understandable representations. When not at work, she continues creating pretty things by making jewelry or crocheting. She is also trying to see just how many books her bookshelves can hold before collapsing under their own weight as well as working on filling her digital bookshelves with an equal number of undiscovered favorites. She is equally happy talking about research design and data collection as she is about the last great book she read so feel free to start a conversation if you see her wandering between presentations!

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Michael’s Game: Intervention for Delusional Thought in a Long Term Forensic Setting

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The Child is Father of the Man: Neurobiological Crossroads of Trauma, Addiction & Mood Disorders

Speaker(s):

Christopher La Tourette La Riche, MD

Presentation: Early life trauma can cause long-term, lasting changes to the brain and brain chemistry which can be measured and imaged, even decades after the childhood events. The presence of childhood trauma can increase later-life vulnerability to addiction and mood disorders. It also appears to influence which treatments are most effective. Taking a careful trauma history in children and adults is essential for any counselor or health care provider. Join Dr. La Riche for this “breathtaking” look at the effects of trauma that past audiences have called “One of the best and most helpful seminars I’ve ever experienced.”

Objectives:

  • Attendees will be able to name the 3 basic elements of the neuro-endocrine stress system altered in early life trauma that can affect mood, anxiety and addiction
  • Attendees will be able to explain a simple teaching model of the neurobiology of addiction to clients and their families
  • Attendees will learn be able to name and briefly explain at least 3 early life events that have correlated with later life mood and addictive disorders

Slides and Handouts:

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Child Father Man La Riche STI Missouri June 2018 to PDF.pptx

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La Tourette La Riche, Christopher, MD

Christopher La Tourette La Riche is double board-certified (by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) in Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. He is an expert psycho-pharmacologist, an award-winning psychotherapist and an international keynote speaker and educator on addiction and the neuroscience of trauma and mood disorders. He was the founding medical director at Elements Behavioral Health’s first start-up facility, Lucida Treatment Center, which prioritizes evidence-based treatment of addiction and mental health disorders. Dr. La Riche has an extensive background in the humanities and entered medicine after a career in education and the arts. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in Comparative Literature, a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s department of Applied Linguistics and is a fluent speaker of six languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French). He lectures and sees patients in all of these languages.

He has an unusually broad vision of addiction and mental health treatment including involvement in the public sector (medicaid/medicare models), County Hospitals (public psychiatry), insurance-based and out-of-network models, community mental health, the “Medical Home” model, Academic medicine and medical education, Concierge private practice, and international models of addiction and mental health care (Paraguay, Brazil, Italy). He has contributed to creating public policy on addiction treatment on a variety of levels, both local (the Palm Beach County opiate epidemic) and international (Paraguay’s first-ever addiction treatment conference, Brazil’s national Neuropsychology annual meeting). He is an impassioned educator involved in outreach, marketing and increasing public awareness for the humane and neuroscience-based treatment of people with addictions and mental health disorders. He is voluntary assistant professor of psychiatry at Florida International University and has received the highest honor awarded to any educator from the University of Miami: The George Paff Award for Excellence in Medical Education.

Presentation(s): 

The Child is Father of the Man: Neurobiological Crossroads of Trauma, Addiction & Mood Disorders