Speaker(s):

Stephanie Flynn, LCSW

Presentation:

Co-Occurring Disorders are ever present in our practice now more than ever and we must be educated as professionals on how to best meet the needs of our clients. We cannot keep looking at the person across from us and skipping the questions about substance use or alcohol use just assuming that they do not look the type or meet the age criteria in our mind. In my experience of practice, most people I have interviewed first used marijuana at about age 10-11 due to it being available in the home. This leads us to the point that we must be treating both issues with our client or we are simply putting a band-aid on the problem. This is a nation-wide crisis, but especially in the bootheel of Missouri we are losing this battle which means-we are losing lives. I have witnessed this first hand as many of my colleagues. IT IS AN EPIDEMIC. As professionals we must make it a priority as much as we have suicide in order to make a change. In this session I will address how we can make a change in our communities, in our offices, in our clients as well as in our professional treatment of our clients.

Objectives:

1. Identify those with co-occurring disorders
2. Utilize community programs to support goals in working towards helping this population of clients
3. Describe ways clinicians can be more effective in working with this population

Speaker(s):

Kate Mallula, MPH, LMSW

Presentation: This workshop will provide participants with the information and tools necessary to screen for substance use and mental health coercion and to support clients’ ability to safely cope with these dynamics. Workshop participants will review literature on the prevalence of DV/IPV among clients seeking mental health and SUD services. Common coercive dynamics as they relate to clients’ ability to seek and obtain mental health and SUD services will also be discussed in conjunction with trauma-informed practices for screening and safety planning in a variety of practice settings (ie: shelters, outpatient treatment programs, MAT clinics, at home). Using case-based scenarios, workshop participants will actively practice developing collaborative safety and treatment plans that are reflective of clients’ unique needs.

Objectives:

1. Describe the prevalence of DV/IPV among clients seeking mental health and SUD services
2. Define mental health and substance use coercion
3. Describe how coercive tactics in abusive relationships that may affect a survivor’s ability to seek and obtain services
4. Screen for mental health and substance use coercion and DV/IPV in a variety of settings
5. Respond effectively to disclosures of DV/IPV and/or mental health and substance use coercion
6. Collaborate with survivors to develop safety plans that reduce harm and promote their ability to access treatment

Speaker(s):

Adriatik Likcani, PhD

Ryan Peterson, PhD

Allison Rayburn, PhD

Presentation: The presentation will focus on specific interventions on how to engage families and how to partner with them when they have a loved one struggling with Opioid Use Disorder and other substances. Presenters with talk about findings of the pilot program funded through SOR grant to develop and test family systems-based interventions and introduce participants to specific interventions for support groups and psychoeducational groups for families and caring others, and family therapy intervention specific to OUD treatment. The program goals were to: a) educate families on resources for them and their loved one struggling with opioid use disorder to enable engagement in treatment and recovery support services; b) educate families on family dynamics during addiction and the recovery process; c) provide open forums / workshops for families in the most non-stigmatizing and sensitive manner possible in the community to increase participation; d) offer family sessions to families with or without their loved one present to assist them in getting their loved one into treatment; e) enable engagement in treatment for the individual family member/s struggling with opioid and other substance use disorder; f) link the family and the individual members with substance use disorder with resources in their community to assist them in five major domain: basic needs, health and sobriety, secure safe and stable housing; develop a purpose; and to establish safe and supportive networks in their community.

Objectives:

1. Identify strategies how to engage and partner with families
2. Introduce concrete ideas and modules for support groups and psychoeducational groups with families
3. Discuss how to integrate family systems-based interventions into programming