Marsha Hourd
Executive Director of LIFE Recovery Community Center
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Tag: Substance Use Prevention and Treatment
Charbonnier, Michelle, CRADC, CGDC, CPS
Michelle Charbonnier is executive director of MoNetwork, a recovery community center rooted in the practices and principles of harm reduction. She is a therapist and interventionist with Plan Your Recovery at Clayton Behavioral. Michelle is dedicated to giving a voice to people who use drugs and actively opposes the war on drugs. She finds fulfillment in facilitating self-inquiry processes to foster deeper understanding of oneself, relationships, and behaviors.
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Cobb, Melanie, CPS and CPS Supervisor
Melanie Cobb serves as the Director of Landmark Recovery Center located in Jefferson City, Missouri. The center operates as a Recovery Community Center, aiming to provide resources and support for individuals with Behavioral Health Conditions. Being in long-term recovery, Melanie brings a personal perspective to her role, blending her passion with her professional duties. She possesses a Certified Peer Support Specialist Credential and has finished the Certified Peer Support Specialist Supervisor Training.
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Stoecker, David, LCSW, CPS, HRS
David Stoecker, LCSW, CPS, HRS is a person in long-term recovery. He is the Executive Director/Founder of Better Life in Recovery and co-founder of the Springfield Recovery Community Center. He was a founding member of the Southwest Missouri Drug Poisoning Coalition. Previously, David was a therapist for 8 ½ years, working with people involved with treatment courts as well as residential and outpatient clients. He co-created the Certified Peer Specialist training for Missouri and Missouri and ICRC’s Harm Reduction Specialist training and co-facilitates both trainings.
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Anderson-Harper, Rosie, MA
Rosie Anderson-Harper serves as Director of Recovery Services for the Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health (DBH). The position of Director of Recovery Services was created in 2012 to raise the level of importance of the recovery philosophy in all aspects of DBH operations, enhance recovery services and supports, and integrate them with traditional behavioral health services. As Director of Recovery Services, she supervises housing, employment services, Recovery Support Services, Consumer Operated Service Programs, peer specialist and family support services and the DBH State Advisory Council. Ms. Anderson-Harper has a Master’s degree in Educational and Counseling Psychology. She has 34 years of experience in the field of behavioral health. She passionately believes in the power of human connection that moves us together to heal the world.
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Coffey, Bridget, MA, MSW
Bridget Coffey (MA, MSW) is a research consultant on the Addiction Science team at UMSL-MIMH. At work, Bridget enjoys asking questions, exploring possibilities, and figuring out how things work. In the ASPIRE lab, Bridget serves as a liaison with the Addiction Science team and helper with things like Zotero and Qualtrics. She is currently interested in creating systems to nurture and champion the efforts of peer support workers in substance use treatment and recovery settings. Outside of work, Bridget enjoys spending time with her dogs, kayaking (though she doesn’t get out as much as she’d like to), and reading.
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Are U OK? – An Anti-Stigma Campaign and Healing Sensory Experience.
Room Paradise Ballroom A
Speaker(s): LJ Punch, MD, TJ Barber ATR, LPC, Indigo Hann, Sandra Mayen, Amy Miller
Description:
During this session we will introduce our Are U OK? campaign which serves as an invitation to reframe the concept of drug use into a framework of trauma. This session will present a hands on experience of responding to trauma, overdose, and stress through a sensory experience to include acudetox acupuncture, relaxation techniques, and training on how to approach conversations around overdose risk. #TraumaIsTheRealDrug
Objectives
- Learn the history of acudetox
- Name three sources of sensory input for relaxation
- Identify the presence of trauma in day to day habits
- Experience deep relaxation
Punch, LJ, MD
Dr. LJ Punch is a trauma surgeon, aspiring healer, and founder of Power4STL, a community of health working to reduce the impact of trauma in the St. Louis region. This includes the work of The Bullet Related Injury Clinic (BRIC) and The T, a holistic harm reduction program with a focus on overdose risk, both centering the experience of Black masculine bodied people because #BlackPainMaters.
Presentation(s):
Keynote: Unbreaking Broken Trust – a Holistic Approach to Trauma Healing and PreventionAre U OK? – An Anti-Stigma Campaign and Healing Sensory Experience
Duke, Jeremy, MA, LPC
Jeremy Duke, LPC owns Individual, Marriage & Family Counseling in Columbia, and has been in private counseling practice for more than 20 years; he has successfully grown his solo practice into a thriving group practice of 10 clinicians. In addition to providing individual, couple’s, and group therapy, Mr. Duke supervises provisionally licensed counselors and practicum and internship students.
Mr. Duke is the Regional Coordinator of the Missouri Physicians Health Program (MPHP) providing services to physicians and other health care providers through the Missouri chapter of the American Medical Association.
In addition to private practice, Mr. Duke has previously served as Assistant Director, Senior Counselor, and Residential Clinical Manager of Phoenix Programs, Inc.
Presentation(s):
Harm Reduction: The Next Wave in Substance Use Disorder Treatment