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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
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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.
 

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Keynote: Unbreaking Broken Trust – a Holistic Approach to Trauma Healing and Prevention
 

Are U OK? – An Anti-Stigma Campaign and Healing Sensory Experience

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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.
 

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Harm Reduction: The Next Wave in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

 

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Eisleben, Lauren, BS, MEd, LPC

Lauren Eisleben is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Missouri specializing in substance use treatment, couple’s counseling, and family systems trauma. She is the Clinical Director of The Intensive, an Intensive Outpatient Program within the Columbia, MO private practice, Individual, Marriage & Family Counseling.
Lauren has been a presenter at the Missouri Addiction Counselors’ Association Fall 2023 Conference, frequently facilitates trainings associated with ICEEFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy), and regularly supervises practicum and internship students in the field of counseling.
Prior to her work in the field of mental health, Lauren was an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and was an active board member of City of Refuge, a non-profit organization supporting immigrants and refugees in mid-Missouri.
 

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The Efficacy of the CRAFT Model of Therapy in a Group Setting

Harm Reduction: The Next Wave in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

 

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O’Kelley, Scott, MA, EdS

Scott O’Kelley has been with Missouri Department of Corrections since 2011, first monitoring behavioral health services and currently serving as Assistant Division Director for Behavioral Health, overseeing mental health, substance use, and sexual offense treatment for incarcerated residents and parolees and probationers. A Licensed Professional Counselor, Scott also teaches forensic psychology at Westminster College. Prior to joining the Department of Corrections, O’Kelley worked in community mental health in Kansas City, Jefferson City, and Columbia.

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The Changing Face of Corrections Based Substance Use Services

 

 

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Kitson, Karin, BS

Karin Kitson has worked with individuals with substance use and criminal justice involvement since 2007. She joined the Gateway team in 2017 in the RRMAT Program (Reducing Recidivism through Medication Assisted Treatment), educating pre-release clients on MAT options, coordinating with DOC and other partners for pre-release MAT, and arranging warm-handoffs to aftercare in their home communities. In 2023 Gateway Foundation’s RRMAT program has reached their 10th year providing these services across the state of Missouri. Karin continues to strive to create partnerships and connections to empower clients in long-term success in their recovery, their families, and their communities.

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The Changing Face of Corrections Based Substance Use Services

 

 

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Charting the Landscape of Missouri’s Recovery Community Centers

Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s)

Bridget Coffey, MA, MSW & Lindsey Pawlowski, MSW
Panelists

Description

Recovery Community Centers (RCCs), or places where people in substance use treatment and recovery can gather to find a supportive community and access resources, have increasingly played a part in many people’s recovery journey. RCCs provide essential services to people across Missouri, providing services that range from harm reduction materials to assisting with job placement.
Missouri has recently expanded access to RCCs. The state has funded four RCCs since 2018, with four additional RCCs receiving state funding starting in 2022. Each RCC offers services individualized to its community, and while each serves people in recovery, the support received at each can look very different.
This session will begin with a 20-minute presentation about RCCs in Missouri, including an overview of what RCCs are, the types of services available at each, and a summary of RCC usage data. After the presentation, we will moderate a focus group discussion with five individuals who are involved with RCCs at different levels.

Objectives

1. Define Recovery Community Centers (RCCs) and the role they play in recovery from substance use.
2. Describe what the RCC landscape looks like in MO from the perspectives of both RCC staff and participants
3. Discuss the future for RCCs in MO
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The Changing Face of Corrections-Based Substance Use Services

Room Leeward 74-75

Speaker(s):

Duane Cummins PhD, Karin Kitson BS & Scott O’Kelley MA, EdS

Description

This presentation will review the historical evolution of corrections based SU treatment services in Missouri, the current transitioning and development of these services, and the future expectations for these services, to include the important role of MAT.

Objectives

    • Describe the historical evolution of SU treatment interventions in Missouri Corrections
    • Identify the current status of these services
    • Describe the important role of MAT within these services
    • Identify the present behavioral health model focus being implemented within corrections-based services
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Harm Reduction: The Next Wave in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Room Leeward 74-75

Speaker(s):

Lauren Eisleben, BS, MEd, LPC & Jeremy Duke, MA, LPC

Description

While the philosophy of harm reduction is generally welcomed and supported by industry professionals and the population alike, implementing harm reduction interventions is complex and often misunderstood. What does it look like – in practice – to approach a client from a harm reduction framework? Do we, as clinicians, approve or enable substance use and process addiction behaviors as we work from a place of compassion and curiosity?
Join us as we work together to understand and welcome our own professional and personal biases as they pertain to harm reduction. Let’s work together to provide a place for respect, dignity, and autonomy for those who are struggling with acute or chronic substance use disorder, eating disorders, and/or complex mental health challenges.

Objectives

    • Describe what harm reduction means and how it is applied in counseling practice
    • Identify systemic and micro barriers to providing compassionate and client-centered treatment
    • Practice real-time harm reduction interventions within the presentation
    • Connect with other professionals to learn how to utilize the harm reduction philosophy in our respective workplaces