* * * THERE IS NO PARTIAL CREDIT * * *
You MUST attend sessions in their entirety. Certificates will be emailed AFTER Mid-March.
Presenter: Dale Willetts, CCJP
Session Format: In-Person & Virtual Students
Description: Ethics violations range from minor and relatively benign to serious, sometimes criminal acts, causing injury to the client and lasting consequences to the professional, and perhaps their colleagues. This session will be an open discussion of Ethical Principles and Codes, ethical decision making, denial behaviors, and the consequences of unethical acts.
*Session is available for Virtual Students.
**An additional 0.5 hour of NCSAPPB credit is available for participants needing 4 hours of ethics – you must complete the additional assignment; cannot claim CRCC credit for ethics.
Presenter: Kendra T. Davis, D.Min., MRC, M.Div., MAC, LCAS, CSOTS, CCJP, CCS, IAADC
Description: This session will discuss the risk factors and burden of responsibility for the Clinical Supervisor as well as provide a general overview of clinical supervision in the addictions field.
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An additional .5 hour of NCSAPPB credit is available for participants needing 4 hours of ethics and/or clinical supervision– must complete additional assignment; cannot claim CRCC credit for ethics)
Presenter: Paul Weaver, MS, LCMHCS, LCAS, CCS
Description: This presentation will explore the increasing impact that the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have on substance use and mental health disorders in the US. Through case studies, examination of current data, and narrative reports, participants will discuss the increasing need for treatment and support. Participants will explore their experiences as providers during the pandemic and their need to acknowledge and examine vicarious trauma to combat burnout and compassion fatigue.
(Sponsored by: Red Oak Recovery)
Presenter: Jessie Alexander, LPC
Description: Midlife adulthood is characterized by refining and reattuning to who you are and what matters in life. The focus of this presentation is on the combination of social, cultural, historical, and developmental experiences of the midlife and older adult that create a unique blend of therapeutic needs in addiction treatment. Changing substance use trends and treatment implications within this population are discussed through a clinically integrated perspective.
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(Sponsored by: Pyramid Healthcare)
Presenter: Stephanie Gans LCAS, MSW, NCTTP
Description: Beginning December 1st, 2022, all North Carolina Medicaid managed care organizations will require all contracted medical and behavioral health providers to have a 100% tobacco-free campus. Prepare your behavioral health organization to go tobacco free. If you are interested in expanding tobacco use treatment supports or if you need assistance in taking the next steps around policy and implementation this training is for you. Learn about the prevalence and impact of tobacco use in NC particularly on those with behavioral health conditions and with an emphasis on the e-cigarette epidemic among young people. This presentation will review standard-of-care tobacco use treatment, considerations for behavioral health providers, and how to integrate treatment into your organization’s work flow. You will also learn about community resources such as QuitlineNC and Live Vape Free. This presentation will also go over nicotine replacement therapy types and pharmacological supports, and the two most likely to be effective medication regimens that help people quit. Lastly providers can learn the steps to becoming a tobacco-free facility that meets NC managed care standards for 100% tobacco-free campuses.
Description: Using a combination of experiential and lecture-based learning, we will explore implicit bias, substance use, and the unique applications of attachment theory when working with the LGBTQ+ community.
(Sponsored by: Elevate Wellness and Recovery)
Description: Trauma is spreading like wildfire through our communities and we are being called into the action of supporting people on the ground and in addressing the ways that systematic and institutional trauma are creating conditions for community members to stay in dis-ease. This dis-ease shows up time and time again in the form of addiction. Whether it be drugs and alcohol or sex, food, and technology, the disassociation is rampant and results in community members’ reactivity and dysregulation. We see this so often in ‘addicts’ and this session will offer you tools that you can use with that population while also offering those same tools to us as facilitators and support systems so that collectively we can all reimagine wellness and move towards that, together. This session will include a mini yoga session for you to experience the power of the breath and regulating the body, mind and soul. Tools that can be transferred to our students, clients, patients and ourselves.
Description: Although the opioid crisis has captured a lot of attention in recent years, alcohol and tobacco still carry a higher mortality rate. Overdose deaths from stimulant toxicity are also on the rise. Little is definitively understood about etiology of addiction, and furthermore the possible cause of preference for one drug over another in susceptible individuals. This lecture series will first explore what we do know about susceptibility to drug addiction in general. Then we will examine possible predictors and why individuals with substance use disorders are predisposed to misuse / overuse one drug over the other
(Sponsored by: Dominion Diagnostics)
Description:
The North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board (NCSAPPB) Forum session will include a brief history of the Board and the addiction profession in North Carolina. Requirements for all NCSAPPB-offered credentials will be reviewed from initial application through registration to fully credentialed status and biannual renewal.
(Sponsored by: North Carolina Addiction Specialty Professional Practice Board)