Plenary Sessions

NO PARTIAL CREDIT

* * * THERE IS NO PARTIAL CREDIT * * * 
You MUST attend sessions in their entirety.
Certificates will be emailed approx. 4-6 weeks after the School.

PLENARY-I. Opening Plenary — The Power of Presence

Monday | July 24 | 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Presenters: Suzy Vaile, MA, LCMHCA, LCASA; Chelsea Mitchell, MS, LCMHCA, LCAS-A, NCC; and Liz White, MA LCMHC, LCAS, CCTP, CCS

Description: This plenary session will walk participants through components and impact of being present, specifically as it relates to providing services for clients with substance use concerns. The presenters  will highlight Geller & Greenberg’s 2012 Presence Model, case study examples, and applications for presence in MAT/MOUD and Harm Reduction.

PLENARY-II. Measuring Outcomes in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Tuesday | July 25 | 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Presenter: Charles Odell, MSW, MAC, LCAS

Description: This presentation will provide an overview of standardized, uniform and replicable methodologies for measuring outcomes of participants receiving substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services. Emphasis will be placed on the Treatment Outcomes Program developed by the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP).

PLENARY-III. Romancing the Brain

Thursday | July 27 | 2:45-4:15 p.m.
Presenter: Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, BSW, NCAC II, CDC III, SAP, Executive Director of NAADAC

Description: With funding from NIDA, Cynthia Moreno Tuohy worked with Danya International to conceptualize, develop, and evaluate a multi-component, multi-media tool for use by addiction and other helping professionals to assist adults and youth improve their life traumas and conflict through knowledge, attitudes and skills developed in the frontal cortex of the brain. Rein in Your Brain are an intensive set of psycho-emotional-social-spiritual Cogitative Behavioral Therapy (CBT) treatments that, if followed, will result in brain pathway and lifestyle changes.   This program affects behavioral learning with emotional development and maturity that results in long-term changes in the brain and behavior. This training will be a short introduction into the foundational pieces of the curriculum focusing on the brain and its development in addiction and conflict, methods to change the neuropathways in the brain and reduce conflict with self and others.

(Sponsored by: NAADAC)