2008 Tracks

Tracks provide 12 hours of concentrated instruction.

          

Track 1 - Medical Scholars/Allied Health Professionals Track
Faculty:  David Benzer, DO, Fifty Lakes, Minnesota
Kirk Moberg, MD, PhD, Urbana, Illinois
The Scaife Family Medical Scholars and Allied Health Professionals Track includes the following:

Track 2 - Prevention Works in Rural America
Sponsored by CSAP
Faculty:  Dee S. Owens, MPA, Director, Alcohol-Drug Information Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Jeff Bentz, CADC II, Director, CESA 8, Gillett, WI
In these times of budgetary shortfalls, it can be difficult to keep prevention alive. Learn about leadership, strategies for change and the latest evidence-based techniques. The Strategic Prevention Framework will be highlighted:

Track 3 - Intervention: How to Get Them into Treatment
Faculty: Heather Hayes, MEd, LPC, Private Practitioner, Cumming, Georgia
Learn about the history of intervention, how to know when it is appropriate and which model to choose, and using role play, learn about the methods and ethics of intervention practice. Participants will learn about:

• Johnson, Arise, and Family Systemic Models

• Special issues, such as co-occurring disorders and trauma

• Role of the facilitator and family dynamics

• Intervention outcomes

 

Track 4 - Drug Court 101 – Basics to Get Started
Faculty:  Jeff Kushner, Drug Court Administrator, Helena, Montana
This beginning drug court track will teach practitioners the fundamentals of planning and implementing a drug court.
It will focus on:

Track 5 - Rural Drug Courts Advanced – Maintaining and Enhancing Criminal Justice and Treatment Linkage
Faculty:  Glade F. Roper, Judge, Tulare County Superior Court, Porterville, California
This advanced track is for rural drug court practitioners and will focus on the unique operational issues and problems faced by rural drug court programs.  It is designed for practitioners with experience in operating or working in a drug court.  Those who do not have experience should enroll in Track 4.  This track will focus on solving problems that arise in drug courts and will include video vignettes which will be discussed and role playing.  Topics discussed will include issues relating to: 

Track 6 - Juvenile, Family and Mental Health Courts
Faculty:  John Larson, Judge, Missoula, Montana
The prime challenge of juvenile, family drug courts and mental health courts include:

Track 7 - The Art & Science of Healing

Faculty:  Cardwell C. Nuckols, MA, PhD, CA, Cardwell C. Nuckols & Assoc.  LLC, Longwood, Florida
 “We claim spiritual progress not spiritual perfection.”
At its inception, medicine was an art utilizing science as a tool (“the healing art”). Today practitioners are overwhelmed with science with little or no attention to the art. The talk is of treatment and management often with a goal of symptom reduction or tolerable recovery. The words “to heal” speak not of reduction or abstinence but of a spiritual freedom to fully experience life in the present moment. Healing speaks of connection to a Higher Power and to fellow persons and an absence of guilt and fear.

Two double-blind studies give differing results-one shows that a certain therapeutic approach is extremely effective and the other shows the statistical equivalent to placebo. What is the difference? It is primarily related to the healing potential manifest by the clinicians. The question then becomes, can this ability be acquired? The answer is this ability is already there-has always been there and always will be there. This course simply helps guide the participant back toward their healing essence.

This mutual self-enhancing experience is designed to help the clinician intuitively further develop their art and science while enhancing their personal ability to help others heal.

NOTE: Although this is a stand-alone training, for those who participated in last year’s “Discovery To Recovery” experience this will be a logical progression from that experience.

 

Track 8 - Minding the Brain in Recovery
Faculty: Niki Moyer, MA, LP, LADC, Teacher, Consultant Moyer Associates Recovery Services, Center City, Minnesota

 What are the changes in brain structure and chemistry as a person gets and stays sober?  How do these changes help or hinder people?  How can people steer their changes in a positive direction?  How can counselors understand and use this information to help individuals and families?

In this seminar, participants will address these questions and gain:

Track 9 - The Nuts and Bolts of Trauma Treatment
Judy Crane, LMHC, CAP, Executive Director, The Refuge-A Healing Place,
Ocklawaha, Florida
This is a very experiential and active workshop. The participants will be expected to engage in all activities and process their own internal experience and responses and translate those experiences to working with trauma survivors. The session will:

 

Track 10 - Treatment of Compulsive Gambling  CANCELLED
Faculty:  Reece Middleton, MA, LAC, CCGC, Shreveport, Louisiana
Paul Mladnick, LADC, NCGC, LMFT, Forest Lake, Minnesota
Learn more about the "dream world "of a compulsive gambler and the impact of living with a person with a gambling problem . This training will offer a useful approach to anyone interested in helping compulsive gamblers and their families. A segment will be devoted to developing intensive outpatient programs and to understanding the importance of money in active addiction and in the recovery process. You will hear about the various financial bail outs that can sabotage treatment and have a guide to help people manage finances in early recovery:

The following topics will be addressed:

Track 11 - Native American Tribal Remedies 
Faculty: Robert Blackwolf Jones, MS, Certified AODA Counselor, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Kenneth R. Ninham, MSE, CADC III, CCS-G, Oneida, Wisconsin
Florence Ninham, BS, CADC III, CCS-G, Oneida, Wisconsin
Learn more about Native American tribal remedies, both spiritual and cultural, to treat domestic abuse and chemical dependency. This training will be useful to anyone who is interested in the cultural influence in working with Native American people.
Upon completion participants will understand :

Track 12 - Healing the Healer
(Recommended for professional and non-professional persons)
Faculty:  Char Lusher RN, BSN, Med, Mankato, Minnesota
To continue in the work of support to addiction victims, an avenue of self healing and regeneration is imperative for professionals in the field.  One such approach is the field of energy healing or more specifically in this track Qigong.  The historical roots of Qigong date back at least 4,000 years to ancient China.  The underlying principle, established by Chinese scholars of the period, is that everything in the universe is energy or Qi.  With proper training anyone and everyone can learn to utilize Qigong techniques for their own health and wellness and with continued practice can learn to assist others in achieving similar results.  Qigong Master Chunyi Lin has created a program for teaching Qigong that has simplified the approach while combining techniques to enhance the effectiveness to the student.  As he puts it, “the student can spend less time while receiving greater benefit.”  The system he created is called Spring Forest Qigong (SFQ) and participants in this track will receive instruction in both Level I and II. 

This institute track will address:

Although not required books for guidance in practice and meditation will be available- Level I is $16.00 and Level II is $20.00.  They are also available on line at www.bornahealer.com 

Note: This workshop meets the requirements for continuing education for nursing and other disciplines in Minnesota and other states.  It is the responsibility of the licensure applicant to provide required supporting documentation to the licensure agency.

 

Track 13 - Motivational Interviewing: Dealing with Resistant Patients
Faculty: Paul Brethen, MA, MFT Consultant/Trainer for Matrix Institute/UCLA, Parker, Colorado CANCELLED
Therapists are experienced in ways to help people who clearly want to make changes but the task becomes more arduous when the client is ambivalent about the need to change and/or is unwilling to begin the process of change. Motivational Interviewing is designed to help people effectively interact with difficult clients in ways that can increase their willingness to change and therefore, become more amendable to treatment. This workshop will provide the essential theoretical and conceptual underpinning of the techniques used in this approach. Specific interventions designed for use during each stages of change will be outlined. Significant time will be spent learning the therapeutic skills associated with Motivational Interviewing through experiential exercises.

 

Track 14 - Relationships, Sexuality and Recovery
James M. Wilson, MRC, NCAC II, Columbia, South Carolina        
This course will help the professional provide improved services to clients dealing with relationship and sexual issues. The presenter will examine Patrick Carne’s work regarding sexual addiction, Stephanie Covington’s work regarding healthy relationships in recovery, intimacy, the pros and cons of self-help groups, family of origin issues, same sex preference/ orientation, relapse issues regarding sexuality and relationships, as well as gender issues. Also how certain drugs, such as cocaine, can fuel sexual acting-out behavior. The workshop will explore sexual development, homophobia and the counselor’s comfort level in helping their clients work on these issues.

Track 15 - Key Components for Quality Methamphetamine Treatment in Rural Programs CANCELLED

Scott Boyles, Licensed Addiction Counselor,

Brenda Roche, Phd, LP, Montana State Alcohol & Drug Abuse Agency, Helena, MT

This training will address the rural treatment challenges and unique needs that should be acknowledged during assessment, treatment and continuing care of clients who are addicted to methamphetamine and their families.  The training will reflect "Methamphetamine Treatment in Montana" which was developed by a best practice committee made up of Montana's rural treatment providers.  The goal of this training will be to provide direction and tools to address the subtle and unique issues of treating people in rural settings who are addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs.