Build your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills through the Motivational Interviewing Learning Collaborative! Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT and MORE!

Build your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills through the Motivational Interviewing Learning Collaborative! Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT On the third Wednesday of each month, there will be a series of interactive calls via Zoom for people who want to enhance their motivational interviewing (MI) skills. This learning opportunity provides practitioners with a no-cost, easy to access opportunity to continue to build their practice skills towards fidelity. Topics by date: April 15: WHY Not Ask WHY and Other Things to Think About with Open Questions May 20: Taming Your Inner Cheerleader: Be Proud Of You and How Well You Can Use Affirmations June 17: Gold Star Things to Say (Genuinely!)  July 15: What to Do When the Client Says Something about Changing Their Behavior August 19: What to Do When the Client Seems Stuck About Changing Their Behavior September 16: Pay Attention to Discord October 21: Guess What Happens When You Ask for Change Talk? November 18: TBD December 16: TBD

Behavioral Health Crisis Response Systems Live Webinar Series: Implementing New Crisis Services: The View from the Ground Up Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:30 p.m. EDT This presentation will describe the real-world experience of one community in a rural state (Iowa) in enhancing their crisis services. This webinar will be more of a case study of one community’s process of expanding their crisis services, highlighting some of the successes and how those were navigated, as well as some ongoing challenges.

Supports for Teachers Affected by Trauma (STAT) – Webinar Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:00 p.m. EDT This is the fifth webinar in a series devoted to Creating Trauma-Responsive Schools. This webinar will address the impact of traumatic stress on educators and strategies to prevent and mitigate it. This webinar will teach educators and other school staff about signs and symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress.

World Class Resources to Discover Genetic Risks for Suicide Death Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT This is Part Two of Six in the Webinar Series: Suicide Prevention across the Educational Continuum. This presentation will give an update on research progress and how results may impact the future of prevention and treatment. Other webinars in this series include: Part Three: School-Based Suicide Prevention Interventions for K-12 Population – April 22, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT Part Four: Crisis Response Planning for Suicidal Patients: an Introduction – April 29, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT Part Five: Suicide Interventions and Response for Youth Experiencing Series Emotional Disturbance (SED) – May 5, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT Part Six: Suicide Prevention and Interventions for Transition Age Youth on College Campuses – May 13, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Tools for Engagement in Person-Centered Care Part 3: Approaches for Person-led Crisis Response Planning – Webinar Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:00 a.m. EDT This four-part webinar series shares information and discusses applications that practitioners and others can use to help engage and activate individuals with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders in person-centered treatment and services. Part 3 will provide an overview of common approaches to person-led relapse and crisis planning approaches including safety plans, relapse prevention/management plans, and Psychiatric Advance Directives.

Professional Boundaries for Peer Advocates (Part One) – Webinar Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:00 p.m. EDT This is part one of a two-part webinar. Peer Advocates play an important part in substance use treatment. There are also some challenges for them. This two-day webinar will focus on Professional Boundaries for Peer Advocates. It will include the Code of Ethical and Professional Conduct. There will be lectures, exercises, and interactive discussions.

Community Engagement Strategies: Best Practices for Preventing Substance Misuse at the Grassroots Level – Webinar Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:30 p.m. EDT This webinar will share how Coalitions or Collaborations in any size community can enhance their outreach, engagement and prevention efforts, with a focus on hard-to-reach audiences. These strategies and tactics will help them grow their presence in both digital (online) and grassroots (offline) spheres to educate communities and to mobilize partners and stakeholders, increasing both impact and effectiveness of their opioid prevention and reduction efforts.

Building Successful Programs: Implementing MRT® in Drug Courts – Webinar Series Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT Continuing the webinar series on MRT–Moral Reconation Therapy®–this webinar will focus on the details involved in implementing MRT within drug courts. Attendees will have the opportunity to view a video of a Mock MRT Group, with MRT Trainers playing group participants attending a meeting.

Talking about Sex as Prevention: A Novel Use of Motivational Interviewing Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:00 p.m. EDT The provider workforce is not presently equipped to routinely engage in productive and guiding discussions about sexuality and intimacy with persons living with behavioral health conditions. Missed opportunities have great implications for prevention with a population more likely to be infected with HIV, hepatitis B and C, experience intimate partner violence, and contend with co-morbid substance use disorders. This webinar highlights the contents of a training toolkit that employs the use of Motivational Interviewing (MI) in experientially teaching providers the skills of MI and the practice of having conversations about sexuality and intimacy.

Self-Care in Overwhelming Times – Webinar Wednesday, April 15, 2020 3:00 p.m. EDT These are overwhelming times. Stress, anxiety, fear, loss, and grief–all part of ordinary life–are exponentially heightened in this time of pandemic. How do we name what we’re experiencing? How do we stay healthy in body, mind, and spirit? How do we keep gentleness and compassion alive for self and others? Please join us in exploring these questions together.

Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices to Address Substance Misuse among Young Adults: SAMHSA’s Resource Guide – Webinar Wednesday, April 15, 2020 6 p.m. EDT In this webinar, participants will learn about the findings and resources available in the recently released SAMHSA resource guide Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults. This guide was developed to support health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent substance misuse among young adults.

Professional Boundaries for Peer Advocates (Part Two) – Webinar Thursday, April 16, 2020 12 p.m. EDT Peer Advocates play an important part in substance use treatment. There are also some challenges for them. This two-day webinar will focus on Professional Boundaries for Peer Advocates. It will include the Code of Ethical and Professional Conduct. There will be lectures, exercises, and interactive discussions.