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Not everyone can attend a week long training event to learn the latest therapy, but every clinician has time for the innovative RTUse (Ready toUse) initiative developed by the Mid-Atlantic ATTC. RTUse is a tool to make learning a new intervention strategy more manageable, with faster application to real practice. Please join us for the launching of RTUse: Assessing Readiness to Change where each attendee will receive the RTUse resource package with taped examples, an importance and confidence ruler and scripts for take home learning. Learning Objectives:
Primary Function Hours: 2.0 Hours, Elective Denise R. Hall is employed by the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Mid- ATTC) located at Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine. She serves as a project coordinator and as the NIDA liaison. Denise is licensed as a Professional Counselor (LPC), certified as a National Counselor (NCC) and holds the Adolescent Specialty Endorsement (ASE) from NAAADC. Ms. Hall received her MS degree in Rehabilitation Counseling in 1992 from Virginia Commonwealth University. Throughout her career, Denise has worked with adolescent and adult populations along the continuum of care, to include residential, inpatient, partial, IOP and outpatient. She is a member of the Motivation Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and has provided training in MI from beginner to supervisory levels. Ms. Hall is a member of the National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) and the NAADAC Adolescent Specialty Leadership Committee where she serves as the endorsement and ethics liaison. This workshop is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center. TNB-2
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Primary Function Hours: 2.0 Hours, Elective As Director of Employment Planning and Development for the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (TDMHDD), Division of Recovery Services and Planning, Rod Bragg is the coordinator of the Creating Jobs Initiative. Rod has an extensive background in mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring services. Prior to his current position, Rod was a Treatment Consultant with the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services. In addition to providing oversight and technical assistance with state funded A&D treatment services, Rod served as the Division’s HIV Coordinator, Problem Gambling Services Coordinator, and the Access to Recovery Faith-Based Coordinator. Rod has also served as Clinical Director with Foundations Associates and Program Director for the Mental Health Cooperative, both located in Nashville.Rod received a Master’s of Organizational Management in 1999 from Trevecca Nazarene University, a Master’s of Divinity in 1984 from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor’s of Arts from West Virginia Wesleyan College. TNB-3
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Primary Function Hours: 2.0 Hours, Elective Dr. Abraham is the Co-Founder of The Healing Arts Research Training Center (The HART Center) in Midtown Memphis, TN. She received her Doctorate of Theology from the New Mexico Theological Seminary, her MSSW from the University of Tennessee, and her BPS undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis University College. Dr. Abraham is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker as well as a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselor with 22 years of experience specializing in deep issue recovery from all attachment disorders. She has 18 years experience training professionals and laypersons and is a member of the National Training Academy for NAADAC and an esteemed member of the Alliance for Addiction Solutions. Dr. Abraham is a transceiver with 35 CDs available for purchase through Robin Productions. The CDs offer guided meditations, art and photographs that she has co-created focusing on healing and balance. She has created The ESP Model to help clients heal by learning to attain and maintain emotional spiritual physical balance. TNB-4
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Primary Function Hours: 2.0 Hours, Elective Marc Fomby is a professional trainer and motivational speaker who provides workshops, education, information, seminars, and conducts presentations on numerous topics. Marc has been conducting trainings for over 18 years. Marc brings ten years of law enforcement experience and program development as well as seven years as a Prevention Services Coordinator for a private Non-Profit Organization in Mississippi. He specializes in youth development and trainings that directly affect issues concerning youth today. TNB-5
As of December 31, 2007, 32,421troops from Tennessee have served in Iraq or Afghanistan from 2001 to 2007, some of them 2, 3 or more times. A total of 92 Tennessee residents have been killed OIF/OEF. An estimated 620 Tennessee military personnel have been wounded in action. The impact of OIF/OEF on veterans and their families is difficult to overestimate. The higher survival rate of U.S. soldiers wounded has resulted in higher rates of permanent disabilities such as blindness, amputation and traumatic brain injury. In a recent study of Iraq war veterans in the Maine National Guard, Returning service members come back to families, friends and communities in Tennessee that must be adequately prepared to support them in coping with the grievous physical and emotional injuries that many of them have sustained. This workshop is designed to guide and support community addictions and mental health provider agencies in their efforts to work effectively with military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families, and to work with the surviving families of servicemen and servicewomen who died in service to the nation. Learning Objectives:
Primary Function Hours: 2.0 Hours, Elective Mr. Emery leads Tennessee’s Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, providing program and fiscal oversight for $53M in services that span the spectrum of addiction needs. He has served for many years as a consultant, facilitator, trainer and mediator specializing in work with individuals, families, and organizations that are committed to achieving long-term system transformation. Formerly director of technical assistance for both the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors and the National Council for Community Behavioral Health, Emery has over thirty years experience developing and delivering training, education and technical assistance services to local, state and federal governments and national substance use and mental health associations. As the founding director of NASMHPD’s National Technical Assistance Center, he consulted with most of the 55 state departments of mental health and substance abuse, helping to develop cutting-edge clinical and administrative programs and services for rapidly-changing environments. His recent work spans the areas of evidence-based practices, co-occurring substance use and mental illness, mental health and addictions system transformation, housing and homelessness, seclusion and restraint, strategic planning, and acute psychiatric care.
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The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports the average delay in dissemination from the research findings to real world practice is 17 years. In order to bridge this gap, NIDA developed the clinical trails network (CTN). In the CTN, community treatment programs are used as the laboratory for science to service projects. One counseling style that has shown robust and enduring effects is Motivational Interviewing.
Recovery for consumers with a mental illness or co-occurring disorder can be challenging. This workshop will focus on assisting consumers in understanding recovery concepts of living, working,learning and participating fully in their communities, with a particular focus on the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Creating Jobs Initiative. The goal of the Creating Jobs Initiative is for 2,010 persons with a serious mental illness to be employed. Our vision is for all Tennesseans with a serious mental illness or co-occurring disorder who want and need to work will have the opportunity to choose, obtain, keep and advance in a job.
Integrative Care will offer participants an opportunity to explore unique methods for helping clients heal at an emotional spiritual physical level. They will experience the benefits first hand as they learn to apply simple techniques to their practice. They will learn about the energy centers in the body and how to release the blocks that keep them locked into disease. They will use their senses to discover what aromatherapy, lighting, music, meditation, breathing, and movement can bring to them and to their clients during this brief glimpse into complimentary care. They will discover what a few moments of self-care can bring to their practice as well as to their clients lives.
The term “gang” will be defined and discussed. Participants will closely examine the customs of the traditional street gang and learn about their rituals, organization, colors, and practices. *New information on MS-13, the Hispanic gang that’s quickly spreading across the country and some of their activities will also be discussed. Participants will identify practical information that shows correlation to gangs, guns, violence, and substance abuse. In an effort to help educate the youth of today about hazards related to gangs and the impending use and/or sale of illegal narcotics, the information is presented on a level whereby transference of information is evident. You will leave armed with information that is immediately beneficial.
More than 162,000 military service members are currently serving in Iraq , with 11,000 more serving in Afghanistan. Of the more than 1.5 million Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve soldiers who have deployed to Iraq (“Operation Iraqi Freedom”) and Afghanistan (“Operation Enduring Freedom”), one third have now served at least two tours in a combat zone, 70,000 have deployed at least three times and another 20,000 at least five times. 
