Title: What’s Love Got To Do With It? Speaker: Mansfield Key Description:
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Break: 9:15 aM – 9:30 aM
Morning Courses: 9:30 AM – 12:30 pM (3 Hours)
FAM1: Prevention Education through Coalition Building & Community Involvement Speaker(s): Jason Lindell, B.S., C.P.S. Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM2: Creating Patient-Centered Care for Pregnant and Postpartum Populations with Substance Use Disorder Speaker(s): Dr. Holly Horan, Ph.D. and Amie Martin, MSW, M.Ed. Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM3: Perspectives in Clinical Supervision Speaker(s): Elana Parker Merriweather, Ed.S., LPC, AADC and Scott Holmes, PsyD, LPC, ICAADC Description and Course Objectives: See Details
FAM4: Alabama’s Crisis System: Access to Care, Mobile Crisis Services, and Crisis Stabilization Speaker(s):
Anthony Reynolds, LPC, CAC
Dr. Cindy Gipson, Ph. D
Jim Crego
Paula Steele, LICSW
Donna Leslie, LPC-S
Jaime Garza, Ph.D., NCAC II Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM5: Siloed no more: Achieving Health Equity by Addressing the Pervasive Interconnections among Substance Use, Social, and Structural Determinates of Recovery Speaker(s): Mercy Ngosa Mumba, PhD, RN., Jessica Jaiswal, PhD, MPH., and Tiffany L. Marcantonio, PhD Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM6: Assessing Alabama’s Opioid Epidemic Speaker(s): Christopher Sellers, MHP and Matthew Hudnall, PhD Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM7: Drug Trends in Alabama 2023 Speaker(s): Mike Reese Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM8: Sexting, Pornography, and Addiction…OH MY! How Pornography Affects Our Youth and is Pornography Addictive? Speaker(s): Wes Wiginton, MS, LPC-S, CJSOTS, CTAPSB Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM9: Taking a Public Health Approach in Prevention with Local Policy Change Speaker(s): Kristin Kidd, M.A. Description and Course Objectives:
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FAM10: How Can Positive Ethics Improve Our Wellbeing – A Brief Presentation Speaker(s): Dr. Patrick K. Faircloth, Ph.D., LPC-S(AL), NCC Description and Course Objectives:
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Adjourn: 12:30 PM
I Need A Boost
Speaker: Mansfield Key
Speaker Bio:
Mansfield (Pete) Key III is the leading Growth Development Strategist and International Motivational Speaker. He’s a Life Coach, mentor, consultant, speechwriter, certified HIV/AIDS Instructor. He holds multiple certifications in grief counseling and 21st Century Leadership. He’s certified in Relationship Smarts, Fatherhood Initiative, Together We Can, and Basic Training for Relationships from the Human Development Department at Auburn University. He has provided technical assistance to the Federal Government’s Health and Human Service for all 50 states and has worked directly with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. He has consulted for the Departments of Education and Public Health in several states. He has also provided presentations for the Juvenile Justice System, Dream Development Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Liverpool, England’s Hope Organization. He is the creator of the Lunch with The Keys Program, teaching Character Education to kindergarten through twelfth-grade students. The youth services program, Lunch with The Keys, won the School of Distinction for Florence High School and went on to be awarded the 2019 CLAS Banner for Alabama School District 7. Pete’s Fatherhood program also won the Community Action Head Start Fatherhood Program of the year. He was named Humanitarian of the Year for the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He’s also a member of the 2016-2017 Class of Leadership Alabama and the 2020 President of the Florence Rotary Club. His speaking engagements include the Ryan White National Conference; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA); Alabama Education Association; Alabama Associate of School Boards; and the School Superintendents of Alabama. He has authored three books and released multiple curriculums. Besides his relationship with God, he is most proud of his wife, Sharlene, and two daughters, Erin and Joi. Key believes everyone has something special, but sometimes people need others to help them discover it.
Session Description:
This ed-u-training (educational and entertaining) training session will have its audience participating in lively discussions and engaging activities using music and drama. We want to help them discover sustainable ways to keep the passion for their purpose. Let’s work together to help your team identify what’s draining their emotional, mental battery and determine what is causing their engine to have a slow start and sometimes stall. We will bring the Booster Cables to give them a charge and help create a spark to energize the people around them. Let’s work together to discover ways to relieve their personal and professional stress to their personal and professional best. This session will clearly prepare participants to leave the conference ready to illustrate what it means to make a difference in the lives of others: “Someone’s Destiny is tied to your assignment”.
FAM1: Prevention Education through Coalition Building & Community Involvement
Course Description:
Assessing community readiness, in particular, helps prevention professionals determine whether the time is right and whether there is social momentum towards addressing the issue or issues they hope to tackle. Community readiness is just as important in addressing community needs as having tangible resources in place. Evaluation is the systematic collection and analysis of information about program activities, characteristics, and outcomes. Providers should ensure the sustainability of prevention outcomes by building stakeholder support for your program, showing, and sharing results, and obtaining steady funding.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
identify opiate and other substance misuse related barriers within their communities;
evaluate by collecting and analyzing information from programming and their outcomes; and
differentiate the six CSAP strategies: Environmental, Community-Based, Problem Identification and Referral, Information Dissemination, Education and Alternatives; and
FAM2: Creating Patient-Centered Care for Pregnant and Postpartum Populations with Substance Use Disorder
Course Description:
Pregnant and postpartum populations with substance use disorder (SUD) experience stigma and bias in the clinical setting and in their personal lives. These lived experiences lead to barriers to accessing necessary treatment. This course will introduce attendees to the different types of stigma and barriers experienced by pregnant and postpartum populations with SUD and those who serve and support them. Attendees will also learn effective interpersonal communication and collaboration skills that will facilitate rapport-building and trust with this population.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
identify barriers and stigma related to supporting expecting individuals and families with SUDs;
examine the rates of substance use and mental health occurrence among people of childbearing age and the implications of these comorbidities;
understand how policies can affect how pregnant people with the treatment seeking and SUD recovery process;
discuss ways to engage and empower families of pregnancy and postpartum individuals living with SUDs; and
demonstrate and practice using supportive language when working with pregnant and postpartum populations.
FAM3: Perspectives in Clinical Supervision
Course Description:
The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of the culture of supervision for behavioral health and health care professionals who work in substance abuse and mental health treatment and prevention settings. Information will be shared on the dual roles and responsibilities of different types of clinical supervisors, legal and ethical considerations in supervision, and best practices that can be used to support the needs of supervisees while maintaining compliance with state and federal regulatory agencies.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
discuss the evolving roles and responsibilities of clinical supervisors in multi-service behavioral health settings;
explain how to avoid common ethical dilemmas when providing clinical supervision to licensed and unlicensed professionals and paraprofessionals in the helping profession; and
list common supervision methods and tools that can be used with new and existing supervisees and student interns in clinical treatment and prevention settings.
FAM4: Alabama’s Crisis System: Access to Care, Mobile Crisis Services, and Crisis Stabilization
Course Description:
Each year, there are thousands of preventable tragedies that may be addressed with proper access to care and mental health resources. The Alabama Crisis System of Care was developed to reduce the number of emergency room admissions and jail bookings due to behavioral health crisis. The Alabama Crisis System of Care promotes access to care, integrated services, and crisis stabilization in six (6) regional crisis centers. These crisis services provide an ease of access to care and decrease the rate of expensive referrals while providing a regional approach to crisis services. This training will provide an in-depth look of the Alabama Crisis System of Care, access to care, and best practices utilized within each crisis center. Participant will gain an understanding of each of the six (6) Crisis Centers, referral, assessment, and admission process for a Crisis Center. The course will review in detail current Crisis Center’s treatment, case management, and referral processes.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
describe and utilize the 9-8-8 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline to access care;
describe and utilize Mobile Crisis Services;
identify and refer to a Crisis Center;
describe the core services provided by an effective Crisis System;
recognize the best practices within a highly functioning Crisis System of Care;
recognize how the Alabama Crisis System of Care will benefit individuals, families, law enforcement, hospitals, communities, and Alabama residents;
differentiate between “Temporary Observation” and “Extended Observation” and the assessment and treatment processes within a Crisis Center;
describe each current Crisis Center’s location, contact staff, and process of referral and admission to each;
recognize the importance of community partners and stakeholders for a successful Crisis System of Care; and
identify the requirements and staffing of a Crisis Center.
FAM5: Siloed no more: Achieving Health Equity by Addressing the Pervasive Interconnections among Substance Use, Social, and Structural Determinates of Recovery.
Course Description:
Achieving health equity for all is a national priority. However, for many individuals with substance use disorders, recovery is not a linear progression and is often complicated by social and structural determinants of recovery. Furthermore, structural, and intersectional stigma are barriers to substance use prevention, treatment, and harm reduction services. In fact, substance abuse is strongly associated with other behavioral and health outcomes, including sexual violence. Although many social determinants of health influence substance use trajectories, employment can be and should be explored as a significant facilitator of recovery and a viable avenue to achieving health equity. This class will examine the complex integrationists among substance use, social, and structural determinants of health, as well as offer comprehensive, multilevel strategies to address these issues. Siloed no more, provides a lens through which we can achieve health equity for individuals with substance use disorders, by addressing social and structural determinates of recovery.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
evaluate the impact of social and structural determinants of recovery, particularly employment on achieving health equity among individuals with substance use disorders;
examine structural and intersectional stigma as barriers to substance use prevention, treatment, and harm reduction services; and
evaluate the intricate interconnections between substance use and sexual violence as barriers to achieving health equity.
FAM6: Assessing Alabama’s Opioid Epidemic
Course Description:
This course will present the state’s substance use data repository as a tool to monitor and report the impact of substance use upon resources across justice, health, and human service stakeholders. This course will examine how this tool was developed as a solution to creating a comprehensive story about the opioid epidemic using previously siloed data from various state agencies and partners.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
access statewide and county-level substance use data;
interpret statewide and county-level substance use data; and
use statewide and county-level substance use data to:
Monitor trends in the impact of substance use disorder
Allocate community funds and resources to the impact of substance use disorder
Justify funding requests to support community projects to prevent, treat and reduce the impact of substance use disorder
FAM7: Drug Trends in Alabama 2023
Course Description:
This course will provide law enforcement, health, education, and professional attendees with information necessary to identify the newest drug threats facing Alabama and our country. 2021 saw a record number of overdose deaths which have doubled in the past five years alone. From 50,000 to 109,783 lost souls in five short years. We are in the middle of an opioid epidemic and our citizens, both young and old, are at risk and we know the answer lies in education, prevention, enforcement, and treatment of those affected.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
iidentify the newest forms of both legal and illegal substances that our young students have access to in convenience stores. “Gas Station Dope” has become a major problem and has led to many overdose cases in our schools;
identify the source and the methods used to flood our country and state with the different types of opioid drugs many of which are laced with fentanyl which is a synthetic form of opioids. Identify the different forms that fentanyl is being used and abused. From being vaped to being laced into candy form, marijuana, and prescription pills; and
identify the exploding problem with marijuana products. We will describe the differences in marijuana a few short years ago to marijuana today. We will demonstrate the increased levels of THC and rapid rise of alternative methods of use including: vaping, dabbing, CBD, delta 8 products and synthetic forms.
FAM8: Sexting, Pornography, and Addiction…OH MY! How Pornography Affects Our Youth and is
Pornography Addictive?
Course Description:
Sexting, Pornography, and Addiction….Oh My! This course looks at how current sexual trends such as sexting and pornography viewing affect our youth from ages 8-18 years of age. The course will discuss current sexual trends for children and adolescents, will discuss the history of pornography and what is considered pornography, list how pornography effects the brain and emotions of children, and discuss the addictive qualities of pornography. The course will also identify solutions to help our youth with exposure to pornography.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
identify sexual trends in youth ages 8-18 years old;
define what is pornographic and be able to explain how exposure to pornography at a young age effects the brain, emotions, and sexual development of youth; and
identify the addictive qualities of pornography and discuss possible solutions.
FAM9: Taking a Public Health Approach in Prevention with Local Policy Change
Course Description:
In prevention, environmental strategies like policy implementation can be intimidating and are often under-utilized. This interactive workshop will discuss how policies, systems and environmental strategies expand the reach of prevention services to affect upstream, population-level change. Participants will learn about our guided 10-step policy framework. This session will encourage participants to think more broadly about the benefits of changing the social context and the opportunities that policy and system change can provide to impact alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) issues at the community level.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
describe the importance of the public health approach in prevention work;
explain the steps involved in a 10-step proven framework for local policy change; and
practice some of the early policy steps to build their confidence.
FAM10: How Can Positive Ethics Improve Our Wellbeing – A Brief Presentation
Course Description:
Through a lecture and Socratic reasoning process, participants will be familiarized with the difference between traditional ethics and the positive ethics movement. The following areas will be addressed: Virtue Ethics, Consequentialism or Utilitarian Ethics, Deontology Ethics, Basic Moral Principles to guide decision making, the history of positive ethics, elements of positive ethics and the aim of positive ethics. Additionally, participants will be familiarized with key terms used in ethics decision making and mental health. A positive ethics decision making model will be presented. Participants will then engage in using a model to address hypothetical vignettes and demonstrate their decision process by using a provided template for documentation. Participants will also engage in small group decisions around wellness, positive ethics, and personal blind spots, all of which can lead to assessing persona wellness.
Objectives:
After attending the course, a participant will be able to:
identify and demonstrate the various types of ethics, including positive ethics, an ethical decision model, and concepts of mental health;
engage in using a positive ethical decision model to analyze and design responses to hypothetical vignettes; and
demonstrate their ability to evaluate a positive ethical decision model to expose and work through personal blind spots, move toward greater wellness, and document their decision process from an interpersonal and psychosocial perspective.
