Tuesday, March 21
Tuesday Course Schedule
Registration: 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Opening Session: 8:15 aM – 9:15 aM
- Title: Leadership as a Process In and Around Us
Speaker: Joshua Nirella
Description: See Details
Handout: Tuesday Plenary
Break: 9:15 aM – 9:30 aM
Morning Courses: 9:30 AM – 12:30 pM (3 Hours)
- TAM1: Strategic Productivity, Engagement, and Retention of Staff
Speaker(s): Joshua Nirella, MSOL
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TAM2: Psychotropics and Pregnancy
Speaker(s): Dr. Merrill Norton, Pharm.D., D.Ph., CMAC
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handouts: TAM02 Handout-1 and TAM02 Handout-2 - TAM3: Creating Change: A Past Focused Model of Trauma and Addiction
Speaker(s): Summer Krause, LPC, CADCIII
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handouts: TAM03 Handout-1, TAM03 Handout-2, TAM03 Handout-3, and TAM03 Handout-4 - TAM4: Working with Families Who Have Lost and Still Love
Speaker(s): Jack Sykstus, LMFT, CSAC and Maggie Banger, LPC-S
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TAM5: HIV/STIs: an Overview for the Substance Abuse/Mental Health Professional
Speaker(s): Rick Meriwether, B.S.
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handouts: TAM05 Handout-1, TAM05 Handout-2, TAM05 Handout-3, and TAM05 Handout-4 - TAM6: Creative/Collaborative Strategies for Rural Alabama Communities to Address the Mental Health Crisis
Speaker(s): Chief Joseph Stanford and Kathleen Saucier
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TAM7: Mental Health and Wellness in Nurses and Healthcare Workers
Speaker(s): Abby Migliore, MSN, MBA, RN
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TAM8: Taking Care of the Caregivers: Identifying and Preventing Compassion Fatigue in the Peer Work Force
Speaker(s): Ed Johnson, LPC, LAC/S, MAC, CCS, CPRS
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TAM9: From Grief to Gratitude: Finding Hope in Recovery
Speaker(s): James Campbell, LPC, LAC, MAC, AADC
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handout: TAM09 Handout-1 - TAM10: The BIG PITCH: Prevention, Recovery, & Treatment SHARK TANK!
Speaker(s): Jerria Martin, MDIV, CADCA TOT
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Lunch: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Afternoon Courses: 1:30 PM – 4:45 pM (3 Hours)
- TPM1: Strategic Productivity, Engagement, and Retention of Staff
Speaker(s): Joshua Nirella, MSOL
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TPM2: Ethnicity and Substance Use Disorders
Speaker(s): Dr. Merrill Norton, Pharm.D., D.Ph., CMAC
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handout: TPM02 Handout-1 - TPM3: Women and Addiction: Listening to Themes
Speaker(s): Summer Krause, LPC, CADCIII
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handout: TPM03 - TPM4: Drug University Returns! Drug Culture, the Cartels, and Problems with Prevention
Speaker(s): Derek Osborn, CPS, CPM
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TPM5: Value of Peer Support
Speaker(s): Pamela Butler, MSW
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TPM6: Entrepreneurship for All
Speaker(s): Dale O Smith, Jr
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TPM7: Engaging Community Members through Interactive Data Sharing Strategies
Speaker(s): Lauren Barrette, B.A. and Dr. Jason Wheeler, Ph.D., MS
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TPM8: Re-Creation, De-stressing in a Stressed-out World
Speaker(s): James Campbell, LPC, LAC, MAC, AADC
Description and Course Objectives: See Details
Handouts: TPM08 Handout-1, TPM08 Handout-2, and TPM08 Handout-3 - TPM9: Ethics for the Substance Use Professional
Speaker(s): Steve Mason, LPC-S, ADC
Description and Course Objectives: See Details - TPM10: Incorporating Recovery Planning into Service Notes: Documentation Training for Certified Peer Recovery Supporters (CPRS)
Speaker(s): Ed Johnson, LPC, LAC/S, MAC, CCS, CPRS
Description and Course Objectives: See Details