2023 Agenda
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8:30 Pre-Conference training check-in
9:00-12:00 pm Session A: Ethics Track, Gina Dick
Session B: Suicide Track, Jim Pinnell
12:00 -1:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:15- 2:30 pm Session A: Ethics Track, Gina Dick
Session B: Suicide Track, Jim Pinnell
3:00-5:00 pm Early check-in for Conference
4:00 pm End of Preconference
7:30 am Registration Open/Breakfast (provided)
8:00- 8:30 am Welcome to Conference
8:30- 9:30 am Plenary Session 1 There’s More to You Than You Can See, Joe Roberts
9:30-9:45 am Break
9:45- 11:00 am Workshop 1 Sessions
1:Plenary, Energy Health Management: How to Stress-Proof your Life and Build Energy Health and Resilience, Joe Roberts
1:A Do You See Me- Moving from Tolerance to Acceptance, Sherronda Jamersom
1:B Decolonizing Behavioral Health; How Intersecting Identities Factor Into Trauma and Resiliency, Cathy Assata and Arra Rael
1:C Preventing Addiction Related Suicide- An evidence based, group therapy session for IOP Addiction Programs and other settings, Richard Ries, MD
1:E Invitation to Change: How to Empower Family Members Impacted by Substance Use (Sponsored by the Northwest ATTC, University of Washington), Cordelia Kraus
1:F Housing Diverse People, Pat Tucker and Meghan DeGallier
1:G Improving Career Outcomes for Transition Age Youth and Young Adults with Co-occurring Disorders, Joni Dolce
1:H How to Prepare for a Behavioral Health Audit/Review, Judy Holman
11:00- 11:15 am Break
11:15- 12:15 Plenary Session 2, Generational Trauma of Native Americans, Marie Natrall-Ackles, PhD
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:15-2:30 pm Workshop 2 Sessions
2: Public Policy Q and A with Dr. Marie Natrall-Ackles
2:B Millennium Health Signals Report™ Volume 5 & Zeroing in on Xylazine: The First 100 Days after U.S. Emerging Threat Designation, Javier Velasco, PhD
2:D Untangling the ‘Chicken and Egg’: Addressing Co-occurring Disorders, Trauma, and Addiction Simultaneously, Cloeie Hood
2:E Putting the Pieces Together: Teens, Trauma, and Substance Use, David Flack
2:F Supportive Housing: Mapping and Braiding State and Federal Housing Resources, Kimberly Castle, Scott Tankersley, and Dani Rylander
2:G Contingency Management, Sara Parent, Michelle Peavy, and Lora Weed
2:H Access to Inpatient Behavioral Healthcare for Adults Who Have Sexually Offended, Jeff Landon
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-3:45 pm Plenary Session 3, Stigma and Grief: How Meaningful Relationships Can Impact Treatment Outcomes, Megan Tweedy
4:00- 5:15 pm Workshop 3 Sessions
3:A Strategies to Address the Treatment Needs of the Elder Client, Lindy Lewis
3:B Modernizing Washington’s Crisis System through Expanding Partnerships, Matt Grower
3:C Understanding and Working with Psychosis in Co-Occurring Disorders, Jeffrey Roskelley
3:D TBD, Joan Miller
3:F Strengthening the Workforce and Retaining Your Compassion for the Field, Laura Cooley, Rose Hillock, Meghan DeGallier
3:G The Washington State Opioid and Overdose Response Plan, Kris Shera
5:15 pm End of Day One
8:00-8:15 Welcome to Day 2
8:15-9:15 am Plenary Session 4, TBD, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
9:15-9:30 am Break
9:30- 10:45 Workshop 4 Sessions
4:B Practical Supportive Housing Interventions for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders Enrolled in FCS Services, Crystal Socha and Nora Barrett
4:C Chasing Hope; An Intentional Response to the Fentanyl Crisis, Cathy Assata
4:D Building a Community Coalition with Law Enforcement to Address Substance Use and Behavioral Health, Mandy Owens, Moderator and Panel, Trooper Trevor Downey, Washington State Patrol, Cassidy Leslie, SUDP, Triumph Treatment Services, Esther Magasis, Director, Yakima County Human Services, Megan Tweedy, Community Activist, Jeremy Welch, Director, Yakima County Jail
4:E 4D Recovery Expanding Peer Services, Elton Frice
4:F Shared Dialect: Decoding Clinical Language and Practice for Clients, Families, and non-Clinical Community Partners, Luke Poole and Molly Gras-Usry
4:G Panel Discussion, Ask me Anything About Problem Gambling, Tana Russell, Tony Hughes, Julie Lies, and Roxane Waldron
4:H Saving Lives: The Narcan/Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Program in Juvenile Rehabilitation, John Bolla
10:45-11:00 am Break
11:00-11:30 am Awards
11:30-12:30 pm Lunch (provided)
12:45- 2:00 pm Opioid Crisis Frontline Workers Discussion/Listening Session for Behavioral Health Workforce, LT Townsend
2:00 pm End of Conference