Presenter
Martha Teater, MA, LMFT, LPC, LCAS, has been in private practice since 1990. After living and working in western North Carolina for 30 years, she moved to Denver in 2018. She holds licensure in North Carolina, Colorado, and Virginia. She has worked in community mental health, medication-assisted treatment, a free clinic, and primary integrated care. Martha has provided trainings in all 50 states and internationally on topics such as treating chronic pain, compassion satisfaction and worker wellness, disaster mental health, ethics, and trauma. A long-term Red Cross volunteer, Martha works as a volunteer with disaster mental health and Service to the Armed Forces. She has published more than 175 articles in newspapers and magazines and is the coauthor of Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: A Practical Resilience Workbook and Treating Chronic Pain: Pill-Free Approaches to Move People from Hurt to Hope.
Presenter
Leona Schick, LCSW, is an Inupiaq from Northwest Alaska. She is a trauma-informed licensed clinical social worker and has extensive training and work experience in serving at-risk children, youth and families. Coming from a rural Alaska community Ms. Schick finds that experts holding a behavioral health job title assume multiple roles or become generalists in practice. It can also be difficult to implement “Westernized” treatment interventions to meet clients where they are if professionals do not acknowledge the importance of learning cultural approaches for building collaborative relationships within communities. Ms. Schick is committed to finding ways to include best practices such as “Systems of Care” or behavioral health service delivery that values the inclusion of individuals and client family voices in their treatment. Ms. Schick encourages her colleagues to reference the Human Ecology or Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) as guides to support their understanding of the unique community and culture in which they work and to recognize that clients are affected by layers of informal and formal systems and if unhealthy can interfere with their therapeutic change and healing.
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