Alaska School Nurses Association

Upcoming Training: Opioids and their Impact on Families - April 19, 2022

Posted about 3 years ago by Annette Johansen

The Family Services Training Center
Presents
Opioids and their Impact on Families
Part Six in the Tools for Working with Families Series
The Family Services Training Center (FSTC) at the UAA Center for Human Development in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Health, Division of Behavioral Health is excited to offer this eight-part series presented by Martha Teater and Leona Schick.
CE's offered in Opioids and their Impact on Families include:
C.E. Credit for BH - National Association of Social Workers Alaska Chapter (NASW-AK)
C.E. Credit for BH - National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)
C.E. Credit for BH - Alaska Commission for Behavioral Health Certification (ACBHC)
C.E. Credit for BH - Alaska Board of Professional Counselors
This training offers one hour of Alaska Native Specific CE's and one hour of Substance Abuse CE's
Please visit the registration page for exact CE offerings
Description
We are in the midst of an opioid overdose pandemic, and all who do family work should deepen their awareness of how to work with families who are affected by opioid misuse. We will discuss how chronic pain is often linked to the development of an opioid use issue, and how to best approach chronic pain. Participants will have an appreciation for the value of taking a collaborative team approach in dealing with opioid use within Alaskan families. Those who attend this session will gain confidence in their ability to work with the complex challenges of opioid misuse, co-occurring behavioral health issues, chronic pain. We can help our families rise above these challenges and develop healthier relationships with each other.
Learning Objectives
  • Participants will gain awareness of opioid risks and benefits.
  • Participants will formulate a base of knowledge related to chronic pain and its link to opioid misuse.
  • Participants will reflect on how opioid use impacts the families they serve.
  • Participants will discuss the roles different professionals play in the collaborative work with the family.
  • Participants will apply their learning to related activities highlighting the family consequences of opioid misuse.
Date & Time
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
9:30am - 11:30am
Training Contact:
Tami Eller
907-264-6278
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.
For more information and to register:
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The Family Services Training Center (FSTC) is funded through a collaboration of the Department of Behavioral Health, the Mental Health Trust Authority, and the UAA Center for Human Development.
 
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