Creating Community Connections

This is an introductory level training aimed at educating participants about the continuum of Trauma-Informed Care and the pervasiveness of trauma in our communities. Participants will learn about types of trauma, its pervasiveness, and long-term outcomes from the effects of trauma, particularly as it relates to individuals receiving behavioral health services.

Social networking sites, text messages, Google, email and the Internet: these digital media have become ubiquitous in the everyday life of addiction professionals and the people they serve.  Incorporating digital media into Professional Ethics were not covered when the majority of addiction professionals were in graduate school, and they open up multiple issues with respect to self-disclosure and professional boundaries.  This didactic and experiential training will allow participants to gain an increased understanding of the dynamics of these various digital media and how to safely navigate them in a professional and personal setting. 

This session is a repeat of the session offered on Wednesday morning. This workshop will focus on the common mental health illnesses seen in adults and children including Depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Anxiety Disorders, PTSD and Attention Deficient Disorder. Their symptoms and treatment will be discussed along with an emphasis on the classes of psychotropic medications used in their treatment and possible side effects or drug interactions.  

Science is clear: addiction is a chronic medical condition. Most social services providers, however, treat it like bad behavior that enough punishment will correct. By comparing addiction to other chronic medical conditions, participants will explore more effective ways of working with people with substance use disorders to achieve better outcomes.

This session will provide an overview of Substance Use Disorders and the treatment modalities available to address them. It is intended for those who may be more experienced working with individuals with mental health disorders but all are welcome.

This workshop is designed to support providers in delivering a culturally and developmentally appropriate range of services to meet the needs of transition age youth within the context of helping relationships.  Additionally, a variety of engagement tools will be reviewed including Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets.

A panel of guests who will share information about why the 2020 Census is so importance to KY and how we can all become involved in making it a successful count.

Crisis can happen to anyone, at any time.  Individuals dealing with challenges related to behavioral health diagnoses are at increased risk to encounter a crisis that exceeds their ability to cope.  The collaborative process of developing a crisis plan prior to a crisis occurring can help to ensure that individuals have the knowledge and skills to better navigate such occurrences.  This course will focus on increasing participants’ ability to aid clients in developing crisis plans, and identify the essential components of such a plan.  Additional, considerations related to substance use and suicide will be discussed.

The purpose of this training is to educate and raise awareness about Gender Identity and how communities can support transgender and gender non-conforming individuals.  Participants will have an opportunity to learn, share and grow in their own awareness.

This session will provide an easy to understand presentation about the two main types of Social Security benefits for persons with disability.  Whether you are receiving disability yourself or are working with clients that are receiving disability, this workshop will provide information about work incentives and tools available to persons receiving disability and what happens if you are seeking employment or already working.

Families are our first teachers for how to interact with the world.  Not all families, however, are equally equipped to socialize their children in healthy ways.  This session explores the continuum between dysfunctional and functional families, roles within those families, and how we carry those family roles from childhood into adult relationships. Codependency and its impact both on the person with an active substance use disorder as well as those who love them is specifically examined. Participants will also gain practical interventions to use in aiding families in their recovery. 

This training will instruct mental health peers on ways to gather data from large and small community groups and build support for mental health recovery. Participants will gain an understanding of how individuals, communities, and organizations can work collaboratively to produce successful mental health recovery outcomes.  After completing the training, participants should be able to:  Discuss the importance of the peer voice  in developing and delivering services in the behavioral health community;  Describe the benefits of collaborating with allied organizations;   Discuss the role of the behavioral health peer community in providing diverse perspectives;  Identify strategies for including the peer voice in adapting data collection tools; and  Create a plan to develop a system of information gathering for peer populations.

This 3-hour session will focus on the key function of recovery planning for Peer Support Specialists.  We know that “increases in recovery capital can spark turning points that end addiction careers, trigger recovery initiation, elevate coping abilities, and enhance quality of life in long-term recovery” (Laudet, Morgan, & White, 2006) In this session participants will have an opportunity to build the skills to assess Recovery Capital and support those in early recovery to develop person centered recovery plans that include attainable goals to support the growth of recovery capital.  This will be a hands-on session that will include practice using the recovery capital scale and tools designed to support recovery planning.