In partnership with MN DHS, RADIAS Health is hosting trainings for MN ACT Teams.
Events in September–November 2023
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Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe
Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe
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September 18, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Jessica Metkowski-Gulden and Kelsey Gries
This training will provide an overview of crisis prevention, intervention, and de-escalation strategies through early intervention and nonphysical methods for preventing and managing individuals experiencing a crisis. The course will include discussion of: the crisis development model, staff's attitudes and approaches, non-verbal communication, verbal intervention, precipitating factors of a crisis, importance of developing rapport and knowing clients' history, environmental assessment, rational detachment, and follow up after a crisis.
Objectives
- Participants will have an understanding of how to continually assess safety and potential crisis within the course of their work.
- Participants will have an understanding of how to use verbal and non-physical de-escalation to increase safety in crisis situations.
- Participants will have an understanding of ways to respond should their physical safety be compromised.
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Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101
Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101
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September 20, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Sarah Schaefer and Julie Duncan
Learn the fundamentals of the IPS model and how to effectively provide employment services to individuals served by ACT teams. This training will cover each of the eight principles of IPS and review evidence for the model. We will explore how employment helps individuals with their recovery, even if they continue to experience mental health symptoms, substance use disorders, homelessness, or other issues. We will use a case example to demonstrate some of the principles of IPS.
Objectives
- Understand the IPS Model and Supporting Research
- Have ability to apply the practice principles to individuals currently served
- Distinguish between IPS and other less effective employment models for individuals on ACT teams
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ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change
ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change
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October 4, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Sarah Schaefer and Paige Schrempp
This training will focus on the delivery of IDDT interventions focused on strategies to use when an individuals is in an "active" stage of change. Teams will be provided with examples of specific interventions, as well as being guided through an explorations of how they can take their current strategies for providing active treatment and build capacity for working within this stage of change.
Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify new strategies for providing active treatment as part of their IDDT program.
- Participants will be able to engage in self-assessment of their IDDT practices and identify areas for change and growth.
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Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention
Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention
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October 17, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Dr. Steve Harker and Amy Acker
This half-day training will focus on assessment, intervention and safety planning as it relates to risk of suicide or potential harm to others. Specific risk factors and assessment strategies will be presented, specific to working on an ACT team. Effective tools for mitigating risk, including safety planning within the support and structure of ACT will be discussed.
Objectives
- Participants will develop their knowledge of factors that increase risk of suicided and harm towards self or others.
- Participants will engage learning strategies for assessing suicide risk and safety planning.
- Participants will explore strategies for assessing risk of harm towards others, along with risk mitigation strategies
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ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes
ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes
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October 26, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Julie Duncan and Alyssa Conducy
Managing the documentation associated with the delivery of ACT services is critical to ensuring medical necessity is documented, that assessment influence treatment interventions, and that all team members have access to the information they need to provide coordinated care within the team. In this training participants will build their ability to articulate their work in written form. This will include clinical, rehabilitative, and recovery language, recommended structures for conceptualizing assessment and treatment plans, and strategies for writing detailed, yet succinct charting in progress notes.
Objectives
- Participants will have an understanding of documentations structures that can be applied when writing assessments, treatment plans and progress notes.
- Participants will have access to clinical, rehabilitative and recovery language that is recommended in ACT documentation.
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Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction
Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction
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November 7, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Dr. Steve Harker and Amy Acker
This training will focus on the interplay of how symptoms associated with thought disorders and PTSD impact social functioning, and commonly lead to drug use to facilitate increased ability to form social connections. This training will guide teams to explore and implement exposure therapy interventions to support people in building the skills and ability to engage in community, which often times can lead to decreased need for substances.
Objectives
- Participants will have an understanding of how drug use is often used by people to help overcome social skill deficits associated with their illness.
- Participants will develop a baseline knowledge of how exposure therapy can be used within ACT to address social skills deficits.
- Participants will be able to identify how the training concepts can be applied to individuals served by their team.
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Engaging Families and Natural Supports
Engaging Families and Natural Supports
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November 16, 2023Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Julie Duncan and Sarah Schaefer
This training will review the basic elements and practice principles of the evidenced based practice of Family Psychoeducation. We will also explore helpful strategies in effectively engaging families in the treatment planning process and during crises. We will discuss what to do when the individuals we serve do not have family or do not wish for them to be involved in their care.
Objectives
- Understand the practice principles of Family Psychoeducation
- Learn effective engagement strategies to engage families
- Explore alternatives when individuals don't have family involved
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