In partnership with MN DHS, RADIAS Health is hosting trainings for MN ACT Teams.
Events in September–November 2022
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Trauma Informed Care
Trauma Informed Care
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September 22, 2022Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Julie Duncan and Alyssa ConducyThis course will provide participants with an overview of trauma including the impact on the brain, body, and lives of the individuals who experience it. We will discuss the prevalence of trauma and common trauma responses. We will review characteristics of trauma informed providers the principles of trauma informed care. This training includes practice techniques for use with individuals you serve. In addition to direct service staff, this training is also recommended for Program Coordinators.
Objectives:
• Participants will have an understanding of trauma and trauma reactions
• Participants will have the ability to identify and implement trauma informed service delivery strategies within their role as an ACT Team Member.Click here to register for this training.
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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 28, 2022Click 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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Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Assessment and Creative, Intentional Interventions
Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Assessment and Creative, Intentional Interventions
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October 6, 2022Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Alyssa Conducy and Brooke Schultz
In this training, participants will the foundational components of psychiatry rehabilitation services. This includes use of assessment to identify cognitive, social and functional impairments that are in place due to mental health and substance use disorders. Participants will learn the key components of formalized rehabilitation plans, while learning how to use task breakdown, behavioral shaping, and practical tools for creating structured, creative, and intentional plans that are built based on the individuals needs and goals of ACT participants.
Objectives:
- Participants will receive training on the foundational principles of psychiatric rehabilitation
- Participants will learn to connect symptoms to functioning, and functioning to intentional interventions.
- Participants will be able to take the structure, tools and examples provided to create individualized psychiatric rehabilitation plans for the individuals they serve.
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Self-Care for ACT Team Members. Clenching, Leaning In and Finding Flow
Self-Care for ACT Team Members. Clenching, Leaning In and Finding Flow
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October 11, 2022Click here to register for this training.
Trainers: Alyssa Conducy and Jessica Metkowski-Gulden
People who work on ACT Teams are usually highly committed and dedicated, showing commitment to the people they serve and their team, while also practicing with flexibility, responsiveness and a willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. While all positive attributes, working in this way can lead people to feel stress and tired. In this training participant's will be guiding in exploring signs that they may be clenching (restricting and tightening) in their work and how to counterbalance this through leaning into ones work, finding flow, and engaging in activities that promote self-care.
Objectives:
- Participants will identify and build self-awareness of ways compassion fatigue, stress and frustration can cause them to back away from their work. Participants will learn to watch for "clenching" in their work.
- Participants will be able to identify 3 strategies for taking ownership of situations in a way that facilitates lean in and respond, verse react, in times of stress. Participants will develop a self-care plan to facilitate their ability to sustain their energy and engagement in the delivery of ACT services.
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Working with Justice Involved Individuals
Working with Justice Involved Individuals
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October 26, 2022
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Trainers: Steve Harker and Kelsey Gries
This training will focus on describing the unique challenges and opportunities of working with an SPMI population with corrections involvement. It will focus on a number of topics including collaborating with probation, integrating care as clients move between corrections and community settings, risk assessment tools, forensic cognitive behavioral interventions, and using team-based person-centered planning to maintain a treatment alliance.
Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of the treatment challenges inherent to a forensic population and develop skills for effective case management practices and effective communicating within the corrections system
- Become familiar with forensic assessment: risk assessment tools and assessing for criminal thinking patterns.
- Balancing coercion and recovery: the use of person-centered planning to facilitate recover
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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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November 3, 2022Click 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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Virtual Location