Name: Engaging Families and Natural Supports
Start: 2023-11-16T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-16T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Virtual Location

1:00 pm: Person Centered Planning within ACT

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
August 30, 2023

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Trainers: Brooke Schultz and Amy Acker

Person-Centered Care is integral to how ACT Teams approaches their work. This training provides an overview of the Person-Centered Approach in supporting persons served within ACT. Learn about best practices for engaging the individual serviced, developing the plan from an inter-disciplinary team perspective, and translating the plan into the teams scheduled appointments.

Objectives

Participants will have an understanding of person-centered planning within the context of ACT
Participants will be aware of examples of person-centered language (as well as language to avoid)
Practice using several tools to engage people in the planning process, translate the person's goals into treatment plan language and understand how to carry identify interventions into routine service delivery.

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September

9:00 am: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe

9:00 am – 1:00 pm
September 18, 2023

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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.

Click here to register for this training.

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12:00 pm: Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
September 20, 2023

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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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October

9:00 am: ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
October 4, 2023

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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.

Click here to register for this training.

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12:30 pm: Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention

12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
October 17, 2023

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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

Click here to register for this training.

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9:00 am: ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
October 26, 2023

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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.

Click here to register for this training.

Virtual Location

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November

9:00 am: Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
November 7, 2023

Click 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.

Click here to register for this training.

Virtual Location

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12:00 pm: Engaging Families and Natural Supports

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
November 16, 2023

Click 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

Click here to register for this training.

Virtual Location

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28	29	30 1:00 pm: Person Centered Planning within ACT 1:00 pm: Person Centered Planning within ACT 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm August 30, 2023 Click here to register for this training. Trainers: Brooke Schultz and Amy Acker Person-Centered Care is integral to how ACT Teams approaches their work. This training provides an overview of the Person-Centered Approach in supporting persons served within ACT. Learn about best practices for engaging the individual serviced, developing the plan from an inter-disciplinary team perspective, and translating the plan into the teams scheduled appointments. Objectives Participants will have an understanding of person-centered planning within the context of ACT Participants will be aware of examples of person-centered language (as well as language to avoid) Practice using several tools to engage people in the planning process, translate the person's goals into treatment plan language and understand how to carry identify interventions into routine service delivery. Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	31	September 1	2	3
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18 9:00 am: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe 9:00 am: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe 9:00 am – 1:00 pm September 18, 2023 Click 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. Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	19	20 12:00 pm: Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101 12:00 pm: Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm September 20, 2023 Click 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 Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	21	22	23	24
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2	3	4 9:00 am: ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change 9:00 am: ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change 9:00 am – 3:00 pm October 4, 2023 Click 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. Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	5	6	7	8
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16	17 12:30 pm: Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention 12:30 pm: Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm October 17, 2023 Click 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 Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26 9:00 am: ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes 9:00 am: ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes 9:00 am – 12:00 pm October 26, 2023 Click 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. Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	27	28	29
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6	7 9:00 am: Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction 9:00 am: Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction 9:00 am – 12:00 pm November 7, 2023 Click 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. Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16 12:00 pm: Engaging Families and Natural Supports 12:00 pm: Engaging Families and Natural Supports 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm November 16, 2023 Click 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 Click here to register for this training. Virtual Location View Location Read more	17	18	19
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In partnership with MN DHS, RADIAS Health is hosting trainings for MN ACT Teams.

Events in September–November 2023

1:00 pm: Person Centered Planning within ACT

1:00 pm: Person Centered Planning within ACT

September

9:00 am: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe

9:00 am: Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe

12:00 pm: Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101

12:00 pm: Vocational Services on ACT Teams - Individual Placement and Support 101

October

9:00 am: ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change

9:00 am: ACT Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Substance use Disorders who are in an Active Stage of Change

12:30 pm: Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention

12:30 pm: Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention

9:00 am: ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes

9:00 am: ACT Documentation: Treatment Plans, Functional Assessments and Progress Notes

November

9:00 am: Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction

9:00 am: Exposure Therapy: Treatment for Building Social Skills and Supporting Harm Reduction

12:00 pm: Engaging Families and Natural Supports

12:00 pm: Engaging Families and Natural Supports

December