Homelessness is becoming more and more common among the people served by RADIAS Health. We offer this training to increase awareness, skill, and knowledge of available resources to support people we serve who are experiencing homelessness.
Objectives:
Attendees will be able to identify contributing factors to both short term and long-term homelessness
Attendees will learn strategies for engagement with people experiencing homelessness
Attendees will be aware of local resources available for persons who are in shelters and those who are living outdoors.
ACT Team leaders have a unique challenge of both leading and managing within a highly structured and demanding model of care. Throughout this six part leadership training series, team leaders will gain skills needed to self-assess their teams' current practices in relation to ACT fidelity, problem solve and identify solutions to their team specific barriers, and build continuous quality improvement plans.
Part 4: Clinical and Rehabilitative Anchors. This session will focus on the anchoring the teams work through intentional integration of therapy, enhancing the clinical practices by all team members and the structured use of psychiatric rehabilitation practices.
This is a three-day training. Participants can take one or all days of the training, however, we highly encourage staff to attend all three days to get the best amount of knowledge and experience out of this training. You will receive information about illicit substances, their impact on the brain when a person also has a mental illness, and how to intervene during the stages of change. Instructors use a variety of large and small group exercises during all days of this training.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify various illicit substances and prescription medications that are commonly misused
Participants will become aware of assessment tools and clinical criteria to identify substance use disorders
Participants will be able to list various harm reduction strategies
Participants will be able to identify how mental illness and substance use disorders are inter-related and will receive basic information about brain chemistry as it relates to substance use disorders.
Participants will be able to identify stages of change and stages of treatment
Participants will review and identify appropriate interventions for each stage of change
Participants will become familiar with basic concepts of Motivational Interviewing
Participants will have the opportunity to create a treatment plan based on diagnostic information and scenarios.
This is a three-day training. Participants can take one or all days of the training, however, we highly encourage staff to attend all three days to get the best amount of knowledge and experience out of this training. You will receive information about illicit substances, their impact on the brain when a person also has a mental illness, and how to intervene during the stages of change. Instructors use a variety of large and small group exercises during all days of this training.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify various illicit substances and prescription medications that are commonly misused
Participants will become aware of assessment tools and clinical criteria to identify substance use disorders
Participants will be able to list various harm reduction strategies
Participants will be able to identify how mental illness and substance use disorders are inter-related and will receive basic information about brain chemistry as it relates to substance use disorders.
Participants will be able to identify stages of change and stages of treatment
Participants will review and identify appropriate interventions for each stage of change
Participants will become familiar with basic concepts of Motivational Interviewing
Participants will have the opportunity to create a treatment plan based on diagnostic information and scenarios.