Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (1-2 pm ET)

Presenters: Tanya Ralph, LMSW; Jeny Rodrigue, LAC, ICAADC, SAP, SAE; Kawana Ripoll, LCSW

CE:  1 Substance Use Disorder

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) involve a combination of medications that target the brain and psychosocial interventions (e.g., counseling, skills development, case management) aimed at improving treatment outcomes. Research shows that medications and therapy together may be more successful than either treatment method alone.

This webinar will provide an overview of Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT), address the pros and cons associated with MAT, and discuss how MAT fits into the context of the more extensive substance use disorder treatment system.

This webinar aims to enhance your professional knowledge of MAT, increase your confidence to engage and educate clients about MAT, and encourage using best practices and the benefits associated with clinical research.

Objectives: 

• Understand how Medications for Addiction Treatment  (MAT) fits into the overall treatment continuum for persons with Opioid Use Disorder
• Identify three proven effective medications in treatment and learn the essential characteristics of the medication.
• Identify which clients may be best suited for each medication.
• Identify other psychotherapies and activities that enhance a comprehensive addiction treatment program.
• Understand the pros and cons of MAT.
• Understand the importation of health research discoveries to support MAT, enabling new individualized treatment and care.

 

Cost: SPS Members: Free / Non-SPS NASW Members: $20 / Non-NASW Member: $35

 

This presentation explores the challenge of differential diagnosis and support for clients living with co-existing post-traumatic stress disorder and post-concussion syndrome. Although addressing concussive issues is gathering increasing attention, concussions remain both undiagnosed and underdiagnosed, despite how common they are, across all political, religious and cultural groups.

In 2020, the world was sent into an unprecedented crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the recognition of the economic downturn and personal crisis that many people were experiencing, the federal government invested in basic needs support. Because of the investment in rental assistance and other housing dollars, local communities were able to create different solutions to homelessness. This session will cover innovative strategies used around the state with COVID housing dollars, the impact of those funds, and what’s next for communities now that this additional funding has ended

This training strives to challenge practitioners to think critically before making a CPS report. Our trainers will provide practical guidance about when to make a report and encourage practitioners to help become a support network for the family. Mandated supporting is a framework that shifts our profession away from positions of surveillance to agency and humanity. Instead of punitive measures, it calls on social workers to be supporters to the families and communities we serve. We hope to invigorate our audience to take action and think about the legal mandate differently.

“Life in a Traumatic World: Implications for Social Work Practice”

April 14-16, 2024

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, NJ

Earn up to 23 CEUs

Registration to open in January 2024