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Trainings and Initiatives

Current Offerings

These are the trainings that have open registration. Not seeing what you're looking for? Try scrolling down to the 'Past Offerings' to see if we've done it before!
Ethics and Boundaries
Type: Virtual
Description: Ethics and boundaries training programs, often used by professionals in fields like social work, psychotherapy, and healthcare, provide education on identifying ethical dilemmas, establishing clear professional boundaries, and understanding related legal obligations. These programs help individuals navigate challenging situations with confidence, respecting client rights and promoting trust. 
Connecting the Dots
Type: Podcast, Virtual
Description: Connecting the Dots is the overarching umbrella for all of our trainings- there's a topic of interest for everyone! Take an hour to yourself to reinvest in your career.
MATRIX
Type: Virtual and In-person
Description: The Matrix Model is an easy-to-use manualized treatment protocol that gives patients the skills and understanding they need to overcome addiction. It has been refined over the past 30 years to integrate cognitive behavioral therapy, contingency management, motivational interviewing, 12 Steps facilitation, family involvement, and other elements to successfully treat individuals struggling with substance use.
Motivational Interviewing
Type: Virtual
Description: MI has a well-defined structure and strategy to support direct service staff to have empowering conversation about change with those they serve.
TRUST
Type: Virtual and In-person
Description: This training series is a presentation of the stimulant epidemic, current treatment practices and an in-depth training on the TRUST protocol to allow programs to successfully implement a stimulant use disorder intervention.

Past Offerings

These are training that we have done before, but do not currently have open registration. Materials and resources are still available on these pages. If you would like one of these to be revived, please let us know at [email protected]!
ASAM training
Type: Virtual and In-person
Description: ​This is a practical training designed to help beginner, intermediate, and advanced counselors, social workers, administrators, and other clinical staff develop patient-centered service plans and make objective decisions about patient admission, continuing care, and transfer/discharge for individuals with addictive, substance-related, and co-occurring conditions. 
ASAM ECHO
Type: Virtual
Description: This ECHO series is based on information found in The ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related, and Co-Occurring Conditions, Third Edition and incorporates an opportunity for participants to learn and apply the information through a short didactic presentation and case-based activities.​
Contingency Management
Type: Virtual and In-person
Description: Contingency Management (CM) is a therapy approach that aims to help a person decrease drug-related behaviors through positive motivation. Our trainers described current legislation and how you can implement this approach.
FASD Diagnostic training
Type: Virtual
Description: This diagnostic skills-building training is targeted to those providers in a position to diagnose FASDs (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants) and those who are part of a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary team providing care for individuals at risk for FASDs (including children and youth, individuals in substance use disorder treatment, and individuals in the social service system with undiagnosed challenges).
FASD TOT Certificate
Type: Certificate Program, Virtual
Description: This Training of Trainers helps decrease the knowledge gap by providing training on FASD along with the tools and resources needed for participants to provide quality training to diverse audiences.  These tools and resources include an adaptable PowerPoint presentation, peer-reviewed journal articles to support your training, fact sheets, and other handouts to provide to your participants.
Helping WOmen Recover
Type: Virtual
Description: This training offered a comprehensive treatment model that integrates theories of addiction, women’s psychological development, and trauma. Designed to give counselors, clinicians, and others a basic understanding of the current knowledge related to addiction, the training focuses primarily on women’s recovery.
Methamphetamine and Fentanyl in Pregnancy
Type: Virtual
Description: Evidence informed approach to harm reduction, overdose prevention and optimizing prenatal outcomes.
New Lethal and Clinical Challenges
Type: Virtual and In-person
Description: The presentation reviews the clinical challenges presented by individuals who use stimulants and current protocols for addressing acute medical/psychiatric conditions.
Social Determinants of Health
Type: Virtual
Description: Phillip Graham used his community-based research to focus on and address the impact of substance use on youth in their communities.
stimulant use disorder ta
Type: Virtual and In-person
Description: There are emerging evidence based practices practices, and we have partners that can help you with technical assistance to implement them. 
Trauma and resilience-responsive care
Type: Virtual
Description: Trauma informed to Trauma Responsiveness – Organizations translating, adapting & optimizing change: From the janitor to the CEO.
Youth Justice
Type: Grantees
Description: The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) funded community partnerships to divert youth from justice referrals. The funding was allocated under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. The purpose of the program was to develop diversion alternatives in communities from the youth justice system.
becoming trauma informed
Type: Virtual
Description: Become a trauma informed organization. This online, two-day training was provided to women's treatment facilities.
Ethics in Prevention
Type: Virtual
Description: This virtual training delves into the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics by providing participants with practical examples that are intended to enhance their capacity to handle difficult situations in their professional lives.
fasd self paced training series
Type: On Demand
Description: This FASD self-paced learning series helps decrease the knowledge gap by providing on-demand educational opportunities to learn more about the prevention, identification, and treatment of FASD. 
Foundations of FASD
Type: Virtual
Description: This training provided resources for providers serving clients at risk of FASD.
sud & pregnancy certificate
Type: Certificate Program, Virtual
Description: This program provided evidence-based information on substance use and pregnancy and provides the framework to understand the short- and long-term effects of a variety of drugs on mother and child.  
WOmen and sud echo
Type: Virtual
Description: The ECHO was conducted monthly for one hour and includes a brief educational presentation on a topic of interest, a case presentation by a collaborator, and a discussion on strategies that can help the provider offer the best possible care for the client/patient.
Youth Justice and FASD
Type: Virtual
Description: This training explains the importance of planning and implementing screening for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the youth justice system.
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