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Welcome to our June newsletter!
Wisconsin CONNECT is a collaborative. We seek to provide technical assistance and training opportunities for substance use prevention and treatment grantees, providers, clinicians, social workers, and support staff.
We draw on local and national academic and community resources to reduce and prevent substance use and improve overall health and wellness in Wisconsin.
To that end, we want to help you connect the dots with this newsletter. It is a tool to support our efforts to promote new research, share tools and trainings that aim to help you engage in different communities, enhance practice and improve the health of your clients and program participants.
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Registration is open for the 2025 Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference!
August 6-8 2025
In-person in Madison, WI
You are invited to explore how the practice of Motivational Interviewing can improve your clients’ engagement, resulting in transformative outcomes in the charming city of Madison, Wisconsin.
The interactive Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference will share best practices, build skills and promote interprofessional networking. Breakout sessions will be offered at various levels, targeting students, providers who are new to MI and seasoned practitioners.
This is a chance to engage in meaningful ways with colleagues, and to see Wisconsin at it’s best-in the summer! Tour the nearby capitol building, Olbrich Botanical Gardens, and the food scene during your down time.
Register and find more information here.
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Federal and State Reimbursement for Youth Behavioral Health Services
from Rural Health Research Gateway
Key Findings:
- Medicaid reimbursement and coverage policies for behavioral health professionals vary across and within states.
- A review of individual state Medicaid manuals indicates that social workers and psychologists are eligible for Medicaid reimbursement for behavioral health services in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. MFTs are eligible for reimbursement by all but two state Medicaid programs.
- All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow reimbursement of social workers and psychologists for behavioral health services provided through school-based Medicaid programs, while approximately one-third of states omit MFTs from the list of providers eligible for reimbursement within school-based Medicaid programs.
Read more here.
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Parent Peer Crisis Survey Now Open
from Wisconsin DHS
Do you identify as a parent peer? This survey is for you!
The Division of Care and Treatment Services is conducting a short survey to learn more about parent peer support in Wisconsin, specifically parent peer support in crisis services. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. The deadline to participate is June 9, 2025.
Participation in this survey is intended for individuals at least 18 years of age who identify as a parent peer. You do not need to be certified or employed in the parent peer field to take this survey. We need your perspective to:
- Assist us with transformation of the crisis services system.
- Help us understand how parent peers are currently working in the crisis services system.
- Help us understand if parent peers are comfortable working in the crisis services system.
Take the survey here.
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Men's Wellness Day
from Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
Saturday, June 7
Join Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin for their third annual Men’s Wellness Day. Focus on self-care and wellness, and enjoy free haircuts, massages, manicures, golf simulations, smoothies, access to fantastic resources from community partners, and real conversations in a no-judgement zone.
The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (doors open at 9:30 a.m.) at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Northwest Community Center, 5370 W. Fond du Lac Avenue.
Register here.
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Power in Participation: Strategies for Engaging and Retaining Coalition Members
from Great Lakes PTTC
Wednesday, June 18
10:30am-12:00pm CT
Community coalitions are only as strong as their membership. Building a coalition with dedicated and engaged members is essential to implementing and sustaining your successful prevention efforts. In this 90-minute webinar hosted by Great Lakes PTTC, participants will explore strategies to increase the number of engaged coalition members and how to keep them engaged over the long term.
Register here.
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P.A.A.S.S at the Park
from P.A.A.S.S
Saturday, June 28
P.A.A.S.S, a Special Needs Parents Support Group in Milwaukee, is dedicated to providing a safe and supportive environment for families navigating the challenges of raising children with special needs. They are hosting a gathering that will provide parents and children diagnosed with autism the opportunity to connect, share experiences, and gain valuable insights from one another while enjoying food, fun, and frolicking at the park.
The event is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 28 at Gordon Park, 2828 N. Humboldt Blvd. RVSP to paass2025@gmail.com by Friday, June 13.
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Connecting the Dots
The Connecting the Dots podcast is back with a new three-part series on stimulant use research, treatment, and community responses!
Stimulant Use: Research to Practice (A Three-Part Series)
Guest hosts: Richard Rawson and Albert Hasson
"Why We should Be Concerned with Stimulant Use: Cocaine and Methamphetamine in 2025" (Part 1) and "Effective Behavioral Treatments and Clinical Interventions" (Part Two) are already posted for your viewing! All you have to do is register for the series to receive a link and password to the content.
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"Addressing Stimulant Use Disorders: What Will It Take? A Community Conversation" (Part 3) will be held live on zoom. You will have the opportunity to hear from people across Wisconsin and how they are applying current best practices and new research to support and treat those with stimulant use disorder. Richard Rawson and Albert Hasson, two of the leading researchers in this field, will guide the discussion and answer questions, giving you viable next steps for how to improve or enhance your own practice.
To attend the live session, register for the above series and find the RSVP button on the series' private page.
This series is free and continuing education will be awarded.
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MATRIX Trainings
from Wisconsin CONNECT
We have MATRIX trainings on the calendar! Here is what's upcoming:
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Treatment for Methamphetamine Use
Wednesday, June 11
9:00a.m.-4:00p.m. CT
in-person in Green Bay, WI
Register here
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Advanced MATRIX
Thursday, June 12
9:00a.m.-4:00p.m. CT
in-person in Green Bay, WI
Register here
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Contingency Management
Friday, June 13
9:00a.m.-4:00p.m. CT
both days
in-person in Green Bay, WI
Register here
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Things That Make You Go Hmm. . . Boundaries, Barriers, and Shame, Oh My!
Friday, July 18
8:30am-12:30pm CT
Virtual
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Stepping Forward When Colleagues Cross the Line
Friday, August 15
8:30am-12:30pm CT
Virtual
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Have that gut instinct, feeling of rumbling in your stomach, those things that make you go hmm...? This training offers participants an opportunity to explore the difference between boundaries and barriers in peer-to-peer and client relationships. It explores personal boundaries, trust, shame, vulnerability, and use of self-assessment tools. Participants learn new strategies in paradigm thinking, communication and conflict management in the workplace; through examining challenges they face when colleagues are unethical or cross professional boundaries. The training provides related information to enhance the workplace, conflict resolution strategies, and developing ethically informed decision-making model of practice with peer to peer and client to practitioner relationships. It furthers the development of teams, colleague’s adherence to the NASW Code of Ethics and improves performance in agency ethical decision making.
Register here.
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Ethics & Boundaries has never been this fun to learn! You will learn and enhance professional skills in conflict resolution and understanding conflict theories. Exploring difficult crucial conversations; you will build skills in the 5 Essentials to Navigating Difficult Conversations with peers and gain the ability to hold colleagues accountable when needed. Communication styles and mitigation of risk is examined through personal and professional review of workplace culture. This workshop focuses on appropriate ethics and boundaries in client-social worker, therapist, counselor, and peer-to-peer relationships. Use of workbook activities, case scenarios and personal reflection will foster understanding of ethical, reflective practice with clients, agency, and colleague ethical challenges in the workplace, and building skills in communication, and cooperative confrontation. We will examine how appreciation in the workplace can relieve ethical dilemmas and improve decision making. You will not learn this content anywhere else!
Register here.
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Resilience and Thriving: The Secret Power of Stress
from Community Advocates Public Policy Institute
Wednesday, June 25
1:00-3:00pm CT
How well do you cope with stress? And can stress ever be good for you? Community Advocates Public Policy Institute is offering Resilience and Thriving, a two-hour webinar in which participants will be able to identify early warning signs of stress, types of stress, and effects of stress. Participants will learn specific skills to cope well with and thrive from stress, and understand positive and negative coping styles, plus their personal coping style! This session is open to everyone and is offered free of charge.
Register here.
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Trauma and the Brain: An Introduction
from Community Advocates Public Policy Institute
Tuesday, June 10
10:00-11:30am CT
Virtual on Zoom
As a result of this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding as to how trauma affects the brain, discuss risk factors for substance use disorders, and develop their strategy for intervention methods for a particular population.
What will be discussed:
• Trauma definition
• How trauma affects the brain
• Statistics on substance use and ACEs
• Risk factors
• Strategies for care
• Stress reducers
• Prioritizing risk factors
• Beginning a call to action
RSVP here.
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Check out our video archive to find a session you might have missed.
You can also go back to the training session webpage to find other resources, slides and handouts.
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Click here below to see all the upcoming trainings and events across topics. | | |
Have a training interest? Looking for technical assistance? Simply fill out this online form with what you are seeking, and we will follow up to further explore your needs. | | Wisconsin CONNECT Social Media | | Go follow the new Wisconsin CONNECT social media pages for regular updates on training opportunities as well as to connect and network with other professionals. | | |
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We do this in partnership with the Bureau of Prevention, Treatment and Recovery within the Wisconsin Department of Health Service's Division of Care and Treatment Services, UW-Milwaukee, and our network of training providers. |
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