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Welcome to our April 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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Last days for early bird pricing for the 2024 Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit!
Lower registration rates have been extended through April 7, so don't miss this opportunity!
Register here.
Scroll down to see more upcoming conferences, including some that are calling for abstract submissions!
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Wisconsin Caregiver Project Training Needs Survey
from Division of Quality Assurance
Attention all regulated health care providers!
As part of the Division’s commitment to Collaboration, Innovation and Quality, the WI Department of Health Services (DHS), Division of Quality Assurance (DQA) is pleased to collaborate with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Center for Community Development, Engagement & Training (CCDET) to ensure regulated health care providers have access to education to build the needed knowledge and skills to provide the required care, treatment, and services.
The Wisconsin Caregiver Training Project at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (UWO), Center for Community Development, Engagement & Training (CCDET) is dedicated to making cost-effective quality education available to Wisconsin administrators, caregivers, managers, and supervisors in all settings regulated by the Wisconsin Division of Quality Assurance (DQA). CCDET offers virtual and in-person workshops, on-demand courses, and ready-made curriculum for providers to train their own staff.
Thank you to those who responded to last year’s survey! Welcome to those of you responding for the first time. Based on survey feedback over the last two years, CCDET has created new on-demand training courses, added new training curriculum, and updated all courses to ensure materials are applicable to a variety of homecare, healthcare, and residential care settings.
At this time, DQA and UWO CCDET again ask for your feedback regarding the available training and your future training needs via this quick 8-question survey.
Please complete this survey by Friday, April 19, 2024. Thank you in advance for your feedback. We look forward to working with you to meet your staff training needs!
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Zilber Family Foundation and The Bridge Project
"We are thrilled to announce we have joined forces with The Bridge Project in an innovative collaboration to introduce Milwaukee’s first ever guaranteed income program!
Unrestricted cash assistance recognizes mothers’ right to make their own financial decisions and delivers more than a check - it plants seeds of economic opportunity. The Bridge Project will help make Milwaukee a model city for demonstrating the positive impacts of guaranteed income on economic stability, child wellbeing, and community health.
Backed by the data and infrastructure of The Bridge Project, the Zilber Family Foundation will provide 100 eligible low-income, pregnant individuals with unconditional cash to be spent on whatever is needed to keep mom and baby healthy and stable for the first two years of the child’s life – be it food, formula, rent, childcare, diapers, or any number of other surprise expenses that come with parenting."
Learn more, donate, and apply here.
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Gookomis Endaad in Lac Du Flambeau is hiring
Apply here.
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Rent Assistance
from Community Advocates
Community Advocates is offering rental assistance to City of Milwaukee tenants who need help getting back on their feet after an unexpected loss of income within the past 60 days and owe less than three months of back rent. You can get details on the eligibility requirements on our website.
Learn more here.
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The Department of Health Services (DHS) Hosted Trauma Course
DHS is hosting an Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 15 course. This course is intended for Wisconsin based trauma registrars and coordinators. Continuing education documentation accredited by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) will be provided.
Duration: Two consecutive days, eight hours each day, May 8–9, 2024 from 8 a.m.–4 p.m.
Prerequisites:
- Minimum of six months (one year or more suggested) experience working with AIS either in a trauma registry or coding of injury cases
- Basic anatomy course or equivalent
- Basic medical terminology course or equivalent
Equipment Needs: Participants must have a webcam and microphone capabilities as active participation in discussion is required.
Only apply if you are available for the entirety of the two days and meet the prerequisites and equipment needs.
To apply, please fill out the survey by April 19, 2024 at 4 p.m.
For questions or concerns, please reach out to the DHS Trauma Team at DHSTrauma@dhs.wisconsin.gov.
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MATRIX Trainings
from Wisconsin CONNECT
We have the entire year's worth of MATRIX trainings on the calendar! Here is what's upcoming:
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Youth and Young Adult
Wednesday, June 19 and Thursday, June 20
9:00a.m.-4:30p.m.
both days
Virtual
Register here
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Key Supervisor
Friday, June 20
9:00a.m.-4:30p.m.
Virtual
Register here
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Peer Recovery
Wednesday, July 17 through Friday, July 19
9:00a.m.-4:30p.m.
every day
Virtual
Register here
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Connecting the Dots
from Wisconsin CONNECT
On Demand Training
In a podcast format, Kyle Mounts and Lonnetta Albright from the original Women and SUD ECHO team will host experts in the field. Experts will also come from our provider community who will discuss relevant and current research in the field of substance use recovery for women-- to spark meaningful discussion aimed at facilitating practice change.
Our goal is simple—to provide current, relevant information intended to: Increase Awareness & Knowledge; and Identify Application Strategies for changes in practice to support the work you do. On the second Friday of every month, a new podcast will go live.
Available episode topics:
- Self-Care and Wellness
- Principles of Care for Pregnant and Parenting People
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FASD Self-Paced Training Series
from Wisconsin Connect
On Demand Training
Many medical, allied health care providers, educators, and others work with individuals affected by prenatal alcohol exposure—diagnosed or undiagnosed—but may lack training to identify, refer, and/or provide effective services. Few agencies offer FASD training to address these important issues.
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.
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Wisconsin Perinatal Association Programs
Perinatal Grand Rounds
Urgent topics in perinatal health from professionals in a variety of disciplines
Continuing education credits available
No registration fee
April 18 | Thursday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Perinatal Care for LGBTQ+ Persons
with Jessica Francis, MD
May 16 | Thursday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Vaccinations
with Ann Ebert, PharmD
June 20 | Thursday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Oral Health and Care During Pregnancy
with Michael Hoge, DMD, MS
Maternal Substance Use Lunch and Learns
Digestible educational bites aligned with WisPQC Care for Pregnant and Postpartum People with Substance Use Disorder initiative
Continuing education credits not available
No registration fee
April 9 | Tuesday | 11:30am - 12:00pm
Human Milk Feeding and Substance Use
with Elizabeth Goetz, MD, MPH
May 14 | Tuesday | 11:30am - 12:00pm
Speaker & Topic TBD
June 11 | Tuesday | 11:30am - 12:00pm
Speaker & Topic TBD
Fetal Monitoring Case Review Series
Live, interactive sessions with expert fetal monitoring instructors using real, de-identified Wisconsin cases
Continuing education credits available
Members: $10 single session / $35 full series
Non-members: $20 single session / $80 full series
Institutional rates are available
April 9 with Maria Green, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONQS
June 11 with Anne Kuschel, RN, BSN, C-EFM
August 13 with Christa Blohowiak, MSN, RN, C-EFM
Perinatal Substance Use Series
Tools and information for a broad range of perinatal professionals working with people affected by perinatal substance use
Continuing education credits not available
No registration fee
May 22 | Wednesday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Infant and Child Outcomes
with Elizabeth Goetz, MD, MPH
July 16 | Tuesday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Human Milk Feeding and Substance Use Disorder
with Paula Schreck, MD, IBCLC, FABM and Janene Hebert, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC
September 5 | Tuesday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Cannabis and Pregnancy
with Chuck Schauberger, MD, MS, DFASAM, FACOG
November 1 | Tuesday | 12:00 - 1:00pm
Speaker and Topic TBD
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Crisis Response Planning (CRP) for Preventing Suicidal Behavior
from UW-Green Bay
April 18, 2024
8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15
Trainer(s): David Rozek, PhD, ABPP
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
This workshop is designed to enhance individuals’ knowledge about crisis response planning for managing acute suicide risk, and to increase their ability to confidently and competently administer this intervention with at-risk individuals. The first half of the workshop provides didactic knowledge about suicide, the development of the crisis response plan intervention, and its empirical support, all of which are designed to increase knowledge. The second half of the workshop includes clinical demonstrations by the instructor and skills practice by attendees, which are designed for individuals to acquire skill competency.
Register 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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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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