Welcome to our March 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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How exercise strengthens a brain wounded by toxic childhood stress.
There are many strategies to improve sleep and brain health.
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This training will introduce the new 6-session trauma curriculum Exploring Trauma: A Brief Intervention for Men. It is designed for men who have been abused or have experienced other forms of trauma. Topics discussed include: understanding trauma and its process; trauma's impact on the inner self and on the outer self; and coping and calming strategies. Participant-led grounding exercises are part of this interactive workshop.
March 17-18, 2022.
To learn more about the training or to register click this Link.
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Black, Indigenous, People of Color Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (BIPOC SAPST)
Dates: April 5th – June 20th
Application due March 18th, 2022
The Black, Indigenous, People of Color Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (BIPOC SAPST) is a key opportunity to build the workforce capacity and is an innovative training session because of the training format, schedule, and mentorship component. The goal of the BIPOC SAPST is to develop the basic knowledge and skills needed by BIPOC substance misuse prevention practitioners to plan, implement, and evaluate effective, data-driven programs and practices that reduce behavioral health disparities and improve wellness. The BIPOC SAPST training series incorporates new content related to the BIPOC populations and equity issues with a concentrated theme of health disparities, health equity, and cultural aspects. The training series is designed for entry level BIPOC prevention practitioners to build and sustain their capacity to deliver comprehensive and culturally diverse community level services in state, tribal, jurisdictional, and organizational settings.
The three-month training series includes training sessions, learning communities, a mentor match, and a project. It will virtually kickoff on April 5th. The training sessions and learning communities will alternate every other week after the kick-off. The training sessions will be 4 hours long and the learning communities will be 90 minutes long. In the learning community spaces, BIPOC SAPST participants will be coming together to commit to improving their practice through professional development and networking. Participants will be sharing best practices, applying the skills and knowledge they are learning, and continue to learn from each other. Participants will also be matched with a mentor in the first month. A schedule for the three months is attached to this email.
Please review the eligibility criteria before applying:
- You identify as someone who belongs to at least one of the following minority populations: African American; Hispanic/Latinx; Asian; Middle Eastern/North African; Native American/Alaskan Native; or LGBTQ2S+.
- You have at least 1 year of work experience in the behavioral health field (mental health and/or substance use recovery, treatment, prevention).
- You have a high school diploma, GED, or High School Equivalent Degree.
- You live or work in Wisconsin.
- You are available to participate in ALL VIRTUAL Training Sessions – 4 hours, every other week.
- You are available to participate in AT LEAST 3 of the VIRTUAL Learning Sessions – 90 minutes, every other week.
- You are available to meet VIRTUALLY with Mentor.
Complete the following application components by March 18th, 2022:
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Review the Wisconsin BIPOC SAPST Training Outline – this is the training agenda (attached)
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Complete the application: https://forms.gle/gXrHY2azAwBxfF9Q8
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Upload a signed Letter of Support from your supervisor or manager. The Letter of Support form is attached.
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul joins Governor Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) in announcing the launch of the updated Dose of Reality initiative in February. The goal of this information and education campaign is to change the conversation around Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic. The Dose of Reality initiative provides the tools for all Wisconsinites to prevent or reduce the risks of opioid use through open and honest talks about the dangers of opioids and ways to save lives.
The updated Dose of Reality initiative is a series of webpages found at DoseofRealitywi.gov that:
- Provide information on the risks of opioids.
- Provide information about safe storage and disposal of medications to keep them out of the hands of people who may misuse them.
- Offer strategies to support people at risk of or experiencing an opioid use disorder.
- Provide information on naloxone, its availability, and how to use it to reverse an opioid overdose.
- Help people find treatment and recovery services for an opioid use disorder.
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services together with the Center for urban Population Health will Launch an opioid and stimulant use training series for Wisconsin substance use treatment providers and clinicians. This series will start with Clare Matrix Institute's Matrix model curriculum: Implementation planning and maintaining the model to fidelity; how to adapt Matrix for opioid use disorders.
General training is on March 21-22, and advanced training is on March 23
To learn more about the training or to register click this Link.
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April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and the AAP is pleased to offer a series of educational trainings on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Join them at 11am CT on Fridays from April 8th through May 6th for free 60-minute webinars on identifying and diagnosing FASDs, overcoming social attitudes as a barrier to early identification, caring for children with FASDs across the lifespan, and neurobehavioral disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE).
The webinar series will end with an exclusive national office hours session hosted by the members of the AAP FASD Regional Education and Awareness Liaisons (REAL) Champions Network. To register and for more information about each of the webinar sessions, please visit the FASD 2022 Webinar Series registration page. We look forward to seeing you in April!
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The ASAM Criteria Course is comprised of a comprehensive suite of competency-based learning activities in a distance learning delivery method and the live webinar delivery format that meet the learning needs of the multiple audiences and results in the appropriate use of the Criteria in practice.
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.
April 25th
9am - 4pm CST
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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.
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New Registration Link for 2022! |
ECHO is an opportunity for women’s substance use treatment providers to come together with clinicians who provide care to women with substance use disorders to learn and share information and strategies to improve the lives of women, their children, and their families.
The ECHO is conducted monthly for 1 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.
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Upcoming Dates
March 10
April 8
No May ECHO
June 10
July 8
August 12
September 9
No October ECHO
November 11
December 9
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Save the Date
March 11, 2022
Registration is open for buprenorphine x-waiver training webinars sponsored by the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Two webinars are scheduled; March 25th and April 25th.
March 17-18, 2022
In-person at Milwaukee Marriott West
April 29-30, 2022
In-person at Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.
Drop off any unused medications at a collection site near you.
April 30, 2022
May 10-12, 2022
Hybrid-virtual and in-person in La Crosse, WI.
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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. |
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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. |
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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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