Cost
 

• April 21: $0
• April 22-23: $25
• One day: $15

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Target Audience

• Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors
• Mental Health and Medical Professionals
• Prevention Professionals
• Public Health Professionals
• Recovery Coaches 
• Peer Support Specialists
• Social Workers

Purpose

The purpose of the event is to enhance the knowledge of the behavioral health workforce in addition to developing strength within other system disciplines that connect with behavioral health. The aim is to educate the individual but also to create connection and collaboration between system partners in an effort to enhance a coordinated response to behavioral health.

Learning Objectives

• Provide education to enhance the knowledge of the behavioral health workforce.
• Develop strength within each system discipline and increase collaboration between system partners for coordinated response to behavioral health concerns.

Topics

• Alcohol and Cancer
• Behavioral Health System Navigation
• Building Partnerships with Youth: Where Do You Start?
• C3 De-Escalation: Practical Crisis Response Strategies for Behavioral Health Professionals
• Cannabis and Mental Health: What the Science Says and What it Means for Prevention and Intervention
• Compassion Fatigue
• Confidentiality in 2026: Changes in the Law, Technology, and Practice
• Ethics and the Workplace
• Ethics for Peer Support Specialists and Recovery Coaches
• Journey to Recovery 
• Living the Good Life in a Resource-Rich Community
• Methamphetamine Use and Overdose: Insights from Toxicology and Death Investigations
• Panel discussion on NAVIGATE: An Evidence-Based Model for Individuals Experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis
• Peer Partnerships: Using Lived Experience in Diverse Settings
• Policy-Based Approaches to Reducing Harms from Tobacco Use
• Prevention Across the Lifespan: A Focus on Adults
• Prevention Ethics in Action: How We Share and Deliver Prevention Messages
• Substance Use and the Brain
• The Behavioral Health Service System: Year 1
• Toxicology Today: Trends and Toxins
• Translating Overdose Data into County Prevention Action
• Understanding Grief after a Death from Suicide
• Unlocking the Updates: The ASAM Criteria - Fourth Edition and the Future of Adult Recovery
• Updates to 42 CFR Part 2: Confidentiality of SUD Treatment Records
• Using the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) to Improve Behavioral Health Systems and Outcomes
• We are the Answer to Ending America’s Addiction Crisis
• What is the Syndrome Model of Addiction, and How Can it Inform the Treatment of Problem Gambling?