MORNING BREAKOUT (10:15 A.M.) Choose one:
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This presentation will raise awareness of how adoption may impact addiction. In addition, audience will learn about resources and treatment plan for adopted drug court participants. This session aims to help the practitioner become more aware of how technology impacts the lives of adolescents and how as adults, we can use technology to monitor adolescents under our care.
CLE Approved
This presentation will provide participants with an overview of vocational training, education and job placement services for individuals who may have substance abuse and criminal justice histories.
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This presentation is intended to provide court personnel and treatment providers with an understanding of some of the factors which have led to the increase in these drugs over the past few years, to understand how these drugs might be perceived differently by providers and defendants, to become more-familiar with some of the more common prescription drugs of abuse, and to identify special considerations which might arise in the treatment and case management of this population.
This presentation will discuss the role of methadone as the most cost-effective opioid treatment available in New York City jails, the largest methadone treatment program among U.S. correctional institutions. Also, to be discussed is the on-going study in NYC that indicates both burpenorphine and Naltrexone as effective interventions at release from jail or prison.
CLE Approved
This workshop aims to provide participants with specific techniques and strategies to engage consumers in distress. It will also address issues of impasses in treatment, crisis de-escalation, creating a calm environment, and addressing the needs of family and other workers during times of stress (and distress).
CLE Approved
The presentation will include a brief overview of the history of Samaritan Village, the current scope of services offered, and the evolution of specialized programming for military veterans.
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
This interactive workshop first explores four specific patterns of thinking and behaving which allow troubled youth to control their worlds by sabotaging themselves. It then goes on to describe a cognitive-behavioral cycle illustrating the dynamics of conflict between youth and adults. Finally, it closes with a review of three listening strategies to establish rapport with youth and begin the process of help building trust.
CLE Approved
This panel of presenters will discuss how they have utilized this combined approach of vocational rehabilitation and motivational interviewing to realize positive outcomes in employment retention, long-term recovery and reduction of recidivism.
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The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to begin implementation of the MTAG recommendations and the Transforming Out-Patient Services (TOPS) initiative, which seeks to integrate and merge all outpatient services under one regulatory, certification, and services framework, specifically linking these initiatives to how these changes impact how we currently serve the criminal justice treatment population.
CLE Approved
This presentation will focus on a new program implemented in the Queens DQI Court and law changes affecting DWI offenders in New York State.
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The presentation will provide complete results from the National Institute of Justice’s Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation. The study examined the impact of adult drug courts on criminal behavior, drug use, socioeconomic status, mental health, and family functioning. The study also examined which drug court policies and practices have the greatest impact on success, distinguishing the effect of treatment, supervision, judicial engagement, sanctions, and other policy components.
CLE Approved
This presentation will discuss evidence-based interventions and consensus models of treatment that target the increasing number of felony offenders with serious mental illness. These include: Assertive Community Treatment, Moral Reconation Therapy, Regular Court Status Hearings, and Vocational Rehabilitation.
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
This presentation is designed to highlight trends in behavioral health and rehabilitative needs of current Servicemembers in light of the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to highlight integrated treatment options to manage issues related to substance misuse, posttraumatic stress disorder, and reintegration.
The objective of this workshop is to engage the audience in both didactic and interactive discussion about how gender and other psycho-social and faith issues and factors can both negatively and positively impact on the quality of care obtained by clients of color, involved in the criminal justice system.
CLE Approved
This training, designed as a practical overview, will cover Criminal Thinking from the perspectives of Cognitive Behavioral therapies and the parallels between the thinking distortions that support addictive behavior and the thinking distortions that support criminality.
CLE Approved
This session will review the implementation of legislation that reformed the Rockefeller drug laws and will cover the impact of the new law on number of offenders referred to treatment, changes in court operations and the effect on alcohol and substance abuse treatment providers.
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Criminal Justice 101 is intended to give treatment providers an introduction to the Court system. This presentation will provide a basic understanding of how a case is processed through the judicial system, beginning at the point of arrest. Court personnel and their roles will be clearly defined as well as the different paths a case can take through the court system. Various drug charges, sentences and sentencing guidelines will all be defined and discussed. The Lead Presenter for this workshop with be Susan Sturges. The second presenter TBA
This presentation will discuss the rising number of treatment admissions whose primary drug of choice is opiates and its implications, including the need of long-term residential addiction treatment, tailored interventions and Samaritan Village’s capacity to work with the Federal, State and overall addiction field's advances to secure Medication Assisted Treatment for clients as a result of the increasing opiate admissions.
