This page provides a full description of all breakout sessions offered during the conference. To register as an attendee, click here. To register as an exhibitor or sponsor, click here.

MORNING BREAKOUT

SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Addiction and Adoption
Hon. Marcia Hirsch, Judge, Queens County Supreme Court
Bernie Michael Glintz, LCSW/BCD/DAPA
Peter Manzo, Queens DWI Court Case Manager
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.

COMMUNITY RE-INTEGRATION
Vocational Training, Education and Employment Opportunities in Today’s Economy
Donna R. Nelson-Lawless, Director of Manhattan School Resource Training Center
Valerie Lyons, Assistant Project Director, Hunter College/OASAS Work-Study Project
Edward E. Blutstein, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, Brooklyn VESID Office
Irina Belushin, President, Clinton Institute
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. . A panel including representation from academia, the state Vocational Rehabilitation system, vocational training programs and the Brooklyn Treatment Court will offer strategies designed to assist individuals with securing and maintaining competitive employment.

TREATMENT 1
Prescription & Over the Counter Drug Abuse
Kevin Wadalavage, Training & Quality Consultant, Outreach Project
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.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1
Emerging Pharmacotherapies for Opioid and Alcohol Problems at Re-entry
Joshua D. Lee, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Prison Health Services, Inc.
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.

TREATMENT 2
Practical Strategies for Engaging People in Crisis
Charles Amrhein, Clinical Director, Bronx TASC Mental Health Court Program
Bonnie Sultan, Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consultant
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).

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
Leave No Man Behind: Clinical Considerations for Working with Veterans in Chemical Dependency Treatment
Carol Davidson, LCSW, CASAC, Program Director, Samaritan Village Veterans Program
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.

AFTERNOON BREAKOUT #1

SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Leave Me Alone! Connecting with Relationship Wary Youth
Dr. Steve Parese, President, SBP Consulting, Inc.
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.

COMMUNITY RE-INTEGRATION
Vocational rehabilitation and motivational interviewing: promoting recovery though evidence-based best practices
Elizabeth M. Madison, Vice President, NADAP, Inc.
Alicia Bartz, Assistant Director, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
Maria Pasceri, Director, NADAP, INC.
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.

TREATMENT 1
Medication-Assisted Treatment, Opioid Treatment Services & Linkages with Criminal Justice
Belinda Greenfield, PhD, Director of Addiction Medicine & Self Sufficiency Services
Henry M. Bartlett, Executive Director, Committee of Methadone Program Administrators of New York State (COMPA)
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.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1
Queens DWI Court: An Alliance of Resources to Promote Sobriety
Keica E.Hancock, Resource Coordinator, Queens DWI Court
Peter Manzo, Case Manager, Queens DWI Court
Donna Myrill, JD, Assistant District Attorney, Queens County District Attorney’s Office
This presentation will focus on a new program implemented in the Queens DQI Court and law changes affecting DWI offenders in New York State.

TREATMENT 2
Results from the NIJ Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation
Michael Rempel, Research Director, Center for Court Innovation
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.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
Drug Treatment & Mental Health Interventions: Building on Evidence-Based Interventions for the Seriously Mentally Ill Felony Offender
Dr. Kenneth D. Robinson, President, Correctional Counseling, Inc.
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.

AFTERNOON BREAKOUT #2

SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Integrated Treatment of Substance Misuse and Co-Occurring Disorders for Servicemembers
Michael DeFalco, Director of Adult and Military Services, Liberty Behavioral Management
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.

COMMUNITY RE-INTEGRATION
Quality of Care Re-Entry Factors Impacting Blacks: Gender, Psycho-Social and Faith Issues
Dr. Tyrone Thaddaeus Brown Ph.D., Qualified Health Professional, Isaiah-Grace
Pastor Ernest Bellinger, MPS, Clergy / Health Educator, National Black Alcoholism and Addictions Council, Inc. NYS Chapter
Michael Johnson, CASAC –T, Profession: Substance Abuse and HIV Education / Re-Entry Specialist, Archcare at Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center
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.

TREATMENT 1
Understanding, Assessing & Treating Criminal Thinking
Howard Halligan, LMHC, CASAC, Addiction Program Specialist, NYS OASAS
Henry Kurcman BS, CASAC, Addiction Program Specialist, NYS OASAS
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.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1
Rockefeller Reform
Valerie Raine, Esq, Director, Drug Court Programs, The Center for Court Innovation
Justin Barry, Esq, Counsel to Deputy Chief Administrative Judge, Office of Deputy Chief Administrative Judge
Steve Hanson, OASAS, Bureau of Treatment.
This session will review the implementation of legislation that reformed the Rockefeller drug laws. Presenters 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.

TREATMENT 2
Criminal Justice 101 for Treatment Providers
To be added

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
“The Perfect Storm”: Meeting the Needs of the Criminal Justice Client during the Opiate Epidemic
Gerald Heaney, Program Director, Samaritan Village Incorporated
Dr. Janetta Astone-Trewell, Director of Research, Samaritan Village Incorporated
Thomas LaBarca, Admissions Director, Samaritan Village Incorporated
This presentation will discuss the rise in numbers of treatment admissions in NYC and Long Island with opiates as the primary drug of choice 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.

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