2022 Women's Recovery Conference: Healing Clients, Families, and Ourselves

Description

This is the 36th year of the Women's Recovery Conference, where gender-specific care, focusing on the needs of women in recovery and their families, is exclusively presented. Up to 16.5 credit hours are offered, with a variety of credit options. The conference is designed for substance abuse, mental health, psychology, criminal justice, human services and other healthcare professionals. There will be limited in-person seating as well as a full livestream attendance option to assist practitioners who are unable to get away from their practice and who need to receive vital North Carolina updates to inform their practice. One-day, two-day and three-day options are available, with an option for "Friday only" registration or "Wednesday Preconference Only" registration.

The Preconference on Wednesday, May 4th offers opportunities for both new and advanced practitioners.

Morning choices:

• Post-Traumatic Growth and Trauma Resolution
  
• Working Smarter Not Harder: How to Create Positive Change and Adherence in HIV and STD, BBP and Other High Risk Client Populations Using Harm Reduction Approaches

• Utilizing Reconnect for Resilience Tools to Optimize Early and Long-term Recovery
  
• The Intersection of Human Trafficking and Substance Use Disorder

• Measuring and Riding the Waves of Changing Drug Crises for Women in the USA
  
• Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and the Issue of Accessing Treatment
  
• Supporting Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Service Providers
  
• Brain Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury: Know What You May be Missing

• Intersecting Identities in Substance Use Treatment and Recovery
  
• The Ethical Autonomy Principle in the Care of Women with Substance Use Disorders: Real World Challenges and Considerations
  
• Trauma and Substance Use: Practical Applications for Treating Co-occurring PTSD and Substance Use in Pregnant and Parenting Women

• Update from the State: Women's SUD Treatment in North Carolina
  
• Finding Hope and Resilience: Healing Women with Substance Use Disorders, Their Families, and Ourselves

• There's Power in Task Groups!
  
• Simple Strategies for Self-Care, Self-Kindness and Empowerment

Vital information for all providers working with women who are impacted by the opioid crisis is embedded within the entire three-day event.

A NOTE ON CREDITS

The 2022 Women's Recovery Conference offers up to 16.5 credit hours. *Please note that sessions will not be recorded, and live attendance is required to obtain credit. The Ethical Autonomy Principle in the Care of Women with Substance Use Disorders: Real World Challenges and Considerations in Track Two on Thursday offers 3.00 hours of Ethics training if selected. For detailed information about NCASPPB credits please see the brochure above.

Lodging

Target Audience

Mental health and substance abuse professionals, including substance abuse counselors, psychologists, social workers, licensed clinical mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, peer support specialists, nurses, school counselors and other professionals interested in this subject

Objectives

At the 2022 conference, session content supports the following overarching conference goals:

• Provide concrete information, insight and treatment skills which may be applied to all types of substance use recovery as well as process/behavioral addictions
• Introduce a team problem-solving model to address care team staffing issues, increased workloads and resultant provider burnout, to ensure ethical care in a changing environment
• Arm providers with effective, evidence-based behavioral interventions to help women enter recovery, prevent relapse and sustain optimal health in long-term recovery, to benefit women as well as their families
• Discuss strategies for closing major gaps in the current US care delivery system with regard to treatment access for Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and other marginalized groups, while listing concrete examples of how drug policies, anti-black racism, and systemic racism have negatively impacted substance use treatment
• List ways in which systems can be trauma-informed and culturally-responsive to the needs of those with intersecting identities
• Inform all providers in attendance of current legislation surrounding mandatory reporting and care of pregnant women
• Articulate at least three evidence-based transformative modalities of care that foster social, psychological and physiological well-being in women's recovery while reducing relapse risk and promoting harm reduction with concurrent medical and substance use diagnoses
• Describe at least three effective evidence-based strategies which meet the gender-specific needs of women with substance use disorders based on SAMHSA recommendations and/or those published in peer-reviewed journals within the past seven years
• Explain, in detail, the key components of at least three primary cutting-edge treatment approaches which foster resilience, build trust and increase commitment to individualized therapeutic goals of women in recovery, while optimizing health outcomes
• Describe at least three evidence-based strategies to optimize provider healing and resilience, to promote self-care tenets of ethical practice
• Demonstrate a commitment to honor diversity, celebrate individuality, promote authenticity and foster genuine collaboration based on ethical care for women and families in recovery

Faculty

• Jessica Canavan, MSW, LCSW
• Michelle Durham, MD MPH DFAACAP FAPA
• Annie Fahy, RN, BSN, MSN, LCSW
• Amy C. Hendricks, BS
• Judith A. Johnson-Hostler, LCMHC LCAS NCC CSI
• Hendre Jones, PhD
• Victor L. Jones, MSW, LCSW, LCAS
• Carolyn Lemsky, PhD ABPP-CN C.Psych
• Marti MacGibbon, CADC-II, ACRPS
• Laura Martin
• Geri A. Miller, PhD, LP, LCAS, CCS
• Paul Nagy, LCMHC, LCAS, CCS
• Glenis Redmond
• Starleen Scott-Robbins, MSW, LCSW
• Susanne A. Walker Wilson, LCSW, LCAS-A, IMH-E