Child & Family Agency and DMHAS Present:

Promoting the Healthy Development of Children
Living in Substance Abusing Families

Description: This day long workshop reviews the literature on children from substance abusing families (e.g., epidemiology, vulnerability studies). This is followed by a description range of evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies. Finally, tools, materials, and advice for the successful implementation of interventions are provided.

Instructor: Jim Emshoff, Ph.d. is an Associate Professor and Director of the Community Psychology Program at Georgia State University. He is also the founder of EMSTAR Research, Inc., an evaluation and organizational services firm. His research and evaluation projects focus on prevention, health and community development, particularly as they relate to youth, substance abuse and violence.

Date: Friday, March 23, 2012
*date changed from April 20*
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration: 8:30 a.m.
Place: Hilton Garden Inn, 85 Glastonbury Blvd., Glastonbury, CT 06033
Phone: 860-659-1025

A light breakfast and lunch are provided without charge.
There is no cost for attending this seminar.

Social Work CEU’S have been applied for.

Funding for this seminar series is made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS).

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Child & Family Agency and DMHAS Present:

Crime and Substance Abuse:
Evidence-based Approaches to Reduce Recidivism

Description: This day-long seminar is the outgrowth of a two year project to identify promising and effective criminal justice substance abuse prevention and treatment programs for adolescents and adults, resulting in the book Substance Abuse Treatment Practice in Criminal Justice Settings. Presentations will examine the relationship between crime and substance abuse and how that connection might be broken (primary prevention). Next, the cycle of recidivism will be examined and what efforts currently appear most effective in breaking that cycle (treatment). Finally, the use of one effective evidence-based intervention Functional Family Therapy (FFT) will be examined.

Instructors:
Dr. Carl Leukefeld is Professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Oral Health Science and Social Work; and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science and Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, with a graduate appointment in Sociology.

Dr. Catherine Martin is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research and E.A. Edwards Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky. She currently has NIH funding for research in medications for nicotine use and ADHD. She is also investigating individual differences in drug effects of drug abuse.

Date: Friday, April 27, 2012
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration: 8:30 a.m.
Place: Hilton Garden Inn, 85 Glastonbury Blvd., Glastonbury, CT 06033
Phone: 860-659-1025

A light breakfast and lunch are provided without charge.
There is no cost for attending this seminar.

Social Work CEU’S have been applied for.

Funding for this seminar series is made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS).

Primary Prevention Institute:
A 2 ½ Day Immersion into Prevention & Theory,
Research, and Evidence-Based Practice

April 30 – May 1, 2012 - 9:00-3:00
May 2, 2012 - 9:00-12:00

Martin Bloom, Diane Harrand, Tom Gullotta

Intended as a means to introduce program developers and those trained in clinical practice to the theory, research, and evidence in support of primary prevention practice, this 2 ½ day institute offers the attendee the opportunity to attend 5 workshops; each three hours in length to create a foundation upon which to establish practices that will promote health and prevent illness. Importantly, this 15 hour training experience counts towards the hours required to become a certified prevention professional. Those workshops are:

1.  Understanding Primary Prevention: Theory, Principles, and Application (Required of all attendees) and then choosing to attend three of the following

2. Promoting Pro-Social Behavior in Childhood

3. Preventing Adolescent Substance Misuse

4. Promoting Creativity in Older Adulthood

5. Promoting Healthy Sexuality in Older Adulthood: Heterosexuality and Homosexuality

6. Planning for Health Promotion and Prevention Programming: Trends in Federal and State Funding

7. Bridging SAMHS As Strategic Prevention Initiatives with the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy

Schedule:

Day 1 Morning - Understanding Primary Prevention (Required of all attendees) Afternoon - Choose from workshops 2 - 7

Day 2 Morning - Choose from workshops 2 - 7 Afternoon - Choose from workshops 2 - 7

Day 3 Morning - Wrap-Up: Integrating Prevention Practice into Your Employment (Required of all attendees)