NOTE: These ten classes are not offered individually; you must attend all of them in order to receive your certificate.

This 30-hour course is designed for participants entering the field of addiction treatment with little if any prior training or experience. It will cover the 12 core functions for addiction counselors in 10, three-hour sessions.

Topics to be covered include: SA Screening, Intake, Orientation, Assessment, Treatment Planning, Counseling, Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Client Education, Referral, Report & Record Keeping, and Consultation

In recent years, substance abuse treatment professionals have become increasingly aware of ethical issues related to boundaries and dual relationships. Dual relationships occur when professionals enter into more than one relationship with clients, whether professional, social or business.

This workshop will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of key boundary and dual relationship issues such as intimate relationships, friendships, social contact, business transactions and self-disclosure. Case examples will be used to illustrate the wide range of issues that arise in practice. The workshop will also present practical strategies and conceptual tools to endure ethical practice.

This advanced ethics workshop is designed to provide participants with in-depth exploration of difficult and challenging ethical issues and dilemmas in substance abuse treatment. Selected cases will be provided for discussion and analysis.

The workshop will include an overview of conceptual tools designed to enhance professionals’ ability to handle ethical dilemmas encountered in practice. Emphasis will be on strategies designed to protect clients and third parties and prevent ethics-related lawsuits and ethics complaints.

Course Fee: $80
Richard Froncillo, LCDS
FOUNDATION
Approved for 12 hours in CD, SW, MHC

The purpose of this workshop is to review the federal confidentiality regulations in detail as they relate to drug and alcohol treatment services in Rhode Island.

The nine exceptions allowing disclosure and how to construct a valid consent will also be discussed. In addition, exercises around specific requirements for disclosure will be included.

Course Fee: $40
Joseph Hyde, LMHC, CAS
ALL LEVELS
Approved for 6 hrs in CD, SW, MHC

Adolescence has long been recognized as a major developmental period during which major transformative biological, psychological and social changes occur as youth move into adulthood. The high prevalence of adolescent substance use is also well documented. Clinicians and preventionists working with adolescents need to have a clear understanding of developmental issues and build a repertoire of practices that take into consideration developmental factors, substance use and abuse, and outcomes.

This interactive course will address these issues through a review of current findings, suggested strategies that are congruent with adolescent developmental needs, and applications to practice.

Course Fee: $40
Joseph Hyde, LMHC, CAS
ALL LEVELS
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

This basic “Trainer of Trainers” class deals with all aspects of training design and implementation. In this workshop, trainees will (a) learn the “training design cycle” from needs assessment to evaluation; (b) learn theories including adult learning theory; (c) learn how to match training approaches to course content and audience; (d) enhance presentation skills including instructional aids and software; (e) discuss methods of experiential learning.

This workshop will utilize a variety of learning methods including didactic, discussion and experiential strategies.

Course Fee: $40
Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of ethical and liability issues related to substance abuse treatment and intervention. Ethical and liability issues will be reviewed concerning work with individuals, families and groups.

Program topics will include: confidentiality and privacy, negligent intervention, impaired professionals, consultation, supervision, client records and termination of treatment. Emphasis will be on strategies for preventing ethical dilemmas and liability risks. Curriculum meets chemical dependency certification requirements.

Course Fee: $20
Joseph Hyde, LMHC, CAS
ALL LEVELS
Approved 3 hours in Chemical Dependency Only

The use of PowerPoint visual aids in training has become a standard practice in presentation skills. This introductory course offers a hands on orientation to the use of PowerPoint software and a practical introduction to setting up and using data-port (LCD) projectors.

Course Fee: $40
Frederic Reamer, Ph.D.
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

Professionals in the substance abuse field often struggle with documentation issues such as:

(1) How much detail should I include in my case notes?
(2) What’s the best way for me to protect my clients?
(3) How should I word case notes when I know that the case record may be subpoenaed?
(4) How can I use case notes to protect myself in the event of a lawsuit or ethics complaint?
(5) Is it okay to maintain informal, personal notes?

This workshop will provide answers to these questions as well as a comprehensive introduction to critical issues in documentation.

This training has been designed to incorporate a health education model into a basic HIV curriculum. Participants will learn basic HIV and AIDS information including the history of the epidemic, demographic trends, modes of transmission, testing & treatment issues. Participants will be introduced to and have the opportunity to practice skills including the infectious disease screening and risk assessment.

The training will present strategies to educate clients and support behavior changes to reduce the incidence of HIV and AIDS within high-risk communities. The training will also touch on partner notification and legal issues related to HIV transmission.

This training will address screening for suicidal risk and homicidal threat in clients with substance use and psychiatric disorders. The goals of this course are for participants to (a) increase their knowledge of suicide and homicide risk factors; (b) understand which risk factors should be of most concern; and (c) understand when and how the worker should intervene.

Further, participants will gain a better understanding of risk and protective factors for suicide and homicide, elements of risk assessment, suggested protocols for response, and issues related to documentation.

Course Fee: $80
Melanie Koehler, MS, RN, PCNS
FOUNDATION
Approved for 12 hours in CD, SW, MHC, NSG

NOTE: This 2-day course focuses on the adult population only.

Clinicians will be able to describe basic principles of neurotransmission and areas of the brain associated with drug use. Also discussed will be pharmacological mechanisms of action for prescribed psychotropic drugs as well as drugs of abuse.

Participants will review DSM-IV criteria and be able to understand the indications for and potential limitations of medications.

Course Fee: $40
Alan Wartenberg, MD, FASM, FACT
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

In this course, students will gain information about the history and development of the ASAM criteria as well as principles underlying the criteria.

Participants will gain an understanding of the various levels of care and how to appropriately utilize them.

Course Fee: $40
Mary-K O’Sullivan, MA, LMFT, LADC, LPC
INTERMEDIATE
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

This course will inform participants about drugs that are abused both in the home and on the street and the impact of this abuse on the brain and body.

The implications for prevention, intervention, treatment and coordination of services both within and outside the agency will be discussed.

Drugs covered by this course are:
• Narcotics: OxyContin, Percocet, Tylox, Vicodin and narcotic cough medicines
• Benzodiazepines: Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Valium
• Stimulants: Ritalin, Asthma Inhalers, Viagra
• Over-the-counter Medications: Dextromethorphan, No-Doz, Antihistamines.

Course Fee: $160
Frank R. Sparadeo, Ph.D.
ADVANCED
Approved for 24 hours in CD, SW, MHC

This 12-hour, hands-on training is aimed at behavioral health professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a clinical method for helping people engage and maintain in behavioral change. It combines the person-centered counseling style with goal-oriented psychological methods to more effectively assist persons by helping them increase motivation for change, resolve ambivalence, strengthen commitment, and carry through with behavior change.

MI is an evidence-based practice consistent with the recovery model and a strengths-based practice perspective.

This course will focus upon the developmental aspects of the group process and how facilitators can promote this process in an environment where briefer lengths of stay and a broad array of client diagnoses are present. Choosing appropriate group modalities, content and process will be discussed as they relate to comprehension levels, stages of change and diagnoses.

An emphasis of the course will also include developing multiple techniques and activities to promote group cohesiveness and process. Participants will be given the opportunity to utilize and practice these various activities in the training and explore how to integrate them into their work setting.

Meets Prevention Certification Requirements

This is a unique and dynamic opportunity to learn and practice skills for successful grant making. The course is conducted over 3 days with the first 2 days as intensive training. Here, participants will learn the core elements contained in grants, learn the principles of successful grant development, identify the do’s and don’ts of grant writing, develop a grant making plan, and learn to develop a budget.

Participants will then use the time between class 2 and 3, to work individually or in small teams to craft an actual competitive grant proposal in response to an “RFP” to be announced in the training. Participants will then return for their 3rd day of training where, in an open process, trainees will receive constructive feedback from actual grant reviewers and hear how their proposals were scored. The winning grant team will receive a cash award to be given to either a non-profit agency or charity of their choice.

This one-day training workshop will provide participants with an extensive overview of the Counselor’s Manual of Relapse Prevention with Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders (TAP #19).

Upon completion of this training workshop, the participants will be more able to effectively integrate the seven principles of relapse prevention; use the developmental model of recovery; and outline a plan to effectively target the three significant treatment areas in addressing chemical dependency with offenders.

This course provides an overview of the major characteristics and issues of chemical dependency and psychopathology as they interact with criminal thinking and behavior. This course will help participants differentiate the symptoms of each and will aid in determining the most appropriate clinical/rehabilitative interventions for these individual clients.

Participants will:
(a) review the basic criteria for chemical dependency and mental illness
(b) review dimensions of criminal thinking and behavior
(c) review assessment strategies including risk assessment
(d) explore how the overlap of criminality symptoms relates to the intervention chosen for each client
(e) relate intervention strategies to overall treatment planning.

Agonist and partial agonist medications have proven to be an effective treatment for opioid dependence in primary care and other office-based settings especially when provided in conjunction with clinical substance abuse counseling.

This seminar will provide counselors an introduction to the use of Buprenorphine and will include a discussion of patient screening criteria, medication induction and adherence, psychosocial treatments, strategies for relapse prevention and managing co-morbid medical and psychiatric disorders. This course will include didactic presentation, discussion and case presentation.

This interactive workshop will explore the impact of culture of both the provider and the client. The workshop will review definitions of culture and models for providing services to multicultural clients.

Participants will be encouraged to identify and address some of their personal challenges when dealing with people from different cultures. Participants will develop strategies to mitigate the negative impact of cultural differences, to deliver culturally sensitive services for multicultural clients, utilizing a holistic approach.

This course provides a foundation for supervision and management of clinical personnel. Based on “The Blended Model of Clinical Supervision” published in Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling, by David Powell, it fulfills the training requirements for certification in clinical supervision as established by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium.

New training issues have recently been added to the course including supervising those treating co-occurring disorders, working in an outcome-driven, managed care environment, and the latest legal and ethical concerns.

Course Fee: $80
Glenn Miller, MS, CEAP, LCDP
FOUNDATION
Approved for 12 hours in CD, SW, MHC

Course Fee: $40
Donna M. White, RN, Ph.D., CS, CADAC, CARN
ALL LEVELS
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC, NSG

This course will provide a foundation for those who wish to learn more about trauma and its relationship to substance abuse in order to enhance their work in prevention, intervention or treatment. The prevalence of trauma-related disorders is extremely high among individuals who abuse substances. Rates of childhood emotional physical and sexual abuse are very high, as well as histories of neglect and attachment disruption.

All of these issues complicate the addiction prevention, intervention, and treatment process in profound and difficult ways. Persons with trauma-related disorders exhibit a severe deficit in the primary ability to regulate affect, often cycling between states of high arousal and numb dissociation.

This program will instruct on how to safely manage disruptive and assaultive behavior. Participants will learn to recognize an individual in crisis and prevent an emotionally or physically threatening situation from escalating out of control.

In CPI’s Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, the emphasis is always on your primary responsibility: the care, safety and welfare of yourself and the acting out individual. You will learn skills and practical techniques, not just theory.

NOTE: This class requires that you bring to class a copy of the manual: “Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder” by Marsha M. Linehan.

If you are unable to obtain a copy and want to purchase this manual directly from DATA, please include an additional $40 with your payment for this course.

This introductory course is designed to give an overview of Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) and gain foundational knowledge in the skills modules. Throughout the day, participants will discuss how DBT may be implemented into their treatment setting and are expected to engage in introductory mindfulness experiences. Skills group material will be introduced in order to develop basic framework for including DBT into the recovery process.

Course Fee: $40
J. Philip Kane
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

This training has been designed to incorporate a health education model into a basic HIV curriculum. Participants will learn basic HIV and AIDS information including the history of the epidemic, demographic trends, modes of transmission, testing & treatment issues. Participants will be introduced to and have the opportunity to practice skills including the infectious disease screening and risk assessment.

The training will present strategies to educate clients and support behavior changes to reduce the incidence of HIV and AIDS within high-risk communities. The training will also touch on partner notification and legal issues related to HIV transmission.

Course Fee: $40
Robert Walker, Ph.D.
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

This course will focus on the interrelatedness of substance abuse and family life. Drawing on Systems Theory and Attachment Theory, participants will examine the reciprocal effects of substance abuse on the current family and the role of the family in creating and maintaining substance abuse behaviors. Participants will also be exposed to models and techniques of family therapy applicable to the treatment of substance abusers and their families.

In this course, participants will be exposed to structural and functional concepts of family; patterns of interaction in substance affected families; techniques for assessment and intervention and the role of the substance abuse counselor working with a family.

Course Fee: $80
Richard Froncillo, LCDS
FOUNDATION
Approved for 12 hours in CD, SW, MHC

The purpose of this workshop is to review the federal confidentiality regulations in detail as they relate to drug and alcohol treatment services in Rhode Island.

The nine exceptions allowing disclosure and how to construct a valid consent will also be discussed. In addition, exercises around specific requirements for disclosure will be included.

Course Fee: $80
Sandra DelSesto, M.Ed
FOUNDATION
Approved for 12 CD only

Meets Prevention Certification Requirements

Many times people who work in prevention are confronted with ethical dilemmas and are not aware that there is an established set of rules for prevention professionals. Using guidelines established by the IC and RC, the international body that certifies prevention professionals, this workshop will explore ethical principles and issues of confidentiality that apply specifically to persons working in this field. Role-playing, discussion and didactic presentations will provide participants with a better understanding of the role ethics plays in prevention. In addition, participants will apply moral development theory to their work in the field. This training is required for persons seeking certification as prevention specialist.

Course Fee: $40
Mary-K O’Sullivan, MA, LMFT, LADC, LPC
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

As Methamphetamine is beginning to emerge as a substance of abuse in Rhode Island and neighboring New England states, this highly interactive course will provide attendees with an overview of this drug and issues related to identification, intervention, treatment and prevention.

In this course, attendees will learn to:
(a) explain the actions and effects of Methamphetamine use
(b) cite long-term and short-term effects and health consequences of Methamphetamine abuse
(c) identify behavioral and physical symptoms of Methamphetamine abuse
(d) identify needs of special populations at risk including gay and lesbian adults and youth
(e) identify treatment and prevention strategies.

Course Fee: $40
Sharon Morello, BSN, RN
FOUNDATION
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC, NSG

Addiction Pharmacotherapy is the use of medications in the treatment of addictive disorders. This includes medications for medically-supervised detoxification, antagonist medications such as Antibuse, partial agonist medications such as Buprenorphine, and full agonist medications such as Methadone.

This course will orient participants to the evidence and efficacy for use of such medications. It will also provide participant opportunities to explore attitudes, values and beliefs associated with the use of medications in the treatment of addictive disorders.

Course Fee: $40
Gail Taylor
ALL LEVELS
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

Meets Prevention Certification Requirements

This workshop will explore cultural competency issues as it relates to the delivery of culturally competent prevention services. Participants will be involved in an interactive process to achieve the following learning objectives:
· Define culture and give examples of elements of culture
· Identify and assess their own levels of cultural competency
· Describe and assess the core competencies for a culturally competent prevention professional
· Describe an assess the core competencies of a culturally competent prevention program.

Course Fee: $40
Gail Taylor
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED
Approved for 6 hours in CD, SW, MHC

Just what is “sustainability”? Everybody’s talking about it. Most conferences have at least one workshop on it. Grant announcements require a statement about it. It’s in big demand. But what is “it”? Is it money? Programs? Infrastructure?

The answer is yes, yes, and yes. Sustainability refers to each of these and more. This highly interactive workshop will address:
(a) the research underlying a sustainability planning model
(b) key actions to demonstrate effectiveness of an intervention worth sustaining
(c) key actions to cultivate systems support for an intervention and its outcomes beyond the life of time limited funds.

Course Fee: $80
Richard Froncillo, LCDS
FOUNDATION
Approved for 12 hours in CD, SW, MHC

The purpose of this workshop is to review the federal confidentiality regulations in detail as they relate to drug and alcohol treatment services in Rhode Island.

The nine exceptions allowing disclosure and how to construct a valid consent will also be discussed. In addition, exercises around specific requirements for disclosure will be included.