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Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders and the Role of Prevention Date: June 30, 2005, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Overview: This audio conference is for prevention providers, coalitions, and State Incentive Grants (SIGs), Strategic Prevention Framework SIGs, and substance abuse and mental treatment providers who are interested in learning about the role of prevention in addressing co-occurring disorders. Prevention research over the past several years has indicated the effectiveness of some model programs in reducing the risks associated with mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression and conduct disorders and substance abuse. As state systems and local providers work to create more integrated and responsive systems it is important to determine the role of prevention in addressing co-existing mental health and substance use disorders. Through this audio conference, participants will learn about existing initiatives to create improved systems at the federal, state and local levels to better address co-occurring disorders from a prevention, early intervention and treatment standpoint. Participants will learn about innovate approaches some states have taken in integrating prevention into this process. The audio conference is an interactive learning event that provides participants with the opportunity to ask questions and learn from prevention experts as well as other individuals in the field of prevention. Through this event participants will have the opportunity to explore the role of prevention in addressing co-occurring disorders. Objectives: Participants will:
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Mr. Dunbar-Cooper began his prevention career at the National Network for Runaway and Homeless youth as project coordinator for the Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) youth in high risk situations project, providing technical assistance (TA) for alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) abuse prevention and treatment programs and HIV/AIDS prevention programs for youth in crisis situations. Additionally, as the planning liaison for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Training System (CTS) project, he planned and managed prevention forums and developed a strategic plan for CSAP's BLUEPRINT for a multidisciplinary prevention agenda. Later he served as the state services coordinator for the CSAP Prevention Technical Assistance and Training to the States (PTATS) project, conducting site visits and providing TA and training to 22 States. Mr. Dunbar-Cooper was also the Project Manager for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Visiting Scientists and Technical Exchange (INVEST) project, managing NIDA’s international visiting scientists’ meetings and the NIDA/INVEST Letter. He went on to become the technical assistance manager for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) State Systems Technical Assistance project (SSTAP), assessing, planning, managing, and evaluating TA and training for18 State/Territory alcohol and other drug (AOD) service delivery systems. Mr. Dunbar-Cooper was also a senior site visit reviewer/synar specialist for CSAP Technical Assistance to the States project, conducting onsite site visit reviews of State substance abuse prevention systems to determine TA needs for improvement. Currently, he serves as a public health advisor for CSAP, Division of State and Community Assistance, administering and monitoring the 20 percent set-aside of the Substance Abuse Prevention Block Grant, State Incentive Grants, and Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants.
Dianne Harnad serves as the Director of Prevention Services at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Ms. Harnad has a solid reputation as a prevention leader in Connecticut with over 20 years experience in the fields of public health, substance abuse and mental health. She has demonstrated experience and expertise in administration, team leadership and workforce development, grants and contracts management, program evaluation, budget development and resource allocation, and service system operations. She has authored several multi-year statewide prevention plans and has leveraged several federal grants in collaboration with other state partners to reduce substance abuse and promote mental health in Connecticut’s schools, families and communities. Ms. Harnad has previously served as Project Director to Connecticut’s Governor’s Prevention Initiative for Youth, the Connecticut Coalition for the Advancement of Prevention, and several CSAP funded knowledge dissemination and application grants on strengthening families, mentoring and ecstasy prevention. Ms. Harnad is the Project Director for SAMHSA’s newly funded Strategic Prevention Framework. She is also Connecticut’s representative on the National Prevention Network (NPN) as well as the Internal Vice-President and serves on the Advisory Board of the Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technology (NECAPT) and the NPN/CSAP Workforce Development Committee.
Deborah McLean Leow is an associate director for CSAP’s Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). She has worked with state and community service providers and leaders for the last 8 years to make evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs and practices available and accessible to local communities. Ms McLean Leow is a social worker by profession and has worked in the prevention field for over 12 years in service delivery, program development and coordination, training and technical assistance, and workforce development in both substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention. Ms. McLean Leow earned her MSW from Syracuse University and her BA in sociology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Previous to her work with EDC, Ms. McLean Leow served as special assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs at Syracuse University coordinating a federally-funded grant to reduce substance abuse among college students. She was instrumental in developing a comprehensive program including a university-wide policy on alcohol, other drugs and tobacco, a referral and intervention program for students-at-risk, and a campus-community coalition. During her six years at Syracuse, Ms. McLean Leow ran peer-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs, conducted HIV/AIDS testing counseling, and coordinated a community-based HIV/AIDS prevention research project for socially/economically disadvantaged women. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Substance Abuse Leadership Fellow and a Guyanese immigrant living in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband.
Carol Oliver has over 20 years experience in alcohol and other drug
abuse prevention. Ms. Oliver is currently the technical assistance
and training manager for the Northeast CAPT overseeing technical assistance
and training services for six New England states. Prior to her work
at the NECAPT, Ms Oliver was the director of Ms. Oliver has a B.A. in international relations and M.A. in teaching from Boston University. Jim Wuelfing Jim Wuelfing, CPP-R, is owner of the New England Center, a company dedicated to quality training and technical assistance services. His many specialties include prevention, community development, cultural competency, curriculum development, strategic planning, peer education, stress management and problem gambling prevention. Mr. Wuelfing serves as a lead facilitator for the federal policy academies on homelessness and co-occurring disorders. Mr. Wuelfing has also co-written and co-trained the workshop, "Racism of the Well Intended". He has been on the faculty of the New England School of Alcohol Studies for 13 years and is on the Steering Committee and the faculty of the New England School of Prevention Studies. Mr. Wuelfing is an on-line faculty member for the Addiction Transfer of Technology Center at Brown University. He is active in his community and has served as chair of the School Committee (Board of Education) for past five years. In 2003, Mr. Wuelfing received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees for his tireless work on behalf of children and public education. Mr. Wuelfing received his BA from Holy Cross College in 1975.
Audio Conference Presentation Slides Dianne Harnad Deborah McLean Leow
1. Statistics of Interest Depression and Other Co-occurring Disorders are Highly Correlated with Substance Dependence or Abuse www.oas.samhsa.gov/depression.cfm 2. Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders, TIP 42, provides guidelines, assessment tools, strategies and models for treating patients for both mental health and substance abuse disorders in whichever setting they go for treatment—whether it's a substance abuse treatment facility, mental health provider or clinic. To order copies, see the link below. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.chapter.74073 3. SAMHSA's Report to Congress The full text of SAMHSA's 2002 Report to Congress on the Prevention
and Treatment of Co-Occurring Substance Abuse Disorders and Mental
Disorders is available on the SAMHSA Web site. Chapters include information
on characteristics and needs of individuals with co-occurring disorders,
evidence-based practices, barriers to treatment, Federal block grants
and state program activities, and the Agency's 5-year blueprint for
action. Visit 4. Developing Treatment Programs SAMHSA's Strategies for Developing Treatment Programs for People with Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders provides information on methodology and key lessons on designing services for adults with co-occurring disorders. This resource also includes appendices with information from expert panels and telephone surveys, as well as training curricula. Both publications are available from SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at P.O. Box 2345, Rockville, MD 20847-2345. Telephone: 1 (800) 729-6686 (English and Spanish) or 1 (800) 487-4889 (TDD). Online, the publications are available at www.oas.samhsa.gov. 5. National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices (NREPP) SAMHSA defines evidence-based programs in one of three categories— • Promising Programs http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/ 6. About Starting Early Starting Smart Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) is a knowledge development initiative designed to: Create and test a new model for providing integrated behavioral health services (mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment) for young children (birth to 7 years) and their families; and to Inform practitioners and policymakers of successful interventions and promising practices from the multiyear study, which lay a critical foundation for the positive growth and development of very young children. The SESS approach informs policymaking for: Service system redesign Service access and utilization strategies Strengthening the home environment Targeting benefits for children Using culture as a resource in planning services with families Working with families from a strengths-based perspective For more information about Starting Early Starting Smart and related SAMHSA-Casey Products, go to http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/promos/sess/about.html or http://ncadi.samhsa.gov
Early Intervention: A Strategy for Prevention Practitioners Position statement from NASMHPD (State Mental Health Directors) Bibliography
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