Pre-Conference
Lisa Peterson - The Context to Change: Building Effective Rapport and Relationships
Rebecca Quinn - The Impact of Brain Injury on Child Development
Dr. Stuart Ablon - Rethinking Challenging Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach
Louise A Stanger - Ethics in the Digital Age
Day 1: Thursday, September 6
Dr. Drew Pinsky - The Wise Men and the Elephant: How we got in to this mess and what we must do to get out
David Mee-Lee - Using Community-Based Services to Engage People in Client-Driven, Lasting Change: Think Outside the Residential Treatment Box
Nicole Baem, Audra Stonefish and Maddie Windus - Extending Our Reach: Mobile Outreach and Engagement
Adam Martin - ND Examples of Recovery Services
Dan Cramer - Motivational Interviewing for Non-Clinicians
Nancy Jennings and Sarah Bell - Do the Next Right Thing: A Family-Centered and Multidisciplinary Approach to Substance Use Disorder Treatment among Perinatal Women
Ann Rasmusson - Advances in our Understanding of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Related Health Conditions in Women
Laura Pegram - Incorporating a Drug User Health Framwork and Working with People who use Drugs (PWUDs)
Rodney Wambeam - Moving Communities Toward Environmental Prevention Strategies
Kate Davidson - Be a VBP (Value-Based Payment) VIP
Stephen Wonderlich and Nicola Herting - Childhood Trauma and Eating Disorders: Clinical and Scientific Impact and Practical Interventions
Beck Gee-Cohen - Affirmation, Belief, and Connection: The ABCs of working with LGBTQ Clients - The Basics
Laura Pegram - Meeting People Where They Are At: Panel Discussion on Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) in the US and North Dakota
Luke Niforatos - Colorado Marijuana Commercialization: Stories from Denver
Luke Niforatos - Lessons Learned from Legalization
Day 2: Friday, September 7
J. Carlos Rivera - The Wellbriety Movement: Cultural Approaches to Recovery
Terry Eckmann - Practices of Mindfulness and Meditation
J. Carlos Rivera - Overview of the Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps
Kris R Anderson - Pain Management without Medication- Who's on your team?
Beck Gee-Cohen - Affirmation, Belief, and Connection: The ABCs of working with LGBTQ Clients - Best Practices
Detective Sergeant Ronald Martin - Law Enforcement's Role in the Harm Reduction Model
Stephen Wonderlich and Nicola Herting - Understanding Traumatic Stress: Implications for Professionals Working with Addiction
Detective Sergeant Ronald Martin - Harm Reduction: Combating the Opioid Crisis
Rodney Wambeam - There Has Always Been Drinking in America: Alcohol, History, Culture, ad what it all means for Prevention
Patrick Roff - There Has Always Been Drinking in America: Alcohol, History, Culture, and what it all means for Prevention
Adam Martin and Kristy Johnson - Discussion of the Impact of Addiction and Recovery on Families