- Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-occurring Disorders
- Going the Distance: Effective Employment Retention Strategies (2-Day Training)
- Introduction to Motivational Enhancement Therapy
- Employment Issues for Latino Clients in Recovery
- Vocational Rehabilitation: Practical Applications Linking Recovery and Employment
- Building An Employment Retention Toolkit (Featuring web-based resources)
- Raising Awareness: Cultural Competency and Rehabilitation Counseling
- Ethical Decision Making For Rehabilitation Counselors
Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders
This Co-Occurring Center for Excellence training provides the transfer of evidence-based knowledge presented in SAMHSA TIP 42 to frontline clinicians, thereby initiating application of the state-of-the-art information and approaches to the treatment of persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. Participants who complete the two-day training will become familiar with TIP 42's range of information as a resource, understand keys to successful programming and guiding principles and core components presented in the TIP, and apply TIP 42 concepts to clinical situations.
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Going the Distance: Effective Employment Retention Strategies (2-Day Training)
This two-day training provides tools for experienced workforce development and treatment professionals to help their clients achieve self-sufficiency. "Best practices" are presented that can be immediately implemented to enhance client employment retention outcomes.
Participants learn:
- Proven employment retention strategies from the client's perspective
- How to help clients navigate workplace challenges
- How to develop individualized plans to support employment retention
- How to support and position clients for career advancement
- To apply the #1 proven strategy for employment retention
- To design an employment retention incentive program on a shoe-string budget
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Introduction to Motivational Enhancement Therapy
In today's competitive healthcare and addiction treatment field, service providers and programs experience pressure to deliver "successful" outcomes with the clients they serve. Motivating or "moving" clients toward healthier and safer choices can be challenging, especially when clients feel "choices" are dictated by mandates.
Participants learn to:
- Identify three factors that influence health behavior change
- List two evidence-based principles shown to enhance behavioral and treatment outcomes
- Describe the role of choice and setting agendas when engaging mandated clients
- Implement at least three strategies including reflective listening and evoking "change talk" to build the mandated client's motivation for change
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Employment Issues for Latino Clients in Recovery
When working with Latino clients, it is essential for counseling professionals to understand that human beings are culturally bound. For counseling interventions to be effective, they must reflect the culture of the client. A significant portion of the Latino population participates in the labor force. In 2005, 68% of the Latino population 16 years old and over were in the labor force, which was slightly higher than the levels of participation for the total U.S. population. Despite comparable rates of labor force participation, Latinos experienced an unemployment rate (5.9%) in July 2007 which was higher than that of the total U.S. population (4.6%).
Participants:
- Learn to focus on awareness, understanding, sensitivity and acceptance issues in order to reduce relapse in the Latino population
- Focus on specific strategies which will explore cultural phenomena affecting treatment/recovery for this population
- Learn to identify and understand Latino cultural beliefs, differences within the Latino culture, gender biases, and how these values and traditions influence their work values and employment
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Vocational Rehabilitation: Practical Applications Linking Recovery and Employment
Today's addictions treatment workforce operates under the research-based premise that employment strengthens recovery from substance abuse disorders. Vocational Rehabilitation: Practical Applications Linking Recovery and Employment presents an effective 'best practice' counseling approach designed to enhance counselor knowledge of strategies that promote both employment and recovery. The training also assists providers to expedite achievement of client outcomes that are increasingly expected by payers.
Participants learn to:
- Use the REACH model and apply newly-learned techniques ready to take back to the workplace for implementation
- Apply the REACH model for integrating recovery and employment goals
- Increase awareness of roles of clinical and vocational staff roles in moving clients towards independence through employment
- Create an integrated, individualized sample treatment design using the REACH approach
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Building An Employment Retention Toolkit (Featuring web-based resources)
Employment Retention starts Day 1 for clients. Along with the Rehabilitation staff, treatment environment, staff, services offered, and agency philosophy all need to help clients prepare for employment and employment retention. Employment Retention equals successful and continuous engagement in the workforce.
Participants:
- Use web-based assessments, calculators, resources, and action plans
- Work online in our on-site, Career Resource Technology Center, using real client scenarios
- Discover free interactive educational tools for their clients
- Explore the different components of employment retention
- Complete the training with a comprehensive tool kit--ready for immediate implementation
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Raising Awareness: Cultural Competency and Rehabilitation Counseling
Our values, shared history, experience, and language all affect how we perceive things, how we feel, and what matters to us. Most importantly, culture is motivational-it affects which goals individuals choose to pursue and our level of commitment to them.
Participants:
- Integrate and explore vocational rehabilitation concepts within a cultural context
- Heightened self-awareness of "cultural baggage" by understanding how prior experiences, beliefs and values influence our worldviews
- Learn to define and correctly apply cultural diversity terminology (i.e. bias, culture, cultural competence, cultural diversity, cultural sensitivity, discrimination, etc.)
- Learn and understand how the Nguzo Saba (Kwanzaa principles) and the Maafa (historical and contemporary experience of racism and oppression) are relevant to counseling African American clients
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Ethical Decision Making For Rehabilitation Counselors
"Ethics" is defined as a set of principles of right conduct, a theory or system of moral values, and the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or members of a profession. Ethical decision-making is about resolution of conflicts of professional obligation. The nature of counseling is such that great and lasting harm can be done to clients when clinicians engage in unethical behaviors; conversely, counselors who follow ethical guidelines have enormous potential for positive influence on client outcomes. The CRC Code of Ethics guides the clinical work of Rehabilitation Counselors and is used as a point of reference in this training.
Participants:
- Learn and describe the primary functions, moral principles, and values of the CRC Code of Ethics
- Identify and explore ethical dilemmas for discussion and resolution
- Identify the key principles and interests that are balanced when making ethical decisions
- Learn and demonstrate understanding of the ethical decision-making process
- Learn new ways to apply key knowledge of ethics through exploration of case scenarios and group discussion
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