EXPLORING HEALING
CENTERED ENGAGEMENT

This workshop will focus on the shift from the term “trauma-informed care” as it does not encompass the totality of one’s experience and focused only on harm, injury, and trauma. Current formulations of trauma-informed care presume that the trauma is an individual experience, rather than a collective one. Based on the article from Shawn Ginwright Ph.D. entitled “The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma-Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement”, this workshop will provide tools for an approach that allows practitioners to approach trauma with a fresh lens that promotes a holistic and cultural view of healing from traumatic experiences and environments. This approach is called Healing Centered Engagement.

Understand key differences between a healing centered & trauma-informed approach to care.
Identify 3 ways to address the root causes of trauma in communities
Identify 3 ways to improve strategies and outcomes with clients using HCE

CULTURAL HUMILITY

Cultural humility is the lifelong process of learning, self-examination & refinement of one’s own awareness, knowledge, behavior, and attitudes on the interplay of power, privilege, and social contexts. Cultural humility is a more accurate representation of the process of constant reflection and change that takes place when learning about the ever-changing culture.

After this workshop participants will be able to:

Define “cultural humility” and explain how it differs from “cultural competency.”
Identify two concepts that contribute to self-awareness.
Identify two strategies for creating culturally sensitive interactions.

SERVANT LEADERSHIP & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

This workshop will explore the components needed to build a culture of serving others first and exploring one's identity and relationship with their emotions. Through interactive discussions about emotional maturity, leadership development and appropriate use of ones experience to advocate for change, participants will walk away with an increased ability to build a thriving recovery culture.

After this workshop participants will be able to:

Understand and apply servant leadership values & competencies
Develop servant leadership / EQ evaluation for staff and clients
Know the 7 aspects of Recovery allyship

RECOVERY EMPOWERED LANGUAGE

Participants will learn how the language that is commonly used in treatment and recovery has negatively shaped public perception and alternative terminology that the field could employ. This workshop offers strategies that can be used within their programs and in the community to encourage a more person-centered mindset about addiction and recovery.

Explain how the language that is commonly used in treatment and recovery has negatively shaped public perception.
Identify the terminology that has contributed most to worsening stigma, and alternative terminology that the field could employ.
Cite specific strategies that can be used within their programs and in the community to encourage a more person-centered mindset about addiction and recovery.

VOICES IN ROSC

This workshop will introduce how A Recovery Oriented System of Care or ROSC coordinates ongoing support for people in or seeking recovery from substance use disorder or mental health challenges. We will discuss the broader range of support needed for people seeking multiple pathways to recovery that may otherwise not be available. It also puts the focus on empowering individuals to have input on what will help them get better.

Describe the components of a Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC)
Understand the role of community and ROSC
Explore the role of peer support workers in a ROSC model

LGBTQQIA & ADDICTION

The YMSM + LGBT Center of Excellence full-day training, “A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals (2nd Edition)”. which is intended for any providers in contact with LGBT individuals. Since SAMHSA released the first version in 2001, equality for the LGBT community has shifted in a more positive direction. However, shame, stigma, bullying, homophobia, bi-phobia, and transphobia still create barriers for many LGBT people to access and receive affirming care.

OTHER TRAINING & PRESENTATIONS:

Building a Culture of Recovery Through Coaches
Recovery Support Services Career Development
Peer Services & Stigma Reduction
Understanding the Peer Role in Recovery-Focused Justice Systems
Intro to Multiple Pathways of Recovery
Resetting the Ripple - Healing from the Impact of Disconnection
Conflict Resolution & De-escalation
Organizational Re-Branding
Prenatal / Postnatal Suboxone

HARM REDUCTION & COACHING (IN HIATUS)

Recovery Coaching a Harm Reduction Pathway© comes just in time for a new phase in recovery coaching development alongside a swelling harm reduction movement across North America. A handful of leaders in both the peer recovery supports and harm reduction movements collaborated to bring this curriculum to its current form. RCHRP utilizes adult learning theory concepts and modalities to address knowledge, attitudes, practices, access to resources, and coaching skills. As this training explores sensitive topics, its design and delivery are highly trauma-informed. Each class becomes a safe place for self-examination and practice from the outset.

Participants will be able to...

Define harm reduction as a practice and as a social movement
Examine one’s beliefs and values around a harm reduction pathway of recovery
Compare and contrast principles of harm reduction and recovery coaching
Define and locate opportunities for improving a Recovery-Oriented System of Care that serves People Who Use Drugs
Discuss advocacy and practices around social justice issues as part of harm reduction
Practice newly acquired knowledge and skills supporting a harm reduction pathway of recovery
Develop a personal action plan for further development of harm reduction recovery coaching skill

EXPLORING HEALING CENTERED ENGAGEMENT