KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Michael T. Flaherty, Ph.D.
Dr. Flaherty is a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years experience in the prevention, intervention, treatment, research and policy development related to substance use, addiction and recovery.
Recovery Oriented Systems of Care -
Where did it come from? What does it mean? Where is it going?Brief Description:
Building a Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC) is not just about linking treatment and recovery supports. It is much more. This plenary presentation will outline the origins of ROSC and trace the history of seeking to understand adduction as an illness and the study of its pathology. Today, in a natural extension of the 21st century understanding of person-centered care in the addictions – and of addiction now viewed as an illness more often chronic than acute in nature – we focus on both pathology and wellness. This refined approach empowers the person, who is best served by qualitative continuing care and sustained recovery being defined as being more than abstinence. Moreover, it aligns the individual’s personal experience of recovery with the treatment methods themselves, which address both the illness and sustained recovery,. ROSC is located at the intersection of personal relatedness and science. The plenary will conclude by pointing out principles and examples of ROSC, challenges it brings, barriers it faces and yet an overarching value that it brings to how we provide care in the addictions and build recovery in America.Objectives
- Understand a varied history of how America has approached addiction.
- Understand how that history has led us to where we are today.
- Understand that the view of SUD today has shifted from one of being an acute illness to one best understood as being possibly chronic in nature and how system’s must adapt to this shift.
- Suggest a new view for SU over a continuum of care specifically related to this new common vision and approach for addressing this illness with this new understanding.
- Establish a recovery focus to complement the current pathology focus as critical dual components in defining and addressing the illness and its sustained remission.
- Understand what is meant by ROSC, how we can begin to measure it and how agencies can “lead” in shifting to it to improve the quality of care for each person, family and community.
- Identify future implications of ROSC for science, policy, reimbursement, prevention, intervention, and treatment.
Awards Luncheon!
Lunch Box Session:
*Evidence-Based Prevention Program: Notes from the Field
Whether classes are held in schools or out in the community, there are many challenges to delivering evidence-based programs to fidelity. But without fidelity, no program can claim to be evidence-based. Hear from William and Mary graduate students who served as volunteer facilitators delivering Too Good for Drugs to a variety of students in a before- and after-school setting about the joys and frustrations they experienced.
Moderator: Davina Parmet, M.Ed., VTSF Grant Manager fro HTSAC
Laurie J. Rokutani, Ed.S., MAC, CPP, VASIP.COSIG Coordinator________________________
*Peer Based Recovery: Who, What & Why!
Through CSAT, The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has provided several grants to fund its Recovery Community Services Program. The focus is to provide peer-based substance abuse recovery services. This session will discuss these programs and how they compliment services offered by professionals and the 12-step community.
Presenter: Frank Watkins, Center Director, SAARA of Virginia, Inc &The SAARA Center for Recovery
Endowed Professor of Prevention and Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle.
Raising Healthy Children: Building Resilience through Families and Schools
Research shows that families and schools can prevent problems including youth violence, heavy alcohol use and risky sexual behavior among adolescents by promoting positive social development. Strengthening protective factors, including bonding to family and school, reinforcement for children’s positive behaviors, and healthy standards for behavior, can have long term benefits in increasing success in school and preventing adolescent health and behavior problems. This presentation will describe Raising Healthy Children, a school-based youth development program that empowers teachers, parents and young people themselves to work together to build protection at school and at home during the elementary grades. Long-term effects of the program 15 years after the program ended on positive adult functioning, mental health, risky sexual behavior, and drug use will be presented.
Objectives:
Participants will
- Understand the research foundation of prevention science and positive youth development;
- Be able to describe the elements of the Raising Healthy Children program.
- Be able to describe the long-term effects of RHC; and
- Apply learning from the study of RHC to their own youth development and prevention work.
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