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Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit

The Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit is an annual event that highlights prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery strategies related to opioids, stimulants, and trauma. All people with an interest in building healthy communities are invited to attend.

May 7-9, 2024

In person

Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells
$250/person April 8, 2024, through April 24, 2024
$300/person April 25, 2024, through May 7, 2024

Virtual

Zoom through the WHOVA app
$200/person April 8, 2024, through April 24, 2024
$225/person April 25, 2024, through May 7, 2024

No scholarships are available for this event.

Registration | Continuing education units | Agenda | Lodging

Registration

Registration is required for this event. The UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education is supporting the registration process for this event. Single day passes for May 7, 8, and 9 are not available. You must pay the three-day registration to attend the conference. All registrants will have access to recordings of sessions on May 7, 8, and 9 they were unable to attend.

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  • Cancellation policy: Cancellation requests for this event were due April 15, 2024. Registered participants wishing to cancel may transfer their registration to someone else without penalty if they send a written request with the new participant details by April 19, 2024. Cancellations received after April 24, 2024, will not be refunded. Participants must cancel in advance of the event. No refunds will be issued once the event has started, regardless of whether the participant joined the event. Send a cancellation request to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu.
  • Refund policy: Refunds will only be issued to registered participants if this event is canceled for any reason. No exceptions. All registered participants have access to session recordings and materials for six months after this event.
  • Special meal requests: Requests for special meals were due April 8, 2024. There may be an extra charge for some special meal requests. Send a meal request to Tamara.Reed@aah.org.
  • Videography/photography: Organizers and attending news media may be videotaping or photographing portions of this event. By attending this event, registrants acknowledge these activities and agree to allow their image to be used by the organizers and news media.
  • Event materials: This will be a paperless event. The WHOVA app will be used to share event materials with all in-person and virtual participants. Information on how to access the WHOVA app will be emailed to all registered participants several weeks before the event. This information will be sent to the email registrants provided during the registration process.

Continuing education units

Continuing education units are available to all people who participate in the live event. No continuing education units or credits are available for watching session recordings when they are available.

There are 13.25 creditable hours total for this event. This is equal to 1.3 continuing education units if all creditable sessions are attended.

If you need continuing medical education, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu. The continuing medical education hours are being reviewed. You will be contacted with a list of sessions at this event that will count towards continuing education hours and how many hours each session provides.

Attendance is tracked through the WHOVA app. WHOVA provides a QR code for each creditable session. In order to receive credit for the session you attend, you must scan the QR code that is either on the PowerPoint slide displayed before the session begins (for in person and virtual attendees) or printed inside of the session room (in person only). If you do not scan the QR code, you will not be on the attendance report. People not on the attendance report will not receive credit for that session.

Allow for up to 60 days for Wisconsin Connect to process continuing education documentation after this event. If after the 60 days you have not received a certificate, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu. Certificates must be obtained by August 31, 2024. No certificates will be issued after August 31, 2024.

Agenda

The information listed below is tentative and subject to change.

View a working copy of the agenda that includes session descriptions and objectives provided by the speakers.

May 6 (optional in-person only preconference activities)

There is a fee to participate in the preconference activities. You may only attend one preconference activity. These events will not be recorded.

Presenters: Ezra Lyon, M.D., and Jillian Landeck, M.D.

Registration fee: $100/person

This CME is designed as an introduction to office-based treatment of substance use disorders. Participants will learn how to screen for and diagnose substance use disorders and acquire the knowledge needed to start treating opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder in the office setting. Participants will also learn strategies for reducing stigma associated with substance use disorder. This training is designed for current medical clinicians at any state in their career, including medical residents, as well as medical, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant students. Other health professionals (examples: mental health and substance use disorder professionals, public health professionals), as well as law enforcement, people with lived experience of mental health and substance use disorders, and other interested community members are welcome to attend.

On June 27, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration began to require that registration applicants – both new and renewing – affirm they have completed a new, one-time, eight-hour training. Exceptions for the new training requirement are practitioners who are board certified in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry, and those who graduated from a medical, dental, physician assistant, or advanced practice nursing school in the U.S. within five years of June 27, 2023. This training satisfies this Drug Enforcement Administration training requirement.

Attendees are eligible for up to 8.0 CMEs.

Agenda

  • 8:00 a.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder, part 1
  • 9:40 a.m.: Break
  • 10:00 a.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder, part 2
  • 11:00 a.m.: Integrating opioid use disorder treatment into the medical office (panel discussion with physicians)
  • 12:00 p.m.: Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00 p.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder in the peripartum period
  • 1:40 p.m.: Treatment of alcohol, tobacco, and stimulant use disorders
  • 3:00 p.m.: Break
  • 3:20 p.m.: Addressing stigma in substance use disorder treatment (panel discussion with peer recovery coaches)
  • 4:30 p.m.: Next steps for treatment of substance use disorder in your practice
  • 5:00 p.m.: End of training

Presenter: Shawn Smith

Registration fee: $50/person
Lunch is provided at no additional cost

When service providers are working to heal trauma, they often hold space for others to heal. But how does the healer heal? Without individual and/or team/organizational wellness interventions in place, providers experience:

  • Burnout
  • Vicarious traumatization
  • Compassion fatigue
  • High turnover rates
  • Errors, mistakes, and omissions
  • Lower quality of care

This session will offer practical, healing interventions for individuals and/or teams.

Shawn Smith is a certified motivational interviewing trainer and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). The MINT is an international organization of trainers of motivational interviewing, whose mission is to promote good practice in the use, research, and training of motivational interviewing and represents 35 countries and more than 20 different languages. Smith has served the MINT Trainer Certification Committee, Inclusivity + Diversity Workgroup, and served as a mentor to new MINT members and initiated a quarterly meeting of the Wisconsin MINT members, which has given birth to an annual statewide conference on motivational interviewing. Smith has trained motivational interviewing to thousands of professionals since 2009, including those serving in education, health care, behavioral health, workforce development, education, and the criminal justice system.

Presenters: Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D., and Alton Smart, MSW

Registration fee: $50/person
Lunch is provided at no additional cost

Family Circles was developed using a systems perspective of community intervention/prevention dealing with educational, individual, family and community social cultural issues, including problems in the areas of alcohol and other drug use, mental health, domestic abuse, child welfare issues of abuse and neglect. The foundational empowerment approach was to use Ojibwe cultural family strengths as the primary mode of intervention. Through consultations with elder consultants, the Ojibwe language was considered a critical foundational piece of the curriculum.

Objectives:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Define and recognize historical trauma and aftereffects in Wisconsin Native peoples.
  • Reflect on their own history regarding the trauma installed on Wisconsin Native peoples.
  • Understand the power of cultural restoration to promote resilience and healing among Native peoples.

Presenter: Sheila Vakharia, Ph.D., MSW

Registration fee: $50/person
Lunch is provided at no additional cost

Participants will be introduced to harm reduction as a broader movement and as an approach to addressing high-risk drug use. Participants will learn about the history of harm reduction and the foundational tenets and principles. They will be introduced to the drug, set, and setting Model of understanding drug use and drug use behaviors. They will also be introduced to person-first language in the field of harm reduction and areas of divergence from traditional treatment and self-help. The presenter will introduce key elements of harm reduction in clinical/micro settings, macro/programmatic levels, and harm reduction policies. Interactive exercises and group activities will be integrated throughout.

Objectives

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Examine and explore preconceived notions of harm reduction approaches and interventions.
  • Identify and explore foundational harm reduction tenets and principles.
  • Discuss drug user stigma and strategies for using person-first language.
  • Identify micro, mezzo, and macro-level harm reduction interventions, strategies, and policies for people who use drugs.
  • Examine the evidence base for harm reduction interventions such as syringe and safer smoking equipment distribution, naloxone, medications for opioid use disorder fentanyl testing strips/drug checking services.
  • Examine the evidence base for mezzo-level programmatic interventions such as overdose prevention centers, integrating the continuum of harm reduction care into addiction and traditional health care settings.
  • Examine the evidence base for macro-level policy interventions such as Good Samaritan legislation, all drug decriminalization, marijuana/cannabis regulation.
  • Discuss the facilitators and the barriers of harm reduction implementation in the current political environment.

Sheila Vakharia is an author and a national expert on harm reduction and drug policy. She is currently the deputy director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading advocacy organization fighting to end the war on drugs. She brings over 15 years of combined experience in clinical social work in both treatment and harm reduction settings, research, teaching, and policy advocacy to her work.

May 7: 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks offered with registration for in-person participants.

  • 8:00 a.m.: Opening ceremony
  • 8:25 a.m.: Opening remarks and Governor Tony Evers (invited)
  • 8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Steve Pemberton

Steven Pemberton will share stories of his own human lighthouses or ordinary people who may not even known they've completely the course of a person's life. You will meet those who have turned personal pain into possibilities for themselves and those around them. You’ll learn what motivates them, where their compassion comes from and the lessons their lives can offer us. Pemberton also offers a framework for living, earning and leading—a way to more positively engage with one another, to build trust, to see beyond the labels that define us to the human experiences that bond us.

  • 10:00 a.m.: Break
  • 10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 1 (Five workshop options)
    • "Systemic harms of the legal system on people who use drugs" - Adi Jaffe, Ph.D.
    • "Understanding the changing landscape of overdose prevention and the importance of social connections" - Phillip Graham, DrPH
    • "Mobile units for opioid treatment and harm reduction" - Dan Bizjak, LCSW; and Scott Stokes
    • "Trauma in the Black community" - Chivonna Childs, Ph.D.
    • (Topic to be announced) - Steve Pemberton
  • 11:15 a.m.: Lunch
  • 12:30 p.m.: Afternoon keynote - Phillip McCabe, CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC, and Michaela Grey

To meet the mental health and substance use recovery needs of LGBTQ+, sexual minorities, and gender diverse individuals, we need to understand unique lived experiences. Phillip McCabe and Michaela Grey will outline commonly used LGBTQ+ terminology, discuss the relevance of cultural competency and cultural humility practices, discuss the impact of trauma, and review relevant generational and historical perspectives of sexual minorities/LGBTQ communities. The intent of this presentation is to equip attendees with concrete strategies that integrate cultural competency and cultural humility practices while working with clients.

  • 1:45 p.m.: Break
  • 2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 2 (Five workshop options)
    • "Social determinants of health and substance use disorder in the LGBTQ+ community" - Paris Mullens
    • "Opioid use disorder treatment and reentry best practices for jails and prisons" - Alexandra Duncan, DrPH, MPH
    • "Engaging families through the stages of change" - Roberto Rodriguez
    • "Voices of change: Shaping Overdose strategy with user experience" - Dennis Radloff, Joseph Galey, and Mathew Hazelberg
    • "Motivational interviewing and opioid use treatment services" - Shawn Smith
  • 3:00 p.m.: Break
  • 3:15 p.m.: Breakout session 3 (Five workshop options)
    • "Peers in the workforce" - Jess Tilley
    • "Opioids and public health" - Shaun Doyne
    • "Medications for opioid use disorder expansion pilot program at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility" - Bonnie MacRitchie, MS; Sylvia Longri-Pleester; Christine Bykowski; Babette Roessler, RN; and Shannon Bryant, MSW
    • "Updates on distribution of opioid settlement dollars managed by Wisconsin state government" - Sarah Johnson and Michelle Haese, MSW
    • "Beyond the cell: A survivor's journey through solitary confinement" - Alexandra Duncan, Ph.D., and Kyle Ruggeri, CARC
  • 4:15 p.m.: End of day

May 8: 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks offered with registration for in-person participants.

  • 8:15 a.m.: DHS Secretary-designee Kirsten Johnson
  • 8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D., and Alton Smart, MSW

Brian Jackson and Alton Smart will review historical trauma and its aftereffects in Wisconsin Native peoples. There will be time for the audience to reflect on their own history regarding the trauma installed on Wisconsin Native peoples. Finally, information will be shared about the power of cultural restoration to promote resilience and healing among Native peoples.

  • 10:00 a.m.: Break
  • 10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 4 (Five workshop options)
    • "Culture and working with tribal nations" - Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D., and Alton Smart, MSW
    • "Pregnancy and substance use" - Jill Denson, Ph.D., MSW, APSW
    • "Recovery is in reach" - Kyle Ruggeri, CARC
    • "Shortening the distance between good birthing and quality substance use case" - Lonnetta Albright and Kyle Mounts, MPH
    • "Wisconsin Suspected Overdose Alerts for Rapid Response (WiSOARR): A demo of the statewide overdose alert system" - Caitlin Murphy, Ph.D., and Thomas Bentley, MS
  • 11:15 a.m.: Lunch
  • 12:30 p.m.: Afternoon keynote - Richard Rawson, Ph.D., and Al Hasson, MSW

Methamphetamine and cocaine use rates, with and without fentanyl, and overdose deaths are rapidly increasing in much of the United States. Richard Rawson and Al Hasson will review new information on the groups being most effected, the medical/psychiatric effects of stimulants, and clinical challenges presented by individuals who use stimulants. Current protocols for addressing acute medical/psychiatric conditions will be described. Evidence-based behavioral/psychosocial strategies will be presented, along with pharmacotherapies currently considered promising.

  • 1:30 p.m.: Attorney General Josh Kaul
  • 1:45 p.m.: Break
  • 2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 5 (Five workshop options)
    • "Midwest drug trends" - Ryan Shogren
    • "TRUST Model for stimulant use disorders" - Al Hasson, MSW
    • "Naloxone vending machine implementation in Rock County" - Verenice Sandoval, APSW, SAC-IT, and Shari Faber, PS
    • "Beyond rainbows and unicorns: trauma-informed care with LGBTQ+ survivors" - Phillip McCabe, CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC
    • "The role of the faith community in behavioral health" - Kevin Spading, LICSW LADC CPP, and Derrick Crim, Ed.D., LADC, CPPR
  • 3:00 p.m.: Break
  • 3:15 p.m.: Breakout session 6 (Five workshop options)
    • "Empowerment at the crossroads: Navigating vulnerability through VIVITROL®, justice, and peer support" - Jennifer Skolaski, Ph.D.; David Mack; and
    • "How to better help victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and general crimes" - Patricia Weber, LPCC, LPC
    • "Substance use disorder and wellness for program staff and program clients" - Earl Suttle, Ph.D.
    • "Bringing hope to the streets: Kenosha's overdose response initiative" - Sandile Nukuna, MPH; Jacob Waldschmidt; Keri Pint; and Krista Tappa
    • "The harm reduction gap: Implications for public health and medical providers" - Shiela Vakharia, Ph.D., MSW
  • 4:15 p.m.: End of day

May 9: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Breakfast offered with registration for in-person participants.

Jess Tilley will highlight how communities can bridge the gap between harm reduction and recovery. She will challenge the audience to expand how they look at traditional abstinence-based recovery and measures of success.

  • 9:15 a.m.: Break
  • 9:30 a.m.: Breakout session 7 (Five workshop options)
    • "Music as a tool for healing" - Jon Anderson
    • "Technology tools to make us better: lessons from real life interventions" - Adi Jaffe, Ph.D.
    • "An opportunity to improve services for individuals use stimulants through individualized technical assistance" - Richard Rawson, Ph.D.
    • (Topic and speaker(s) to be announced)
    • (Topic and speaker(s) to be announced)
  • 10:30 a.m.: Break
  • 10:45 a.m.: Closing remarks
  • 11:00 a.m.: End of day

Lodging

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Kalahari Resort for $98/night.

Book a room now

This event is organized by the Division of Care and Treatment Services and Wisconsin Connect, a service of the Center for Urban Population Health. The Center of Urban Population Health is made up of faculty and staff from the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Milwaukee, and Advocate Aurora Research Institute.

If you have a question about the Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit or need special accommodations, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu.

Last revised April 17, 2024