September 22, 2010 ~ 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 6 CEU Credits Available The Finley Center ~ Santa Rosa CA
Who Should Attend
Health, social service, criminal justice and human resource professionals, addiction counselors, public officials, educators, senior center professionals, community leaders, family members, caregivers and other interested individuals.
6 CE Credits offered to: R.N., Psych Tech, MFT, LCSW, Addiction Counselor & Attorneys
What You Will Learn
The scope of the problem among aging adults * Screening & assessment tools to determine severity * Psychiatric co-morbidity issues * Aging adults and prescribed medication problems * Brief interventions that professionals and caregivers can implement * Age appropriate treatment versus age segregated treatment * How to integrate Alcohol and Other Drug treatment into currently existing organizations and programs
Speakers
Nationally Acclaimed Speakers: Dr. Frederic Blow, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and Director of the National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center for the Department of Veteran Affairs. Ms. Deborah Levan, M.P.H., Divisional Director, Older Adult Services at Behavioral Health Services Inc.
SPONSORS The Drug Abuse Alternatives Center ~ Sonoma County Department of Health Services North Bay Bohemian ~ Sonoma County Gazette ~ Maverick Media (KSRO) Successful Aging Sonoma County Initiative Coalition (SASCI) The California Endowment, Sonoma Bank,
Kaiser Permanente, LaVoz Billingual Newspaper
SAVE THE DATE!
Aging Well in Sonoma County
A SPECIAL TRAINING:
For Caregivers, Family Members, Senior Center Staff
& Care Managers
A special part of the Understanding Addiction Workshop:
Aging Adult Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse ~
The Hidden Epidemic
Sessions offered on September 22, 2010
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm or
2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
The Finley Center ~ Santa Rosa CA
Click here for more information
Helping Mothers, Saving Babies
DAAC is currently serving 28 women and their children at their Perinatal Day Treatment Program. However, they turn away between 10 and 15 women and their children every month who want and need treatment.
In Sonoma County over 600 women a year are found to test positive for alcohol or other drugs when going into our local hospitals to deliver their babies. All services combined in Sonoma County can only help 120 women each year.
Can you imagine what it would feel like to be a child growing up with a Mother and Grandmother who are both alcoholics and drug abusers. The majority of the women in our Perinatal Program were physically and verbally abused as children and face the challenge of breaking the multi-generational cycle of addiction.
What is astounding is the cost for treatment in the Perinatal Program is only $15,300 compared to the average cost for one child growing up in a drug abusing family in medical, legal & social costs which is $90,000 .....6 times the cost of treatment. Add to this the cost for raising one child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at $1.9 million! As you can see, Treatment for Mothers is Prevention for Children.
There is HOPE . . . .
YOU can make a difference in our community and help us save lives.
We are looking for Leadership skills, Time and Talent to help us on this project.
We invite you, your family and friends to join us for a Perinatal Tour ....
Tour Schedule
February 8th, March 8th, April 12th,
May 10th and June 14th
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Perinatal Program
2400 County Center Drive, SuiteB
If you have questions or would like to RSVP, please contact Susan Anderson, Marketing & Development Director at DAAC at (707) 571-2233 ext. 311 or sanderson@daacmail.org
Do you want to know more about alcohol and drug addiction? Are you concerned about how addiction is affecting our community? Do you want to learn more about alcohol and drug services ?
We invite you to attend our one-hour FREE "TURNING LIVES AROUND TOUR" where you will learn more about addiction, you will be inspired by stories you will hear from our clients, you will learn about the "funding gap" and how this impacts over 400 people in our community daily ....
What people are saying ...."I was inspired by the stories I heard from the clients" ..."I never knew how many people in our community need alcohol" The hour was filled with information and I was impressed with the Turning Point facility"
Tour Schedule
January 19, February 18, March 16
April 15, May 18, June 17, July 20
August 19, September 21, October 21
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Turning Point Residental Program
440 Arrowood Drive, Santa Rosa
For Direction Call (707) 284-2950
Event Completed - Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Tuesday ~ September 15, 2009
6:00pm to 9:00pm
3 CE Credits
Understanding Addiction Workshop Prescription Drug Misuse & Alcohol Abuse
Wednesday ~ September 16, 2009
8:00am to 4:00pm
6 CE Credits
Who Should Attend both
Workshops:
Health, social service, criminal justice and human resource professionals, addiction counselors, public officials, educators, community leaders, family members and other interested individuals.
3 or 6 CE Credits offered to: R.N., Psych Tech, MFT, LCSW, Addiction Counselor & Attorneys
What You Will Learn on Sept. 16th
The scope of the problems among adolescents, young adults and older adults * Review of the extent of the problem regionally and nationally * Impact on the brain * Various classes of prescription abuse and how these drugs compare across substances * Various behavioral treatments for prescription drugs and alcoholism * The latest medical treatments for alcoholism including Natrexone & Vivitrol
Speakers for both Workshops
Thomas Freese, Ph.D., Director of Training, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. Co-PI/Director, Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center (PSATTC). Dr. Freese has worked in the substance abuse field since 1983. Dr. Freese was also DAAC’s Workshop leader in 2006 and 2007.
Beth Rutkowski, MPH, Associate Director of Training and Epidemiologist, UCLA
Understanding Addiction:
Focus on Adolescents and Young Adults
Read Dr. Cermak's Presentation! (This is a large file)
EVENT COMPLETED—Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:30 - 4:30
Who should attend:
Health, social service, criminal justice and human resource professionals, addiction counselors, public officials, educators, community leaders, and anyone who has an interest in how alcohol, methamphetamine, marijuana and other drugs impact adolescents, young adults, families, schools and the community. 6 CE Credits offered to: R.N., Psych Tech, MFT, LCSW, Addiction Counselor & Attorney
What you will learn:
The elements of brain development during adolescence that underlie psychological development- The neurological basis of addiction, with emphasis on methamphetamine and marijuana- The reasons that addiction happens more frequently and faster in adolescents- The elements of motivational interviewing needed to engage adolescents and young adults in treatment and how to activate the 7 precursors of change- How to lead parents and adolescents through the process of contracting- How the impact of methamphetamine on the brain affects treatment
Speaker:
Dr. Timmen L. Cermak is Board Certified in Psychiatry, with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Addiction Psychiatry. He is also certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Dr. Cermak helped found the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA), serving first as president and then Chairman of the Board. He is the author of A Primer on Adult Children of Alcoholics, Diagnosing and Treating
Co-dependence, A Time to Heal, Evaluating and Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics, and A Time to Heal Workbook.
His most recent work, Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe? was published by Hazelden in August of 2003.
they turn away between 10 and 15 women and their children every month who want and need treatment.
