OVERVIEW

This three-day Institute is designed as a deep learning experience that provides an overview of current research, developmental characteristics, and promising approaches for the identification, assessment, and treatment of youth with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Six hours will be devoted to addressing supervision and ethics issues commonly encountered in treating youth with co-occurring disorders. The curriculum features the following:

• Core service components necessary for effective assessment and treatment;
• Key considerations in effectively implementing an integrated co-occurring treatment program, including partnerships; and
• Supervision and ethics issues specific to services for youth with co-occurring disorders.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

• Differentiate the developmental differences between youth and adults with co-occurring disorders.
• Be aware of current research on youth with co-occurring disorders.
• Identify the multiple functional impacts of co-occurring disorders on youth, their families, and the community.
• Target risk and safety factors that impact functioning of youth with co-occurring disorders.
• Identify key protective factors that promote recovery environments for youth with co-occurring disorders.
• Utilize resiliency-oriented engagement strategies with youth and family members.
• Understand how to utilize strategic cross-system approaches to facilitate youth's functioning in multiple life domains.
• Understand the assessment of youth with co-occurring disorders from an integrated perspective.
• Understand how to structure interventions from a holistic and integrated perspective.
• Address key supervision and ethical issues encountered in the delivery of services for youth with co-occurring disorder.

LEAD PRESENTER

Richard Shepler, PhD, PCC-S, Senior Research Associate, Center for Innovative Practices (CIP), Begun Center for Violence Prevention, MSASS.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

18 hours, including 3 hours supervision and 3 hours ethics for the following:

• Social workers (LSW, LISW)
• Counselors (LPC, LPCC)
• Psychologists (OPA)
• Chemical dependency counselors (RCH)

SPONSORING ORGANIZATION

• The Professional Development & Continuing Education Program at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
• Center for Innovative Practices (CIP) of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention at the Mandel School

MORE INFO & REGISTER ONLINE

Visit the website of and direct all questions to the sponsoring organization:

http://msass.case.edu/ce/COD_in_Youth.html

 

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LOCATION

Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations - Cleveland

Description:

The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations is located on the Campus of Case Western Reserve University in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland. It is located on the same street as the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (school of social work) at Case Western Reserve.

Lodging & Travel Details:

Event registrants are encouraged to arrive 30 minutes or more before the start of the event to provide enough time to find parking and walk to the building. Visitors to the Mandel Center may not park on Hessler Court (west side of building) or at the lot across the street, which is reserved for patrons of L'Albatros Restaurant and the Diner. There are metered spaces on the streets throughout the University Circle neighborhood. However, these spaces tend to fill up quickly. Several parking garages are located near the Mandel Center:

• Campus Center Garage
  (Between Severence Hall and Kelvin Smith Library)
  11001 Euclid Avenue
  Cleveland, OH 44106
  Ref: #3 on Parkopedia website (click here)

• Cleveland Botanical Garden
  11030 East Boulevard
  Cleveland, OH 44106
  Ref: #5 on Parkopedia website (click here)

Additional Parking Information:

• Parkopedia (click here)
• University Circle, Inc. (click here)

 

Registration Policies & Instructions

Online Registration Only

• Each person must register online with his or her own email address (work or personal email) and password and include contact information.
• The data you enter helps us manage events from start to finish: e.g., seating, rosters, payments, attendance, certificates.
• We do not accept registration via paper mail, fax, or email.
• Payment by check is not a form of registration.

• See "Walk In" section below.

Your Email Address

• You must include your own unique email address (work or personal email) to receive email confirmations and correspondence from us.
• Do not use the email of anyone else who has registered or will register for an event on our website (e.g., co-worker, supervisor).
• You may obtain your own free email account from providers like Yahoo! (click here) or Google (click here).

What We Need from You

• Register online
  
  • Provide the required information (e.g., email address; postal address)
  • Provide your professional-license number, if applicable (NOT a driver's license number, NOT a social security number)
• Select the CEUs that you need
• Pay the registration fee (see Payment Policies tab)
• Sign-in at the event
• Attend the entire event
• Provide any required post-event information (if applicable)

Signing In

• Sign-in at each event typically begins before the posted start time
• Consult the Agenda tab of each event for the sign-in time

Certificate of CEUs

• Fulfill the requirements listed above, and we will mail you a continuing-education certificate after the event (this may take several weeks).

Certificate of Attendance

• If you do not need CEUs but do need proof of attendance, select the "certificate of attendance" box in the Questions section of the online registration form.

Walk-In

• Only if seating is available; no guarantees
• First-come, first-served
• Pay your registration fee at the event
• Fulfill the requirements listed in "What We Need from You" section above

• You must create a free account on our website as soon as possible after the event. We will add your registration information only after you create your account.

 

Payment Policies & Instructions

• Each person must register online (see Registration Policies tab).
• Please pay your registration fees in advance of your attendance at the event.

Pay by Credit Card

• We are in the process of enabling online credit card payments for our events via the Quikpay system of Case Western Reserve University.
• If the option appears on your event of choice, you may pay online when you register or anytime before the registration deadline. Sign in to your account, go to your event of choice or to the "my account" section, "my events" tab.
• Our website will redirect you to Quikpay.
  • Follow the prompts.
  • Do not close your web browser.
• Quikpay will redirect you back to our website.
• Quikpay will send you a payment confirmation email. 
• Quikpay will also add a payment confirmation to the "my account" section, "my events” tab of your membership account on our website.

Pay by Check

• We do not accept registration via paper or fax, so payment by check is not a form of registration.
• Make checks payable to the following:
  
  • "Case Western Reserve University."
• Include this in memo section of your check:
  
  • "Center for EBPs; LC: 7169."
• Send your check or money order via US Mail to our main office.
  
  • See the "Contact Us” section of our website for the most current address (click here).
• We will apply your payment to the "my account" section, "my events” tab of your membership account on our website and send you a payment-confirmation email.
• Use your payment-confirmation email for your organizational reimbursement process.

For Organizations

• Organizations that pay for multiple registrants must include on the check the first name and last name of each person for whom payment is being made.
• We will apply the payment to the "my account/my events" section of each person’s membership account on our website.
• Each person at your organization must create his or her own membership account (see "Registration Policies” section).
• We do not accept registration via paper or fax, so payment by check is not a form of registration.

Past-Due Payments

• Individuals with past-due payments to the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University (or its Coordinating Center of Excellence initiatives) will not be able to register for an event until all outstanding payments have been received.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

• No refund requests will be honored if they are postmarked after the registration deadline listed in the right column of this page.
• Refunds are subject to an administrative processing fee.
• Cancellations and requests for refunds should be submitted to the following:

cebp-events@case.edu