OVERVIEW

We will be presenting at "Marijuana: What's the Big Deal?" in Akron, Ohio on June 22. Be sure to attend the following:.

Lunch with the Expert: Integrating Addiction & Mental Health Treatment, Where Do We Go From Here?

• Time: 12:40 to 1:45 pm
• Presenter:  Christina M. Delos Reyes, MD, medical consultant at the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University and chief clinical officer of the ADAMHS Board of Cuyahoga County (get bio, click here).

ABOUT THE EVENT

Objectives

Participants in "Marijuana: What's the Big Deal?" will ...

• Receive an overview of medicinal marijuana, the value of some substances found in marijuana, the risks of smoked marijuana, and the dangers of ignoring FDA warnings and other safety measures that apply to other prescription medicines;
• Receive a summary of the effects of marijuana on the brain with an emphasis on the potential dangers of marijuana on the developing adolescent brain;
• Learn about pending medical marijuana legislation in the state of Ohio;
• Be able to describe and deliver a counter message for at least 4 marijuana myths;
• Acquire information about current marijuana usage and trends;
• Learn about the impact of the passage of medical marijuana legislation in the State of Michigan.

PRESENTERS

• Neil A. Capretto, D.O., FASAM, Medical Director, Gateway Rehabilitation Center, Aliquippa, PA.
• Captain Hylton Baker, Commander, Summit County Drug Unit, Summit County Sheriff's Office, Akron, OH.
• Doug Wentz, MA, OCPS II, Community Services Director, Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic, Youngstown, OH.
• John Kroneck, MA, LPC, CPC-R, Montcalm County Health Promotion Coordinator. Cherry Street Services, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.
• Jim Ryan, OCPS II, Consultant, Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Prevention Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH.
• Donna Conley, LSW, OCPS II, ICPS, CEO, Ohio Citizen Advocates for Chemical Dependency Prevention & Treatment.
• Brad DeCamp, MPA, Assistant Chief of Treatment & Recovery/Certification & Compliance Ohio Department of Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services, Columbus, OH.
• Molly Stone, LSW, OCPS II, Program Manager of Prevention Services, Ohio Department of Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services, Columbus, OH.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

CEUs available for RN/LPN, social workers, counselors, psychologists. Consult the website of the sponsoring organization.

 SPONSORED BY

• County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health (ADM) Services Board
• Community Partnership of Summit County
• Summit County Children Services

MORE INFORMATION

Consult this free PDF from the sponsoring organizations:

http://www.admboard.org/storedfiles/File/Marijuana%20brochure%204-11.pdf

ONLINE REGISTRATION

The deadline to register is June 8, 2012. For more information and online registration, contact the sponsoring organization.

http://www.admboard.org/

LOCATION

Akron-Summit County Public Library (Auditorium)

Description:

No details are available for this location

Lodging & Travel Details:

Free parking.

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.

• 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