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Center for Evidence-Based Practices Advances Innovations for Behavioral Healthcare in 36 States, 5 Countries
Staff turnover in behavioral healthcare organizations has always been a
challenge for sustaining service innovations that improve quality of
life and other outcomes for people diagnosed with severe mental illness
and addiction to alcohol, tobacco, opioids, and other drugs. The Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve
University celebrates its 20th Anniversary helping service systems and organizations advance workforce development to support and sustain best practices that improve quality of life and other outcomes for individuals and families. / The Center is supported by the Ohio Department of Medicaid.
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Trauma-Informed Care Arrives in Ohio
The Center for Evidence-Based Practices has teamed up with the Ohio
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) to present
a video-conference series about the six core principles of
Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), as defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Attend our Center's trainings and learn how to change the culture of your organization to bring trauma-informed care to Ohio residents. This series supports OhioMHAS' statewide TIC Initiative.
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New Strategies for Heroin, Opioid Abuse among People with Addictions, Mental Illness
Heroin, krokodil, and prescription pain killers are opioids that are
commonly abused by people with addictions and mental illness. The
epidemic of abuse in Ohio presents numerous challenges for health and behavioral
healthcare professionals. Attend our Center's training events and access some useful resources and tools. Enhance your clinical knowledge and skills and improve recovery outcomes. This initiative is supported by the Ohio Department of Mental Health
and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS).
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Promote Health-Behavior Change among People with Severe Mental Illness
Learn to support health-behavior change among people with severe mental illness and addiction in your community with stages of change, motivational interviewing, and tobacco interventions. Our Center has added new dates to its "Breath of Fresh Air" training series as part of Ohio's initiative to promote integrated primary and behavioral healthcare. The initiative is supported by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS). Attend in a city near you: Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo.
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Stages of Behavior Change, Employment Promote Housing Stability
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Center presents an important training that provides an introduction to the effects of
substance use and abuse on emotion, cognition, behavior, and employment.
It explores stages of behavior and things to say and not say when
encouraging individuals through a process of personal change. Increase housing stability among
people with mental illness and substance use disorders. The training occurs on multiple dates at multiple locations throughout Ohio. This series is supported by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS).
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Kola Leads Initiatives to Integrate Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services for Co-Occurring Disorders
Lenore Kola has a reputation as an agent of change. Since 1970, she has led national efforts in local communities to enhance services and quality of life for people who struggle with addictions and mental illness. She has acquired and administered more than $7 million in grants from federal, state, and county agencies and charitable foundations to educate and train countless numbers of social work students and licensed professionals about clinical innovations. After 39 years at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, she is retiring. She will continue to serve as co-director of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices.
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Center Shares Lessons Learned about Addiction, Mental Illness, Primary Health, ACT with European Collaborators
The work of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices in Europe is a cultural exchange that helps advance the stages-of-change and stages-of-treatment approach to recovery from substance abuse and mental illness. In his work with Dutch collaborators, Patrick Boyle has discovered how cultural values of tolerance and harm reduction in the Netherlands support this stage-based approach to behavioral healthcare and rehabilitation from co-occurring disorders. Recovery successes from Dutch agencies, hospitals, and criminal justice institutions, he explains, hold important lessons for American service systems.
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Ohio Invites Halfway Houses and Residential Addiction-Treatment Centers to Expand Services, Include Mental Illness
The State of Ohio is taking another important step to integrate behavioral healthcare services, this time by enhancing the capacity
of halfway houses and residential addiction-treatment centers to provide
treatment for people with co-occurring substance use and mental
disorders. The
initiative kicks off in November 2013 with a series of training events for supervisors and direct service
staff of residential facilities and halfway houses. The initiative is supported by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS).
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