8:00 AM | WELCOME
Chris Slater, Executive Director, Community Healing Centers and Dominick Gladstone, Coming Together Event Chair
8:15 AM | MORNING KEYNOTE: EFFICACY OF 12-STEP PROGRAMS: WHAT DOES THE SCIENCE TELL US
John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP, Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Founder and Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Recovery Research Institute.
Alcohol and other drug use disorders are the top public health problem in most middle-and high-income countries around the world. To address these challenges, most societies provide a variety of formal professionally directed treatment and recovery support services as well as a cadre of community-based recovery support options. Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs are by far the world’s largest addiction recovery support organizations and professional treatments have been developed and implemented to link patients with these resources to help prevent relapse and sustain remission. Until recently, little was known from a rigorous scientific standpoint regarding the efficacy of clinically-delivered treatments designed to engage patients with these programs (so called, Twelve-Step Facilitation [TSF] treatments) or the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness of AA and the therapeutic mechanisms through which AA confers benefits. This talk will review the latest science on 12-step programs, TSF treatments, cost-benefits, and mechanisms, and discuss the implications for clinical implementation.
9:30 AM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS I
A. Healing Disconnections of the Brain and Body through EMDR and Brainspotting
Liz Cary, LLP, CAADC, CCS, Therapist and Owner, Freedom Counseling, and Kathy Piecuch, LPC, CAADC, Consultant in Brainspotting, Therapist and Owner, Brain Body Therapy Group
Participants will learn the basic tenets of EMDR and Brainspotting therapy interventions. Their relevance to healing addiction through understanding attachment and trauma will be discussed.
B. Juvenile Justice and Substance Abuse
Victoria Orbe, LMSW, CAADC, Clinical Director, Children’s Services, Community Healing Centers
This session will provide an overview of juvenile justice’s approach to address substance abuse in adolescents. Common patterns of adolescent substance abuse, interventions and barriers to treatment will be provided.
C. Medication Assisted Treatment: Use, Availability, and Follow Up
Bruce C. Springer, MD, FASAM, Addiction Medicine Specialist, InterCare Community Health Network
This session will provide the definition of substance use disorder, criteria for the diagnosis of addiction, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of addiction and the basis for the effectiveness of MAT, various forms of MAT for specific substance use disorders, and the importance of a psychosocial recovery program in addition to MAT.
D. Pride Recovery: Queer and Getting Clean
Dell Darnell, Program Manager, OutFront Kalamazoo and Regan Hanley, Board of Directors, OutFront Kalamazoo; IT Analyst, Stryker
A look at the intersection of queer identities and substance use, through data and personal narrative. This session will help foster and increase cultural awareness and sensitivity around LGBTQIA+ persons and issues regarding substance use and recovery.
E. Michigan and Midwest Trends in Illicit Drug Use Since 2013
Matthew Levitas, MFS, D-ABFT-FT, Forensic Toxicologist, Certifying Scientist/R&D, Forensic Fluids
Xylazine, Methamphetamine, Fentanyl, THC and other drugs have been trending in Michigan and the Midwest for the last ten years. Data from Children Services, Probation and specialty courts (Veterans, Drug, Juvenile, Adult and others) will be presented.
10:30 AM | BREAK
10:45 AM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS II
Repeat of presentations A–E
11:45 AM | LUNCH
12:30 PM | AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: RECOVERY NEWS SHOW
Andy Dominianni, WWMT News Anchor and Jessica Harthorne, WWMT News Anchor
The audience will watch a live “TV News Show” style keynote highlighting pertinent topics in our community related to substance use disorder. Approximately 20 topics will be covered including some interviews related to stories.
1:30 PM | BREAK
1:45 PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS III
F. Allyship for Recovery, What Can You Do?
Carlos Brown, LMSW, Doctoral Candidate and Chair of Justice Equity and Trauma Team and Suicide Prevention Program Manager
This presentation will be focused on informing participants on this historical nature of bias in SUD recovery, and how and what individuals can do to promote change in multiple systems. It is geared towards advocates, law enforcement, allied health professions, etc. Individuals will leave with practical tools, resources and insights on how to become better allies for underserved and underrepresented individuals
G. Coaches for Recovery
Amy Kemp, Certified Peer Recovery Coach, Gilmore Community Healing Center
Participants will learn the basic tenets of Recovery Coaches and Peer Support and their benefits to persons in recovery and those who are dual diagnosed. Participants will better understand Peer roles and the importance of them in the recovery field.
H. LBGTQ and SUD: Outfront Panel Q&A
Dell Darnell, Program Manager, OutFront Kalamazoo; Regan Hanley, Board of Directors, OutFront Kalamazoo; IT Analyst, Stryker; Isabeau Wilson, and Joshua Ouding
A panel session in which LGBTQIA+ community members will share their stories of SUD and recovery. After each panelist shares 3-5 mins of their story, attendees will have an opportunity to ask panelists about their queer identity, experience with recovery, and the intersection of each.
I. Roundtable Solutions Discussion: Challenges to Long-Term Sustained Recovery
Facilitator – Shawna Nolan, Certified Peer Recovery Coach, Family Treatment Court Recovery Coach CPSS/ CPRC, The Recovery Institute
Participants will engage in roundtable discussions with these topics: Finding stable housing, Employment with a record, and Continued access to support and services. Participants will rotate through each table providing input and discussion on challenges to sustained recovery following probation, treatment, legal issues.
2:45 PM | BREAK
3:00 PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS IV
Repeat of presentations F–I
4:00 PM | ADJOURN
