3 CEUs: (SW, CD) This three-hour workshop provides participants with a comprehensive overview on pregnant women and addiction. The session emphasizes early intervention, and how crucial it is in the outcome for mother and child, as well as the specific and more unique...
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Rethinking Addiction in an Opioid Epidemic
Two Nursing Contact Hours* or 2 CEUs: (SW,CD) An acknowledged opioid epidemic exists in Rhode Island and throughout the country. This training is intended to increase the participants’ knowledge regarding causes, impact, and current evidence around opioid addiction...
Working with Returning Veterans: Some Considerations
3 CEUs* (SW,MH, CD) This training will include a viewing of the movie Restrepo (about 90 minutes) followed by a presentation focusing on the various operational stressors faced by our returning veterans and how these stressors affect the transition back to civilian...
Moving Beyond the Silos: Creating a Continuum of Care Across Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery
6 CEUs*: (SW,CD, MHC) The silos that have existed for many years have frustrated service providers and hindered opportunities for sharing knowledge, fostering transitions in care, and developing useful collaborations. This workshop will provide a foundation for...
Marijuana: The Good, Bad, and Not Yet Known
6 CEUs: * (SW,CD, MHC) This workshop, conducted by Mike Cerullo, LMHC, founding convener of What’s the Rush, RI? and a member of the Joint Legislative Commission to study Legalization of Marijuana for Recreational Use, will explore multiple facets of this complex...
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
3 Nursing Contact Hours* or 3 CEUs: (SW,CD) This three-hour training will discuss the causes and epidemiology of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). Participants will explore the assessment and management of an infant with NAS, transitions to community care, and the...
Cultural Intelligence: Understanding and Incorporating CLAS Standards into Practice
6 CEUs*: (SW,CD, MHC) The one-day workshop is designed to highlight and explore the needs of treatment professionals working with culturally diverse individuals, organizations, and communities. The participants will learn about Health Disparities, Cultural...
Prenatal Substance Exposure: Keeping Babies and their Parents in Mind
3 CEUs*: (SW,CD, MHC) This training will focus on the impact of prenatal substance exposure from an infant mental health perspective. A relationship-based approach to caring for substance-exposed infants can enhance the parent-child relationship and has the potential...
Overview of Serious & Persistent Mental Illness
2 Nursing Contact Hours* or 2 CEUs**: (SW, CD, MHC) This training provides a clinical overview of the diagnostic criteria of the major disorders of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, psychosis, bipolar illness and major depression. Content includes symptoms,...
PTSD: Trauma Informed Care
6 CEUs*: (SW,CD, MHC) PTSD: Trauma Informed Care is an all day training in which participants will learn skills that assist in treating PTSD, include understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. This training will provide an...