Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit
The Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit is an annual event that highlights prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery strategies related to opioids, stimulants, and trauma. All people with an interest in building healthy communities are invited to attend.
May 7-9, 2024
In person
Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells
$225/person through March 31, 2024
$250/person April 1, 2024, through April 24, 2024
$300/person April 25, 2024, through May 7, 2024
Virtual
Zoom through the WHOVA app
$175/person through March 31, 2024
$200/person April 1, 2024, through April 24, 2024
$225/person April 25, 2024, through May 7, 2024
No scholarships are available for this event.
Registration
Registration is required for this event. The UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education is supporting the registration process for this event.
- Cancellation policy: Cancellation requests for this event must be received in writing no later than April 15, 2024. A cancellation processing fee of $50.00 (or full registration amount, whichever is less) will be deducted from the refund. No exceptions. Registered participants wishing to cancel may instead transfer their registration to someone else without penalty if they send a written request with the new participant details by April 19, 2024. Cancellations received after April 24, 2024, will not be refunded. Participants must cancel in advance of the event. No refunds will be issued once the event has started, regardless of whether the participant joined the event. Send a cancellation request to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu.
- Refund policy: Refunds will only be issued to registered participants if this event is canceled for any reason. No exceptions. All registered participants have access to session recordings and materials for six months after this event.
- Special meal requests: Requests for special meals must be made by April 8, 2024. There may be an extra charge for some special meal requests. Send a meal request to Tamara.Reed@aah.org.
- Videography/photography: Organizers and attending news media may be videotaping or photographing portions of this event. By attending this event, registrants acknowledge these activities and agree to allow their image to be used by the organizers and news media.
- Event materials: This will be a paperless event. The WHOVA app will be used to share event materials with all in-person and virtual participants. Information on how to access the WHOVA app will be emailed to all registered participants several weeks before the event. This information will be sent to the email registrants provided during the registration process.
Continuing education units
Continuing education units are available to all people who participate in the live event. No continuing education units or credits are available for watching session recordings when they are available.
There are 13.25 creditable hours total for this event. This is equal to 1.3 continuing education units if all creditable sessions are attended.
If you need continuing medical education, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu. The continuing medical education hours are being reviewed. You will be contacted with a list of sessions at this event that will count towards continuing education hours and how many hours each session provides.
Attendance is tracked through the WHOVA app. WHOVA provides a QR code for each creditable session. In order to receive credit for the session you attend, you must scan the QR code that is either on the PowerPoint slide displayed before the session begins (for in person and virtual attendees) or printed inside of the session room (in person only). If you do not scan the QR code, you will not be on the attendance report. People not on the attendance report will not receive credit for that session.
Allow for up to 60 days for Wisconsin Connect to process continuing education documentation after this event. If after the 60 days you have not received a certificate, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu. Certificates must be obtained by August 31, 2024. No certificates will be issued after August 31, 2024.
Agenda
The full agenda for each day will be released soon. The information listed below is tentative and subject to change.
May 6 (optional in-person only preconference activities)
There is a fee to participate in the preconference activities. You may only attend one preconference activity. These events will not be recorded.
Presenters: Ezra Lyon, M.D., and Jillian Landeck, M.D.
Registration fee: $100/person
On June 27, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration began to require that registration applicants – both new and renewing – affirm they have completed a new, one-time, eight-hour training. Exceptions for the new training requirement are practitioners who are board certified in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry, and those who graduated from a medical, dental, physician assistant, or advanced practice nursing school in the U.S. within five years of June 27, 2023. This training satisfies this Drug Enforcement Administration training requirement.
Agenda
- 8:00 a.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder, part 1
- 9:40 a.m.: Break
- 10:00 a.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder, part 2
- 11:00 a.m.: Integrating opioid use disorder treatment into the medical office (panel discussion with physicians)
- 12:00 p.m.: Lunch (provided)
- 1:00 p.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder in the peripartum period
- 1:40 p.m.: Treatment of alcohol, tobacco, and stimulant use disorders
- 3:00 p.m.: Break
- 3:20 p.m.: Addressing stigma in substance use disorder treatment (panel discussion with peer recovery coaches)
- 4:30 p.m.: Next steps for treatment of substance use disorder in your practice
- 5:00 p.m.: End of training
This session is supported by the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine.
Presenter: Shawn Smith
Registration fee: $50/person
When service providers are working to heal trauma, they often hold space for others to heal. But how does the healer heal? Without individual and/or team/organizational wellness interventions in place, providers experience:
- Burnout
- Vicarious traumatization
- Compassion fatigue
- High turnover rates
- Errors, mistakes, and omissions
- Lower quality of care
This session will offer practical, healing interventions for individuals and/or teams.
Lunch will be provided.
Shawn Smith is a certified motivational interviewing trainer and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). The MINT is an international organization of trainers of motivational interviewing, whose mission is to promote good practice in the use, research, and training of motivational interviewing and represents 35 countries and more than 20 different languages. Smith has served the MINT Trainer Certification Committee, Inclusivity + Diversity Workgroup, and served as a mentor to new MINT members and initiated a quarterly meeting of the Wisconsin MINT members, which has given birth to an annual statewide conference on motivational interviewing. Smith has trained motivational interviewing to thousands of professionals since 2009, including those serving in education, health care, behavioral health, workforce development, education, and the criminal justice system.
Presenters: Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D., and Alton Smart, MSW
Registration fee: $50/person
Family Circles was developed using a systems perspective of community intervention/prevention dealing with educational, individual, family and community social cultural issues, including problems in the areas of alcohol and other drug abuse, mental health, domestic abuse, child welfare issues of abuse and neglect. The foundational empowerment approach was to use Ojibwe cultural family strengths as the primary mode of intervention. Through consultations with elder consultants, the Ojibwe language was considered a critical foundational piece of the curriculum.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to define and recognize historical trauma and after effects in Wisconsin Native peoples, reflect on their own history regarding the trauma installed on Wisconsin Native peoples, and understand the power of cultural restoration to promote resilience and healing among Native peoples.
Lunch will be provided.
Presenter: Sheila Vakharia, Ph.D., MSW
Registration fee: $50/person
This session will provide information on strategies to ensure people who use drugs and their communities can stay safe.
Lunch will be provided.
Sheila Vakharia is an author and a national expert on harm reduction and drug policy. She is currently the deputy director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading advocacy organization fighting to end the war on drugs. She brings over 15 years of combined experience in clinical social work in both treatment and harm reduction settings, research, teaching, and policy advocacy to her work.
May 7: 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks offered with registration for in-person participants.
- 8:15 a.m.: Opening remarks and Governor Tony Evers (invited)
- 8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Steve Pemberton (child welfare)
- 10:00 a.m.: Break
- 10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 1 (Five workshop options)
- "Systemic harms of the legal system on people who use drugs" - Adi Jaffe, Ph.D.
- "Understanding the changing landscape of overdose prevention and the importance of social connections" - Phillip Graham, DrPH
- "Mobile units for opioid treatment and harm reduction" - Dan Bizjak, LCSW, and Scott Stokes
- "Trauma in the Black community" - Chivonna Childs, Ph.D.
- (Topic to be announced) - Steve Pemberton
- 11:15 a.m.: Lunch
- 12:30 p.m.: Afternoon keynote - Phillip McCabe, CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC (LGBTQ+ community experiences with opioids and stimulants)
- 1:45 p.m.: Break
- 2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 2 (Five workshop options)
- "Social determinants of health and substance use disorder in the LGBTQ+ community" - Paris Mullens
- "Effectiveness of substance use treatment for people in prison or jails" - Alexandra Duncan, Ph.D.
- "Engaging families through the stages of change" - Roberto Rodriguez
- "Centering and leading with the voices of people who use drugs in overdose response" - Dennis Radloff, Joseph Galey, and Mathew Hazelberg
- (Topic and speaker to be announced)
- 3:00 p.m.: Break
- 3:15 p.m.: Breakout session 3 (Five workshop options)
- "Harm reduction and youth" - Jess Tilley
- "Motivational interviewing and opioids" - Shawn Smith
- "Opioids and public health" - Shaun Doyle
- "Medications for opioid use disorder expansion pilot program at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility" - Bonnie MacRitchie, Kellie Blechinger, Sylvia Longri-Pleester, and Christine Bykowski
- "Updates on distribution of opioid settlement dollars managed by Wisconsin state government" - Sarah Johnson and Michelle Haese, MSW
- 4:15 p.m.: End of day
May 8: 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks offered with registration for in-person participants.
- 8:15 a.m.: DHS Secretary-designee Kirsten Johnson
- 8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D., and Alton Smart, MSW (Understanding treatment in tribal communities)
- 10:00 a.m.: Break
- 10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 4 (Five workshop options)
- "Culture and working with tribal nations" - Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D.
- "Pregnancy and substance use" - Jill Denson, Ph.D., MSW, APSW
- "Recovery is in reach" - Kyle Ruggeri, CARC
- "Connecting the dots: women’s health and substance use disorders" - Lonnetta Albright and Kyle Mounts, MD, MScPH
- (Topic and speaker to be announced)
- 11:15 a.m.: Lunch
- 12:30 p.m.: Afternoon keynote - Richard Rawson, Ph.D., and Al Hasson, MSW (New combinations of stimulants and clinical challenges)
- 1:30 p.m.: Attorney General Josh Kaul
- 1:45 p.m.: Break
- 2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 5 (Five workshop options)
- "Drug trends in Wisconsin" - Ryan Shogren
- "TRUST Model for stimulant use disorders" - Al Hasson, MSW
- "Naloxone vending machine implementation" - Verenice Sandoval, APSW, SAC-IT, and Shari Faber, PS
- (Topic to be announced) - Phillip McCabe, CSW, CAS, CDVC, DRCC
- (Topic and speaker to be announced)
- 3:00 p.m.: Break
- 3:15 p.m.: Breakout session 6 (Five workshop options)
- "VIVITROL® and Peers" - Jennifer Skolaski, Ph.D.
- "How to better help victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and general crimes" - Patti Weber
- "Substance use disorder and wellness for program staff and program clients" - Earl Suttle
- (Topic to be announced) - Shiela Vakharia, Ph.D., MSW
- (Topic to be announced) - Sandile Nukuna, MPH
- 4:15 p.m.: End of day
May 9: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Breakfast offered with registration for in-person participants.
- 8:30 a.m.: Keynote - Jess Tilley (Harm reduction)
- 9:15 a.m.: Break
- 9:30 a.m.: Breakout session 7 (Five workshop options)
- "Music as a tool for healing" - Jon Anderson
- "Technology tools to make us better: lessons from real life interventions" - Adi Jaffe, Ph.D.
- "Higher level outreach to people who use drugs" - Jess Tilley
- "ASAM Criteria and stimulants" - Richard Rawson, Ph.D.
- (Topic and speaker to be announced)
- 10:30 a.m.: Break
- 10:45 a.m.: Closing remarks
- 11:00 a.m.: End of day
Lodging
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Kalahari Resort for $98/night.
This event is organized by the Division of Care and Treatment Services and Wisconsin Connect, a service of the Center for Urban Population Health. The Center of Urban Population Health is made up of faculty and staff from the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Milwaukee, and Advocate Aurora Research Institute.
If you have a question about the Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit or need special accommodations, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu.