The sessions for this series are each approved for 90 minutes of early care and education clock hours. Credit will be assigned In ECE-TRIS within ten days of each session for those that requested it.
If you are seeking CEUs for a different professional board please use the information provided to submit the required information directly to your applicable board.
Session 1
Our first session on Feb 10 at 4pm ET/3pm CT features Dr. Katherine Marks, Director of the KY Opioid Response Effort (KORE) discussing KY’s response to the opioid epidemic through programs across the state. See below for details.
KY’s Response to the Opioid Crisis
Presenter: Dr. Katherine Marks, Project Director of the KY Opioid Response Effort (KORE)
Session description: As Director of through the KY Opioid Response Effort (KORE) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the UK College of Medicine, Dr. Marks will describe the services offered through KORE across KY. She will give background on the impact of opioid use disorder (OUD) crisis in KY, and an overview of services for affected individuals and their families.
Session Objectives:
- Participants will identify key components of a comprehensive response to the opioid crisis.
- Participants will identify resources and services offered through KORE-funded community partners.
Session 2
Session Title: The Role of Peers for Families in Recovery
Session Description: Amanda Metcalf is a certified Peer Support Specialist, who will describe the important role of peers for families who are in recovery from substance use disorder. She will share her lived experience with recovery, and suggest approaches to use with families who are or will be in recovery.
Session Objectives:
- Participants will identify positive approaches to use with families in recovery
- Participants will identify how peer supports can help families access and stay in recovery
Session 3
Session Title: Engaging Families; Family-Professional Partnerships with Carol Cecil and Barb Greene, KY Partnership for Families and Children
Session Objectives:
| The participants will:Increase their knowledge about postponing judgment for understanding when working with families,Identify their own values and how those values could affect their relationships with their customers/clients, andGain strategies for engaging challenging families through value acceptance/understanding. |
Session Description:
This interactive session focuses on how to build a strong partnership based on a trusting relationship with the customers/clients you serve. We will discuss the challenges and barriers in working with your customers/clients and provide tools for overcoming those barriers. Participants will walk away with tools that can be used immediately with their customers/clients.
Session 4
Session Title: Enhancing Services for Families with SUD with Miriam Silman, MSW
Training Description: The session will highlight three essential practice strategies for providers to use when working with families with substance use: creating psychological safety, empowering families through enhancing voice and choice, and engaging in authentic collaboration with families. Using a case study, child-serving providers working with families with known SUD will understand how and why a trauma-informed approach addresses common challenges to service delivery and family engagement. Participants will understand how additional family characteristics may exacerbate common challenges and how a trauma-informed approach can enhance provider ability to address those intersectionalities.
Training Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- describe and implement at least one strategy to enhance the feeling of psychological safety for families of young children with SUD in the family
- offer families choices when providing services
- support families to have a voice in their service decisions and programs
- authentically and meaningfully collaborate with families to identify needs, determine service goals, and measure outcomes
Session 5
Session Title: Self-Compassion for Providers with Kristen Dahl, LPCC
Training Description: Learn and share strategies you can use to practice self-compassion and cope with secondary traumatic stress as you work with families with substance use issues. We will learn practical strategies that you can use when challenged by clients and those you serve. We will discuss ways to prioritize your own mental wellbeing while caring for others.
Training Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Participants will learn to recognize responses to secondary traumatic stress in themselves and others.
- Participants will learn strategies to practice self-compassion when working with challenging clients.
- Participants will practice mindfulness techniques that encourage resilience.