December 7, 2023
9:00am -
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

Somatic Experiential Play Therapy
with Melissa Wetterlund, MA, LP, LMFT, RPT-S & Sara Werner, MA, LP, RPT-S, SEP

Content to include: the basic tenets Experiential Play Therapy, understanding metaphor and the power of play for processing pain and trauma; tracking physiology during play (fight, flight, freeze, and collapse); ways to respond to and support children's nervous systems in the resolution of trauma

View Event Information & Register by December 5.

January 18
10:00am -
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

*with funding support from the Great Lakes MHTTC*

Treating Suicide Risk in Outpatient Settings
Presenter: Jennifer Muehlenkamp, PhD

Content to include: monitoring suicide risk among clients who engage in self-injury; identifying common drivers underlying suicidal thoughts and urges; ways to use risk assessment as a therapeutic intervention; specific strategies for managing acute risk; tools to manage and treat suicide and self-harm within an outpatient setting, reducing the need for inpatient services; evidence-based therapies, therapeutic assessment practices

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February 15
10:00am -
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

Ethics and Boundaries: Culturally Responsive Therapy Through an Indigenous Lens 
Presenter: Felicia Behnke Shaw, MSW, LCSW, CSAC, CS-IT

Content to include: the ethics of cultural responsiveness; leveraging cultural practices to assist in healing; Mental Health and Substance Use therapy through an Indigenous lens; expanding awareness and inclusivity; the importance of listening to the individual; knowing when to refer out

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March 14
10:00am -
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

Adoption Through the Lifespan: Beyond Adoption Day
Presenter: Jaclyn Skalnik, LCSW 

Content to include: how foster care and/or adoption impacts an individual throughout their life, developmental markers, identity exploration; strategies to support a struggling foster/adopted person; how familial separation, multiple placements, trauma, abuse, neglect, and loss can lead to attachment and relationship challenges; grief in foster care and adoption

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April 18
9:30am -
4:30 pm CT
(1-hour lunch)

IN-PERSON in Waukesha, Wisconsin

Build Workplace Cultures of Belonging with Inclusive Leadership
Presenter: Beth Ridley, MBA

Content to include: what belonging at work is and why it matters; what it takes to develop and demonstrate inclusive leadership; behaviors that contribute to a culture of belonging; putting diversity, equity, and inclusion into practice; driving more thoughtful decision and better outcomes in a team; the many benefits of inclusivity and belonging for an organization and its members

View Event Information. Registration opens in February.

May 16
10:00am -
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

*with funding support from the Great Lakes MHTTC*

Ethics and Boundaries: Adapting Evidence-Based Interventions to Honor Diversity 
Presenter: Chardé Hollins, LCSW

Content to include: effective real-world strategies for culturally adapting Evidence-Based Interventions (EBI) to increase client success and recovery; identifying barriers to treatment progress; implementing specific, practical strategies for advancing racial equity through ethical behavior; the code of ethics, how institutional racism has influenced the implementation of ethics; real-world strategies and cultural adaptations

View Event Information. Registration opens in February.

June 6
10:00am -
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

*with funding support from the Great Lakes MHTTC*

Harm Reduction in Behavioral Health
Presenter: Myranda Green, LLMSW

Content to include: situations and settings in which a harm reduction lens can be utilized in behavioral health, the spectrum of strategies (from safer use, to managed use, to abstinence), addressing symptoms and diagnoses, how to implement harm reduction strategies, tools to navigate conversations on access to lethal means, the six principles of harm reduction, the role of the clinician

View Event Information. Registration opens in February.

July 18
9:00am -
4:00pm CT
(1-hour lunch)

IN-PERSON in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Change Starts with You(th): Supporting Teen & Adolescent Mental Health
Presenter: Mary Kate Rowland

Content to include: resources to support teen and adolescent mental health, a basic understanding of mental health and mental illnesses, how to support someone experiencing a mental health crisis, an experiential opportunity to learn what it is like to experience auditory hallucinations

View Event Information. Registration opens in April.

August 23
10:00am - 
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

Eliminate the Stigma: What to Know About Black Women's Mental Health
Presenter: Crystal Carter, MSW, LCSW

Content to include: stigma; historical factors facing Black women in clinical mental health settings (generational trauma, health inequities); tools to foster healing among Black women; cultural humility, intersectionality, and evidence-based therapy; case examples

View Event Information. Registration opens in April.

September 12
10:00am - 
2:30pm CT
(30-minute lunch)

via webinar

Understanding Early Childhood Trauma Through a Developmental and Relational Lens
Presenter: Jess Bernal, LMFT

Content to include: the short- and long-term effects of trauma exposure on the developing brain and body, the importance of relationships on mitigating or exasperating the impacts of trauma, attachment types, factors that impede caregivers’ ability to form secure relational bonds with their children, strategies to cultivate resilience when working with children and families who have a trauma history.   

View Event Information. Registration opens in April.

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