This interactive training is designed to provide information regarding the trauma-informed approach to co-occurring disorders. On Day One of this two day training participants will discuss how to establish a trauma informed environment in their workplace. It will explore the centrality and pervasiveness of trauma in working with substance use and co-occurring disorders. Information related to motivational interviewing, stages of change, relational model and seeking safety will be highlighted and discussed. Participants will gain an understanding of the core concepts underlying trauma-informed care. Participants will also identify strategies to intervene on problematic behaviors and attitudes and explore and strategize ways to develop and implement trauma-informed treatment. People would then go back into their agencies and try to apply what they learned and return two months later, on Day Two of this training, to discuss those experiences and expand on the information with practice in various intervention strategies. Examples and tools to do this work from a relational perspective utilizing power point, interactive exercises and a video will be employed.

Kath Schilling, M.Ed., CAS, LADC I, is currently employed by the Institute for Health and Recovery as a Trauma Integration Specialist and Director of Project WAVE (Women Achieving Vital Empowerment), a SAMHSA/CSAT targeted capacity expansion grant to provide substance abuse and mental health outreach, engagement, screening, assessment and care coordination to women seeking services from the two primary domestic violence agencies on Cape Cod. Ms. Schilling is the trauma consultant to another SAMHSA/CSAT grant serving homeless women in Boston and has been the trauma consultant to the Mass. Dept. of Public Health/ Bureau of Substance Abuse Services on their All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness Response initiative. Previously, she was the lead facilitator for the Institute for Health and Recovery's WELL Project at Gosnold on Cape Cod, a Women, Co-occurring Disorders and Violence Study site. She also developed and has piloted an Internalized Cycle of Abuse in multiple settings in both the substance abuse and mental health arenas and has presented at conferences and workshops in Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, New Hampshire, California, Michigan and Washington DC.

Lunches will be provided.