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Training - June 13, 2008
If you have not yet registered on-line for this training, registration is now closed due to space limitations.
If you have already registered on-line, your name will be on file at the day of the training.
Plan to arrive early to find parking and sign in at 8:30 a.m. If you arrive after 8:30, you may need to park several blocks away (see below under "directions").
The agenda, topics, and ceu updates are also now posted below.
Title:
"Improving our outreach and services with African-American families needing alcohol and other drug treatment in Contra Costa County."
Audience:
Staff in Contra Costa County and local community-based substance abuse treatment, children's services, health care, and social services who work with clients or manage programs.
Trainer:
Dr. Barbara C. Wallace.
Trainer Background:
- founding director of the Research Group on Health Disparities and professor at the Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
- conference director of the annual Teachers College Health Disparities Conference, including this month's "Toward global health transformation: Research, demonstrations, projects and model interventions to reduce disparities in health"
- editor of the new online Journal of Health Inequity to Equity in Health
- a licensed psychologist in New York State
- honored for her work in Ghana in 2000 by her ancestral Akan people as a Queen Mother or African Traditional Ruler
- author of Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work (2005), The Chemically Dependent: Phases of Treatment and Recovery (1992), and Crack Cocaine: A Practical Treatment Approach for the Chemically Dependent (1991)
- author of HIV/AIDS Peer Education Training Manual: Combining African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies (2005)
- author of Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families: Prevention, Intervention and Treatment for Community Mental Health Promotion (1995)
- editor of Toward Equity in Health: A New Global Approach to Health Disparities (2007), reviewed as "the most comprehensive examination of health disparities written in the last two decades" (Robert Fullilove)
- co-editor of Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multi-cultural Approach (2003)
Date, Time, Place:
Friday June 13, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast will be available.
Pleasant Hill Community Center, 320 Civic Drive, Pleasant Hill.
This venue is fully accessible. For information call 925-676-5200.
Sponsors:
Contra Costa County Health Services Alcohol and Other Drug Services
Contra Costa First 5 (Children and Families) Commission
Directions:
Driving: From I-680 take Willow Pass Road exit west toward Taylor Blvd, and from Taylor Blvd turn right onto Civic Drive.
Parking: Free but limited at PHCC. If you arrive late and the lot is full, park free all day on Norse, west of Civic Drive, and plan to walk a few blocks.
Public Transit: County Connection Bus 109 from Pleasant Hill BART to Civic Drive
This training is free, including CEUs and continental breakfast, lunch (including a vegetarian choice), afternoon beverage
CEUs:
BBS and CAADAC will be offered.
Nursing and Psychologist CEUs may be available.
If you want CEUs, you must bring your certificate or license number to the training. You must attend the entire training, signing in and out on a form that will be provided. You may be asked to complete an evaluation.
Agenda
| 8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 9 a.m. |
Welcome
William Walker, Director, Contra Costa County Health Services Department
Haven Fearn, Division Director, Alcohol and Other Drug Services
Dorie Klein, D.Crim. |
| 9:30 a.m. |
An Overview of the County's Initiative to Reduce Health Disparities Dawna Vann, African-American Health Initiative Coordinator |
| 9:50 a.m. |
Keynote Address, Barbara Wallace, Ph.D. |
| 11:50 a.m. |
An Overview of the County's Initiative to Reduce Child Welfare Disproportionality Patricia Perkins, Children's and Family Services Division Manager |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:15 p.m. |
Workshop with Audience Interaction, Barbara Wallace, Ph.D. |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Thanks, Evaluations and Sign-Outs |
Topics
What is the rationale for an approach to outreach and addiction treatment, involving selecting from a menu of evidence-based approaches, in order to meet the needs of culturally diverse clients (i.e. African Americans in Contra Costa County)?
- key social-environmental-cultural factors that have contributed to the plight of contemporary African American families;
- the rationale for a new approach that includes new integrated theories and treatment approaches;
- reasons for demanding cultural competence among practitioners working with diverse clients;
- factors supporting an evidence-based approach.
- What does the resultant recommended evidence-based approach to outreach and addiction treatment with African American families in Contra Costa County consist of; and, in particular, what is on the menu of options and what are the pertinent cultural adaptations?
- characteristics of contemporary multi-problem clients and the menu of options
- practitioners' fidelity to evidence-based approaches and practitioners' flexibility:
- adapting treatment and timing issues
- enhancing client motivation to change health-compromising behaviors (substance abuse, high risk sex, other)
- psychological screening/assessment and contingency contracts
If you have a question about the training not addressed on the website, please call the AODS Division at 925-313-6300 to be directed where to address your specific question.
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