All courses provide continuing education hours for CASAC, SW, MHC, and MFT !
For more information regarding our Professional Development Trainers, please view our faculty page. If you and your employer are interested in hosting a professional development training for your workplace, please review our course listings for more information.
To register for a professional development course, please complete our online registration form here*.
If you wish to see more re-credentialing opportunities, please visit our CASAC Re-Credentialing page.
Please review our OTI Online Policy for Professional Development prior to registering.
September • October • November • December
– Free EBP Training Opportunities –
September
Counselor Wellness – 6 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
This course reviews the most current confidentiality laws that govern substance use disorder treatment, including CFR 42 and HIPAA, and helps participants understand compliance practices. Other laws that affect the helping profession are also reviewed, including child abuse reporting and duty to warn.
- Date: September 19 & 20, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Mary DeGiovine-Robins, MSED, CRC, GCDF, MHC-LP
Registration Deadline: September 9, 2023
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Confidentiality and Legal Issues – 3 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
This course reviews the most current confidentiality laws that govern substance use disorder treatment, including CFR 42 and HIPAA, and helps participants understand compliance practices. Other laws that affect the helping profession are also reviewed, including child abuse reporting and duty to warn.
- Date: September 21, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Dolores Jewell, PhD, JD, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: September 11, 2023
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Ethical Decision-Making* – 6 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
In this introductory course, the ethical tenets governing substance abuse counselors will be reviewed and examined. An ethical decision- making model is introduced that allows the user to weigh several factors, including ethical principles and values, organizational and social policies, and the law, when facing challenging ethical dilemmas.
- Dates: September 26 & 27, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Dolores Jewell, PhD, JD, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: September 16, 2023
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Ethical Decision-Making* – 15 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
In this introductory course, the ethical tenets governing substance abuse counselors will be reviewed and examined. An ethical decision- making model is introduced that allows the user to weigh several factors, including ethical principles and values, organizational and social policies, and the law, when facing challenging ethical dilemmas.
- Dates: September 21, 26, 27 & October 11, 12, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Dolores Jewell, PhD, JD, Adjunct Instructor, Outreach Development Corporation
Registration Deadline: September 11, 2023
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October
Motivational Interviewing – 12 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
If you work with clients, patients or staff members who seem unmotivated to change, adding motivational interviewing to your repertoire of skills may be very helpful. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based practice that helps individuals resolve the ambivalence that often underlies the reluctance to make life changes. In clinical work, it is particularly useful when working with those who come into treatment under coercion or otherwise seem resistant to change. Similarly, motivational interviewing can be very effective in the supervision of staff. The course teaches the core theory, assumptions, spirit, and fundamental skills of MI. Didactic presentation, discussion, film, and “real play” practice is used.
- Date: October 2, 3, 4, & 10, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Liliane Drago, MA, CASAC Master Counselor, MAC, Director, Outreach Training Institute, Outreach Development Corporation, Member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
Registration Deadline: September 25, 2023
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Introduction to Addiction – 6 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
This introductory course is an OASAS requirement for non-credentialed staff*, e.g., at the counselor assistant level in the scopes of practice. Types of drugs, routes of administration, drug effects and problems, substance use disorder, stages of progression, stages of recovery, risk and protective factors, and funding mechanisms for treatment are covered.
- Date: October 18 & 19, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Andre Toussaint, PhD, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: October 8, 2023
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Group Counseling – 12 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
The fundamentals of effective group counseling will be examined in this course, including the uses and benefits of group for individuals with substance use disorders, the types of groups commonly used in SUD treatment, the role of the facilitator and facilitation skills, group structure, stages, and dynamics and how to address common problems in group counseling.
- Date: October 25, 30, 31, & November 1
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Desiree Hamilton, CASAC, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: October 15, 2023
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Clinical Supervision Foundations II – 16 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT) * required for clinical supervisors
This course will focus on clinical supervision in substance use disorder treatment. This 16- hour classroom training is part two of the OASAS approved Clinical Supervision Foundations and fulfills the Clinical Supervision training requirement as stated in the Substance Use Disorder Counselor Scope of Practice. Participants must complete the 14 hour on-line Clinical Supervision Foundations I (CSFI) course prior to taking this course and submit their certificate at registration. If you have not taken the online Clinical Supervision Foundations I course please refer to this link: https://bit.ly/CSFI-HealthEKnowledge.This course will review the role of the supervisor, definitions of clinical supervision, models of supervision, the supervisory alliance, modalities and methods of supervision, assessment resources, performance evaluation, and counselor development.
- Dates: October 31, November 2, 9, 13 & 14, 2023
- Time: 1:00pm – 4:30pm
- Trainer: Liliane Drago, MA, CASAC Master Counselor, MAC, Director, Outreach Training Institute
Registration Deadline: October 22, 2023
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November
Recurrence of Symptoms: Relapse Prevention – 6 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
This course will review the definition and process of relapse, risk factors for relapse, recovery skills, and the cognitive-behavioral approach to relapse prevention. Participants will practice the use of specific CBT strategies in relapse prevention. The training will consist of didactic presentation, large and small group discussion, simulation.
- Date: November 13 & 14, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Desiree Hamilton, CASAC, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: November 3, 2023
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Counseling Families and Significant Others in SUD Treatment – 12 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
This course will provide knowledge on a systemic, relational, and culturally sensitive framework for engaging families impacted by substance use disorder. Family involvement increases the effectiveness of substance use treatment, and yet few service providers working in the field of substance abuse treatment have had access to training in family therapy. Providers trained in key principles and techniques of family therapy will be better able to provide “family friendly” therapeutic support to clients, thereby increasing the effectiveness of their services.
- Date: November 28, 29 & December 4, 5, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Kim Sumner- Mayer, PhD, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: November 18, 2023
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December
Medication Assisted Treatment – 3 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
The increasing emphasis and use of medication in the treatment of substance use disorders necessitates the treatment professional developing some familiarity with the variety of medications currently available. This presentation will review these various medications as well as concurrent clinical issues which might arise for the non-prescribing clinician who seeks to support medication assisted treatment.
- Date: December 6, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Andre Toussaint, PhD, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: November 26, 2023
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Toxicology Testing – 3 hours (CASAC, SW, MHC, MFT)
An overview of the various forms of drug testing, including urine, saliva, hair, sweat, breath and issues associated with each. Common means of attempting to falsify the urine test results will also be discussed.
- Date: December 13, 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Trainer: Dr. Tim Cheslik, DPM, CASAC, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: December 3, 2023
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Free, OASAS-Sponsored EBP Trainings
Free training for staff and peers in Brooklyn and on Long Island: OASAS-Funded State Opioid Response (SOR) Grant-Funded Training.
We have a new page now as we’re adding more training offerings! Visit https://opiny.org/sor-trainings/ for more information and to apply!
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