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    MH PIC Meeting
    March 17, 2010 [Wed]
    DD PIC Meeting
    March 26, 2010 [Fri]
    PIC Congress
    May 13, 2010 [Thu]

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    MH#1: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
    Mental Health Bulletin #1 - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) was developed to treat post-traumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
    MH#2: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT)
    Mental Health Bulletin #2 - Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) requires that mental health and substance abuse treatment be delivered concurrently by a team of cross-trained clinicians within the same program.
    MH#3: Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)
    Mental Health Bulletin #3 - The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 6% of the U.S. population has severe mental illness (SMI). For North Carolina, that percentage translates to approximately 200,000 people who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders.
    SA#1: Contingency Management (CM)
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #1 - Contingency management (CM) is a motivational incentive intervention in which clients with substance use disorders receive small rewards for attending treatment, taking prescribed medication, providing negative urine samples, or complying with other defined treatment-related goals.
    SA#2: Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #2 - The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a parenting and family strengthening program for high risk families. It combines science-based (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child life-skill building, and (3) family lifeskill education into a program that improves the child's social/life skills and family functioning and protects the children from the long-term risks of drug abuse.
    SA#3: Seeking Safety
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #3 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may result from exposure and sometimes multiple exposures to highly traumatic events such as child abuse, accidents, violent personal assaults, military combat, or natural or human caused disasters.
    SA#4: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #4 - Matrix was developed in the 1980s by researchers at the University of Southern California and clinicians at the Matrix Institute on Addictions who found that clients addicted to stimulants were challenging the existing treatment system.
    Developing Effective, High-Quality Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Guide for Local Management Entities
    by Beth Melcher, Ph.D. This manual seeks to clarify and provide guidance to LMEs on how to successfully engage in the service development role. It promotes the implementation of evidence-based and best practice services and supports.
    National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
    NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities.

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    September 29th, 2009
    Robeson County Bridges for Families Program

    Linking NCPIC Practices to Create a Model for a Rural Community
    bridges_logoThe research to practice translation gap is not unique to any one field of practice.  Once providers have some awareness of evidence-based practices and understand the value of adding new treatment models to their programs, the key concerns of administrators regarding funding for training and support for clinical supervision in the new models can be addressed through grant funded demonstration programs which are closely evaluated to allow for future replication.

    One example of this approach, used to expand services in a rural community through training in and adoption of evidence-based treatment models, is the Robeson County Bridges for Families program (RCBF).  Funded by a Regional Partnership Grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children and Families, the primary clients served by the program are substance-involved families referred from the Robeson County Department of Social Services (DSS) or Family Drug Treatment Court (FDTC) and/or from a range of parenting support, mental health, and substance abuse treatment services.

    In addition to the necessary legal, substance abuse, and mental health services for client families, the RCBF program provides or arranges for gender-specific and family-focused wrap-around services that address related issues such as parenting skills, safety and domestic violence, poverty, transportation, social support, and child care.

    Since its inception in Fall 2008, the program has added a family drug treatment court; has expanded treatment, including enhanced residential care and transitional housing for families; and has put into operation four new evidence-based substance abuse services: Matrix Model, Seeking Safety, Strengthening Families, and Trauma Focused–Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  These evidence-based treatment/prevention models were recommended for full adoption by the NCPIC in 2006-2007.  For more information about the evidence-based practices being used by Bridges click below.

      Evidence Based Practices Being Used in Robeson Bridges for Families (13.4 KiB)

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    Posted in SA News & Updates
    January 15th, 2009
    Reclaiming Futures – Laura Burney Nissen

    Reclaiming Futures sites funded by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in six North Carolina Communities in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Portland State University. Dr. Laura Burney Nissen, the project developer, presented the program to the Substance Abuse Subcommittee of the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative on a webinar held January 15th.

      Reclaiming Futures (932.7 KiB)

      Application for EBP (55.1 KiB)
    Posted in SA News & Updates
    February 19th, 2008
    Media Ready and Media Detective – Janis Kupersmidt

    Media Ready consists of ten 45-minute highly interactive, activity-based lessons that include three major components to the program. The lessons include teaching the building blocks of media literacy skills; applying media literacy skills to deconstruction of alcohol and tobacco advertisements; and creating media in counter-advertisements.

    Media Detective consists of ten 45-minute highly interactive, activity-based lessons that include three major components to the program. The lessons include teaching the building blocks of media literacy skills; applying media literacy skills to deconstruction of alcohol and tobacco advertisements; and creating media in counter-advertisements.

      Media Ready - PIC Application (46.7 KiB)

      Media Detective - PIC Application (47.6 KiB)
    Posted in SA News & Updates
    February 19th, 2008
    IMPLEMENTATION PRESENTATION

    Changing Practice, Changing Systems

    North Carolina PIC sponsors presentation at Clinical Update by Dr. Neal Adams on “Changing Practice, Changing Systems:  Why Does It Seem So Difficult?”

      Changing Practice, Changing Systems: Why Does It Seem So Difficult? (7.0 MiB)
    Posted in DD News & Updates, MH News & Updates, SA News & Updates
    February 19th, 2008
    Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment – Sara McEwen

    Screening for substance use problems, providing brief interventions (BIs) for at risk users, referral to treatment.

      Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (47.4 KiB)
    Posted in SA News & Updates
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