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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.
MH#4: Family Psychoeducation
Mental Health Bulletin #4 - Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often rely on family members for the majority of their needed support, and it is estimated that 35-60% of adults with SMI live with family members.
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.
SA#5: The Seven Challenges®
Substance Abuse Bulletin #5 - The Seven Challenges program was developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Robert Schwebel who recognized the lack of age appropriate substance abuse treatment models for adolescents.
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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November 16th, 2009
Addressing Substance Abuse in Children and Youth
doreen_cavanaugh_slides Doreen Cavanaugh, Ph.D. presented this at the NC PIC meeting on Children: Evidence-based Services & Supports on November 12, 2009.

  Addressing Substance Abuse in Children and Youth (1.9 MiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
November 16th, 2009
The Seven Challenges

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The Seven Challenges was presented to the Substance Abuse Subcommittee of the NCPIC on the afternoon of November 12th.   The program has made an application for review to determine its evidence-based status.

  Minutes from SA PIC Meeting 11-12-09 (32.3 KiB)

  The Seven Challenges - PIC Application (117.9 KiB)

  Composite of Evidence (35.4 KiB)

  The Seven Challenges - Licensing Outline (42.3 KiB)

  The Seven Challenges - Poster (111.7 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
August 20th, 2009
SA/MH PIC Meeting Minutes – 8-13-2009

These are the minutes from the sub-committee meeting held after the PIC meeting on 8-13-2009.

  SA/MH PIC Minutes - 08-13-2009 (26.6 KiB)
Posted in MH Presentations, SA Presentations
August 18th, 2009
TRAUMA: An Evidence Based Perspective

Trauma:  An Evidence Based Perspective was held on August 13th.  Over 70 NCPIC members and guests attended this meeting.  Here are presentations from Flo Stein and special guest speaker Kana Enomoto, M.A., Acting Deputy Administrator, Acting Associate Administrator for Women’s Services that were presented at the event.

  Trauma-Informed Care A Call to Action - Part 1 (400.2 KiB)

  Trauma-Informed Care A Call to Action - Part 2 (195.4 KiB)

  Trauma - An Evidence Based Perspective (142.2 KiB)

  The Relationship Between Stress and Substance Use Disorders (574.3 KiB)
Posted in MH Presentations, PIC Events, SA Presentations
May 1st, 2009
PORT Adolescent

Tom Savidge applied to and presented at the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative Substance Abuse subcommittee on PORT Human Services adolescent residential substance abuse services for youth who have in the past been unsuccessful with interventions addressing their substance abuse.

  SA PIC Minutes - May 1st, 2009 (16.8 KiB)

  PORT Adolescent Program (106.7 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
May 1st, 2009
Robeson County Bridges

Dr. Sherri Green presented at the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative Substance Abuse subcommittee on Robeson County “Bridges” for Families project. Bridges uses a comprehensive approach and assures interagency collaboration and capacity building in order to provide a full continuum of care using evidence-based programs for substance-involved families who are referred to the Robeson County Department of Social Services, a rural county in eastern North Carolina affected by drug traffic on the I-95 corridor.

  SA PIC Minutes - May 1st, 2009 (16.8 KiB)

  Addressing the Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Link (1.6 MiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
January 15th, 2009
Reclaiming Futures

Dr. Laura Burney Nissen with Reclaiming Futures presented on their model of coordinating services for youth involved in the criminal justice system who need substance abuse treatment. She was joined by Susan Robinson of The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust which is funding six Reclaiming Futures projects in North Carolina.

  Reclaiming Futures Presentation (932.7 KiB)

  SA PIC Minutes - January 15th, 2009 (16.5 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
February 21st, 2008
Media Ready/Media Detective

Media Ready/Media Detective, Janis Kupersmidt, Ph.D., IRT, Durham
Posted in SA Presentations
February 21st, 2008
Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT)

Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT), Sara McEwen, MD, MPH

  Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (51.1 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
February 14th, 2008
Changing Practice, Changing System

Changing Practice, Changing System, Neal Adams, MD, MPH, California Institute on Mental Health
Posted in SA Presentations
May 14th, 2007
The Science of Implementation

The Science of Implementation:  How to establish Evidence-Based Services in our Communities, Dean Fixsen, Ph.D., University of South Florida
Posted in SA Presentations
February 23rd, 2007
Responding to the Needs of Justice-Involved Persons

Fred Osher, MD, Director, Ctr. for Behavioral Health, Justice & Public Policy, Baltimore, MD
Posted in SA Presentations
February 23rd, 2007
Mental Health and Primary Care Integration

David Pollack, M.D. Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR and Richard Christensen, M.D., University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL
Posted in SA Presentations
December 11th, 2006
Pharmacotherapy Treatments for Substance Abuse

Ashwin Patkar, M.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Posted in SA Presentations
December 11th, 2006
North Carolina SFP Implementation Results

Sherri Green, Ph.D., Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Posted in SA Presentations
December 11th, 2006
Strengthening the Family

Karol Kumpfer, Ph.D., Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Posted in SA Presentations
August 14th, 2006
Contingency Management

Maxine Stitzer, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD

  Contingency Management (49.0 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
April 13th, 2006
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Relapse Prevention

George Parks, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  Relapse Prevention Therapy (45.1 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
April 13th, 2006
Seeking Safety: Treating PTSD

Lisa M. Najavits, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Posted in SA Presentations
January 27th, 2006
NIDA Clinical Trails Network TELE Protocol

Robert Hubbard, Ph.D., National Development and Research Institute, Raleigh
Posted in SA Presentations
January 27th, 2006
Matrix Model of Methamphetamine

Sam Minsky, Clinical Trainer, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and Matrix Institute on Addictions, Los Angles, California

  Matrix Model (80.7 KiB)
Posted in SA Presentations
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