Upcoming Conferences:

2011 Washington Co-Occurring Disorders and Treatment Conference more>>>>

Past Conferences:

2010 Washington State Prevention Summit more>>>

2010 Saying It Out Loud (SIOL) Conference more>>>

2010 Spring Youth Forum more>>

2009 Washington State Prevention Summit more>>>

2009 Saying It Out Loud (SIOL) Conference more>>>

2009 Washington Prevention Youth Spring Forum more>>>

2008 Washington State Prevention Summit
Dates: October 17-18, 2008 (early registration and activities begin evening of October 16)
Location: Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Washington

12 CEUs are approved for Chemical Dependency Professional in Washington State as well as for National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC). Participants can use their certificate to apply for CEUs from other certification/licensing boards.

Presenter Handouts

Links:

2008 Prevention Summit Photographs

• Exhibitor Application Form
• Sponsorship Application Form
• Online Registration Form - no longer available!
• (Non-chaperone adult ONLY) Printable Registration Form - Type directly in fields, save, print and submit
• (Chaperone/Youth ONLY) Printable Registration Form - Type directly in fields, save, print and submit
• **NEW Chaperone/Youth Information and Permission Forms**
• Scholarship Information
• 2008 Summit Brochure and Agenda Highlights
• 2008 Summit Program
• Hotel • Parking • Transportation Information
• Theme Contest Entry Form 2008
• Save the Date Flyer (Prevention Summit)

Presenter Handouts:                                                                                                                 

• Dana C. Boales -Graphic Recording Pictures
  • 2008 Washington State Prevention Summit
  • Community Assessment
  • Youth and Media - Media is Power
  • Kickin' Ash
  • Celebrating Success
  • Big Homie Program
  • Got Magic
• David Scratchley, M.D. - Getting Focused to Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse
  • Prescription Medication and Abuse....The Updated Story (PowerPoint)
• Janet Matthews, MSN, FNP, WHNP - How the Adolescent Brain Deals with Pressure
  • How the Adolescent Brain Deals with Pressure (PowerPoint)
  • Incorporating Adolescent Brain Physiology into Risk Reduction Strategies (PowerPoint)
  • ACE Impact Handout
• Jackie Jamero Berganio, CPP; Gunthild Sondhi, M.Ed., CPP; Liz Wilhelm, CADP, ICPS; Linda Nelson, CPP; Julie Kandel, OCPS II - Obtaining Your Prevention Professional Certification
  • How to Become Certified
  • PSCBW Application Packet
  • PSCBW Powerpoint
• Jason R. Kilmer, Ph.D. - The Basics on BASICS: An Effective Brief Intervention with College Students
• The Basics on BASICS - An Effective Brief Intervention with College Students(PowerPoint)
• Raul Almeida - Shoulder Taps Program
  • Washington Sense of Urgency DASA ( Shoulder Tap PowerPoint)
• Todd Denny - Gear Up with Music
  • Evaluative Summary of the Swinomish Music Mentors Program
  • www.GearUpwithMusic.com
  • Swinomish Music Mentor Courtney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GHbRc7M-4&feature=user
  • Swinomish Music Mentor Colby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck1peHWFJf8
  • Meth Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swG8ceIarU4
• Ruben Baler, Ph.D. - Underage Drinking
  • http://www.sendspace.com/file/a3nqbr (Powerpoint) Large File

Sponsors:

• DSHS, Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (DASA)
• Office of the Attorney General
• Washington State Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking (RUaD)
• Washington State Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG)
• DASA, Problem Gambling Program
• Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
• TOGETHER! of Thurston County
• Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
• Department of Community, Trade & Economic Development
• Washington State Alcohol/Drug Clearinghouse
• Washington State Mentors
• Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention
• Prevention Specialist Certification Board of Washington
• Washington State Liquor Control Board
• DSHS, Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration
• Washington National Guard
• Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen
• Washington State Department of Health, Tobacco Prevention & Control Program

2008 Co-Occurring Disorders Conference
Dates: September 29-30, 2008
Location: Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Washington

• Save the Date flyer (COD)
• Exhibitor Application Form
• Online Registration Form - credit card only - (COD)
• Printable Registration Form - Type directly in fields, print and submit - (COD)
• Agenda/Registration brochure
• Hotel_Parking_Transportation (COD)
• Yakima taxi cab services
• Scholarship Application
• COD Exhibitor Registration Form
• CODIAC Achievement Award Nomination Form
• Participants attending full conference will receive a certificate for 15 contact hours. 12.5 hours of Category 1 CME hours and 15 hours of Nursing CEU’s are also available.

• Presentations/Handouts
  • Barbara Curtis
    • TBI & Corrections: Which Came First, Risky Behaviors or TBI?
  • Ken Ryan
    • Psychological Masquerade: Distinguishing Psychological From Organic Disorders
    • Handout 1, Handout 2, Handout 3
  • Lori Yates
    • Making the Journey
  • Linda Silvas
    • Mama Bear Baby Bear & the Forbidden Fruit
  • Robert Rhode
    • Quit Your Job. Get on the Bus and Go Fishing: Motivational Interviewing
  • Ron Jackson
    • Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence - An Evidence-Based Practice
  • Floyd Nolte
    • Preventing Future Births of Alcohol & Drug Exposed Babies
    • Handout
  • Ray Hsaio
    • Treatment & Management of Common Co-Occurring Disorders in Adolescents
    • Differential Diagnosis of Common Co-Occurring Disorders in Adolescents
  • David Jefferson
    • A Review of Adolescent Research: A Case for Continuing Care Services and Recovery Management
  • Julie Jensen
    • Recent Innovations in Geriatric Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
  • Ginger Kwan, Al Lewis, and Ralph Edwards
    • Both Ways: Communication with Diverse Communities
  • Stephan Langer
    • Solution-focused Brief Therapy: What is it & What's the Evidence
  • Wooley & Segur
    • Module 4A-C-Assessment
  • Lori Yates
    • Been There, Done That: Partnering With Those Who Have Lived on Both Sides of the Recovery Journey
  • Marvin Clifford
    • Working with Adolescents (PowerPoint in PDF)

Sponsors:

• Department of Social and Health Services
  • Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
  • Division of Developmental Disabilities
  • Mental Health Division
  • Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration
  • Aging and Disability Services
  • Administration, through Federal Grant # H21MC06765, Federal TBI Program
• Washington State Department of Corrections
• CODIAC (Co-Occurring Disorders Inter-agency Advisory Committee)
• Mental Health Transformation Grant
• Providence Everett Medical Center, Department of Medical Education

2008 Institute on Addictions Treatment Conference
Dates: June 25-27, 2008
Location: Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Washington

• Save the Date Flyer (Treatment Institute)
• Printable Registration Form - Type directly in fields, print and submit - (Treatment Institute)
• Agenda/Registration Brochure
• Scholarship information
• Hotel_Parking_Transportation
• Yakima taxi cab services
• Exhibitor Registration Form
• 2008 WA State Exemplary CD Treatment Award Application
• Presenter Form (all primary presenters should complete a form)
• Photos [Picasa]
• Participants attending full conference will receive a certificate for 15.15 Contact Hours.
• Presenter Bios
  • Presenter Bios
• Handouts
  • Andrew Saxon
    • Alcohol & Other Drugs and Co-Occurring Disorders Among Veterans, Active Service Men & Women & Their Families
  • Barry Antos
    • Creating A Therapeutic Milieu Within Inpatient and Outpatient Settings
  • Chuck Anderson
    • Nicotine
    • Video
  • Deena Vandersloot
    • Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices
    • MIA: Step
  • Jack Stein
    • The Role of Public Health in Supporting the Paths to Recovery
  • John Gardin
    • EBP in the Real World
  • Julie Gelo
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Basics and Beyond
  • Mary Testa-Smith
    • Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers
  • Mike Towey
    • Basic Essentials for Clinical Supervisors in Addiction Treatment Programs
  • Peter Hayden
    • Community Collaborations Strategies to Bring the Right People to the TablePeople to the Table
  • Ron Jackson
    • Implementing Evidence Based Practices in Community Based SettingsCommunity Based Settings
    • Intensive Case Management for Homeless Chronic AddictsHomeless Chronic Addicts
    • Evidenced Based Treatment for Opioid AddictionOpioid Addiction
  • Patty Noble-De'sy
    • Therapeutic Community Everything you want to know but were afraid to askbut were afraid to ask
  • Ramona Graham
    • Flip the Script!
  • Rick Ries
    • Recovery in Severe Co-occurring Addiction and Mental disordersMental disorders
  • Robin Roberts
    • NIATx and Performance Measurement
  • Roger Roffman
    • The Teen Marijuana Check-Up
  • Sherry Kimbrough
    • Using a Professional Development Plan
  • Stephen O'Neil
    • Washington State Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment Project
  • Therese Grant
    • Understanding and Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • Tina Orwall
    • Housing and Recovery
  • C. Truth Griffeth
    • Overcoming Unintentional Racism: Cross Cultural Competencies in the Helping Professions
  • Carolyn Hartness
    • Alcohol and the Fetus Handout
  • Joseph Stone (Methamphetamine Handouts, Fact Sheets and Powerpoint)
    • Article
    • Fact Sheet
    • Fact Sheet 2
    • PowerPoint
    • Handout
  • Charles Meredith
    • Substance Abuse Pharmacotherapy
  • Mark Varela
    • Suboxone Treatment

2008 Saying It Out Loud (SIOL) Conference
Date: May 9, 2008
Location: Shoreline Conference Center, Shoreline, Washington

There is no fee to attend this conference, but space is limited to the first 275 registrants. Once the registration limit is reached, no additional registrants will be accepted.

To register electronically, use the Online Registration link below. You may also complete the Printable Registration Form and fax or mail it to CASAT.

• Conference Schedule (SIOL)

2007 Washington State Prevention Summit

• Date: November 16-17, 2007
• Location: Hilton Vancouver Washington Hotel, Vancouver, Washington
• Prevention Summit Agenda
• Required Youth/Chaperone Forms for Admittance into the Prevention Summit
• Call For Proposal Form
• Save the Date Flyer
• Hotel, Parking and Transportation Information
• WASAVP (Washington Association for Substance Abuse & Violence Prevention) brochure and registration form
• Presenter Bios
• Handouts
  • Adam Fletcher
    • Our Only Hope
  • Leona Moran
    • CALM Exercise
    • Child's Jungle Exercise
    • Family Meeting Process
    • Family Meeting Practice 1
    • Jewett States of Grief
    • K-R-5 Stages of Grief
    • Personal Mentor Exercise
  • Monica Olsson
    • Page 1 - Front
    • Page 2
    • Page 3 and 4
    • Page 5
    • Page 6 and 7
    • Page 8 - Back

2007 Co-Occurring Disorders Conference

• Sponsors:
  • Washington State Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
  • Washington State Department of Corrections
  • CODIAC (Co-Occurring Disorders Inter-agency Advisory Committee
  • CNS Productions
  • Providence Everett Medical Center
  • Washington State Adolescent Grant (Funded by CSAT Center for Substance Abuse Treatment)
  • Department of Social and Health Services
    • Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
    • Division of Developmental Disabilities
    • Mental Health Division
    • Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration
    • Aging and Disability Services
    • Administration, through Federal Grant # H21MC06765, Federal TBI Program
• Date: October 1-2, 2007
• Location: Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Washington
• Save the Date Flyer
• New Track for Medical Professionals - Save the Date Flyer
• Hotel-Parking-Transportation
• Yakima Taxi Cab Companies
• Exhibitor Invitation and Registration Form
• Exhibitor Invitation and Registration Form for Pharmaceutical Companies
• Handouts:
  • TBI Track Videos
  • Offender Handbook 2006 (Doc)
  • Allen Hume
    • Treatment Considerations for Chronic Pain Patients
    • Reference: Treatment Considerations for Chronic Pain Patients
  • Alan Marlatt
    • Harm Reduction
  • Carlo DiClemente
    • Process and Mechanisms of Change in Addiction Treatment
    • Addiction and Change
    • ABCT Handout
  • Christie Cline
    • Bibliography 2005
    • Changing the World
    • Integrated Scope of Practice
  • Daniel Wolf
    • Mood Flips & Bad Trips: Ways out of the Maze - Presentation
    • Mood Flips & Bad Trips: Ways out of the Maze - Handouts
  • Darryl Inaba
    • Current Science of Addictions
    • Developments in Addiction Treatment
  • David Brenna
    • Mental Health Transformation Project
  • David Jefferson
    • Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment System and Infrastructure Presentation
  • David O'Neal and Panelists
    • STAR Program
  • Debbie Thiele
    • The South King County Housing First Pilot Project
  • Christy Richardson and Panelists
    • Shelley Little: Public Health - Always Working for a Safer & Healthier WA
  • Debra Srebnik
    • A Housing First Pilot Program
  • Dennis Moore
    • Substance use disorders and persons with disabilities
  • Fred Dyer
    • Compassion Fatigue
    • Overview of Barriers and Solutions
  • Henry Schmidt
    • Treatment of Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disorders
    • Working with Complex Client Populations
  • Jeffery Knudsen
    • The Current State of Addiction Treatment
  • Jesse Fann
    • Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Judith Prochaska
    • Meta-Analysis of Smoking Cessation Interventions
    • Scientific Overview
    • Treating Tabacco Dependence in Clinically Derpressed Smokers
  • Linda Graves
    • Problem Gambling
  • Mark Snowden
    • Depression and Older Adults
  • Susan Astley
    • Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
    • Fetal alcohol syndrome prevention
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • Therese Grant
    • A Pilot Community Intervention for Young Women with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
    • PCAP Publications
    • Quality of Life and Psychosocial Profile
    • Working Effectively with Mothers
  • Victoria Tennant
    • The Developing Teen Brain
    • Understanding the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain

2007 Institute on Addictions Treatment Conference

• Date: June 27-29, 2007
• Location: Sheraton Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma, WA
• Printable registration form and program overview (PDF)
• Lodging, Parking, and Transportation Information
• Flyer - Save the Date
• Exhibitor Invitation and Registration Form
• Handouts
  • Advanced Research in Addiction and the Brain Online Certificate
    • Lesson One
    • Lesson Three
    • Example of a Lesson Featuring a Guest Researcher
    • Resources
  • Building Resilience and Hardiness Strategies
  • Current State of Addiction Treatment
  • Developing and Enhancing the Workforce for Chemical Dependency Treatment
  • Facilitating Partnerships in the Adolescent Treatment Recovery Systems
  • Helping Friend Booklet
  • Intervention as Prevention
  • National Perspective & Future Directions
  • Bridging the Gap: NIATx Changing Treatment for Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders
  • Partner Booklet
  • Problem Gambling is a Family Matter
  • Reaching Hard To Reach Populations
  • Relapse Prevention for Adolecents Using the 12 Steps
  • Staying off Crystal Meth
  • Use & Abuse of Prescription-Type Opiates in Washington State
  • Women and Problem Gambling

2007 Saying It Out Loud (SIOL) Conference

• Date: May 18, 2007
• Location: Shoreline Conference Center, Shoreline, Washington
• Other information and forms:
  • Printable Registration Form (in PDF format, to fax or mail-in)
  • Conference Schedule