Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit

May 6-8, 2025

The Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit is an annual event that highlights prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery strategies related to opioids, stimulants, and trauma. All people with an interest in building healthy communities are invited to attend.

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Registration

Registration is required for this event. The registration deadline is May 6 at 12 p.m.

In person

Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells
$200/person through March 7, 2025
$250/person March 8, 2025, through April 4, 2025
$300/person April 5, 2025, through May 6, 2025

Virtual

Zoom through the Whova app
$150/person through March 7, 2025
$200/person March 8, 2025, through April 4, 2025
$250/person April 5, 2025, through May 6, 2025

The UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education is supporting the registration process for this event.

If you have questions about the registration process, contact Wisconsin Connect at wi-connect-conferences@uwm.edu. Wisconsin Connect is providing planning and logistics support for this event.

Single day passes for May 6, 7, and 8 are not available. Three-day registration is the only option to attend the conference. All registrants will have access to recordings of sessions on May 6, 7, and 8 they were unable to attend.

No scholarships are available for this event.

Cancellation policy: Cancellation requests for this event must be received in writing no later than April 4, 2025. A cancellation processing fee of $75.00 (or full registration amount, whichever is less) will be deducted from the refund. No exceptions. Registered participants wishing to cancel may transfer their registration to someone else without penalty if they send a written request with the new participant details by April 11, 2025. Cancellations received after April 4, 2025, will not be refunded. Participants must cancel in advance of the event. No refunds will be issued once the event has started, regardless of whether the participant joined the event. Send a cancellation request to wi-connect-conferences@uwm.edu.

Refund policy: Refunds will only be issued to registered participants if this event is canceled for any reason. No exceptions. All registered participants have access to session recordings and materials for three months after this event.

Special meal requests: Requests for special meals must be made by April 11, 2025. There may be an extra charge for some special meal requests. Send special meal requests to Tamara.Reed@aah.org.

Videography/photography: Organizers and attending news media may be videotaping or photographing portions of this event. By attending this event, registrants acknowledge these activities and agree to allow their image to be used by the organizers and news media in any way. Registrants may not videotape or broadcast any potion of this event without written permission from organizers.

Event materials: This will be a paperless event. The WHOVA app will be used to share event materials with all in-person and virtual participants. Information on how to access the WHOVA app will be emailed to all registered participants several weeks before the event. This information will be sent to the email registrants provided during the registration process.

Agenda

The full agenda for each day will be released soon. The information listed below is tentative and subject to change.

The topics covered at this event relate to the work of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, mental health and substance use professionals, social workers, educators, elected officials, and community leaders.

May 5 (optional in-person only preconference activities)

There is a separate registration fee to participate in preconference activities. The preconference activities are being reviewed for continuing education hours or credits. Information on the continuing education hours or credits available will be posted here soon.

This activity is limited to 30 participants.

Registration fee: $150/person

When service providers are working to heal trauma, they often hold space for others to heal. But how does the healer heal? This course will help teams manage the stress of working in healing professions.

Breakfast will be provided.

This activity is limited to 50 participants.

Registration fee: $150/person

Contingency management is a strategy used to encourage positive behavior change, especially among people with a stimulant use disorder. This course will provide information on how to use this strategy with the TRUST model to treat people with stimulant use disorders and the Matrix model of outpatient stimulant use treatment.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided.

This activity is limited to 85 participants.

Registration fee: $250/person

This course is designed to help health care professionals develop patient-centered service plans and make objective decisions during the Level of Care Assessment and Treatment Planning Assessment for individuals with substance use disorders and co-occurring conditions. Participants will learn the basics of the ASAM Criteria, such as the guiding principles, continuum of care, and how to conduct the Level of Care and Treatment Planning Assessments to provide an appropriate level of care recommendation and individualized treatment plans. Further, by using case scenarios, this course will help prepare participants to implement the ASAM Criteria effectively in their practice. The target audience for this course includes beginner, intermediate, and advanced counselors, social workers, administrators, clinical staff, medical students, and any other health care professional who works individuals with substance use disorders and co-occurring conditions.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided.

May 6: 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks offered with registration for in-person participants.

8:15 a.m.: Opening remarks
8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Christian Conte, Ph.D. (behavioral health resilience, building a strong and inclusive workforce)
10:00 a.m.: Break
10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 1 (five workshop options)
11:15 a.m.: Lunch
12:30 p.m. Afternoon keynote - Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH (policy approaches to ending the opioid crisis)
1:45 p.m.: Break
2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 2 (five workshop options)
3:00 p.m.: Break
3:15 p.m. Breakout session 3 (five workshop options)
4:15 p.m.: End of day

May 7: 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks offered with registration for in-person participants.

8:15 a.m.: Opening remarks
8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Mark Denning (generational trauma, substance use, and mental health)
10:00 a.m.: Break
10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 1 (five workshop options)
11:15 a.m.: Lunch
12:30 p.m. Afternoon keynote - Brenda Combs, Ed.D. (overcoming trauma and stimulant use)
1:45 p.m.: Break
2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 2 (five workshop options)
3:00 p.m.: Break
3:15 p.m. Breakout session 3 (five workshop options)
4:15 p.m.: End of day

May 8: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Breakfast offered with registration for in-person participants.

8:30 a.m.: Closing remarks
8:45 a.m.: Interagency Council on Mental Health listening session (The Interagency Council on Mental Health is a group of representatives from state agencies called together by Governor Evers to identify strategies to reduce barriers and address gaps in mental health services statewide.)
9:45 a.m.: Break
10:00 a.m.: Breakout session 7 (four workshop options)
11:00 a.m.: End of day

Breakout session topics for May 6-8

The workshop options for May 6-8 include discussions on:

A data tool that provides community alerts on spikes in suspected drug overdoses.
A new statewide effort to prevent drug impaired driving.
Crisis services for people who use substances.
Harm reduction strategies.
Helping children impacted by opioids, stimulants, and trauma.
How state government is investing opioid settlement funds.
How to use motivational interviewing with people who have an opioid use disorder.
How to work with older adults who have substance use concerns.
How to work with youth who have substance use concerns.
Naloxone saturation.
Peer recovery coaches.
Recovery housing options in Wisconsin.
Recovery through work.

Self-care strategies for people working in substance use services.
Strategies to build community partnerships.
Successful prison and jail substance use disorder treatment programs.
Supports for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use concerns.
The role of community pharmacies in addressing the opioid crisis.
The role of exercise in substance use disorder treatment.
The role of psychomotor stimulants in the drug overdose crisis.
The TRUST model for the treatment of stimulant use disorders.
Treating tobacco use and dependence in health care systems and clinics.
Trends in substance use.

The presenters include doctors; pharmacists; master's level mental health and substance use prevention professionals, treatment providers, and recovery support professionals; and people with lived experience of mental health and substance use concerns.

Lodging

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Kalahari Resort for $98 per night.

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Continuing education units and credits

Continuing education units or credits are available to all people who participate in the live event. No continuing education units or credits are available for watching session recordings when they are available.

For continuing education hours (CEH):

UW-Milwaukee's Helen Bader School of Social Welfare is approved as a provider of continuing education hours.
Each hour of content is equal to 1 CEH.
13 CEHs are available for this event if all creditable sessions are attended.

For continuing education units (CEU):

UW-Milwaukee's School of Continuing Education is the provider of continuing education units.
Each hour of content is equal to 0.1 CEU.
1.3 CEUs are available for this event if all creditable sessions are attended.

The calculation for continuing education units is 10 hours of study in one program is equal to 1.0 CEU.

For continuing medical education (CME):

Continuing medical education hours are expected to be available. The agenda is being reviewed to determined which sessions will count toward continuing medical education hours and how many hours are available for each session.

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

It may take up to 30 days after this event to receive verification of continuing education units or credits.

Exhibitors

There is no space for exhibitors at this event. All registered attendees are welcome to share information about programs and services in the Whova app at no additional cost.

This event is organized by the Division of Care and Treatment Services and Wisconsin Connect, a service of the Center for Urban Population Health. The Center of Urban Population Health is made up of faculty and staff from the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Milwaukee, and Advocate Aurora Research Institute.

Send questions about this event to dhsdcts@dhs.wisconsin.gov.