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Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit

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.

May 7-9, 2024

In person

Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells
$225/person through March 31, 2024
$250/person April 1, 2024, through April 24, 2024
$300/person April 25, 2024, through May 7, 2024

Virtual

Zoom through the WHOVA app
$175/person through March 31, 2024
$200/person April 1, 2024, through April 24, 2024
$225/person April 25, 2024, through May 7, 2024

No scholarships are available for this event.

Registration

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

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  • Cancellation policy: Cancellation requests for this event must be received in writing no later than April 15, 2024. A cancellation processing fee of $50.00 (or full registration amount, whichever is less) will be deducted from the refund. No exceptions. Registered participants wishing to cancel may instead transfer their registration to someone else without penalty if they send a written request with the new participant details by April 19, 2024. Cancellations received after April 24, 2024, 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 wisconsin-connect@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 six months after this event. 
  • Special meal requests: Requests for special meals must be made by April 8, 2024. There may be an extra charge for some special meal requests. Send a meal request 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.  
  • 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.

Continuing education units

Continuing education units 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. 

There are 13.25 creditable hours total for this event. This is equal to 1.3 continuing education units if all creditable sessions are attended. 

If you need continuing medical education, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu. The continuing medical education hours are being reviewed. You will be contacted with a list of sessions at this event that will count towards continuing education hours and how many hours each session provides. 

Attendance is tracked through the WHOVA app. WHOVA provides a QR code for each creditable session. In order to receive credit for the session you attend, you must scan the QR code that is either on the PowerPoint slide displayed before the session begins (for in person and virtual attendees) or printed inside of the session room (in person only). If you do not scan the QR code, you will not be on the attendance report. People not on the attendance report will not receive credit for that session.

Allow for up to 60 days for Wisconsin Connect to process continuing education documentation after this event. If after the 60 days you have not received a certificate, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu. Certificates must be obtained by August 31, 2024. No certificates will be issued after August 31, 2024.  

Agenda

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

May 6 (optional in-person only preconference activities)

There is a fee to participate in the preconference activities. You may only attend one preconference activity. These events will not be recorded. 

Presenters: Ezra Lyon, M.D., and Jillian Landeck, M.D.

Registration fee: $100/person

On June 27, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration began to require that registration applicants – both new and renewing – affirm they have completed a new, one-time, eight-hour training. Exceptions for the new training requirement are practitioners who are board certified in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry, and those who graduated from a medical, dental, physician assistant, or advanced practice nursing school in the U.S. within five years of June 27, 2023. This training satisfies this Drug Enforcement Administration training requirement.

Agenda

  • 8:00 a.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder, part 1
  • 9:40 a.m.: Break
  • 10:00 a.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder, part 2
  • 11:00 a.m.: Integrating opioid use disorder treatment into the medical office (panel discussion with physicians)
  • 12:00 p.m.: Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00 p.m.: Treatment of opioid use disorder in the peripartum period
  • 1:40 p.m.: Treatment of alcohol, tobacco, and stimulant use disorders
  • 3:00 p.m.: Break
  • 3:20 p.m.: Addressing stigma in substance use disorder treatment (panel discussion with peer recovery coaches)
  • 4:30 p.m.: Next steps for treatment of substance use disorder in your practice
  • 5:00 p.m.: End of training

This session is supported by the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine.

Presenter: Shawn Smith

Registration fee: $50/person

When service providers are working to heal trauma, they often hold space for others to heal. But how does the healer heal? Without individual and/or team/organizational wellness interventions in place, providers experience:

  • Burnout
  • Vicarious traumatization
  • Compassion fatigue
  • High turnover rates
  • Errors, mistakes, and omissions
  • Lower quality of care

This session will offer practical, healing interventions for individuals and/or teams.

Lunch will be provided.


Shawn Smith is a certified motivational interviewing trainer and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). The MINT is an international organization of trainers of motivational interviewing, whose mission is to promote good practice in the use, research, and training of motivational interviewing and represents 35 countries and more than 20 different languages. Smith has served the MINT Trainer Certification Committee, Inclusivity + Diversity Workgroup, and served as a mentor to new MINT members and initiated a quarterly meeting of the Wisconsin MINT members, which has given birth to an annual statewide conference on motivational interviewing. Smith has trained motivational interviewing to thousands of professionals since 2009, including those serving in education, health care, behavioral health, workforce development, education, and the criminal justice system. 

Presenters: Brian Jackson, MS, Ed.D., and Alton Smart, MSW

Registration fee: $50/person

Family Circles was developed using a systems perspective of community intervention/prevention dealing with educational, individual, family and community social cultural issues, including problems in the areas of alcohol and other drug abuse, mental health, domestic abuse, child welfare issues of abuse and neglect. The foundational empowerment approach was to use Ojibwe cultural family strengths as the primary mode of intervention. Through consultations with elder consultants, the Ojibwe language was considered a critical foundational piece of the curriculum. 

At the end of this session, participants will be able to define and recognize historical trauma and after effects in Wisconsin Native peoples, reflect on their own history regarding the trauma installed on Wisconsin Native peoples, and understand the power of cultural restoration to promote resilience and healing among Native peoples. 

Lunch will be provided.
 

Presenter: Sheila Vakharia, Ph.D., MSW

Registration fee: $50/person

This session will provide information on strategies to ensure people who use drugs and their communities can stay safe. 

Lunch will be provided.


Sheila Vakharia is an author and a national expert on harm reduction and drug policy. She is currently the deputy director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading advocacy organization fighting to end the war on drugs. She brings over 15 years of combined experience in clinical social work in both treatment and harm reduction settings, research, teaching, and policy advocacy to her work.

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 and Governor Tony Evers (invited)
  • 8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Steve Pemberton (child welfare)
  • 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 - Phillip McCabe (stimulants and the LGBTQ community)
  • 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: 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

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

  • 8:15 a.m.: DHS Secretary-designee Kirsten Johnson 
  • 8:45 a.m.: Morning keynote - Brian Jackson (Family Circles)
  • 10:00 a.m.: Break
  • 10:15 a.m.: Breakout session 4 (Five workshop options)
  • 11:15 a.m.: Lunch
  • 12:30 p.m.: Afternoon keynote - Richard Rawson (Stimulants) 
  • 1:30 p.m.: Attorney General Josh Kaul
  • 1:45 p.m.: Break
  • 2:00 p.m.: Breakout session 5 (Five workshop options)
  • 3:00 p.m.: Break
  • 3:15 p.m.: Breakout session 6 (Five workshop options)
  • 4:15 p.m.: End of day

May 9: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Breakfast offered with registration for in-person participants.

  • 8:30 a.m.: Keynote - Jess Tilley (Harm reduction)
  • 9:15 a.m.: Break
  • 9:30 a.m.: Breakout session 7 (Five workshop options)
  • 10:30 a.m.: Break
  • 10:45 a.m.: Closing remarks
  • 11:00 a.m.: End of day

Breakout session topics for all three days of the event include discussions on telehealth for substance use disorder, the TRUST model for treatment of stimulant use disorders, successful prison and jail substance use disorder treatment programs, harm reduction, wellness for staff and clients, social determinants of health and the importance of social connections in preventing overdoses, pregnancy and substance use, music as a tool for healing, substance use and women, trauma, stimulants and the ASAM Criteria, engaging families through the stages of change, drug trends, a public health response to opioids and stimulants, motivational interviewing and opioids, public health vending machines, peer support/peer services, and Indigenous prevention programming.

Lodging

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Kalahari Resort for $98/night.

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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.

If you have a question about the Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit or need special accommodations, send an email to wisconsin-connect@uwm.edu.   

Last revised March 8, 2024