Join us in person for Problem Gambling Continuing Education Day to boost your skills and stay updated!About this Event
LOCATION: Health United Building (HUB 402), Xavier University, hosted by the Department of Social Work
Problem Gambling Prevention and Treatment Coalition of Southwest Ohio is an approved provider of continuing education through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (#50-60765) and is a registered course sponsor approved by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board (#20-1407116)
PreventionFIRST! will apply for prevention and Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) ceu
AGENDA OF DAY
8:00am In-person check-in opens, coffee and refreshments, networking, employment openings
Exhibit tables:
· Center for Addiction Treatment
· Hamilton County Suicide Prevention Coalition
· PreventionFIRST!
· UC Health, Counseling Services for Addiction Sciences, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
8:40am – announcements about collaboration opportunities
8:50am WELCOME
Rachel Johnson, PhD, MS, LPCC-S, President, Problem Gambling Coalition SW OH
9:00-10:30am
Presenter: Jamie Hopkins, MSW, LSW, LICDC-GAMB, Forensic & Rapid Engagement to Care Supervisor, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
TOPIC: Co-Occurring Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, Substance Use, and Problem Gambling in Community Mental Health
Goal: To enhance participants’ ability to clinically conceptualize and address complex community mental health presentations involving schizophrenia (SPMI), chronic legal involvement, substance use, and problem gambling, with a focus on how these intersecting factors contribute to financial strain, impulsivity, relapse, decompensation, treatment engagement, and offending patterns.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
· Examine the relationship between chronic mental illness, substance use, gambling behaviors, and legal involvement, including how gambling may contribute to financial strain, impulsivity, and offending patterns.
· Identify barriers to stability and recovery in community mental health, including limited insight, treatment non-adherence, substance use, and underrecognized gambling behaviors, and recognize how these factors may contribute to cycles of decompensation, relapse, and legal involvement.
· Apply practical strategies for addressing gambling within integrated community mental health treatment, including harm reduction, motivational interviewing, accountability, and coordinated care approaches.
10:30am-11:00am 30 minute BREAK, visit exhibit tables and select lunch box
11:00am-12:30pm (1.5ceus)
Presenter: Amanda Conn Starner, MS, MCHES, OCPC, Chief Program Officer, PreventionFIRST!
Jade Jacobs, BS, CHES, OCPSA, Program Coordinator, PreventionFIRST!
TOPIC: PF!'s Building Prevention With Faith Toolkit
Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Objectives:
· Demonstrate at least two ways where gambling prevention strategies could be used in a faith setting.
· Identify why faith communities offer a structure that is conducive to teaching about prevention across the lifespan.
· Summarize elements of the Building Prevention With Faith Toolkit that can provide opportunities to work with a faith community or faith-based organization.
12:30pm-12:45pm CE EVALUATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:45-1:45pm
COALITION BUSINESS MEETING – Ways you can become more involved in the Coalition throughout Ohio ?
· Community Engagement Committee
· College Committee
· Strategic Plan Committee
1:45pm Adjourn – take materials back to your agency/school
Event venue
Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, United States
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