The Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England (ATTC-NE), funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is offering an on-line course on person centered treatment planning. The discussion material and information will be given via a class WWW page, with more in depth on-line information found through links to other sites.

If a monitor came to do a chart review of the case records of the individuals receiving services at many treatment programs throughout the country, what would he or she see on the treatment plans of those being served?  Would it be possible, without a name on the chart, to differentiate one consumer of services from the next?  Do goals and objectives stated in the plan reflect the counselor’s goals or those of the consumer/client?  If you answered the former, you are in the majority.  “Come daily for medication, see the clinician once a week for individuals, 90 meetings in 90 days, etc., etc., etc.” sound very much like the clinician’s goals and probably don’t reflect those of the client who has career, family and other personal dreams and aspirations.  When you add culture/ethnicity and spirituality to the mix, the task of creating a person-centered recovery plan may seem daunting for the clinician attempting to juggle managed care, record-keeping and the myriad of program policies and procedures by which he or she is bound.  However, once the onus for the creation of a Recovery Plan is put back on the client/consumer, the load actually becomes lessened.  The clinician is no longer responsible for the creation of it, for implementing it, or for insuring it is done.   We will discuss in this course just how that is possible. 

Consumers of behavioral health services, when asked, say that they want to assume control over the treatment they receive.  They want their wishes, hopes and dreams reflected in their Recovery Plans.  They want to be able to choose and change service providers and to do so without threat of retaliation or coercion.  They want to have their achievements celebrated and they want to be encouraged to take risks.  They want to be listened to.  These goals are not different than those we all set for ourselves daily.  It should be no different in the treatment setting. 

There is an underlying fear in many clinicians/counselors that Person-centered Planning and a recovery-centered approach in general is somehow a threat; to jobs, to stability, to the field as a whole.  This could not be further from the truth.  The notion that a client/consumer’s individual and very personal wishes, hopes and dreams should be reflected in their Recovery Plan and followed represents a paradigm shift, especially for those who have been in the field for a while.  Recently, a psychologist colleague of mine said it really well when he said, “We took the clients and the staff out of the State hospitals.  Now, we need to take the State hospitals out of the clients and the staff.”   

This course will present an in-depth look at a recovery-centered approach and Recovery Core Values and how these may be employed in clinical practice in Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Treatment. Issues such as understanding how culture and spirituality should be used in the development of person-centered recovery planning will be explored. This workshop will use a selected reading list and experiential exercises and participants will be asked to examine themselves and their world view as well as that of others in order to understand recovery in a cultural/spiritual context.

OmiSade' Ali, MA, LCDC, LAC, ADC III, CCS, is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in two states and a Certified Clinical Supervisor. She is the Vice President of Programs Affairs for the Cenikor Foundation, Inc. in Houston, Texas. For the past thirteen years, Ms. Ali has been on the faculty of the New England Institute of Addiction Studies. She is a member of the faculty of Brown University's Addiction Technology Transfer Center where she provides education on Culturally-competent Recovery Planning and Working with Indigenous Healers in the Native, African-origin and Latino Communities. Ms. Ali has published her thesis and other articles on culturally competent treatment and its efficacy in the field. She has planned and developed peer services that have drawn national recognition and she has been in the field of Behavioral Health Treatment for 37 years. Ms. Ali holds a Bachelor of Arts in Counseling Psychology and a Master of Arts in African Psychology and is presently pursuing a doctorate in Health Psychology. She holds a certificate of Clinical Pastoral Counseling and is an ordained Priest in an African Traditional Religion.  

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Be able to describe the key aspects of a good recovery-centered approach and the Recovery Core Values;
• Be able to describe the difference between a "treatment plan" and a "recovery plan";
• Identify aspects of a person-centered recovery plan;
• Understand the importance of culture and spirituality and how they function in a recovery-centered approach; and
• Learn how to obtain cultural and spiritual information from the consumer/client in order to assist him or her with the creation the recovery plan.

• Required on-line reading (one hour per week)
• Completion of pre and post test
• Completion of weekly homework assignments (one hour per week)
• Participation in the weekly forum
• Completion of an on-line course evaluation

*Please note that there are no real time events associated with this course. Lessons will be posted on the class WWW home page on Tuesdays and responses are due the following Monday. Assignments can be accessed at the participant's convenience.

The total cost of this course is $40.00 the course payment is due by May 27, 2008.  A full refund is available up until the posting of the second lesson (June 6, 2008), after which there will be no refunds.

ACCREDITATION

This five-week course, which begins May 27, 2008, has been approved by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) for 10 educational credits. It is being provided by the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England, which is accredited as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider (#000151). This course meets the qualifications for 10 hours of continuing education credit for MFCC's and/or LCSW's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE#1917).  This course is approved by the Connecticut Certification Board (CCB) for ten Category 1 continuing education for Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CADC's). The CCB is an IC&RC affiliate. The New York State OASAS does accept distance education CEUs provided by the Addiction Technology Transfer Network for individuals pursuing or renewing a CASAC, CPP or CPS.Certificates will be mailed within two weeks to participants in the program for its duration who submit all required materials.  Please contact your local certification board to verify reciprocity or acceptance of ATTC-NE contact hours.
 

To participate, you must have:

• An E-mail address and the capacity to retrieve and send E-mail;
• Access to World Wide Web (the following programs provide WWW access: Netscape, Apple CyberDog, and Microsoft Explorer)
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher is the preferred browser for ATTC-NE online courses
• The ability to navigate the World Wide Web
• A basic understanding of how to use a computer and send and receive email
   

PLEASE NOTE NETWORK AND COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT WILL NOT BE PROVIDED.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 27, 2008 or when the course limit is reached. 

To register for this course please go to the following WWW site and complete the 'Person Centered' course online registration form. YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS COURSE
https://www.attc-ne.org/courses/343/reg.html

For a list of current ATTC-NE courses, please go to the following site:
http://www.Attc-ne.org and click on Distance Education.   Please Bookmark this site for future references. Course announcements will be made via the ATTC of New England Online Course Announcement Listserve 6-8 weeks prior to the start of each course. If you would like to be subscribed to this list, please contact Monte Bryant, Program Administrator by email or (401) 863-6606.

This program is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT).

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