Moving Towards Recovery-Informed Workplaces, Everyone Has a Role

Room – Stephen Ballroom Part 1 – 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, Part 2 – 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. February 22nd, 2023, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta

Speakers

Panel 1:  Recovery Informed Workplace Systems

  • JD Porter, Director of Operations, Swoop Airlines
  • Ian Robb, President, Building Trades of Alberta
  • Michael McKenna, Executive Director, BC Construction Safety Alliance
  • Dr. Paul Farnan, IMA Solutions, Simon Fraser University
  • Dr. Carson McPherson, Simon Fraser University

Panel 2:  Recovery Management at Work

  • John Felicella, Union/EAP Coordinator, International Longshore, and Warehouse Union/ BCMEA Employee Assistance Program
  • Vanessa Beaudoin, Flight Attendant, Air Canada
  • Kim Skeath, Mercer Marsh Benefits Canada Limited
  • Steve Farina, VP for the BC Professional Firefighters Association (BCPFFA)
  • Dr. Paul Farnan, Addiction Physcian
  • Dr. Carson McPherson, SFU

Panel Moderators

Part 1

Part 2

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Session Description

Traditionally, the workplace has been a setting where employees with substance use and mental health challenges have presented with advanced medical and psychosocial concerns. Employers rely on the conventional medical approach, characterized by late-stage detection of impairment, reactive interventions, difficulty accessing appropriate medical treatment and extended time loss. The siloed model of the Canadian healthcare system is simply not capable of meeting the complex needs of these employees at an early stage.


Recovery is a strengths-oriented model that runs counter to the conventional medical approach. Recovery-orientated approaches focus on enhancing strengths and abilities; ultimately improving the agency and self-efficacy of employees who are struggling with substance use and mental health challenges. Employing recovery principles in the workplace community can be a highly effective means of not only proactively addressing but also preventing substance misuse, by creating a safe and supportive work culture.


The benefits of Recovery Informed Workplaces (RIW) extend beyond assisting individual employees. Creating a recovery-inclusive workplace culture allows people in recovery to contribute to important conversations in the workplace that others need to hear, e.g. on substance use and mental health policies or wellness initiatives.
This session is designed to provide attendees with pragmatic advice in moving a workplace toward a recovery-informed approach. Panel members will, through an interactive session, discuss the pearls and pitfalls of recovery-friendly workplace approaches they have experienced or are considering, and how structuring a collaborative style can assist in a more progressive approach for all stakeholders.

Learning Objective

  • Understand the concept of recovery and how it can positively impact workplace settings.
  • Appreciate common pitfalls and pearls for management and labour when trying to create and support a recovery-informed workplace.
  • Develop a sense of confidence in having difficult conversations with employees and employers about substance use and recovery in the workplace.
  • Consider training and skills for workplace personnel to help support those who may be experiencing substance use challenges or who are in recovery.

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Recovery and the Indigenous Perspective

Room – Main Ballroom – Two-Part Session. Part 1 – 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, Part 2 – 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. February 22nd, 2023, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta

Speakers

  • Geri Bemister
  • Trevor Pelletier
  • Chief Keith Blake
  • Chief Vernon Saddleback
  • Jodie Two Guns
  • Ruebon Breaker
  • Scott Edwards
  • Patricia Paulson
  • Rain Pierre (sɬə́məxʷ)

Part 1 – 11:00 to 12:30

Part 2 – 1:30 to 3:00

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Session Description

  • Racism and healthcare
  • Mental health and addiction
  • Indigenous Health Teams
  • Trauma
  • Reconciliation

Geri Bemister – The role of trauma is complex and different in many cases for indigenous persons, incarcerated or not. The data on mortality rates, incarceration rates, and children in care are showing clearly that the approaches of status quo are in many cases, causing the numbers to increase, not decrease. Innovation towards all the systems involved is crucial to the well-being of indigenous persons.

Trevor Pelletier – Trevor comes from the Siksika Nation, he works with Iiniikokan Shelter and Recovery Center located in Siksika Nation for 7 years. He is the Shelter Manager and oversees all Programs. He is the Spiritual Leader of the Horn Society in Siksika Nation and has been part of the Society for 16 years. Trevor will be talking about how our way of life could be a great influence, how traditional programs could benefit all other traditional basic addiction treatment centres, and how they could better suit their programs with my traditional methods.

Chief Keith Blake – Chief Blake will discuss the Toward Peace Harmony and Wellbeing Report, and the role of policing in indigenous communities’ affects access to healthcare

Chief of Police Tsu’tina, is proud to lead alongside the sworn and non-sworn members of Tosguna, and to serve the beautiful community of Tsuut’ina Nation. Chief Blake believes in the importance of providing community-centered policing, adapting to meet the cultural and socioeconomic needs of the Tsuut’ina Peoples, and addressing the root causes of crime. After serving 24 years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Keith Blake was sworn in as the 5th Chief of Police of the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service on May 16th, 2013. Keith has been privileged to have completed all of his service in the Province of Alberta and experienced firsthand the culture, pride, and honour in being a part of the policing in seven different First Nations communities across Alberta. Keith’s operational and investigative policing experience includes both front-line uniform policing, and plain clothes duties in specialized units which included postings as a General Investigation/Major Crime Investigator, Federal Drug Unit Investigator, and Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) Investigator and Supervisor, Detachment Commander, Emergency Response Team Leader, and Professional standards. Chief Blake is invested in advocating for First Nations Policing, raising awareness, and supporting solutions related to the challenges and triumphs of Indigenous Policing across our Country and he remains truly humbled to serve the visionary people of the Tsuut’ina Nation.

Chief Vernon Saddleback – Samson Cree Nation, Treaty 6 has served in leadership for the Samson Cree Nation since 2008. He was elected by the Samson members as a Councillor and for the last two terms as Chief. Chief Saddleback’s passion is ensuring mental health support services are accessible to vulnerable high-risk members of Samson. Outreach to community members is critical to educate and inform youth, adults, and elders of the local service providers available to assist individuals and families in their healing process. He is a co-founder of the Samson Hub group formed in 2009. Weekly hub meetings Chaired by Chief Saddleback bring together several Samson community agencies who collaborate by assessing referrals and coordinating family and mental health support services. He will share the Hub Models’ strengths and how their application lead to curbing gang activity in Samson in 2009.

Plus lived experience by Ruebon Breaker,  Siksika Nation Chief and Council Directory, Councillor Asinaipoka, Rain, Patricia, and Scott.

Learning Objectives

  • The role of intergenerational trauma on indigenous persons and innovative approaches.
  • What’s not working is based on morbidity rates and data from the front line.
  • Correctional systems, and overrepresentation, what are possible solutions?

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Saving our Communities with Reimagined Systems of Care

Room – Main Ballroom 9:30 am February 22nd, 2023, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta

Speaker – Dr Ijeoma Achara-Abrahams

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Session Description

“The goal of services must not be limited to symptom reduction but should strive for restoration of a meaningful and productive life.” This statement was made 23 years ago by David Satcher, a former US Surgeon General in the 1999 Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health.

Today, the need for effective solutions to mounting behavioral health challenges seems more pressing than ever. Unfortunately, many of our current service models continue to aim for biopsychosocial stabilization. Although current models may help people to reduce or manage their substance use disorder symptoms, they do not intentionally help people to re-integrate into their community, take steps toward a better life, and sustain their wellness over time. Our lack of systemwide commitment to a more accurate definition of wellness contributes to escalating costs and declining community health.

In this presentation, Dr. Ijeoma Achara will share an alternate framework that can help system administrators and providers tackle some of their most difficult challenges while promoting recovery, resilience, and well-being.

Participants will learn how services in a reimagined, holistic recovery-oriented system of care improve on services delivered under traditional, clinically driven models of care. Dr. Achara will explore with participants the specific implications of a reimagined behavioral health system for treatment providers, peer support staff, and system administrators. This presentation will help to expand your vision about what is possible for your system in the provision of substance use services and will clarify the role that we can each play in improving health, equity, and quality-of-life outcomes.

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will have an increased understanding of a recovery-oriented system of care
  • Participants will be able to articulate 3 Implications of providing recovery-oriented services for treatment providers, peer staff, system administrators, and community supports
  • Participants will be able to identify the greatest misconceptions about a recovery-oriented system of care.
  • Participants will be able to articulate the role of recovery capital in promoting sustained wellness.

Bio

Dr. Achara-Abrahams has more than a decade of experience helping behavioral health systems move from reactive to recovery-oriented approaches. As Director of Strategic Planning at the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, Dr. Achara led Philadelphia’s cutting-edge recovery-oriented system of care (ROSC) transformation effort, which included managing the change process, designing and implementing strategies to empower people in recovery to play integral roles in systems change and to expand and integrate peer services, and aligning policies and clinical practices with a recovery-orientation. Prior to leading Philadelphia’s successful ROSC transformation, Dr. Achara was a faculty member in the Yale School of Medicine Program on Recovery and Community Health, where she supported Connecticut’s recovery transformation efforts.
Dr. Achara formed Achara Consulting in 2008 specifically to help state and local governments and provider organizations envision, plan, implement, and manage transformative approaches to implementing ROSC. A key element of her approach is working early on with an expansive set of stakeholders to develop a shared vision with widespread community support.

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What is the Alberta Model?

Room – Main Ballroom 3:30 pm February 21st 2023, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta

Speaker Marshall Smith

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The Alberta Model is a coordinated network of services and supports that builds on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families, and communities to achieve a life free of illicit drugs and improved health, well-being, and quality of life for those with or at-risk of addiction or mental health issues

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Land Based Teachings and the Relationship to 12 Step Recovery

Room – Bannerman Walker Room Room, February 21st, 2023, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta

Speaker – Jo & Bruce Dumont

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Session Description

What are the complementary components of Land Based Indigenous Healing Practices (eg Sacred Circle, Smudge/Cleansing, Elder advice) and a majority of 12-step programs (eg Alcoholics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous) that, when amalgamated as a dual process, produce optimal addiction treatment/healing outcomes? Even a cursory view of the literature highlights the fundamental role of spirituality in Indigenous and 12-step practices. Fijal & Beagan (2019) writing on the value of including Indigenous healing practices within the Canadian health care system described the person “…as having physical, cognitive, and effective components, with Spirituality at the core” (p227).

Addressing the importance of land to indigenous peoples, Fijal & Beagan noted it is “… interconnected with Spirituality since it is fundamental to Indigenous knowledge” (p226). Jennifer Redvers (2020) commenting on the important relationship of land to traditional healing and spirituality wrote, “…we believe in it so much, because going back there [to traditional land location] brought, what we hear people saying, it brought a sense of belonging” (p97).

There is little debate as to the role of Spirituality within 12-step groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous which is a widely available empirically supported (Kelly & Arby, 2021) approach that is best described as a “…Spiritually based intervention” (Beraldo et al, 2019, p26). At an individual level, 12-step recovery can and does encompass a religious component. However, it is more aligned with the personal and subjective understanding and expression of Indigenous practices in that it is “…more sensitive to earthly concerns than heavenly hopes” (Jordan, 2019, p204).

Additionally, both 12-step practice and Indigenous cultural practices draw on the concept of a deity for spiritual guidance that has been respectively referred to as a Higher Power and The Creator. The counterpart of the Indigenous Elder, who provides sage counsel, is the 12-step Sponsor who provides experiential support to new members. Another commonality is the 12-step narrative (McInerney & Cross, 2021) and Indigenous storytelling (Datta, 2018) both inherent components for optimal outcomes within each approach. This synopsis provides an overview of just a few of the many complementary integrations between 12-step-based Recovery and Indigenous Land Based Healing Practices.

Learning Objectives

  • Understanding the links between land-based teachings and 12-Step Recovery.
  • Practical application of land-based teaching in groups.
  • Statistical analysis of the efficacy of LBT in treatment.Y35

References

  • Beraldo, L. Gil, F.; Ventriglio,A.; de Andrade, A.;da Silva, A.;Torales,J.;Gonçalves, P.;Bhugra,D.; & Castaldelli-Maia, J. (n.d.). Spirituality, religiosity and addiction recovery: Current perspectives. http://www.eurekaselect.com. Retrieved December 16, 2022, from https://doi.org/10.2174/1874473711666180612075954 Datta, R. (2017). Traditional storytelling: An effective indigenous research methodology and its implications for environmental research. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 14(1), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180117741351
  • Fijal D, Beagan BL. Indigenous perspectives on health: Integration with a Canadian model of practice. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 2019;86(3):220-231. doi:10.1177/0008417419832284Jordan, J. A. (2019). Alcoholics Anonymous: A vehicle for achieving capacity for secure attachment relationships and adaptive affect regulation. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 19(3), 201–222. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533256x.2019.1638180
  • McInerney, K & Cross, A (2021) A Phenomenological Study: Exploring the Meaning of Spirituality in Long-term Recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 39:3, 282-300, DOI: 10.1080/07347324.2021.1895016Redvers, J. (2020). “The land is a healer”: Perspectives on land-based healing from indigenous practitioners in Northern Canada. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 15(1), 90–107. https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v15i1.34046

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Development of a Recovery Coaching Program Within a Community Setting.

Room – Herald Doll Room, February 21st, 2023, 1:30 to 3:00 pm. Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta

Speaker – Steve Gaspar, Dr. Ray Baker, and Kyle Young Pine

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Session Description

Recovery Coaches Alberta (RCA) is a new initiative providing, at no cost, recovery coaching and training to any Albertan (18+) in active addiction or any stage of recovery. Exploring the evolution of the program including how recovery coaches are developed and evaluated, and how to effectively engage community members, RCA will present preliminary data and discuss the successes and challenges of this initiative including recovery coaching within First Nations communities.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the role of the recovery coach
  • Understand how to develop competent and confident coaches. Including evaluation of a coach’s skill and a discussion of whether organizations should have staff recovery coaches.
  • Understand how to effectively engage with community members and organizations. Including First Nations communities
  • Provide initial clarity for potential, measurable, outcomes for recovery coaching

References

  • Cloud W, Granfield R, Conceptualising recovery capital: expansion of a theoretical construct, Substance Use and Misuse, 43(12-13) 2008
  • Seligman M, Learned Optimism: how to change your mind and your life, Vintage 2006
    Moore M, Tschannen-Moran B, Jackson E, Wellcoaches Coaching Psychology Manual (2nd ed), Wolters Kluwer (2016)
  • Mathie A, Cunningham M, From Clients to Citizens: Asset-Based Community Development as a Strategy for Community Driven Development 2002. Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University
  • Best D, Irving J, Collinson B, Edwards M, Recovery networks and community connections: identifying connection needs and community linkage opportunities in early recovery populations (2016) Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 35(1),2-15

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Understanding Adolescent Substance Use

Room –Herald Doll Room February 21st, 2023, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta.

Speaker – Rand Teed

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Session Description

The presentation will help participants better understand adolescent substance use and its relation to the stress response as well as ACE scores. The presentation will also touch on the related issue of process disorders.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the connection between stress response and substance use.
  • Why it is important to incorporate Recovery Capital as a foundation for change.
  • Using mindfulness to help create new patterns of self-regulation

References

  • Cannabis Addiction and the Brain https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29556883/Neurobiology Of Addiction
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27475769/Mindfulness, Meditation and Psychopathology
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30525995/”Dopamine Nation” Anna Lembke

Bio

Rand has been working with teens and adults for over 40 years and for the past 25 years has been helping them understand how substance use can get in the way of having the life they want. B.A, a B.Ed and is an Internationally Certified Prevention Specialist and a Canadian Certified Addiction CounsellorHe is the developer of the Drug Class program which has been offered in many Regina High Schools for several years and is the writer and host of the Award Winning Drug Class TV Series.(Gemini Award Best Direction in A Youth Series 2008)50 years of continuous sobriety. Awarded the 2010 Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Media reporting and the 2014 City of Regina “Mayor’s Honour Roll” for contributions to substance abuse prevention.Saskatchewan member of National Recovery Advisory Committee for CCSAAwarded the 2015 Angus Campbell Award for the Province of Saskatchewan.IC&RC International Prevention Specialist of the Year 2016. 2022 Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award for Service to Health Care

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Exploring ROSC in the Doctor’s Office

Room – Stephen Room February 21st, 2023, Two-Part Panel, Part 1 – 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, Part 2 – 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta.

Speakers

  • Dr Jenny Melamed
  • Dr John Koehn
  • Dr Paul Sobey
  • Dr Nathaniel Day
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Session Description

Dr. Jenny Melamed, Alliance clinic is a full service addiction clinic. I will describe how we treat addiction in a biopsychosocial model incorporating a treatment team of therapists and include ministry, parole officers and encourage attendance at mutual support meetings. We do not provide PSAD. Patients are supported in their journey including those that, once they are stable, want to wean off MOUD.

Dr. John Koen, This part of the session will explore a regional response in BC to the increased demand for addiction and overdose prevention services both in the hospital and outpatient settings. We will examine the successes and challenges of the Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (RAAC) model and the lessons learned.

Dr. Paul Sobey, The medical community is unfamiliar with the ROSC construct. Doctors are busy. Many are burned out and most are working in silos of care. A ROSC is exactly what this doctor would order. Doctors who can engage their local ROSC will experience a personal therapeutic benefit and find some of their most difficult patients easier to manage as well. In this brief presentation, I will discuss how the recovering community and office-based doctors can effectively engage each other.

Dr. Nathaniel Day, This presentation will review Alberta’s response to opioid addiction and overdose, including some latest information about VOPD and lessons learned about the importance of rapid access. This session will also discuss unintended consequences to the health system and to patient or client outcomes when we do or don’t focus on individual needs and recovery goals.

Learning Objective

  • Demonstrate the importance of a therapeutic alliance and show how MOUD is but one arm of recovery
  • To gain perspective on the regional response to increased demand for addiction medicine and substance use services in BC’s largest health authority
  • To appreciate the complexity of and the factors involved in establishing ROSC within the acute care hospital setting
  • To examine the successes and challenges of the Rapid Access Addiction Clinic model of care
  • Be familiar with and able to apply scientific research into an assertive referral to community mutual help groups
  • Be familiar with appropriate language to approach doctors about ROSC and the language doctors can use to effectively communicate with the recovering community
  • Be familiar with and able to use screening instruments to measure Recovery Capital in patients
  • Be familiar with how an office-based doctor can most effectively play a role in a local ROSC
  • Participants will understand the changes that have improved care in Alberta, and the motivations behind the changes and will be inspired to take a changing lens back to their programs and communities.
  • Participants will learn about the value of a systems approach and will be more aware of the importance of physician collaboration in opioid addiction.

References

  • Kelly, John. A US national randomized study to guide how best to reduce stigma when describing drug-related impairment in practice and policy. Addiction. 2021 Jul;116(7):1757-1767.
  • Romo, Lynsey K. “Coming out” as an alcoholic: how former problem drinkers negotiate disclosure of their nondrinking identity. Health Communication Volume 31, 2016 – Issue 3.
  • Leamy, Mary, Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. The British Journal of Psychiatry (2011)199, 445–452.
  • Manning, Victoria. Does active referral by a doctor or 12-Step peer improve 12-Step meeting attendance? Results from a pilot randomized control trial. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 126 (2012) 131– 137.
  • McLellan, Thomas. Five-year outcomes in a cohort study of physicians treated for substance use disorders in the United States. BMJ 2008;337:a2038.
  • Shanks, Vicki. Measures of Personal Recovery: A Systematic Review. Psychiatric Services. October 2013 Vol. 64 No. 10
  • Day, N., Wass, M. & Smith, K. Virtual opioid agonist treatment: Alberta’s virtual opioid dependency program and outcomes. Addict Sci Clin Pract 17, 40 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-022-00323-4
  • Public Health Agency of Canada. Opioid-related Harms in Canada. Ottawa: 2020. Health-infobase.canada.ca. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/substance-related-harms/opioids
  • Volkow ND, Frieden TR, Hyde PS, Cha SS. Medication-assisted therapies–tackling the opioid-overdose epidemic. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(22):2063–6. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1402780.
  • Tofighi B, Williams AR, Chemi C, Suhail-Sindhu S, Dickson V, Lee JD. Patient barriers and facilitators to medications for opioid use disorder in primary care. Subst Use Misuse. 2019;54(14):2409–19.
  • Patel K, Bunachita S, Agarwal AA, Lyon A, Patel UK. Opioid use disorder: treatments and barriers. Cureus. 2021;13(2):e13173. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13173.

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Implementing Recovery Oriented Systems of Care that Build Recovery Capital, a systems change

Room –Main Ball Room February 21st, 2023, Two-Part Panel, Part 1 – 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, Part 2 – 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta.

Implementing Recovery Oriented Systems of Care that Build Recovery Capital, systems change

Hear how the system is changing from people with lived experience to healthcare facilities to health authorities.

This knowledge-sharing 2-part session will help you implement ROSC in your practice.

Speakers

  • Kerry Bales- Alberta Health Services
  • Steven Clelland – Alberta Health Services
  • Evan Romanow – Addiction & Mental Health, Alberta Health

Part 1 Panelists

  • Jessica Cooksey – Panel Moderator
  • Bruce Holstead – Fresh Start Recovery Centre
  • Stian Rorstad – Recovery Acres
  • Peter Beka – Last Door Youth Program
  • Rebecca Visscher – Salvation Army Edmonton
  • Asha Altun – Westminster House Society
  • Plus LIved Experience Speakers

The session provides a policy and operational overview of Alberta’s Recovery Model. A panel including NGO non-profit service providers is designed to provide participants with a foundational understanding of recovery-oriented practice in community-based inpatient settings. Philosophies of care, practices, and principles are discussed using a recovery-oriented lens. Panelists will share practical strategies to increase recovery capital through a panel discussion of program-based case studies.  

Objectives 

  1. Stimulate thought and discussion on guidelines for recovery-oriented practice 
  2. Stimulate thought and discussion on transforming services and systems through recovery-oriented practices  
  3. Explore recovery philosophies of care, recovery-oriented practices, and recovery principles within grassroots non-profit community-based programs 
  4. Provide a foundational understanding of a multifaceted integrated approach, including strategies to embrace people-centered recovery management 

Part 2 Panelists

  • Jordan Bowman – My Recovery Plan Onboarding Manager
  • David Pavlus, a person in long-term recovery
  • Adam M, a youth’s lived experience with ROSC
  • Plus a panel of lived experience panelists

This panel of folks with lived experience is designed to provide participants with a foundational understanding of the internal strengths and resources used for recovery. Panelists will share lived experiences of how recovery emerges from hope, is based on respect, is self-driven, happens through many pathways, is a holistic process, is supported by developing emotional bonds with empowering networks, is culturally centered, is supported by addressing social determinants of health, and involves family and community responsibility. 

Objectives 

  1. Stimulate thought and discussion on recovery 
  2. Explore the role of community recovery capital (i.e.:  the necessary scaffolding of a recovery-oriented environment where support for finding and pursuing personally valued goals and engaging in meaningful activities are embedded)  
  3. A foundational understanding of recovery capital (i.e.: the internal strengths and external resources used to (re) initiate and sustain recovery).  
  4. Provide a foundational understanding of a multifaceted integrated approach, including strategies to embrace people-centered recovery management 
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Incentives for Recovery in Treatment and in the Criminal Justice System

Room – Main Ball Room February 21st, 2023 9:30 am, Hyatt Regency Centre, Calgary Alberta.

Speaker – Dr. Keith Humphreys

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Session Description

Addiction is sometimes viewed as involving a complete loss of self-control, but even people with serious addictions will often change their behavior in response to predictable consequences. This presentation explores how this insight can be applied in voluntary treatment settings through the application of “contingency management” interventions, in which there are transparent, immediate, rewards for behavior change. The presentation then turns to how the same principles can be applied in the criminal justice system, focusing particularly on community supervision programs that use swift, certain, and fair consequences to reduce substance use, crime, and imprisonment. Finally, the presentation discusses how in long-term recovery, building a natural environment in which recovery-promoting behaviors are rewarded helps people avoid relapse.

Learning Objectives

  • To understand the nature and evidence behind contingency management interventions in treatment
  • To learn about swift, certain, and fair community supervision programs in the criminal justice system
  • To understand the interplay between long-term support in the environment and recovery

References

  • Higgins, S.T., & Petry, N. M. (1999). Contingency management: Incentives for sobriety. Alcohol Research and Health, 23, 121-127.
  • Kilmer, B., Caulkins, J., DuPont, R.L., & Humphreys, K. (2019). Reducing substance use in criminal justice populations. In S.C. Miller, D.A. Fiellin, R.N. Rosenthal, R., & R. Saitz (Eds.), Principles of Addiction Medicine (6th edition, pp. 1768-1774). Washington, D.C.: American Society of Addiction Medicine.
  • Kleiman, M. (2010) When Brute Force Fails. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Bio

Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Services Research Center in Palo Alto and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. His research addresses the prevention and treatment of addictive disorders, the formation of public policy and the extent to which subjects in medical research differ from patients seen in everyday clinical practice.

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