Substance Abuse Systems Change Summit Impaired Driving- Prevention, Intervention, & Recovery. Agenda

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1 Substance Abuse Systems Change Summit Impaired Driving- Prevention, Intervention, & Recovery december 8, Northcentral Technical College --- Wausau, WI Agenda 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Linda Larson-Schlitz, MS, LISW, LPC Founder/CEO- Faucet of HOPE LLC and CEU Services and Business Collaborative 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Jason Breitenfeld, AHS, ACJ Human Services Professional, Victim Witness/Impact Panel Participant 9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Melissa Dotter, MS Drug Free Communities Program Coordinator at the Marathon County Health Department and Marathon County AOD Partnership Community Response to Reduce Impact of Impaired Driving 10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Deborah Piskoty, M.A., L.M.F.T., C.S.A.C., I.C.S. Peaceful Solutions Counseling 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch and Legislative Updates 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. William Bo Pearson, MSW, LCSW, QCSW Tomah VA Medical Center Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation PTSD Treatment Program 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Krissy Neyrinck, BS, W2 Team Leader 2:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Break 2:30 p.m. 3:15 p.m. Shawn Larson-Johnson, RN Trempealeau County Health Care Center 3:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Brainstorming solutions breakout session 4:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Wrap Up and Evaluations

2 Linda Larson-Schlitz MS, LISW, LPC, Founder/CEO- Faucet of HOPE LLC and CEU Services and Business Collaborative Linda has been a licensed counselor/social worker for nearly 25 years and has been actively involved in developing creative solutions to systemic challenges in schools, employment, community services and treatment programs. She developed an education and training enterprise program for homeless veterans and others with mental health and substance abuse issues that generated nearly $400,000 in the first 2 years of its inception. Linda is the author of the book Ditzy Blonde Faucet-It s a God Thing on ADHD and All Season Front Row Ticket to the Fights on domestic violence. Linda is the recipient of the Red Cross Hometown Hero Award, the Athena Award and has letters of commendation from Governor Scott Walker, Secretary of Workforce Development Reggie Newson and Mayor James Tipple among others for her creative solutions and dedicated services to the homeless, unemployed and challenged residents of Wisconsin. Linda is committed to advocating for systemic changes for those with disabilities, the mentally and chemically dependent in our nation and will be providing monthly summits for professional development on these issues. Linda will challenge listeners with a new paradigm to consider that challenges our social norms. Viewing each individual as an irreplaceable asset to the world will require us to seek to find those assets in every human being and find ways to empower and support them in using those gifts, talents and experiences to generate income and become self sufficient doing what they love. This workshop will demonstrate how to create a Faucet of HOPE. Jason Breitenfeld AHS, ACJ, Human Services Professional, Victim Witness and Impact Panel Participant Jason was a United States Army Veteran and has Associate Degrees in both Human Services and Criminal Justice from North Central Technical College. He has worked as an intern at the Jobcenter in Wausau and Rhinelander and has been a supervisor at the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter in Wausau. Jason was transporting intoxicated customers from a bar in the safe ride home vehicle he operated when he was hit by a 4th time drunk driver and has had to adjust to his disabling condition. Jason got involved with the Faucet of HOPE Business Collaborative in May and has since become the Author of the forthcoming book The Dangers of Drunk Driving- The Jason Breitenfeld Story that is scheduled for release in 2016 through Xulon Press. Jason is a volunteer on the Victim Impact Panel through Northwoods Restorative Justice and is interested in more speaking opportunities to share his story and insight. Jason will be sharing his tragic story and how he is working through the loss and grief of what used to be. Jason will bring out the systemic problems that have challenged him and how he has used his experience to bring HOPE to others in a variety of ways. Jason will inspire listeners to use everything they have been through to find purpose and meaning and an income that can support a family.

3 Melissa Dotter, MS Drug Free Communities Program Coordinator at the Marathon County Health Department and Marathon County Alcohol & Other Drug Partnership Melissa Dotter has worked in Public Health for over a decade, leading substance abuse prevention and coalition efforts in multiple diverse communities. Emphasizing the need to go beyond education to impact the external factors that contribute to substance abuse, Ms. Dotter has helped lead assessment, planning, implementation and grant writing efforts to transform the culture and reduce this burden on the community. In her current position as Drug Free Communities Program Coordinator at the Marathon County Health Department, she continues to contribute to the growing reputation of the Marathon County Alcohol & Other Drug Partnership as a statewide leader in community coalition engagement. Melissa will be offering an overview of the Marathon County Alcohol and Other Drug Partnership and how they all work together to assist individuals with substance use disorders. She will also discuss how the OWI court has benefited the recidivism and what barriers the coalition has found that need systemic solutions. Deborah Piskoty M.A.,L.M.F.T., C.S.A.C., I.C.S, Peaceful Solutions Counseling Deb holds a Master s Degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor and an Independent Clinical Supervisor. Deb has 13 years experience treating substance abuse issues and trauma for a wide variety of specialty populations including veterans and offenders. Deb also has experience counseling adolescents and has been active in the community as well as the state level working to educate others and to eliminate the stigma associated with the disease of addiction. Peaceful Solutions Counseling is committed to promoting and enhancing personal and family growth and development, while serving to facilitate and support an environment where equality, justice and safety is available for every individual in our community. Deb will be speaking about her experience working with dually diagnosed individuals with chronic substance abuse addictions, methadone treatment and other challenging issues. She will discuss the strategies that have proven to be most effective and the challenges and systemic barriers that prevent them from obtaining successful outcomes.

4 William Bo Pearson MSW, LCSW, QCSW, Therapist for the Tomah VA Medical Center Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation PTSD Treatment Program Bo Pearson is a Master s Level Social Worker with a specialty in Addiction Studies. He works with veterans who served in combat deployments and have resulting Combat PTSD. He supervises and trains MSW & Counseling interns at the Medical Center who are from the UW and Viterbo College Systems. Bo has also worked in the outpatient VA department as a PTSD & Substance Use Disorder Specialist Therapist and in the Acute Psychiatric Hospital Units in the VA system. In the community setting he worked with individuals doing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with post-partum and peri- partum women and he worked as a Family Therapist for incarcerated and, at risk for incarceration, youth working for an agency which contracted with the Department of Juvenile Justice. Bo will be speaking on trauma, PTSD and Substance abuse and the intensive program that the VA offers. He will discuss the various treatments and barriers to treatment that hinder positive outcomes. He will also discuss issues with the criminal justices system, dealing with veterans and youth and how to collaborate to effectively prevent and treat youth and adults at risk. Krissy Neyrinck BS, W2 Team Leader Krissy has her Bachelor s degree in Human Services with a Social Work emphasis. She will be obtaining her Master s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in December and will focus to obtain her LPC license. Krissy has been active in systems change throughout her career. She began working with inmates to help them to see hope. She then began teaching Breaking Barriers to inmates in With this model, she has helped inmates to challenge their own personal beliefs to see results/consequences in their behaviors leading to their overall life choices. She was able to implement this program in a neighboring jail as well. She excels in treating people how you wish to be treated and lives by this in her daily interaction with clients. She now supervises the Wisconsin Works program helping clients with dependent children to become selfsufficient. She has also been a House Manager for a Veterans home of 20 chronic homeless men to help them to gain self-sufficiency. Throughout her career, her focus has been on giving hope and encouragement to become the best you can be. Krissy s presentation, Breaking Barriers and Breaking Stigma, will focus on stigma and it can play a huge role in the helping profession. She shares her own personal experiences and journeys that have led her to her career path today. She is an advocate for breaking stigma and negativity by applying and challenging thought patterns. She will share strategies for success as well as gaps in services that need to be addressed for better outcomes.

5 Shawn Larson-Johnson RN Trempealeau County Health Care Center Shawn Larson-Johnson is a Behavioral Health RN with 17 years of experience in Rehab Psych, ER, Clinical Nursing and Education. This experience has allowed Shawn to have an opportunity to see a need for systems change. From working with offenders in jail or ER needing access to treatment programs to working in the psychiatric rehab and long term care units, she has gained insight and a passion for bridging the gaps that exist in mental health and substance abuse systems of care. Shawn has also been responsible for coordinating educational programs and training for Mayo Clinic and has provided supervision and training for new staff, interns and students on dealing with co-morbidity, treatment options and maintaining continuity of care by effective collaboration. Shawn will be speaking from a nursing perspective and as a patient-client advocate on the challenges of treating complicated mental health and substance abuse illnesses in both the outpatient and inpatient settings and what we need to do to improve treatment outcomes.