CADTP Spring Conference
The Power of You!May 18 & 19, 2022
Who Should Attend
- Registered and Certified Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Counselors
- SUD Students
- State and County SUD Administrators
- Public Stakeholders
Benefits of Attending
- Network with other SUD treatment professionals
- Expand your skills and knowledge
- Earn up to 12.5 continuing education hours
- Food, fun and raffle prizes
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Hotel Reservations
The Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton La Quinta Hotel & Spa in Palm Springs, California.
Use code CAD at the reservation payment page for the conference discount of $135-$145 per night.
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Conference Presenters
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Barbara Aday-Garcia
Executive Director, CADTP
The Spring conference theme, The Power of You, speaks to the impact our counselors have on people struggling with alcohol and drug use, their families and friends, and the overall well-being of our communities. Continued growth in knowledge and skills assists our counselors in meeting the demands of their profession. We are honored to be able to assist in their journey.
The CADTP Leadership Team would like to thank Wholehearted for bringing together our conference presenters who have a tremendous amount of expertise and passion for substance use disorder treatment.
We look forward to seeing all of you at one of our favorite conference venues, the Hilton Embassy Suites, La Quinta in Palm Springs!
Cassandra Garcia
Executive Assistant, CADTP
The CADTP Certification Team looks forward to meeting our counselors and other stakeholders at the conference! If you have any questions regarding registration, please feel free to call us or send an email. We’re here to help!
What attendees say about CADTP conferences…
Very nice selection of speakers. Go team CADTP! You inspire me!
It was more than I expected! Very insightful and educational!
Very good for present time and re-focusing post COVID.
Friendly crowd, good food, very good presenters!
First conference attended. I found it to be very informative and useful.
Great content. Practical and Inspirational!
Conference Agenda
Pre-Conference Activity – May 17
Welcome Reception and CADTP Association Meeting
Join us for a networking event, refreshments, and reports from CADTP Board Members. Learn about CADTP activities in membership, certification, and legislation.
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Day 1 – May 18
Registration & Hosted Breakfast
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Welcome & Keynote
The Art of Counseling
Craig French and Veronica Kelly
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Moving Past ‘I Don’t know’: Effectively Engaging Youth in AOD Treatment – Part 1
Aven Armstrong-Sutton, Ph.D(c), RSW
Youth can be difficult to engage in AOD treatment for many understandable reasons. The aim of Moving Past ‘I Don’t Know,’ is to help AOD Counselors better understand adolescence as a developmental stage and how this influences AOD treatment from assessment to discharge. In this presentation, AOD counselors will also learn how to adapt motivational interviewing and other motivational strategies to enhance youth engagement and buy-in to AOD treatment.
10:00 am to 11:00 am
Break
Moving Past ‘I Don’t know’: Effectively Engaging Youth in AOD Treatment – Part 2
Aven Armstrong-Sutton, Ph.D(c), RSW
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
Hosted Lunch
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Feeding the Recovering Brain: Practical Nutrition to Reduce Relapse Risk
Christina Veselak, MS, LMFT, CN
This presentation will introduce clinicians to the role of nutrition in addressing key biochemical drivers of addictive disorders and provide an understanding of the unique nutritional needs of the recovering brain. We will explore how optimal executive functioning and mood stability are crucial to recovery and relapse prevention and will then explore ways a person in recovery can optimally support these crucial functions using a pro-recovery food plan and specific nutrients. Finally, several clinical tools and suggestions will be given to help the clinician integrate this information into their practice or program.
1:15 am – 2:45 pm
Refreshment Break and Raffle – Hosted by LowCost Interlock
Strengthening Recovery through Effective Relapse Prevention
Roland Williams, MA, MAC, LAADC, ACRPS, SAP
For many addicts and alcoholics, life becomes a vicious and discouraging repetitious cycle of getting clean and relapsing. Treatment programs frequently fail to identify the relapse warning signs and high-risk situations that threaten the client’s Recovery, and many addicts find it easier to learn the “tools of Recovery” than to practice them.
This presentation will provide practical skills in developing an effective relapse prevention plan, teaching clients to identify specific relapse warning signs, develop warning sign management strategies and develop a more comprehensive Recovery plan. With the clinical skills in this presentation, you’ll be able to inspire hope and help the chronic relapser to develop the tools to achieve and maintain long term recovery.
3:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Day 2 – May 19
Hosted Breakfast
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Cultivating Deeper Connection with Clients: Holding Space, Active Listening and Attunement
TJ Woodward
Many clinicians are trained to focus on symptoms and behaviors, but little attention is given to the power of deeply attuning to our clients. In this sacred space of attuned connection, we can better understand our clients and help them connect to the deeper traumas, beliefs and experiences that underlie their ineffective behaviors. In this workshop we’ll learn how to help clients access their inner-wisdom and heal from multiple layers of unresolved trauma, spiritual disconnection, and the toxicity of shame.
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Break
ACEs and PACEs: How Adverse Childhood Experiences influence addiction, and what we can do to heal from them – Part 1
Jennifer Hays-Grudo, Ph.D.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) significantly increase the likelihood of lifelong physical and mental health problems, and dramatically increase the risk of addiction. In this engaging presentation, Dr. Hays-Grudo will describe how early life adversity affects brain development, and the discuss the resulting later-in-life impacts. Fortunately, new research indicates that Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACEs) also have powerful neurobiological and behavioral effects that buffer the effects of adversity.
This workshop will review the 10 PACEs and provide practical skills in (a) using the PACEs tools with clients to identify sources of resilience and strength (b) learning to create an ACEs and PACEs genogram to help clients identify their own adversity strengths and weaknesses and (c) creating individual PACEs plans to build resilience in adults and children, enhance coping skills, and increase relapse prevention resources.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Hosted Lunch
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
ACEs and PACEs: How Adverse Childhood Experiences influence addiction, and what we can do to heal from them – Part 2
Jennifer Hays-Grudo, Ph.D.
1:00 am – 2:00 pm
Ethics & Confidentiality
Bob Tyler, CADC-II
Participants will learn to build an ethical practice, thereby creating a lens by which to view any ethical situation. After learning the ethical tools and principles, participants will utilize such tools to grapple with compelling ethical dilemmas.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Refreshment Break and Raffle – Hosted by Breathe Easy Insurance
Group Counseling for Chemical Dependence
Bob Tyler, CADC-II
The purpose of this training is to increase counselors’ ability to structure chemical dependence (CD) group counseling sessions in a way that increases efficiency and effectiveness, while maintaining their proper focus. Seminar participants will also increase their understanding of the counselor’s role when facilitating a CD group and learn specific strategies to aid clients in processing and coping with uncomfortable emotions.
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Call for Exhibitors!
CADTP Conference exhibitors gain exposure to stakeholders in the SUD industry. Download and complete the application for an exhibitor table and join the fun this Spring!
CADTP Spring Conference 2022
May 18 & May 19, 2022
The Power of You!
Expanding SUD Counselor skills and knowledge to meet the ever-changing terrain of substance use disorder treatment.
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