POWER OF COLLABORATION: Make it Happen Trauma-Informed Responses to the Opioid Epidemic
APRIL 10 -12, 2018 Billings, Montana A special thanks to our generous sponsors. Building Trauma Informed Systems
POWER OF COLLABORATION: Make it Happen
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2018 - ISSUES 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Registration 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Opening Prayer - Montana Native Women’s Coalition Welcoming Remarks & Overview of Day One – Cory Reich 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Speaking for Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves Ada Bends, Montana Native Women’s Coalition The mission of the MNWC is to improve urban, rural and Native American community responses to those currently facing and to survivors of domestic and sexual violence. 10:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. BREAK 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Spirituality and Meaning Cory Reich, The Phoenix Recovery & Counseling Center Addressing the powerful importance of connection, specifically, identifying the sequence of and the importance of our connection with our creator, self, others, and nature. Through these connections we discover our meaning, purpose, and orientation in life. The neurological anatomy of meaning will be explored. Understanding the meaning of identity and esteem, and then applying this meaning will set the stage to understand stress signatures, coping skills, and the impact on disease, healing, and well-being. 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. LUNCH Guest Speaker: Tom Rodgers 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Battle with Big Pharma, Its Enablers and the Solution Tom Rogers, Carlyle Consulting In 1994, Tom founded Carlyle Consulting, a strategic consulting/government affairs/media relations firm located in Alexandria, Virginia that represents the interests of Native Americans. Tom is now engaged in building a Native American coalition to address the deadliest epidemic of our time, the opioid crisis. To date, Tom's efforts have led to enlisting more tribes to litigate against the pharmaceutical opioid manufactures and the pharmaceutical opioid distributers than any other party involved in the national opioid litigation effort. Tom additionally was sought out by former Representative Patrick Kennedy, who served on President Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, for his advice and public policy recommendations as to what was needed to address the opioid epidemic in Indian Country. 2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. BREAK 2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Improving Prenatal Care Crow and Northern Cheyenne Communities The Northern Cheyenne Service Unit and Crow Service Unit will share their 1 | Page AGENDA 1
e e ien e o in to et e it t e t o t i es to im ove enatal a e se vi e t o t e initiative Healthy Mothers, Healthy Tribe e ltimate oal o t is im ovement o is to ens e t at t e e nant o lation as a ess to t e lt all a o iate enatal a e se vi es to meet t ei nee s anel o an i al ealt sta ill esent t ei in in s an oli im ovements e a in Healthy Mothers, Healthy Tribe.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 – SOLUTIONS & SUCCESSES a m to a m enin a e – Thomas Champagne Clini al li ations Coo inato Wel omin ema s ve vie o a – Cory Reich a m to a m Trauma Informed Care & Strategic Planning with IHS RADM Michael Weahkee n ian ealt e vi e a m to a m Tying Resources and Services Together in Indian Country Corbin Shangreaux essin o to ee il en sa e an to omote ealt amilies an omm nit ellness Co in ill e is ssin t e im a t t at s stan e a se as on t e ove all mental ealt an n tionin o n ian amilies an too o ten n ian il en en in ote tive a e e session ill n a t e ne e e al le islation: The Native American Children’s Safety Act (NACSA). Additionally, Corbin ill is ss o t i al omm nit ase an m lti is i lina evention a oa es a e nee e to s o t amil an omm nit ellness t e e im ovin t e sa et net o il en a m to m Opiates: What are they? Why are they so addictive? What are the best medical assisted therapies? Cory Reich, The Phoenix Recovery & Counseling Centers is esentation ill i enti an e lo e at o iates a e s ea in s e i i all to me i al se an names as ell as st eet ni names an t e on oin eation o s nt eti o iates itionall e ill is ss t e n tions an i l a i tive alit o o iates an i enti t e nat e o a i tion as a isease an its corresponding biological effects. Medical Assisted Therapies (MAT’s) will be a esse i enti in at t e esea s o ts as t e most e e tive o m o t eatment astl e ill a ess inte ventions an omm nit s o t i ave emonst ate ositive o t omes 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. LUNCH – onso e Montana N Guest Speaker: Alexandra Adams, Director of CAIRHE m – m Alternative Delivery Models of Care Panel Discussion, Mo e ate Jerry Waukau, Menominee i e anel o e e ts ill esent va io s mo els o a e t at ave een evelo e an a e in se in t i al omm nities in t e nite tates e intent is o t is to be a “spring board” to develop a trauma in o me mo el o a e t at ill lea to im ovement in t e elive o a e in Montana an W omin i al omm nities
2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. BREAK m to m Tribal Community Best Practices Panel: Kenny Smoker, o t e Matthew Johnson, la eet a e
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