8:00 – 8:30 am

Registration/continental breakfast provided

    8:30 – 9:15 am

Presentation on the vision for the Los Lunas Substance Abuse Treatment and Training Center with special guest, Senator Michael S. Sanchez (D)

Welcome and introductions by Harrison Kinney, Executive Manager, Behavioral Health Services Division, New Mexico Human Services Department
 

     9:15 – 10:15 am

What’s Working in New Mexico: Crossroads

Presenter: Michael B. Stoll, PISW/LCSW, Manager, Villa de Esperanza/Crossroads, Carlsbad Mental Health Center

Carlsbad Mental Health Center’s Crossroads is a 120 day, residential chemical dependency treatment program for women who may have co-occurring disorders, and who have dependent children.  Women who qualify to participate in Crossroads, an ASAM III.5 level of care facility, must also have custody of, and agree to bring one or two of their dependent child, between ages 6 weeks, and 10 years of age, who will live with them throughout their treatment process.  Learn about the basic structure, services, interventions, and goals of the 12 step oriented program being provided to the ladies who choose to participate, and their children.

Session objectives: 

• Define the structure of Crossroads.

• Describe the structure of the children’s component of Crossroads. 

•  Discuss the theoretical basis for the model implemented at Crossroads.

 

    10:15 – 10:30 am

Break

   10:30 – 11:30 am

Overview of Drug Courts and the Matrix Model
Presenter: David Farabee, PhD, research psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) Juvenile Justice Research Group.

This presentation provides descriptions of two popular interventions for managing substance-abusing offenders in the community: (1) drug court, and (2) the Matrix Model. Drug courts began in 1989 and have now expanded to more than 2,000 programs across the U.S. The drug court approach is arguably the most thoroughly researched approach for substance-abusing offenders under community supervision, and outcomes appear to be superior to approaches that lack similar monitoring and accountability. However, only a small fraction of published drug court evaluations meet sufficiently high methodological standards from which clinical and policy recommendations should be derived. The Matrix Model consists of a set of clinical elements and emphases drawn from the research literature over the past 30 years. It is used widely in the U.S. and internationally and has been endorsed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) as a particularly effective approach for stimulant abusers. The overview of drug court and the Matrix Model will include summaries of the clinical components that define these approaches as well as the results of the more methodologically rigorous evaluations of their impact on drug use and recidivism. 

Session objectives:

• Describe key elements of drug court.
• Describe key elements of Matrix Model.
• Analyze the wide variation of research quality in the addiction field and why it matters.

   11:30 – 12:30 pm

HOPE for Drug-Involved Offenders

Presenter: Angela Hawken, PhD,  assistant professor of economics and policy analysis at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.

 

Diversion programs have a poor record of securing continuation in treatment; treatment completion rates are low, and recidivism rates are high. A more strategic community-supervision approach is needed to change offender behavior.  A probation system that consistently enforces conditions of probation, but with mild sentences, would be more effective in inducing behavioral changes than the current much more haphazard system.  This session describes a structured swift-and-certain sanctions model in Hawaii known as HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement).   HOPE targets behavior change, by creating a strong and immediate relationship between probationers' actions and their outcomes.  The result has been dramatic improvements in probationer compliance (reduced drug use, no-shows, and arrests) without draining department resources.  HOPE outcomes demonstrate that when the rules are clearly laid out and credibly enforced, behavior change is possible even among the highest-risk drug-involved probationers.

Session objectives:

• Describe underlying theories of offender behavior change.
• Identify key elements of HOPE.
• Describe HOPE outcomes.
• Discuss implications of HOPE for application in New Mexico

   12:30 – 1:30 pm 

Lunch (provided)

   1:30 – 2:30 pm  

Improving Service Delivery: Using Assessments to Adapt Clinical Practices

Presenter: Kevin Knight, PhD, associate director for criminal justice studies at the Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR) at Texas Christian University.

 

This session will provide information on how evidence-based screening and assessment tools can be used to improve service delivery.  Through a better understanding of client risks and need at treatment intake, as well as gaining knowledge of client progress during treatment, clinical staff will be able to develop more effective and efficient treatment plans and adapt them as necessary over time.  The role of brief, targeted interventions also will be discussed.

Session objectives:

• Gain an awareness of screening and assessment options
• Learn more effective and efficient ways to collect client information and use it as part of clinical practice
• Learn about brief, targeted interventions designed to address client risks and needs.

   2:30 – 2:45 pm  

Break

   2:45– 3:45 pm  

Los Lunas Model

Presenter:  Louis Thorp, LISW, Chief Project Management Officer, Partners in Wellness.

The session gives the participants a history of the creation of the Los Lunas Substance Abuse Treatment program and its future plans and provides an outline of the various phases of the program.  Learn what the community of Los Lunas and Valencia County can expect.

Session objectives:

• Describe the scope of the project and the services to be provided.
• Define the models of treatment that will be employed.
• Learn about the program and impact on the community.

   3:45– 4:15 pm   

Open Forum

Facilitated by: Steven Adelsheim, M.D., F.A.A.C.A.P., Interim Director, Consortium for Behavioral Health Training and Research Director, Center for Rural and Community Behavioral Health; UNM Psychiatry

Dr. Adelsheim will moderate an open discussion on topics addressed during the workshop and take recommendations on key issues attendees would like to see addressed in the follow up workshop.