Price:

General: $90 per person

Held Via Zoom

Course Description: 

This course provides behavioral health professionals with foundational knowledge and clinical frameworks for understanding and addressing co‑occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Participants will review core concepts related to substance use disorders, including diagnostic considerations and assessment challenges, and explore a neuroscience‑informed model of addiction to better understand the mechanisms of chemical dependency and symptom overlap with psychiatric disorders. 

 Common mental health conditions that frequently co-occur with substance use disorders will be reviewed, with discussion of the self‑medication framework as a lens to reduce stigma and enhance engagement. The training will examine historically segregated approaches to care and introduce integrated treatment models as best practice for improving outcomes for individuals with co‑occurring disorders. Emphasis is placed on clinical awareness, assessment considerations, and application within participants’ existing roles and settings. 

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to identify and practice:

• Describe core concepts related to co‑occurring mental health and substance use disorders, including prevalence, common diagnostic patterns, and challenges in assessment across service settings. 
• Explain key neurobiological mechanisms of substance use disorders, including withdrawal and post‑acute withdrawal, and discuss how these processes can overlap with or mimic psychiatric symptoms. 
• Identify mental health disorders that most frequently co‑occur with substance use disorders and apply a trauma‑informed, stigma‑reducing perspective (including the self‑medication framework) to clinical understanding and engagement.
• Compare historically segregated models of care with integrated treatment approaches and identify practical implications of integrated care within participants’ professional roles and organizational contexts.  

About the Trainer: 

Melanie Davis, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience in behavioral health, clinical supervision, and workforce development. She currently serves as Lead Clinical Workforce Development Facilitator at Community Solutions, where she designs and delivers evidence-based training, mentors clinicians, and supports organizational learning initiatives. Her clinical expertise serving children, adults, couples, and families includes TF-CBT, EMDR, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, Seeking Safety, and Family Systems therapy, and she is a Certified Instructor in Crisis Prevention Institute’s Nonviolence Crisis Intervention model. A BBS-approved clinical supervisor, Melanie has extensive experience providing reflective supervision, Medi-Cal/CalAIMs compliance training, and continuing education for mental health professionals. She is passionate about advancing equitable access to care, reducing stigma, and strengthening the behavioral health workforce.

CE’s: Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CAMFT Provider #129412. Also for RADT, CADC, and LAADC by CCAPP-EI CADAAC Provider # 7213400426.

Community Solutions is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs. Community Solutions maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Course completion certificates will be issued at the end of the course upon verification of attendance and once the required course evaluation has been completed.

Cancelation Policy: Cancellations are requested at least 48 hours prior to the training day. Kindly email Trainings@communitysolutions.org  to un-enroll from the training if you unable to attend after registration in order to receive a refund.

Questions? Please contact our Training Division:
Training@communitysolutions.org or 408-846-4791

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