Community Crisis Response Team (CCRT)

Opioid Overdose Education & Naloxone Training

Description:  In this training, you will learn about what opioids are and how they impact the body. You will gain an understanding of why some people develop an addiction to opioids and what the difference is between misuse and addiction. You will learn what the signs of an opioid overdose are, how naloxone works and how to administer it when necessary.

Learning Objectives: 

• Define various terms related to opioid overdose and naloxone.

• Recognize the signs of an opioid overdose.

• Demonstrate how naloxone works and how to administer. 

• Identify where to get naloxone in your community. 

Katy Schroeder is an associate professor and coordinator of the clinical mental health counseling master’s program in the Department of Counselor Education at the University of Iowa. She is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and holds certifications from PATH International as an Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning and Therapeutic Riding Instructor. She also serves as a co-director of the Human-Animal Interactions for Wellbeing Collaborative, a University of Iowa Obermann Center Working Group on the Human-Animal Bond. Dr. Schroeder’s research, teaching, and clinical interests focus on the intersection of human–animal interactions and mental health. She has published and presented on the integration of therapy horse interactions in counseling and psychotherapy, as well as on a range of specialized topics related to the human–animal bond.

Dr. Shea Jorgensen is a community psychiatrist and serves as Chief Medical Officer at Prairie Ridge. She is board-certified in both psychiatry and addiction medicine and provides outpatient services, including for patients in the newly opened Opioid Treatment Program. Dr. Jorgensen also directs the Rural and Public Psychiatry Training Track at the University of Iowa, where she serves as adjunct faculty and helps train future psychiatrists in community-based and rural care.

Christine L. Riggert is a Certified Prevention Specialist and is currently the Prevention Supervisor at Prairie Ridge Integrated Behavioral Healthcare. Combined, she has over 13 years of experience in treatment services and her current prevention work. She enjoys being able to interact with an audience when presenting information and encourages discussion over lecture. Her goal in every presentation is that everyone learns something new.

Frank came through the California system as a child adopted into a family challenged with mental health and substance abuse issues. Raised in the East Bay area of Northern California, Frank attended nine different schools in his first nine years. Raised in a challenging home in a challenging environment both geographically and historically, Frank has a unique perspective that translates for many of our most traumatized communities, families and children. Frank negotiated his way into the military and his first professional training was as a special warfare diver attached to the Marine Mammal program of the United States Navy where he spent eight years honing behavior modification skills, stress management and understanding the dynamics of nonverbal communication. Later, as a stay at home dad for two kids and a student of psychology he became aware of and struggled with development, his own trauma exposure, and behavioral progressions and sequencing. This led to a journey of self-exploration and an academic focus on psychological trauma.

Frank has worked with the International Trauma Center since 1999 and deployed to Ground Zero to manage a team of clinicians working with a federal agency in “the dig” to stabilize them ongoing as they did their difficult work. Frank also worked extensively throughout Louisiana and Mississippi in the aftermath of Katrina. Frank has worked abroad in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, Nepal, Jordan, Haiti and several other countries for agencies like Save the Children, USAID, the World Bank and the International Center for the Protection of Victims of Torture to develop interventions and train clinicians working with children.

As Director of the Midwest Trauma Services Network and senior vice president of programming for the International Trauma Center he has spent the last several years introducing and training selected trauma informed evidence based practices as well as designing and implementing innovations specific to people from at-risk environments through the OJJDP. Frank currently consults, trains and speaks in several states for trauma in schools, foster and adoptive parents, community change through trauma informed care and provides direct psychoeducation and coaching to complexly traumatized children and families. Frank has a BS in disaster psychology with an emphasis on mental health, an MS in Public Health with a focus on child mental health and an MS in clinical counseling with trauma theory as the primary theoretical framework. Frank is the proud father of two gifted and resilient children who contribute in significant ways in their chosen professions. His mission is to create a world that understands the impact of trauma and abuse on children, families, communities and culture by teaching, challenging and learning everywhere he goes.

June Klein-Bacon, BSW, CBIST

Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa

The Intersection of Brain Injury & Behavioral Health

Description: This session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn about brain injury and intersections with behavioral health.  This session will support service planning through the lens of brain injury.

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John Swegle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP

College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa  Mercy Family Medicine Residency

Medications Used In Behavioral Health

Description: This program will provide an overview of medications used to treat common mental health conditions.  Classes of medications will be reviewed including appropriate use and combination therapy as appropriate.    

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