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Alumni Spotlight
December 20, 2011
Southeast Center in North Dakota Achieves Significant Outcomes, Honored as Champion of Integrated Treatment
The North Dakota Department of Human Services has been calling upon Ohio's expertise in the implementation of evidence-based practices for people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders since 2006. Today, outcomes from the department's data analyses show that the use of Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment has been significantly reducing crisis services, psychiatric hospitalizations, incarcerations, and more. ... This story features Ric Kruszynski, MSSA ('93), LISW, LICDC, director of substance abuse and mental illness consulting and training initiatives at the Mandel School's Center for Evidence-Based Practices. Kruszynski is a 1993 graduate of the Mandel School.
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December 12, 2011
Alumnus Jeremy Evenden Presents Motivational Interviewing Training Series in Northeast Ohio, January to May 2012
Join alumnus Jeremy S. Evenden, MSSA ('03), LISW-S, consultant and trainer from the Center for Evidence-Based Practices, at his Motivational Interviewing (MI) training events in Boardman, Ohio, from January to May 2012. Register online today. Evenden is a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Participants learn MI's client-centered approaches for responding to desire for change and resistance to change among individuals with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Ideal for IDDT, ACT, other best practices. $60/event. CEUs & supervisory credit.
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November 17, 2011
Cultural exchange with the Netherlands examines integrated treatment for drug use, mental illness
Since 2004, Mandel School alumnus Patrick Boyle of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices has been transferring knowledge about evidence-based practices from the center's work in Ohio and other states to the Netherlands. He's also been teaching an annual study-abroad course that takes health and human-service professionals and university students to the Netherlands to study with policymakers and service providers there.
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December 15, 2010
Educational Travel Open to Alumni
Alumni and professionals are invited to travel along with MSASS students to Guatemala, Kenya, the Netherlands, Turkey or Ecuador during Spring 2011. Meet with regional and neighborhood leaders, policy makers, practitioners, scholars and consumers.
December 15, 2010
Employment Opportunities
In this edition of employment news - the Veteren's Administration, an LISW opening, and Preparing for a Job Hunt.
December 15, 2010
Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Storytelling
How to Use Storytelling & Its Benefits in a Social Service Client Setting
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Mandel School, Room 320
Barbara Eady, MSSA '74 (2 CEUs)
Storytelling is often used for entertainment, education and edification and can be a powerful therapeutic tool. It gently opens the heart and mind to new insights and, teaching others to share stories, can allow your clients to find their own voice. You will be invited to listen as well as plan ways to add stories in treatment.
December 15, 2010
Celebrating 10 Years of Evidence-Based Practice in Ohio
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This season marks the tenth anniversary of the State of Ohio's investment in evidence-based practices in local communities for the treatment and recovery of people with severe mental illness. The anniversary was celebrated by the Mandel School's Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at its conference titled Sustaining Evidence-Based Practices: The Next Ten Years, this fall in Columbus. Over 330 people from Ohio and 17 other states attended the event.
December 15, 2010
Faculty Honors at MSASS: David E. Biegel
The Cuyahoga County Commissioners appointed David Biegel, PhD, to the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County.
December 15, 2010
Faculty Honors at MSASS: Victor K. Groza
Victor Groza, PhD, Grace F. Brody Professor of Parent-Child Studies at MSASS, has been awarded honorary membership in the Association of Schools of Social Work in Romania.