Presenter: Kenneth Ginlack, LCSW, CSAC, ICS, Director of Outpatient Programs, Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, Milwaukee, Wis.
Clinical supervision is a mutual endeavor enhanced by a trusting-bidirectional relationship that leads to professional development and enhanced client care through mentoring, guidance, and clinical oversight (Durham, 2019). The training will provide current trends and research, technology-based and evidence-based practices, and the overall structure of effective clinical supervision.
*This is a two-part workshop. You must also attend Session 15 to receive credit.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the importance of collaboration in the development of an effective supervisory relationship.
- Define ethical issues in supervision including dual relationships and confidentiality.
- Define legal considerations in clinical supervision including vicarious liability and duty to warn.
Presenter Biography:
Kenneth Ginlack is a mental health and substance use disorder therapist. He earned his undergraduate degree from Upper Iowa University in human services with an emphasis in social work. He earned his graduate degree from Loyola University in social work. He has worked in all levels of care including medically monitored patients, youth in out-of-home placement, and individuals in correctional settings. He is currently the Director of Outpatient Programs for Milwaukee County Behavior Health Division (BHD) and an ad-hoc instructor at the University of Wisconsin Continuing Education extension program. He instructs professionals on best practices for clinical supervision. He is the president of the board of directors for Revive Youth and Family Services, a board member for SALS Recovery Houses & Coaching, and previously the vice president of the board of directors for Daystar Inc. He was the recipient of the President’s Award at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) for his academic achievements and outstanding work in the community. He is known for his contributions in volunteerism to various non-profit agencies throughout Milwaukee. He is a master-level social worker and holds the following licensures in Wisconsin: licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), clinical substance abuse counselor (CSAC), and independent clinical supervisor (ICS).
Presenter: Lorenzo Lewis, Visionary and CEO, The Confess Project, Little Rock, Ark.
The barbershop played a vital role during the Civil Rights Movement because it was one of the few safe spaces Black men could meet and freely express themselves. The legacy of the Black barbershop as a safe haven for Black and Brown boys and men continues today. The Confess Project trains barbers across America to serve as mental health advocates in Black and Brown communities. Research shows that barber advocates are an effective way to reach men of color and provide pathways to healing.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the unique obstacles Black and Brown men face in receiving mental health support in America.
- Explain why the barbershop is an exceptional space for Black and Brown men to heal from trauma.
- Identify ways to expand the reach of barbershops to Black and Brown men in an effort to increase healing in marginalized communities.
Presenter Biography: Born in jail to an incarcerated mother, Lorenzo struggled with depression, anxiety, and anger throughout his youth, to the point of being at-risk for re-entering the system. From this, Lorenzo grew The Confess Project, an initiative that confronts the stigma around mental health for men of color. Lorenzo’s project takes a two-sided approach, researching the issues within the individual and within society. Lorenzo’s life story and his life’s work give him a unique perspective on behavioral health and the social science issues surrounding the black male identity.
Presenter: Sebastian Ssempijja, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, CEO/Clinical Manager, Sebastian Family Psychology Practice, LLC, Glendale, Wis.
Cognizant of the unique circumstances of refugees and Communities of Color, we propose to solicit direct input from our patients and their Ethnic communities. We learn of their conceptualization of mental health struggles and the role of substance use. The lifestyle changes forced upon them derive meaning and guidance on how best to aim towards recovery. With courage, they trust their providers to guide them and give consent, in faith, to unknown pathways. Hence, their narratives on their journeys to recovery are truly personal, yet also very family energized! We will have prerecorded conversations with patients, their families, and communities supports. The intended audience at the conference will include clinicians, social workers, administrators, faith leaders, educators, and policymakers, families, and service users. Our interventions include evidence and experience-based care, medications, plus alternative treatments.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will grasp the unique life journeys that our refugee clients experience.
- Participants will appreciate factors driving mental health and substance use concerns.
- Participants will appreciate the testimony and trials from patients, family, and community members.
- Participants will discuss concurrent medical complexities.
Presenter Biography: Sebastian Ssempijja, Ph.D., is of immigrant background cultural origins and trained at Marquette University. He served for 30 years, as a clinician, in Metropolitan Milwaukee, and his clientele includes US-born clients, and many refugees and immigrant populations. Sebastian co-owns and manages an outpatient practice known as Sebastian Family Psychology Practice. It serves a diverse clientele of ages 3-75+! The clinic's adult population presents with diverse needs that include PTSD, mood and affect disorders, major mental illnesses, medical complexities, as well as substance use and abuse concerns! Both US-born and Refugee/Immigrant populations, present with co-occurring conditions plus complex trauma. Treatment approaches include traditional and non-traditional interventions. The impact of COVID-19 and other systemic health disadvantages are uniquely affecting the clientele. The clinic has over 30 clinicians, 13 of whom come from 13 countries, and serve clients with 18 distinct languages besides English. To meet the unique needs of the clientele, the clinicians engage in the communities from which they come and collaborate with local and state stakeholders. We work in an integrated medical model with primary care providers. We reach out to faith communities, schools, private, employers, and Ethnic Community Based Organizations ( ECBOs). These include partnerships with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, as well as other academic institutions of higher learning.
Presenters: Carla Alejo, Director of Catholic Charities in Home Support Program and Hoarding Intervention and Treatment Program, Milwaukee, Wis. and Melissa Mangenello, Behavioral Therapist, Catholic Charities Hoarding Intervention and Treatment Program, Milwaukee, Wis.
This workshop will address the value of having a community-based approach and integrated response to those with Hoarding Disorder. We will discuss how hoarding conceals deeply rooted mental health concerns and what successful treatment should include. This workshop will prepare the audience with ways to alleviate the stress Hoarding Disorder places on individuals and the community.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide knowledge of Hoarding Disorder that the audience can use in their communities and field of work to decrease the amount of negative stigma surrounding Hoarding Disorder.
- Provide hope for those who are suffering from hoarding disorder through providing a screening tool and information on successful multidisciplinary treatment plans.
- Provide ways to help those who are suffering build strength within their households, families, and community.
Presenter Biographies: Carla Alejo has been in the Long Term Care and Social Service field for over 20 years. Since 2013, Carla has been Chair of the Milwaukee Hoarding Task Force. Her passion is advocating for those who are underserved and forgotten in the community. She feels the responsibility to share her knowledge and experiences with others, with the purpose to instill hope in the hopeless. Carla's passion was ignited after seeing many social service professionals being quick to avoid working with and even dismissing "difficult" clients and situations. Working at Catholic Charities has provided Carla the opportunity to identify, advocate and help the underserved Hoarding population by creating the Hoarding Intervention and Treatment Program in 2016.
Melissa Manganello is
the behavioral therapist for the Catholic Charities Hoarding Intervention and
Treatment Program. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work (UW-Milwaukee)
and a Master's Degree in Social Work, with an emphasis on mental and behavioral
health (UW-Milwaukee). Melissa brings over eight years of social work
experience, during which she has served an array of populations, ages, and
settings. Melissa's internship with Aurora Psychiatric Hospital amplified her
strong desire to bring more awareness to mental health, including Hoarding
Disorder. Melissa's focus is to educate the community of Hoarding Disorder,
including the prevalence, treatment methods, and how family and friends can
step in to help.
Presenters: Jenna Lee Mathews, LCSW, Behavioral Health Researcher, OMNI Institute, Denver, Colo. and Angela Weight, State Opioid Response Grant Recovery Services Coordinator, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health Developmental Services, Richmond, Va.
Demonstrating the value of peer recovery services can be challenging but when a values-driven process is used, it is possible to evaluate the impact of peer recovery services without jeopardizing the individualized elements that make these services so powerful. In this workshop, attendees will explore values-driven evaluation of peer-supported recovery, including recommended outcomes to measure. The presenters will reflect on their first-hand experience implementing peer-specific outcomes evaluation and share successes and lessons learned to support attendees in taking steps toward demonstrating the impact of their own peer recovery programs and services.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand the benefits and common challenges of measuring the impact of peer recovery services.
- Participants will have a realistic understanding of the steps in the evaluation process based on the experiences of an administrator and a Peer Recovery Specialist who have implemented a values-driven evaluation of peer recovery services.
- Participants will be able to identify tools to begin to demonstrate the impact of peer recovery services in their specific program or agency.
Presenters Biographies: Jenna Lee Mathews is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and behavioral health researcher with the OMNI Institute, a nonprofit social science research and evaluation consultancy based in Denver, Colorado. As OMNI's lead researcher for Virginia's State Opioid Response Grant recovery work, she supports the evaluation of peer recovery services implementation across a broad range of settings, including community mental health, emergency departments, collegiate recovery, and justice system programs and facilities. Her background as a trauma-focused therapist informs her current work developing practical evaluation strategies that demonstrate the impact of behavioral health interventions. Jenna believes in the power of inquiry, authenticity, and connection to move individuals and communities towards healing and wellness.
Angela Weight is the State Opioid Response Grant Recovery Services Coordinator for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. In this role, she is instrumental in expanding peer recovery services in settings such as medication-assisted treatment programs, hospital emergency departments, college campuses, drug/recovery courts, and other justice-related environments. As a person in long-term recovery from substance use disorder, Angela is passionate about promoting authentic person-to-person connections to eliminate barriers to recovery. Jenna and Angela collaborate closely in the monitoring and evaluation of substance use disorder recovery activities provided as part of Virginia's State Opioid Response grant. Their shared passion for demonstrating the powerful impact of peer recovery services inspires them to share their experience and lessons learned in order to support conference attendees in similar efforts.
Presenter: Joanne Nelson, MSSW, MFA, Educator, Wake Up the Writer Within, llc, Hartland, Wis.
Writing, primarily expressive writing, has been shown to increase psychological well-being as well as result in reductions of physician visits. It can also be a valuable tool for supporting recovery as well as self-care for counselors, program providers, social workers, and family members. Through freewriting, we explore, review, and reconsider our pasts. Journaling, as well as other forms of writing, helps us to organize our experience, shift perspective, and gain clarity. Writing for Recovery: How to Restore and Re-story Through Narrative is an interactive workshop that encourages participants to experiment with narrative prompts. Expressive writing is an act of self-determination as participants explore their history and gain control over their own futures. Utilizing techniques based on the research of James Pennebaker (as well as others) participants will learn to gently address their own traumas in an atmosphere of self-acceptance over which they have control. The ability to create a narrative as a tool towards healing and recovery is one of many pathways recognizing each individual's unique capacity for growth. This experiential workshop is intended for a general audience.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how writing creates change for those struggling with emotional upheaval.
- Define research-based best practices for expressive writing and the narrative styles most likely to create change.
- List a variety of written exercises and prompts useful for those wishing to create change through expressive writing.
Presenter Biography: Joanne Nelson is a psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience in social work settings. Currently, she combines her clinical background with her love of teaching to create community programs that are research based, practical, and enjoyable. As a writer, Joanne explored her own family history of dysfunction, resilience, and recovery in her memoir,
This is How We Leave, published by Vine Leaves Press in 2020 and in other published writings. Joanne has an MSSW from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is certified by the McLean Meditation Institute as a meditation and mindfulness teacher.
Presenters: Rachel Fryda-Gehde, MSW, Taycheedah Correctional Institution, Fond du Lac, Wis.; Jaime Gyr, MSW, Taycheedah Correctional Institution, Fond du Lac, Wis.; Kenzie Gonzalez, MS, Co-Founder, Camp Reunite, Grafton, Wis.; Andrew Gappa, Co-Founder, Camp Reunite and Executive Director, Turning Rivers, Grafton, Wis.; Lana Wilson, Warden’s Secretary, Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, Plymouth, Wis.; and Tim Gessner, Corrections Program Supervisor, Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, Plymouth, Wis.
Camp Reunite was launched in 2018 as a partnership between Hometown Heroes, Inc. (a Wisconsin non-profit organization) and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to help serve some of the estimated 88,000 children in Wisconsin who are navigating life with an incarcerated parent. Camp Reunite is a week-long trauma-informed summer camp provided at no cost to youth ages 8-16 who have a parent currently incarcerated in the Wisconsin Correctional System. In partnership with the WI Department of Corrections, children also have the opportunity to visit and reconnect with their incarcerated parent twice throughout each camp session through group visits at the correctional facility. This presentation will discuss some of the known adverse effects that incarceration of a parent has on a child and the impact of the program on campers, as well as their incarcerated parents and their caregivers. Many of the parents who participate are recovering from substance use, and we will show how this program can be used in combination with other services at the correctional facility to promote mental wellness in parents and help prepare them for reentry and reunification with their children.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand the effects, stigma, and trauma of arrested and incarceration of parents, and learn how a trauma informed program like Camp Reunite is one way to address these challenges.
- Participants will learn about the Camp Reunite Program and our model for hosting Child Friendly Visits at correctional facilities.
- Participants will learn about program outcomes, such as fostering mental wellbeing, improving relationships and behavior, etc.
Presenters Biography: Rachel Fryda-Gehde is a social worker at Taycheedah Correctional and holds a master's degree in Social Work with an emphasis in child, youth, and family welfare. Rachel has 10+ years of experience working with at-risk children and families and enjoys being able to be a part of a program that continues to support the parent/child relationship even through incarceration.
Jaime Gyr holds a masters in social work with 14 years of experience. The past seven years she has been working as a mental health social worker at Taycheedah Correctional Institution. She enjoys using her skills to contribute to exciting new programs like the Camp Reunite program which has been running at Taycheedah the past two years.
Kenzie Gonzalez is a Co-Founder of Camp Reunite, she has a Master’s Degree in Public Health, and works directly with the camp families and many of the program stakeholders.
Andrew Gappa is a co-founder of Camp Reunite and the executive director of Turning Rivers, the camping facility in Wisconsin where Camp Reunite is held. He has over 18 years of youth camping experience and a degree in education.
Lana Wilson has been in corrections for five years has had the opportunity to work at both Taycheedah and Kettle Moraine Correctional institutions and participate in Camp Reunite at both sites. Lana has enjoyed watching the dads effortlessly step into their father role and teach, guide, and encourage their kids while being able to bond and just be a dad, not an inmate.
Tim Gessner holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science. Tim has 20 years of experience working in corrections. Tim is the Co-chairperson for the KMCI camp reunite committee, which held the first ever camp for incarcerated fathers last year.