Additional offerings

Additional offerings at Putting Care at the Center 2023

On the morning of November 1, prior to the start of the conference,  we will be offering two supplemental learning activities, RELATE and Addiction 101, as well as a guided site visit to a local non-profit that morning (learn more below). These in-person offerings are separate from registration but add to the conference experience. These offerings are at an additional cost to the conference registration. As these programs will run concurrently, registrants can only opt into one of these supplemental activities. Both RELATE and Addition 101 will include continuing education credits separate from those for attending the conference.

If you have any questions, please contact Carly Moore at [email protected].

RELATE: A reflective approach to supervising

We will be hosting a special pre-conference, in-person training on our RELATE supervisory framework on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from 9 am – 12 pm ET.  RELATE: A reflective approach to supervising is a three-hour training that will give supervisors of frontline staff the knowledge, tools, and experience to implement our RELATE supervisory framework. This is a live, instructor-led training, where you will learn concrete behaviors that will help you prepare your frontline staff to be more introspective, self-aware, and able to handle the emotional impact of complex care work. This unique learning experience will reshape the way you manage staff.

Objectives

1. Apply a supervisory framework that moves from directive to reflective through coaching, teaching, and guiding staff in complex care.
2. Identify how the RELATE framework helps guide the formation of authentic healing relationships with caregivers and participants.
3. Determine how the RELATE framework helps build resiliency and reduce burnout among frontline team members who engage people with complex needs.
4. Demonstrate using the coaching quartet while providing feedback and reflective supervision.
5. Apply RELATE to cases and situations.

Cost: $300 per person

Date: November 1

Time: 9 am -12 pm ET

CEUs are available upon course completion.  Registration is limited to 30 attendees.

About the instructor

Renee Murray

Renee is the Associate Director of Technical Assistance and Training at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. In this role she creates content and curriculum, facilitates trainings on our COACH and RELATE models, and offers expert advising to health systems and community-based organizations both locally and across the nation. She is a subject matter expert on the Camden Core Model and the COACH and RELATE frameworks. She supported the development of the Camden Coalition’s COACH and RELATE patient engagement strategies, both of which have been scaled at Boston Medical Center, Providence St. Joseph’s Health System and other health systems and social service organizations across the country.

She spent several years leading, guiding and mentoring the RNs, social workers, LPNs and CHWs on the Coalition’s care management team, who work with the most medically and socially complex patients throughout the city of Camden, New Jersey.

Renee’s earlier work at the Camden Coalition focused on designing and implementing a group prenatal and pediatric care model that worked with pregnant individuals throughout the City of Camden.

Prior to joining the Camden Coalition, Renee was a teacher and admissions director at a local high school. She also worked as a RN on an oncology unit at a Philadelphia hospital in addition to working as a Forensic Nurse Examiner – Certified Sexual Assault in Camden County. She is a graduate of St. Joseph’s University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology, and Rutgers University, where she earned her BSN.

Addiction 101: Understanding addiction to provide stigma free whole-person care in medical and social services

We will be hosting a special pre-conference, in person training on Addiction 101 on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from 9 am – 12 pm ET.  This training will cover the neuroscience of addiction, dive into some of the commonly used medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders, discuss stigma around addiction, explore strategies for use of person-centered language, introduce trauma informed approaches to care, and harm reduction practices that support whole person care. This course is intended for anyone who is working in the addiction space and/or are interested in learning basic knowledge, skills, and techniques to support their work with individuals experiencing addiction or substance use disorder. CEUs are available upon course completion.  Registration is limited to 50 attendees.

Objectives

1. Explain the neuroscience behind addiction and substance use disorders
2. Apply the harm reduction framework in a clinic-based setting
3. Identify the impact of trauma
4. Practice a trauma-informed approach in addiction services navigation
5. Recognize the impact of stigma related to PWUD (people who use drugs) and apply skills to mitigate personal bias in their work

Cost: $300 per person

Date: November 1

Time: 9 am -12 pm ET

CEUs are available upon course completion.  Registration is limited to 50 attendees.

About the instructors

Gladys Antelo-Allen

Gladys Antelo-Allen serves as the Associate Director of Education and Training within the Field Building & Resources department at the Camden Coalition. In this role, Gladys provides subject matter expertise in the development of content and curriculum related to complex care, facilitates trainings, and offers expert advising to health systems and community-based organizations both locally and nationally through technical assistance partnerships. Before this role, Gladys worked as a Senior Nurse Care Coordinator within the Population Health Initiatives at the Camden Coalition working with patients experiencing complex health and social needs. Gladys engaged patients in the community to meet their goals and worked with health systems and partners to provide coordinated, high-quality care. During that time, she also co-developed the COACH engagement framework and RELATE supervisory model. Gladys uses her experiences in the field engaging with patients and systems, to help coach and train other organizations and professionals. A Licensed Practical Nurse by training, Gladys graduated from Lincoln Technical Institute in 2012

Laura Sorensen

Laura Sorensen serves as the Senior Project Manager for Substance Use, Harm Reduction and Behavioral Health Initiatives at the Camden Coalition. In this role, Laura supports Office Based Addiction Treatment providers and navigators across the state of New Jersey through training, technical assistance, and convenings. Laura provides subject matter expertise in the areas of Harm Reduction, Trauma-informed care, and developing programs and services that provide stigma-free, whole-person care to people who use drugs. Prior to this role, Laura served as the Director of RHD Morris Home, a residential drug and alcohol treatment program for members of the transgender community with a history of homelessness. Laura has trained at the local, state, and national level about best practices for working with members of the LGBTQ community experiencing complex health and social needs. Laura graduated from Temple University with a Master of Social Work in 2014.

Dr. Clement Chen

Dr. Clement Chen studied Pharmacy at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy in Rutgers University where he graduated with his Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy as a Phi Lambda Sigma (Pharmacy Leadership Society) graduate. His journey to working in the SUD space began at the Universal Hospital in Newark as a heart failure clinical pharmacist, where many also had comorbid SUD. He is currently the academic detailer and clinical pharmacist specialist for the Northern NJ MAT Center of Excellence since 2019. Dr. Chen is APhA Immunization Certified and is a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. Dr. Clement Chen was involved in the recent publication of: Availability of buprenorphine/naloxone films and naloxone nasal spray in community pharmacies in 11 U.S. states in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence Journal.

Site visit opportunities

Putting Care at the Center 2023 is planning to offer site visit opportunities on November 1 prior to the start of the conference.

Dine around Boston

Networking with your fellow attendees in important! Putting Care at the Center strives to provide as many opportunities as possible to engage networking with attendees. Dine around options will be available for Thursday, November 2.

Locations, reservation information and details to be announced soon.