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Sponsored in part by SAMHSA
This conference is supported, in part by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Delores Rother
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| Meri L. Shadley, Ph.D., is a Nevada licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed substance abuse counselor. Shadley is also an associate professor at the University of Nevada. Along with teaching and maintaining a clinical practice, she is the academic coordinator of two minors and a masters' degree specialization in addiction treatment and prevention services for CASAT. In addition, she manages a state grant aimed at increasing clinician's competency in problem gambling treatment. She has published, consulted and trained community practitioners extensively in the interconnection of addiction treatment and family therapy with a special focus on women, domestic violence and other addictions. |
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| Sarah Shelton, Psy.D., M.S., is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is an clinical professor in the department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia. She also owns a private psychological practice and is the director of program evaluation and outcome measures at Hope House for Women, a residential substance abuse treatment facility for women struggling with substance abuse and mental illness. |
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Anne Helene Skinstad, Ph.D., is currently a clinical associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, Department of Community and Behavioral Health. She is the director of the Prairielands Addiction Technology Transfer Center (which serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin). She received her Candidate in Psychology, equivalent to the Doctor of Psychology (Psy. D.), from the Department of Psychology, the University of Bergen, Norway, in June 1977, and her Ph.D. from the College of Psychology, The University of Bergen in 2001. |
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Tracy Smith, M.B.A., heads up the client service team at ZLRIGNITION, the advertising agency for the Iowa Gambling Treatment Program. ZLRIGNITION has handled the marketing campaign promoting 1-800-BETS-OFF in Iowa for the past eleven years.
At ZLRIGNITION, Smith engineers the development and execution of clients' communication strategies. She brings a unique understanding of what clients expect of their agencies from managing marketing communications and agency relationships from the client side for over 15 years. She has worked for health care, building products, and agribusiness companies. Smith's well-rounded marketing background helps ZLRIGNITION clients shape and achieve their marketing objectives to achieve desired business results.
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| Keith Spare, MS, M.Div., is the program director of the Therapeutic Intervention Center (TIC) in Kansas City, Missouri. TIC provides both medication assisted treatment for opiate addicts and compulsive gambling treatment. Spare is chair of the Missouri Council on Problem Gambling Concerns and is the president-elect of the Missouri Alliance to Curb Problem Gambling. He has organized and participated in numerous compulsive gambler counselor trainings in Missouri and Kansas. Spare has served as a consultant and educator throughout the United States in the areas of mental health, substance abuse, compulsive gambling, HIV/AIDS, program accreditation and program management. |
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| Carol Spiker, CADC, CPP, is a certified drug and alcohol counselor in Kansas and a nationally certified prevention professional. Spiker was one of the origional founders of the Senior Prevention Intervention Counseling Education (S.P.I.C.E.) program and co-facilitates three trainings addressing older adults: (1) understanding and preventing older adult suicide, (2) problem gambling among older adults. |
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| Rick Thomas, expertise is in clinical administration in the area of alcohol and drugs. He is also the co-founder of the Red Road Approach and has been training and teaching now for over 26 years. He has served on many boards and commissions, such as Chairman of his tribe for one year, served approximately 9-years in Tribal Government, five-years as vice-chairman, Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, four-years as chairman of the Great Plains Indian Gaming Association, 10-years as Indian Commissionor for the State of Nebraska, two-years on the mediation Commission for the Nebraska Supreme Court and National trainer for Fox Valley Technical College for Bureau of Justice Assistance grantees. His life has been to promote healing from issues of this nature, especially PTSD, which he is fifty percent, due to heavy fighting in Vietnam. Life changed 30 years ago when he become a pipe carrier and sundancer, and learned his traditional ways of life of the Dakota People. As a sundance chief, he has danced for 35-years and the past two-years did not dance due to his injuries and wounds from Vietnam. |
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| Kyle VanBecelaere, M.S., is a research assistant with Data and Information Systems Group. One of his areas of expertise is preparing data for analysis using SPSS. He recently administered an online survey to assess the level of collaboration and capacity for substance use prevention in Kansas communities. Along with analysis of the Kansas Communities That Care (KCTC) data, he is working to coordinate multiple sets of survey data from another state. |
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| Mark VanderLinden, M.S.W., is executive officer of the Office of Gambling Treatment and Prevention at the Iowa Department of Public Health, where he oversees all problem gambling services for the state. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree in social welfare from University of California. He has a wide range of clinical social work and administrative experience working with children and families, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and problem gambling. |
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Roads to Recovery
Aug. 12–14, 2009
Hilton St. Louis Frontenac
1335 S. Lindbergh Blvd
St. Louis, MO
Check out handouts and session materials from the 2008 Midwest Conference.
Check out information on the exciting new conference bookstore includes option to place special orders and pre-purchase items.
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To access details and applications you will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader available for free at Adobe's Web site.
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