Clinicians and program leaders know from experience and the research literature that people with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders tend to present with higher levels of complexity and experience worse outcomes when treatment is provided by parallel mental health and substance use treatment systems of care. This workshop will review the tenets of integrated treatment for co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders and examine real-world factors that can serve to facilitate and create barriers to their implementation.
Registrants who fully attend this event or training will receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training.
Dr. Tim Devitt, Psy.D., LCPC, CADC has committed the past 30+ years to providing recovery-oriented services to individuals, families and organizations. He currently operates a private therapy and consultation practice in the Chicago Metropolitan Area with a specialization in integrated mental health and substance use care for adolescents, young adults and adults. Tim is the proud recipient of the 2022 William White Lifetime Achievement Award (awarded by the IL Chapter of The National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Counselors, NAADAC), a member of the Motivational Network of Trainers (MINT), a lecturer at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice and a board member of Serenity Academy of Chicago, a 501(c)(3) organization committed to forming alternative peer groups and a recovery high school for teens and families struggling with addiction.
The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
