Medication Assisted Treatment: Who is it For?

This training is good for medical professionals, law enforcement, social workers, clinical professionals to learn and understand the medication assisted treatment for substance use disorders and help reduce the stigma surrounding the treatment and understand who it is truly for.

Medication Assisted Treatment or MAT is a whole-person treatment option designed to help people aged 18 and up who have a severe addiction to alcohol or opioids. MAT combines traditional mental health therapy with special medication to assist someone in their recovery with the goal of reduced cravings and negative withdrawal symptoms, and improved physical wellbeing. This webinar will help explain MAT and who it best serves.

Objectives of the training include:

• To increase knowledge of medications offered through MAT.
• To dispel myths associated with MAT.
• To identify signs of substance use and overdose.
• To assist in identifying appropriate referrals for MAT.
• To identify how MAT services benefits clients and the community.
• Recognize the importance of an individualized and comprehensive approach to substance use treatment
• Develop strategies for referral to appropriate levels of care based on the assessed needs of clients.

The presenter of the training is Alyssa Cline, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Cline is currently the Clinical Coordinator for Centerstone’s Medication Assisted Treatment Grant and their Opioid Remediation Grant with Madison County Jail. Cline spent seven years working in foster care before receiving her Master’s in Social Work from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2019. Since then, Cline has continued her training in substance use, trauma-informed therapy, and parenting education therapy, and has been collaborating with law enforcement on mental health and substance use services in Madison County jail, and has been successful with getting medication assisted treatment services into the jail setting.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://centerstone.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtf-urrj0jHtfgzyYE-wJl4S1bQ8cC55ZM