Motivational Interviewing: The Basics

This event is being organized by S﻿OS Recovery Community Organization, a 501c3 non-profit recovery community organization with locations in Rochester, Dover and Hampton, NH.  SOS provides non-clinical peer-based recovery support services along with harm reduction programs and services.  We have been providing trainings on peer-based recovery support services, ethics, suicide prevention, HIV and AIDS prevention, facilitator support trainings, and motivational interviewing since 2016.Scholarship Recipients accepted into a CRSW Training Series are not eligible for a refund if they withdraw or cancel their participation.Those who pay full price for a CRSW Training Series or any individual course and cancel prior to 30 days before the start of the course will be issued a full refund. No other refunds or partial refunds are available.

SOS Recovery Community Organization

An introduction to the evidence-based method of Motivational Interviewing, an effective communication approach in peer-assisted recovery

This is an online course with four meetings:Oct. 21 &amp; 22, 12 - 3 p.m.Oct. 28 &amp; 29: 12 - 2: 30 p.m.Motivational Interviewing is a particular way of talking with people about change and growth to strengthen their own motivation and commitment.After orientation to the underlying spirit, structure, and principles of Motivational Interviewing, practical exercises will help participants strengthen empathy skills, recognize and amplify change talk, and roll with resistance.This class will provide peer-recovery specialists and past, current or future practitioners of MI with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches.The course was designed with peer-assisted recovery in mind, however, the content for this is no different than the MI Basics that would be taught to peers, community health workers, first responders, correctional workers, or clinical practitioners in behavioral health, substance use disorder or community health settings.This class includes the option to have one recorded conversations evaluated utilizing the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment along with an individual 1:1 coaching sessions to review the codings and assist with proficiency.This course has been approved by SOS Recovery Community Organization, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 11 CEUs. NAADAC Provider #185501. SOS Recovery Community Organization is responsible for all aspects of its programing.This course is pre-approved for 11 CEUs from the NH Board of Licensing for Alcohol and other Drugs.LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 12CRSW Performance Domains: 2About the Trainers:John Burns, MBA, CRSW, is the Executive Director of SOS Recovery Community Organization. John has been engaged in training delivery and development over the last six years at SOS. While supervising his staff at three recovery centers, he assists in training and supervision of three Recovery Community Centers. SOS operates syringe service programs and harm reduction supplies at all of their recovery community centers as well as a comprehensive outreach program with those experiencing homelessness and a statewide program for individuals involved in the criminal justice system.John is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and completed the MINT training of new trainers. He has been trained extensively in motivational interviewing techniques through a series of trainings and train the trainers sessions with other MINT members including Stephen Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS, CGP, John Gilbert MS, RD, CCP, RHC-III, ACSM-CEP®, Ali Hall, JD, and Casey Jackson MSW, MAC, LICSW, CDP. He has also had several coaching and coding trainings. He has trained under Denise Ernst. PhD in Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) Coding and is trained and authorized to complete Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessments (MICA) for coding practitioners of MI.Eileen Doyle, MST, CRSW, is the Training Coordinator at SOS Recovery Community Organization. A person in long-term recovery and a family member, Eileen trains SOS curriculums and has completed Motivational Interviewing trainings with Stephen R. Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS at the Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) and John Gilbert, MS, RD, CCP, RHC-III, ACSM-CEP® at the Institute for Individual and Organizational Change and Jeffery Decker with Telos Motivational Interviewing for Law Enforcement. She also attends the HETI Learning Community.She works with SOS Executive Director John Burns to create and revise curriculums for trainings offered by SOS, assists in training SOS employees, and as a CRSW, supports peers.Eileen earned her Masters in Science for Teachers from the University of NH and a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts/Journalism from Northeastern University. She is a NH Certified Recovery Support Worker and a certified Journaling Instructor through the Therapeutic Writing Institute. She has led Journaling Workshops for recovery support workers, cancer survivors and others seeking healing, change and growth. Before joining the field of recovery, she was a high school teacher for 23 years in Haverhill, Mass. and a journalist at the Eagle-Tribune in Lawrence, Mass.

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