PRESENTER: Theodore D. Hostikka, PhD, LADC, IADC
TRAINING DESCRIPTION:
- Instructional level: Intermediate (licensed counselors, social workers, peer specialists, and SUD treatment professionals)
- Focus:
- Culturally responsive care: adapting treatment to client culture(s)
- Culturally developed (culturally grounded) practices: co-creating services with communities to reflect their histories, values, and healing traditions
- Core frameworks: Cultural humility, SAMHSA TIP 59, trauma- and healing-informed care, community co-design, harm reduction, intersectionality
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define cultural responsiveness vs. culturally developed practices and explain their relevance to SUD treatment in the Midwest.
- Apply at least three CLAS-aligned strategies to improve equity, access, and engagement in addiction services.
- Use the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) to inform culturally responsive assessment and treatment planning.
- Identify at least four region-specific cultural/contextual factors (e.g., rural/farm stress, tribal sovereignty, immigrant/refugee experiences, faith communities) that influence SUD risks and recovery pathways.
- Adapt Motivational Interviewing (MI) and harm reduction strategies to align with client cultural values and language preferences.
- Collaboratively design one culturally developed practice element (e.g., group curriculum feature, outreach protocol, peer role) using community co-design principles.
- Implement an action plan to improve language access, interpreter use, and data collection on client language/culture while upholding ethics and confidentiality.
- Evaluate the impact of culturally responsive changes using at least two implementation metrics (e.g., engagement, retention, MAT acceptance, client-reported cultural safety).
3.0 Hours -- Racial Ethnic
Note: This is a live Zoom training. The zoom invitation will be sent to all registered participants within 2 days of the training. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS TRAINING, IBC STAFF MUST BE ABLE TO BOTH SEE AND HEAR YOU DURING THE ENTIRE TRAINING.