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SUMMARY:Adolescent Crisis Response and Behavioral Health Summit
DESCRIPTION:The Adolescent Crisis Response & Behavioral Health Summit brings together professionals across Alabama to strengthen how we respond to youth in crisis. This one-day training focuses on practical strategies\, cross-system collaboration\, and improving access to care for adolescents experiencing behavioral health and substance use challenges. Participants will gain tools to better navigate crisis response\, intervention\, and referral pathways. Join us to build a more coordinated and effective approach to supporting youth.  \n\n\n\nHuntsville 5/4 | Birmingham 5/5 | Mobile 5/6
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/adolescent-crisis-response-and-behavioral-health-summit/
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SUMMARY:Resources for Justice-Involved Job Seekers
DESCRIPTION:o SME: Sandra Reese (IPS Employment Center / RFMH Inc.) \n\n\n\nResources for Justice-Involved Job Seekers will examine the dynamics and best practices involved in helping job seekers with a history of justice involvement in their search for meaningful\, competitive employment. The session will cover strategies\, including a four-step approach to disclosure\, that will assist attendees who engage with justice-involved job seekers. The session will also explore dynamics related to what a job seeker may expect from employers throughout their employment journey.
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/justice-involved-job-seekers/
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SUMMARY:The Waiting Period\, Baby Blues\, and Beyond: Bridging the Gap Between Clinical Care & the Perinatal Experience
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Courtney Benjamin\, LPC & Chania Mitchell\, MS\, ALC
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/the-waiting-period-baby-blues-and-beyond/
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Baby Blues: An Overview of Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Morgan Bradwell\, LICSW\, PMH-C
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/beyond-the-baby-blues/
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SUMMARY:Someone on Their Side
DESCRIPTION:Join us for two powerful sessions in our Justice Webinar Series\, each offering 1 hour of FREE CE credit. On May 13\, Dr. Karen Johnson presents “Someone on Their Side\,” an evidence-based training examining how stigma impacts care and recovery outcomes for individuals under community supervision. Together\, these webinars provide both personal insight and research-driven strategies to better support individuals navigating substance use and reentry. Click the link to register and be part of these impactful conversations.
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/someone-on-their-side/
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SUMMARY:Hidden Hazards: Understanding Today's Evolving Addictions: Wired for Reward: Behavioral Addictions in the Digital Era
DESCRIPTION:This course explores the complex interplay between brain biology\, behavior\, and technology in the development of behavioral addictions. Participants will examine the neurobiological mechanisms underlying compulsive behaviors\, with a focus on the brain’s reward circuitry and dopamine pathways. The session will differentiate substance-related and behavioral addictions\, highlighting shared and unique diagnostic criteria in DSM-5 and ICD-11. Learners will analyze how technology-driven environments amplify reward-seeking behaviors and contribute to compulsive patterns of use\, while evaluating biopsychosocial risk factors that increase vulnerability in the digital age. Evidence-based interventions\, including cognitive-behavioral strategies\, mindfulness approaches\, and pharmacological options\, will be reviewed to inform clinical practice and prevention strategies. \n\n\n\nParticipants will be able to: \n\n\n\nEvaluate evidence-based interventions and emerging strategies for prevention and treatment of technology-related behavioral addictions. \n\n\n\nExplain the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms underlying behavioral addictions\, emphasizing the brain’s reward system and its interaction with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nDifferentiate key behavioral addictions in the digital era\, including diagnostic criteria\, risk factors\, and the impact on interpersonal functioning.
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/hidden-hazards-understanding-todays-evolving-addictions-wired-for-reward-behavioral-addictions-in-the-digital-era/
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SUMMARY:Trauma-Informed Perinatal Care: Evidence-Based and Creative Approaches to Supporting Maternal Mental Health
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URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/trauma-informed-perinatal-care/
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SUMMARY:EMDR Therapy: A Clinical Framework for Trauma-Informed Assessment & Treatment Planning
DESCRIPTION:1.5 DSM CEs for Social workers\, counselors\, and nurses \n\n\n\nPresenter:  Wendi Hogue\, M.Ed.\, LPC\, NCC \n\n\n\nThis continuing education webinar offers mental health clinicians a practical\, clinically grounded framework for connecting DSM-5-TR diagnosis to EMDR treatment planning. Participants will examine the trauma related diagnostic categories most encountered in EMDR practice. Including post-traumatic stress disorder\, dissociative disorders\, major depressive disorder\, and anxiety disorders\, and consider how each diagnosis points toward specific memory networks and treatment targets. \n\n\n\nWe will walk through the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and the 8-phase protocol\, exploring how theory translates directly into clinical decision-making including where to start\, what to target\, and how to sequence treatment across complex presentations. \n\n\n\nA clinical case example will be used throughout to demonstrate how diagnostic conceptualization becomes an EMDR treatment plan\, with specific attention to protocol modifications for dissociation\, complex PTSD\, and borderline personality disorder. \n\n\n\nAt the conclusion of this training\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\nDiscuss contraindications\, stabilization strategies\, and clinical decision-making for when and how to modify standard EMDR protocols with complex presentations. \n\n\n\nIdentify the core DSM-5-TR diagnostic categories most associated with trauma presentations and their clinical relevance to EMDR practice. \n\n\n\nExplain the theoretical foundations of EMDR therapy\, including Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and its neurobiological basis. \n\n\n\nApply EMDR’s 8 phase protocol to clinical case conceptualization across a range of DSM-5-TR diagnoses. \n\n\n\nDifferentiate EMDR target selection and protocol modifications for PTSD\, complex trauma\, opioid use disorder\, anxiety disorders\, depressive disorders\, and dissociative presentations\, including adaptations for trauma-related symptoms in individuals with comorbid opioid use disorder.
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/emdr-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Understanding Perinatal OCD: Reducing Fear\, Improving Care
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lauren Amacker\, LICSW\, PIP
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/understanding-perinatal-ocd/
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SUMMARY:S.A.V.E. Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will provide an overview of the VA S.A.V.E. Training\, an evidence-based suicide prevention training designed to help individuals recognize and respond to Veterans who may be experiencing a crisis or suicidal thoughts. Participants will learn how to identify warning signs\, confidently ask the important questions about suicide\, validate a Veteran’s experience\, and encourage treatment and immediate support. The training emphasizes practical intervention strategies\, compassionate communication\, and connecting Veterans with appropriate resources and care. Attendees will leave with increased confidence in supporting Veterans and promoting suicide prevention within their communities.  \n\n\n\nBy participating in this training\, participants will be able to:  \n\n\n\n-Describe the scope and impact of suicide among Veterans in the United States. \n\n\n\n-Identify current and emerging efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs to address mental health and suicide prevention. \n\n\n\n-Explain the value of community partnerships in supporting Veterans’ mental health and suicide prevention efforts. \n\n\n\n-Recognize warning signs and risk factors associated with suicide among Veterans and other individuals. \n\n\n\n-Demonstrate appropriate steps to take when identifying and responding to a Veteran or individual at risk for suicide.
URL:https://vitalalabama.com/event/s-a-v-e-webinar/
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