Webinars on Demand – Watch Now
A select number of our webinars and online trainings are available to watch at your convenience.
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2022 Webinars
Zero Suicide and the Role CAMS Can play
National suicide rates have increased 30% in the past two decades, with ages 10-14 and 25-35 showing the highest rates. COVID-19 has contributed to the suicide burden, particularly for Black, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Hispanic males. While it has long been thought that mental illness is the driving factor, recent data for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) suggest that over half of Americans who died by suicide had no previously known mental health issues. Instead, economic, financial, relationship, and addiction problems appear to be fueling the increasing rates.
In this important webinar, you’ll learn key risk factors fueling the suicide epidemic; warning signs that should lead to intervention; protective factors for individuals, families, and communities; and how a parts model can provide leverage points for treatment. Special guest: Raymond P. Tucker, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, LSU Health Sciences Center/Our Lady of the Lake.
Download this webinar’s slide deck and visit the CAMS-care website.
What’s New in Treating Alcohol Use Disorder?
Prior to COVID-19, Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) was among the most significant public health challenges. Recent data now suggest the pandemic is responsible for at least a 20 percent increase in excessive drinking, which scientists believe may contribute to measurable increases in alcohol-related disease in the coming years. For those with drinking problems and their loved ones, this webinar will offer hope that overcoming AUD is more than possible. We’ll discuss the role of relationships, culture, medications, self-help groups, and specific psychotherapies in healing, and offer an integrated framework for intervention that optimizes positive outcomes. And we’ll leave plenty of time for questions.
In this webinar, you’ll learn the impact COVID-19 has had on drinking behavior; key underlying drivers that initiate and perpetuate Alcohol Use Disorders; why acute treatment for a chronic problem does not work, and what does; and the most important ingredients in successfully overcoming AUD.
How the CRAFT Approach Helps Family Members Help their Loved One with Addiction
When you and your family have a loved one struggling with addiction, you may feel like you are drowning. Allies in Recovery offers a lifeline, training you to be an active part of your loved one’s recovery with a range of skills using the CRAFT approach: Community Reinforcement and Family Training. The environment around your loved one can have a huge impact on recovery; CRAFT helps you play an active role in changing that environment, with the highest success rate of any approach.
In this webinar, you’ll learn the basics of the CRAFT approach, like: How to act and speak with your loved one when they are using or not using; how to influence your loved one’s behavior by giving or withholding rewards; when to step pack and allow natural consequences; best practices for self-care and why it’s a critical component of CRAFT, and more.
NM 5-Actions Program™ Training: Coping with Pandemic Fatigue, Workplace Stress, Parental Exhaustion, and an Uncertain Future
Almost two years into a global pandemic, variants like Delta and Omicron are pushing daily case rates to record highs. At the same time, we are all tiring of distancing, masks, virtual calls, and worrying excessively about our health and that of our loved ones. For those who have lost a loved one to COVID, there is the added grief. In this first webinar of 2022, we will take on this challenging time with the best evidence-based tools to enhance resiliency, wellbeing, and leading a meaningful life.
In this training you will learn factors driving fatigue, stress, exhaustion, and excessive worry; how COVID has led to continuous traumatic stress (CTS); our likely responses to loss, trauma, and life-threatening stress; and tools to enhance resilience, wellbeing, and leading a meaningful life.
2021 Webinars
5-Actions Program™: Embracing Your Internal Family
We are conditioned from an early age to believe we have one mind, one personality, and that all our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors come from that unitary person we think we are. But this idea of a single self does not explain how we can love and hate the same person at different times, diet one day and binge the next, or be calm one minute and rageful the next.
In this engaging webinar, we’ll discuss the idea that our mind is better understood as an internal family of parts, or subpersonalities, and that addiction is behavior of a part, and not the essence of a person’s being. We’ll also discuss how you can work with your internal family of parts in ways that leads to a more enjoyable and meaningful life.
Community Training on Grief and the 5-Actions Program™
Since the emergence of COVID-19, we have collectively lost so much, and risk losing more if we fail to recognize the coming challenges of unresolved grief. When feelings of unprocessed grief accumulate in the body, a wall is built around our emotional world to fend off re-experiencing overwhelming feelings from past loss. The price we pay for not learning how to embrace grief is more suffering, because the wall that fends off grief also blocks our ability to truly feel alive.
Please join us for an important discussion about grief, its relationship with addiction, and how we can best embrace an uncertain future. In this training you will learn how to understand grief and loss, and its relationship to addiction; how to feel, process, and address grief without becoming overwhelmed; and how to embrace an uncertain future.
NM 5-Actions Program – Evaluating My Behaviors
When addiction is the challenge, it may seem obvious that it be the focus of your efforts. But for most, addictive behavior is a symptom that emerges from various roots that need to be identified and addressed for successful long-term outcomes. In this presentation, we’ll explore tools for identifying those roots and other issues in your life that keep you stuck, when to seek professional assessment, and how to use this information to optimize your change efforts.
You will learn the process of evaluating your life to uncover leverage points for change, how to access and use various screening tools, and when it is appropriate to seek a professional evaluation.
Community (User) Training on the 5-Actions Program™
Whether you recently signed up for the 5-Actions Program™ or have been using it for a while, this training will provide guidance and tips for integrating it into your recovery plan. In this training you will learn indications for use of the program, how to get started with the program, and ideas on how to integrate it into a recovery plan. This training is also appropriate for those helping a loved one or friend struggling with addiction.
Provider Training on the 5-Actions Program™
Whether you are a prescriber, pharmacist, clinician, counselor, social worker, peer support worker, community service provider, or work in some other capacity that interfaces with people who experience addiction, join us to learn about this important new innovative program.
In this training you will learn indications for use of the program, how to get started with the program, ideas on integrating it into a recovery plan, and tools to enhance your present work.
5-Actions Program™ Community (User) Training: Healing Relationships
Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships—the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” In this presentation we’ll discuss the critical role relationships play in life and healing. We’ll discuss the earliest template for all relationships based on attachment theory, how adverse childhood experiences impede a good life, and one of the most evidence-based frameworks for understanding healing in the context of relationships.
In this training you will learn to understand the role of relationships in life and healing, explore early influences on relationships, including attachment, ACEs, and trauma, discuss the Contextual Model and how it relates to healing outcomes, and how the 5-Actions Program promotes healing relationships.
5-Actions Program™ Provider Training: Addressing Trauma & Addiction
Trauma is among the most common and least understood drivers of addictive behavior. In this training we’ll explore the nature of trauma, its relationship to addiction, and how you can use the 5-Actions Program™ in your clinical work to enhance outcomes from treatment.
In this training you will learn how to define trauma and its relationship to addiction, the consequences of trauma, overall treatment approach to optimize outcomes, and how the program can support addressing trauma in your practice.
5-Actions Program™ Community (User) Training: Addressing Trauma & Addiction
Trauma is among the most common and least understood drivers of addictive behavior. In this training we’ll explore the nature of trauma, its relationship to addiction, and how you can use the 5-Actions Program™ in your change efforts to address trauma and addiction.
In this training you will learn how to define trauma and its relationship to addiction, the consequences of trauma, overall approach to addressing trauma in your life, and how the program can support your change efforts specific to trauma.
5-Actions Program™ Community (User) Training: The Power to Create
Trauma is among the most common and least understood drivers of addictive behavior. In this training we’ll explore the nature of trauma, its relationship to addiction, and how you can use the 5-Actions Program™ in your clinical work to enhance outcomes from treatment.
In this training you will learn how problem solving and creating differ, the process of creating anything, why engaging in creative endeavors is the best relapse prevention program, how the program can help you engage your creative energy.
