Choose from: **Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Misuse** Examine the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and substance use, with an emphasis on research specific to tribal communities and youth. Discuss the confounding effects of social economic factors and ethnicity-based differences in prevalence rates. Review culturally-enhanced treatment options for ACEs. Explore specific strategies for caregivers, prevention specialists, treatment providers, criminal justice professionals and community members. **Neurobiology of Addiction** Study the latest research on addiction and the brain. Learn strategies and skills to support someone through the recovery process. Explore the fundamentals of relapse prevention and evidence-based ways of facilitating long-term behavior change. **Co-Occurring Disorders Simplified** Understand mental health symptoms and what tribal service providers and criminal justice professionals can do from a very practical perspective. Learn skills you can use when working with a client presenting with mental health symptoms. **Understanding Addiction-Related Implicit Bias** Understand implicit bias as a key factor contributing to racial and ethnic health disparities. Gain a deeper appreciation of brain science, bias, how bias influences action, and skills to attend to bias. Improve your approach to treatment of drug and alcohol problems. Learn potential points of intervention in providing treatment. **Applying Implementation Science to the Criminal Justice and Substance Use Fields** Explore the fundamental practices and research supporting implementation science. Learn about programs that are successfully improving services and outcomes using these best practices in the criminal justice and addiction fields **Evidence-Based Practices and Successful Program Models** Explain the importance of the relationship with victims and criminal justice clients in the change process. Identify evidence-based practices in the criminal justice system. Describe how to create a relationship that holds people accountable and provides appropriate advocacy in their path to healing. Recognize common biases and understand the impact of their interactions when biases are present. **Opioid Addiction and Medication Assisted Treatment (MATs)** Discuss an overview of opiate addiction and the role of medication assisted treatments (MATs) specific to tribal communities. Review recent research on effective treatment strategies for opioid addiction. Compare common myths and misconceptions **Nature vs. Nurture: The Impact of Genetics and the Environment on Addiction** Discuss where research stands in the debate between nature and nurture. Explore factors such as the genetic predisposition to addiction, the impact of the environment on learned behavior, and what this means for caregivers and tribal communities. **Social Emotional Skill Development** Learn essential skills to succeed in family, school, workplaces, and community. Learn how to leverage these skills in tribal communities to maximize the protective impact against negative outcomes, including addiction. Discuss the importance of social emotional skills (SES) among children, youth and adults and the buffering effect of SES on addiction and trauma. Examine strategies to support SES development **Building Stress-Resilient Tribal Communities** Review stress factors, the toxic stress of poverty, the correlation between stress and alcohol and substance abuse, and the protective nature of community on stress resilience. Discuss the generational impact on stress resilience. Explore the predictive quality of social and community support on building stress resilience and stress management and reduction strategies. **Strategies to Reduce Underage Substance Use in Tribal Communities** Examine key predictors of under aged substance use. Discuss the long-term impact of under aged substance use, prevalence rates among tribal

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