• Are your organizational and staff practice methods evidence-based?
• How often do your funders and stakeholders require evidence-based approaches? 
• What plans do you have to become and remain evidence-based in 2016? 

Join us in sunny Miami, Florida this March 9 - 11 to learn how to;

BECOME AN EVIDENCE-BASED PROFESSIONAL: CORE & ADVANCE SKILLS FOR LEADERSHIP & PRACTITIONERS

March 9-11, 2016
Miami, Florida, USA

These are certificate programs for efficiently building in-house capacity to become evidence-based and strength-centrered - in record time!

View Entire 3-Day Program at the Registration Link

AT-A-GLANCE

Three (3) comprehensive evidence-based and strength-centered tracks to choose from.  Attend a 2-Day program, or stay all 4 days for 2 comprehensive programs and save.  Bring your team, spread out and build capacity for the work ahead.  Earn up to 26 CE Training Hours.

Choose from 3 Tracks

Track-A: ORGANIZATION

Becoming An Evidence-Based Organization (EBO): Core Leadership Skills & Planning for Implementation

3-Day, March 9 - 11, 2016

For a focus on the evidence based organization, this is the track for you.  Well-meaning organizations adopt model programs and practices with which to serve clients. Frequently this occurs in the absence of an evidence-based organizational framework. Such initiatives become unsustainable and then fade away when funding is exhausted. On the other hand, programs installed at evidence-based organizations (EBO's) thrive, are sustainable over time and consistently produce desired client outcomes.

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Track-B: PRACTITIONER

Being An Evidence-Based Practitioner (EBP): Core and Advance Skills for Providing Durable Client Services and Supports

3-Day, March 9 - 11, 2016

If you are an evidence-based individual and looking to develop, this is the track for you. Participants in this training will be in a position to learn evidence-based "common elements" they must practice to successfuly help their clients achieve durable outcomes - vs punishing, warning or "rehabilitating". Practitioners must remain courageous and choose proven pathways in practice.

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Track-C: TRAUMA

Vicarious Trauma & Traumatic Stress: Its Impacts & How to Recognize & Manage It At Your Agency To Enhance Services Excellence

2-Day, March 10 - 11, 2016

A tremendous amount of effort is rightfully expended to insure professionals receive training and are equipped to address the needs of clients. On another hand the training needs of staff to care for themselves in light of the fatigue associated with the compassionate requirements of working with these same clients receives far less attention than is deserved.  Recognizing and addressing its impacts and will have immeasurable benefits to your organizations bottom line.

View Trauma Workshop Details

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Season-2 of our evidence-based web series is now open for registrations to help you build team capacity in Evidence-Based approaches.  Each episode takes place from 1PM-3PM EST (10AM-12PM PST) on the listed specified date.  Your investment towards each episode is $125 for individuals or $375 for the whole team. 

Unable to join on the specified date, no problem.  Participants receive 12-month access to the webcast following the event.  Initial registration is required.  Here is the complete schedule:

Jan. 5th - Ethics: Priciples & Fundamentals for Human, Social & Justice Services Teams

This program discusses the fundamental ethical issues and dilemmas practitioners face in the field.  We will discuss the ethical codes that apply to working with behavioral and mental health clients and evaluate scenarios that allow participants to explore the grey areas and the ethical decision making procedures.

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Jan. 8th - Person Centered Planning

Person Centered Planning is a formalized process in which the individual receiving supports and services is helped to lead the process of developing a plan of service. An evidence-based and strength centered practice, its is applicable for prevention and treatment settings.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Jan. 12th - Suicides Detection & Prevention

How can you tell someone is suicidal?  When you do what are appropriate steps to take to prevent it?  This is a two hour webinar to assist counselors (including substance abuse counselors) build skills for suicide prevention.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Jan. 15th - Writing Effective Stage-Matched Service & Treatment Plans

This is a webinar that increases the skills of practitioners in applying strength-based, recovery-oriented treatment in their work with clients and in their documentation. The workshop will give clarity to what is a deficit-based versus a strength-based approach as well as greatly increase individual practitioner skills for writing collaborative, recovery-oriented treatment plans that actually reflect the activities of the individual and the assistive counselor (team).

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Jan. 19th - Case Management for Community Corrections: An Introduction to Evidence-Based Fundamentals

The program examines the way in which case-management has been a natural part of community corrections and reentry, probation, parole and other service provider staffs supervising clients at various stages of transitioning within institutions and outside in community.

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Jan. 22 - Managing Employee Performance: Core Skills for "New & Less Tenured" Supervisors & Managers

Would you like to help your management team acquire skills for getting great ourcomes - efficiently and cost effectively? Or perhaps your interest is achieiving more consistent results from your management team. Its an excelent workshop for quickly helping your team leaders, management and supervisory staff acquire core management training as they transition into their new roles - make them sink or swim!

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Jan. 26th - How To Prep, Write & Deliver Effective Employee Performance Appraisals

Success and sustainability of any agency is driven by how the management team navigates the employee performance review process. What goes on before, during and after the event yields benefits which go straight to the bottom line. Yet the process is one many well-meaning managers and supervisors avoid, or at best do not look forward to. Ultimately the appraisal "thrown together" is one the manager themselves would not want themselves.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Jan. 29th - Motivational Interviewing Skills: An Introduction to MI Fundamentals

Although best taught and assimilated through experiential exercises, this webcast aims to teach foundational concepts involved in the method of MI.  The program will help staff learn how to influence clients into considering making desired change through intrinsic motivation.

Learn More At This Registration Link

 Did You Miss Out On Season 1?

If you did, we've got a package for you. We're excited to offer season one as a complete online package. As part of purchasing the season one package, you'll gain access to all eight webcasts for 12 months. You'll have plenty of time for you and your team to watch the informative videos. Use the button below to purchase season one or read the episode descriptions below.

View & Purchase Season-1 Bundle for your Team & Save

Join us in historic New Orleans for four (4) days of comprehensive evidence-based and strength-centered program sessions designed for the human, social and justice services professional.

Care Coordination, Family Engagement in Community, Employment Focused Services & Motivational Interviewing

March 29-April 1, 2016

New Orleans, Luisiana, USA

Four (4) comprehensive evidence-based and strength-centered workshops.  Elect to attend a 2-Day program, or stay all 4 days for 2 comprehensive programs and save.  Bring your team, spread out and build capacity for the work ahead.  Earn up to 26 CE Training Hours.

View Entire 4-Day Program At This Registration Link

AT-A-GLANCE

Days 1 & 2 - March 29 - 30, 2016

Case Management & Care Coordination: Evidence-Based & Strength-Centered Approaches

This workshop teaches the processes for assessing, planning, facilitating and advocating for options and services designed to help clients efficiently meet their individual needs. Participants will be in a position to learn how to play their rightful role as the collaborative assistive partner working with individual clients to achieve outcomes they desire.

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Employment Focused Career Services: Core Skills for Durable Workforce Development

Evoke and strengthen capabilities individuals already possess using skills learned at this comprehensive employment focused workshop.  The program is designed to address current and coming trends for helping clients become gainfully employed - even in the face of severe barriers.  Oriented toward getting clients ready with skills currently demanded by area employers, this program teaches participants how to expand the range of resources available for meeting the job search and job retention needs of the difficult to serve client.

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Days 3 & 4 - March 26-27, 2015

Family Engagement Services: Evidence-Based Practices for Working in Communities

Imagine you have an entire team to assist you as you provide quality interventions to the individuals and families you serve. Also, consider what it would be like if you could decrease the level of resistance you experience as you provide quality interventions.

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Motivational Interviewing (MI): Core Skills for Durable Behavioral Change

Teams perform like the pros they are using Motivational Interviewing skills. MI is proven to be fully compatible with various approaches as a method that helps people resolve ambivalence toward change through discovery of intrapersonal fuel by placing complete responsibility for change on the individual. It's a must-have method in your tool kit.

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Bring your team, spread out and build capacity for the work ahead.

View Entire 4-Day Program Details

We're heading to sunny Miami this March 9 - 11, 2016, and we've got three groups we're taking through our conference. If you are seeking to become an evidence-based organization, practitioner or want to get a handle on vicarious trauma & traumatic stress, we've got a track for you.

Plan now to join us along with other practitioners and experts for these certificate programs developed to prepare practitioners and organizations to become evidence-based and achieve certification in the process. They emphasize practical approaches for immediate application, skills development and career growth.

Have You Decided To Become Evidence-Based? 

If you answered YES, then come along with your colleagues, fan out and train on how you can become an evidence-based as an organization or as a practitioner.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Track 1 - Want To Become An Evidence-Based Organization (EBO)?

For a focus on the evidence based organization, this is the track for you.  Well-meaning organizations adopt model programs and practices with which to serve clients. Frequently this occurs in the absence of an evidence-based organizational framework. Such initiatives become unsustainable and then fade away when funding is exhausted. On the other hand, programs installed at evidence-based organizations (EBO's) thrive, are sustainable over time and consistently produce desired client outcomes.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Track 2 - Become An Evidence-Based Practitioner (EBP)?

If you are an evidence-based individual and looking to develop, this is the track for you. Participants in this training will be in a position to learn evidence-based "common elements" they must practice to successfuly help their clients achieve durable outcomes - vs punishing, warning or "rehabilitating". Practitioners must remain courageous and choose proven pathways in practice.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Track 3 - Are You Looking To Tackle Vicarious Trauma & Traumatic Stress?

A tremendous amount of effort is rightfully expended to insure professionals receive training and are equipped to address the needs of clients. On another hand the training needs of staff to care for themselves in light of the fatigue associated with the compassionate requirements of working with these same clients receives far less attention than is deserved.  Recognizing and addressing its impacts and will have immeasurabe benefits to your organizations bottom line.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Joyfields Institute is excited to present season one of our upcoming evidence-based webinar and webcast series. Each episode takes place from 1PM-3PM EST (10AM-12PM PST) on the dates listed below throughout November.

Your investment towards each episode is $125 for individuals or $375 for the whole team.

Here is our full schedule of webinars and webcasts:

Episode 1 - Nov. 3rd - Managing Employee Performance

This webinar training is designed for new supervisors and managers or those who have little or no formal employee management training. It is relevant for those who wish to acquire fundamental skills for achieving desired results with and through others.  Participants will be in a position to gain an understanding of key management concepts and fundamentals they can put to work immediately to enhance theirs and their team's performance.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Episode 2 - Nov. 6th - Cognitive Behavioral Approaches

Predominantly a knowledge transfer, this webcast aims to familiarize participants with the concepts and key elements of this evidence-based practice to enhance staff efficacy in helping their clients successfully achieve desired outcomes, prevent recidivism and minimize the propensity for relapse.

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Episode 3 - Nov. 10 - Case Management

During this webcast participants will be in a position to learn to differentiate traditional ineffective deficit-centered practices from evidence-based and strength-centered approaches that the field has moved to. They will learn to help their clients achieve desirable outcomes by promoting interventions which link individuals seamlessly to appropriate resources.

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Episode 4 - Nov. 13 - Substance Abuse Treatment & Management

This webcast provides instruction to staff who work with substance abusing clients. It examines the pharmacology of typical substances and the evidence-based methods practitioners must apply to achieve desired outcomes. The program also examines co-occurring disorders and how they serve to further complicate work with clients.

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Episode 5 - Nov. 17 - Employee Performance Appraisals

Success and sustainability of any agency is driven by how the management team navigates the employee performance review process. What goes on before, during and after this important event yields benefits which go straight to the bottom line. Yet the process is one many well-meaning managers and supervisors avoid, or at best do not look forward to. Ultimately the appraisal "thrown together" is one the manager themselves would not want to receive.  This webinar will help participants learn methods to perform this important function as a seamless part of their day to day activities and drive agency performance to levels never before thought possible.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Episode 6 - Nov. 20 - Motivational Interviewing

Although best taught and assimilated through experiential exercises, this webcast aims to teach foundational concepts involved in the method of MI. The program will help staff learn how to influence clients into considering making durable behavioral changes through intrinsic motivation.  In addition they will be in a position to recognize that clients address change issues at different levels of readiness which they as practitioners must learn to appreciate and handle with confidence in a way that is both assistive and collaborative.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Episode 7 - Nov. 23 - Managing Employee Performance (NOTE DATE CHANGE)

This training is designed for new supervisors and managers or those who have little or no formal employee management training. It is relevant for those who wish to acquire fundamental skills for achieving desired results with and through others.  Participants will be in a position to gain an understanding of key management concepts and fundamentals they can put to work immediately to enhance theirs and their team's performance.

Learn More At This Registration Link

Episode 8 - Nov. 24 - Trauma Informed Care

This training is intended to help the practitioner develop skills for assessing the impact of trauma on functioning and ability to benefit from treatment. Implementing a trauma-informed care program expresses a human service program's intention to assess and potentially modify its organization, management, and service delivery system to include a basic understanding of how trauma affects the life of an individual seeking services.

Learn More At This Registration Link

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Sobem Nwoko

President

Joyfields Institute

770-409-8780

[email protected]

For Immediate Release:

Joyfields Institute To Hold San Diego Evidence Based Conference For Substance Abuse

Joyfields Institute Plans San Diego Conference for substance use and abuse prevention, treatment and management. Joyfields will hold this evidence based conference May 19-22 for evidence based professionals seeking to grow while getting accredited learning hours. The event, which will be held at the Hilton Hotel San Diego Mission Valley, will help attendees learn how to best respond to those struggling with substance abuse in their life.

With our Las Vegas events happening in the next week, San Diego is the next conference on the horizon. We have several packages available during this San Diego Conference for evidence-based professionals. For those interested in Substance Use & Abuse Prevention, Treatment & Management we have a 4 day package and a 2 day package. For those new to the subject matter, the use of Evidence-based approaches in the prevention and treatment of substance use and abuse is supported by the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration as well as the National Institute of Drug Abuse. A great deal of research now provides clear evidence to support the efficacy of using evidence-based practices over traditional more intuitive approaches.

In addition, we also have another package, our Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) Approaches package. Cognitive behavioral approaches have been found to be valuable for the recovery of substance abusing individuals. Significant research exists supporting the idea that many different approaches can be effective tools for changing behaviors related to substance abuse.

Lastly, we have our Motivational Interviewing package. Teams perform like the pros when they are using Motivational Interviewing skills.  MI is proven to be fully compatible with various approaches as a method that helps people resolve ambivalence toward change through discovery of intrapersonal fuel by placing complete responsibility for change on the individual.

While we understand not everyone can make the trip to San Diego, we currently have multiple elearning classes on these topics. Consider checking out our membership options and discover a good fit for you and your organization.

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Evidence Based Workforce and Career Services: Core Skills

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