COSIG CONFERENCE BROCHURE.pdf - Drexel University College ...

COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
Treatment Matching
• Treatment must match the stage
• Interventions must be fluid
• Services must be comprehensive
How do you get an 800 pound
Gorilla to listen to you?
• Empower staff to think out of the box
• Develop a philosophy that guides your
system
• Create a management structure that
really, really believes in this work.
• Identify program champions
Memorandum of Understanding
• Ken Minkoff, M.D. and the MOU
• Comprehensive, continuous, integrated
system of care model (CCISC)
• Eight principles
• Four core characteristics
The Holy Grail
• Dual Diagnosis is an expectation, not an exception
• The core of treatment success in any setting is the availability of
empathic hopeful treatment across multiple treatment episodes.
• Consensus model of treatment based on severity of illnesses.
• Care must be balanced in a comprehensive manner.
• When both illnesses are present, each must be considered primary.
• Treatment must be matched to phase of recovery and stage of
change.
• There is no correct intervention or program
• Outcomes must be individualized.
Four Core Characteristics
• The CCISC will be implemented within existing
treatment resources.
• The CCISC will promote participation from all
components of the system.
• The CCISC will utilize a full range of outcome
based best practices.
• The CCISC will promote an integrated treatment
philosophy, common policies, procedures and
language throughout the system of care.
How do you know what your doing
really works?
• The COPASS Instrument
• The CODECAT
• Program specific action planning
• Pre test
• Post test
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