IN PERSON-Thursday, May 23, 2024, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM-Motivational Interviewing Skills Lab: Practice Makes Perfect with Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I

Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center, 181 Boston Post Rd W, Marlborough, MA 01752

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IN-PERSON-Thursday, May 23, 2024, 9:00 AM—4:00 PM-$219 including CEUs

Motivational Interviewing Skills Lab: Practice Makes Perfect

Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I

This training will give practitioners who are learning Motivational Interviewing the opportunity to engage in a day long practice session to develop their skills using role play, real play, and other practical practice opportunities. Motivational Interviewing is SIMPLE, but not EASY. The only way to really become fluid in the practice is to use it! This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to do just that, engaging in small group practice activities with real time feedback from instructor-coaches and their peers.

Following this training the participants will understand:

  • The importance of practicing MI skills in order to use them fluidly
  • Strategies for using MI in assessment and treatment planning
  • Strategies in using MI across other clinical interventions

YOUR TRAINER:

Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I, Director of Training and Professional Development at Open Sky Community Services, is committed to making the best evidence-based tools and supports available to both Open Sky employees and the broader provider community through the Bridge Training Institute. Ms. Langevin has presented regionally and nationally on implementing evidence-based treatment modalities, including the Stephanie Moulton Symposium, NAADAC National Webinar Series, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Rehabilitation Collaborative Annual Conference. She has extensive training and fidelity coding experience in Motivational Interviewing and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

She had provided training and consultation in a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities to mental health providers, school systems, community groups and state agencies, where feedback has included, “Suzy is very knowledgeable and provides practical insight on how to apply the skill learned in real life situations. Her training approach is upbeat, engaging, and informative.”

In her more than decade long tenure at Open Sky, she served as Director of Dual Diagnosis Services, where she developed a model for services for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders within the agency’s community mental health programming. She also previously worked to implement and supervise the provision of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) services across adult and adolescent treatment settings and the development and opening of The Bridge Counseling Center, Open Sky’s outpatient division. In 2014, Ms. Langevin was awarded the ABH Excellence in Outcomes Award as a member of the CR for PTSD group. She was selected to the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Worcester Class of 2021.

In addition to her work at Open Sky, Ms. Langevin has experience in a diverse range of settings, including emergency mental health, juvenile justice, residential treatment, and hospital inpatient care.