100600 - DBHDS ASAM Training

Overview

Join us for a free 1-day training presented by Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation on implementing and operationalizing the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition within your continuum of care. Within this 1-day training, subject matter experts will review the updated guidelines and service standards of the ASAM Criteria Fourth Edition. This training is made possible by Virginia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services.

Objectives: 

1. Identify all changes in, and benefits of, the ASAM Criteria Fourth Edition. 
2. Discuss why and how changes are crucial for innovative person-centered care. 
3. Identify treatment levels that make up the 4th Edition's continuum of care and how integrated care is incorporated throughout the continuum. 
4. Recognize needs and opportunities to evolve standards and practices aligned with Fourth Edition Criteria in a clinical setting.

Location Information

The Westin Richmond
6631 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23230
804.282.8444

A lodging block is available at the Westin Richmond for the evening of Monday, April 29, 2025.  The lodging rate is $110.00 per night plus applicable taxes.  All reservations receiving the discounted rate must be made by Monday, April 7, 2025.  Reservations can be made online at Book your group rate for ASAM Leadership Training April 2025.

Agenda/Schedule

08:30-9:30 am Onsite Check In and Breakfast 
09:30-10:00 am  Introduction and warm up activity
10:00-11:15 am Overview of the Major Changes from ASAM 3 to ASAM 4 
11:15-11:30 am BREAK
11:15-12:30 pm Service Standards for each Level of Care with Major Changes
12:30-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:15 pm Summary and questions about changes
1:15-2:30 pm Breakout sessions 
2:30-3:00 pm Break
3:00-4:00 pm Report out from Groups and Discuss
4:00-4:30 pm Next steps – Plan of action to move forward

Speaker(s)/Instructor(s)

Trainer Bios

Don Bartosik, MS, LMFT, ASAM Manager and Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Don Bartosik is a Master Trainer and Consultant and ASAM Manager for Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years of providing clinical guidance, interdisciplinary administrative leadership, and targeted training and consultation across the country for evidence-based and emerging practices in behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment.  Don's primary areas of interest are trauma-informed care, integrated care, model implementation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.  His well rounded expertise includes operations, performance improvement, quality assurance, and change management. Don is a proud husband, father of 3, and rescue dog enthusiast living in Durham, NC.

Joyce Starr, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Joyce Starr is a Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Solutions (CTS) team at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. She is retired from the State of Ohio, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and previously served as their Chief of Recovery Supports and Housing. Previously, Ms. Starr served as Chief of Treatment Services, and Chief of Treatment and Recovery Services, with Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, monitoring substance use treatment statewide, including Therapeutic Communities. She has over 40 years in the field of substance use with experience with public and private sector. Ms. Starr had a 30-year history of being a Licensed Social Worker and a Licensed Independent Chemical Counselor with supervision privilege along with an international certification for clinical supervision.

Continuing Education Credits: 5.5 CEs

CE Sponsor Statement: The Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, provider #1487, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period:11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive 5.5 continuing education credits. The Graduate School is an NBCC approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP # 6547, and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.  Participants are required to keep their certificate for a minimum of six years. For information about this continuing education program, please contact the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, P.O. Box 11 CO9, Center City, Minnesota 55012, 1-651-213-4538.