Families Matter!
Jesse D.
A tribute to my friend Jesse. One way of remembering is remembering through traditions. My dear friend, Jesse, lost her life to accidental overdose in February 2022. She had given my husband and I a “Blessing Jar” fondly referred to as “Jesse Jars” and each year we fill it full of blessings, positive things that happen and on 12/31 we pull them out and rejoice at all we have gone through in the year in review and pause to thank God for Jesse!
Jesse Jars
This tradition has ensured that Jesse’s legacy lives on in our family. We honor a person’s legacy in how we grieve. Ensuring those amazing qualities Jesse embodied live on. Qualities of compassion, kindness, zeal, connection, creativity and gratitude and laughter/fun. This is what makes working with families and concerned significant others (CSO) with a loved on involved in substance use so important! When we connect families in the recovery process, the whole family can experience hope, help and support. I am excited to announce a new training offering… Embracing Families.
Embracing Families: Practical Strategies for Involving Families in SUD Treatment is a brand new 6 hour training developed in collaboration with Sandy Rivers. In this training, we offer real-world skills for engaging families. It is well known in research that when families are involved in treatment, it improves the recovery outcomes for the individual in treatment and the family. We offer an initial training, Intermediate and Train the Trainer for Embracing Families to partner with you to initiate implementation for a family engagement program at your facility. Share a story of how family engagement in treatment has impacted your clients. To bring this essential training to your organization or to learn more, email me at lisa@apurpose4life.com.
Families Matter!
NEW Asynchronous Motivational Interviewing Course
Motivational Interviewing: (MI) Training: A Step by Step Guide to Empower Others Toward Positive Change and Growth has launched. It is a 4 hour course asynchronous, self-paced web course based on Miller and Rollnick’s newest 4th Edition Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow.
Access the latest MI training, including vital language shifts for Spirit of MI, PACE, & OARS. Learn
from MINT experts with diverse MI experience. | 4CEs | OASAS accredited. | Ideal training for mental
health, substance use disorder, criminal justice, probation departments, social work, & more.
Get Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training for change and growth. Transform discord into collaboration, ambivalence into motivation, and blame into empowerment. | Self-Paced | Expert led by MINT members. |
This self-paced, online MI training will teach you the most up-to-date foundational approaches to facilitate change and assist you in being more confident and effective as a helper. Inside, get the practical conversation skills to transform client
o discord into collaboration,
o ambivalence into motivation, and
o blaming into empowerment.
Explore the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (partnership, acceptance, compassion, empowerment) and OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries). Learn to blend this MI training with trauma-informed care, a person-centered lens, and strength-based engagement. Available 24/7, this on-demand course includes expertly designed lessons, demonstrations, and exercises led by skilled members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) with lived MI experience in numerous fields, including mental health, substance use disorder, and criminal justice. This customized workforce development training can be customized to be private label for your organization.
Motivational Interviewing to Build Strong Teams!
Email me at lisa@apurpose4life.com to connect regarding Motivational Interviewing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Empower Others Toward Positive Change and Growth.
