Housing First: Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Harm Reduction and Healing
December 13, 2024
8:30 - 10:30am CST
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $10 full members; $25 partial members and nonmember
Trainer(s): Kim Davidson, LCSW
Continuing Education Hours: 2.0
Course Description
When working with clients that face many barriers, it can overwhelming to navigate the helping process. This training will support providers in utilizing motivational interviewing to truly meet clients where they are at, evoking and guiding instead of using a more directive style. Through this training, providers will build skills to support the engagement and intervention process with highly vulnerable clients.
Learning Objectives:
• After participating in this session, attendees should be able to define the concepts of harm reduction, trauma informed care, and motivational interviewing.
• After participating in this session, attendees should be able to explain the core skills of motivational interviewing.
• After participating in this session, attendees should be able to apply the core skills of motivational interviewing to their work with highly vulnerable clients.
• After participating in this session, attendees will be able to formulate thoughtful open ended questions that take into account the multiple barriers their clients may be facing.
• After participating in this session, attendees should be able to evaluate their current practice, identifying ways to incorporate motivational interviewing skills to reduce discord with clients.
About Your Trainer
Kim Davidson, LCSW
Kim Davidson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a BSW/MSW Social Work Instructor. Kim has been teaching social work for over twelve years. She also provides therapy in a private practice setting and is also a consultant for several local social work agencies. Kim has also been practicing social work for 15 years, and previously worked at Deborah’s Place for 11 years as their Clinical Services Director and a Program Administrator. As the Clinical Services Director, Kim was responsible for implementing all clinical programming throughout Deborah’s Place. This included providing staff development opportunities, supervising case management and health services staff, overseeing the social work internship program, and ensuring that Deborah’s Place consistently implemented their theoretical approaches and evidence-based practices throughout their housing programs. Prior to her work as Clinical Services Director, Kim was the Program Administrator for the Safe Haven and Patty Crowley Apartments. In this role, she worked to oversee two housing programs for highly vulnerable women, and she specialized in working with severe and persistent mental health symptoms. In addition, she has experience in HIV case management, street outreach, and women’s health. Kim is passionate about exploring the intersections of gender, trauma, substance use, mental illness, and homelessness and she works to incorporate this interest into her practice.