The Great Plains Area Behavioral Health Director's Association will facilitate its annual regional conference at the Box Elder Event Center located in Rapid City, South Dakota on September 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2024. The Conference provides professional development education to a wide variety of processionals working across several disciplines including, but not limited to mental health and addiction counseling, social worker, K-12 education, allied health and nursing, juvenile diversion and prevention, and public health.
The Conference is a major source of continuing education credits (CEU).
The goals of the Association’s annual conferences are to:
1. Increase the behavioral health workforce’s capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based practices;
2. Provide a forum to promote information sharing among the region’s behavioral health, public health, medical providers; and
3. Enable regional leadership to improve the quality of care for American Indians that receive addiction treatment and mental health services.
Cindy and Faith Catches, Holmes
Oceti Wakan has developed a new revolutionary approach to education. A systematic K-12 medicine wheel prevention curriculum to equally develop, educate, nurture and heal the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental aspects of our children and youth.
I am a faculty member in the Social Work Department. I teach the Chemical Dependency, Social Work and Psychology Courses. I have been employed at OLC since 1984.
Dr. Donald Warne is Oglala Lakota from Kyle, SD. He is a family physician with additional training in public health and health policy. He serves as the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health
Dr. Jacque Gray is a Choctaw/Cherokee descendent and the Co-Director of the Native Center for Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. Gray has over 45 years' experience working with AI/AN Behavioral Health.
Discuss factual information on STI’s (prevalence, treatment, causes, effects, signs/symptoms).
Kendra Joswiak, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, CARN-AP
Dr. Kendra Joswiak currently serves as Project Recovery's SD Clinical Practice Director in Rapid City, SD. She is a nurse practitioner dual board certified in family practice and addiction.
Mrs. BullBear, MA us a member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate if the Oceti Sakowin and resides in her home community of Milks Camp. She has over 30 year's experience running a native nonprofit, overseeing multiple programs.
Michael Brooks is a certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher with national certification. He has been doing this type of training for over 10 years in both Native and non-native populations.
Dr. Asdigian is a Research Assistant Professor with the Centers for American Indian Alaska Native Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medica Campus. Her research focuses on culturally tailored substance use prevention for AI youth.
Dr. Whitesell leads a team of researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus working with Missouri Breaks Industries Research, Inc., to develop and test the Thiwáhe Gluwáš’akapi substance use prevention program for Oglala Lakota Youth.
Assistant Professor at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health and Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
From January 2019-November 2023: National American Indian/Alaskan ATTC, November 2023-present: Native Center for Behavioral consultant.
Garner an understanding of generational trauma and its effects on our relatives today.
Tracy Zacher is the field office director for Missouri Breaks Industires Research, Inc. (MBIRI). She has been a nurse since 1999 and has been working in the public health research field since 2011. She is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
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