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Continuing Professional Education & Training

The Evolution Group, Inc. has developed and delivered presentations and provided training and technical assistance for international, national, regional, state and local professional educational conferences and seminars on topics related to employee assistance programming, adult mental heath and substance abuse, therapeutic jurisprudence, pathological gambling, violence and aggression, domestic violence, innovation with the treatment of mood disorders, and behavioral approaches with anger and aggression.

Our staff comprised of master's level clinicians for 20+years, hold certifications from the National Forensic Counseling Board, The American Counseling Association, The National Council on Problem Gambling, The American Board of Certified Compulsive Gambling Counselors, and The New Mexico Forensic Counseling Association, among others.

Professional Education/Training (Seminars and Conferences)

As an organization the clinical staff of The Evolution Group, Inc. frequently presents at national conferences listed below as well as statewide conferences also listed below.

Quarterly and annual statewide continuing education seminars are also organized and presented by The Evolution Group, Inc.

The organization has provided continuing education to over 17,900 professionals over the past ten years. All of the conferences the organization presents are frequented by a growing number of attendees including those who have attended previous years.

Feedback from conference attendees is very positive and over the years has prompted the staff to consider new ways of reaching out to more treatment professionals that are high quality and more cost effective to use.

Utilizing Family Experts

Seminars designed by the organization often involve the input of committees that include family experts who take an interest in the social issues being addressed. These committees discuss and vote on seminar topics, focus emphasis, speaker selection, and logistical planning.

Many if not all of the committee members volunteer at the time of the seminar, and some participate.

Whenever possible, wrap around approaches are utilized in seminar design in order that attendees (primarily treatment professionals but also other professionals and community members) may reap the benefit of multiple perspectives in any one continuing educational element or focus.

Statewide Conferences that are Offered (Monthly-Quarterly)

• Cognitive Behavioral Interventions with Mood Disorders
• Untangling the Ties that Bind: The Whole Family in Addiction Treatment Approaches
• Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Gathering of the Judiciary, Counselors and Social Workers
• Working with the Antisocial-Dually Diagnosed Population
• The Hammer Meets the Couch: Therapeutic Jurisprudence
• Co-Occurring Disorders in Addiction treatment

National Conferences

• Sanidad: Promising Practices in working with the Latino Population
• Innovations: Combining Financial Planning, Harm Reduction
  and Treatment of Pathological Gamblers
• Harm Reduction: an Emerging Promising Practice with Pathological Gamblers
• Co-Occurring Disorders
• The Integrity Recovery Approach
• Women's Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment
• The Mood Disorders Clinic: An Affordable Group Intervention
  for the Mood Disorders
• Indigenous: A Native American Track for Recovery

Statewide Conference Collaborations
(Annual, Quarterly, Monthly)

• Evidence-Based Practices: Pathological Gambling Treatment Conference
• Emerging Research in Batterer Treatment with Donald Dutton, PhD, Author of "The Batterer," The Domestic Violence Educational Summit hosted and coordinated by The Evolution Group, Inc. Albuquerque, NM.
• Community Seminar Series: Best Practices in Working with Compulsive Gamblers and their Families, hosted and
  coordinated by The Evolution Group, Inc.
• Utilizing Integrity Recovery: A Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Approach hosted and coordinated by The Evolution Group, Inc. (Quarterly) Albuquerque, NM.
• CBT with the Dually Diagnosed Population: Addiction and Antisocial Traits, Monthly Seminar Series, hosted and coordinated by The Evolution Group, Inc., Albuquerque, NM.
  

Feedback questionnaires given to all conference attendees over the years have consistently yielded high marks averaging 4.75 out of a possible 5 points.

State Approved CEU Provider

The Evolution Group, Inc. Executive Director, Daniel Blackwood, LPCC is a New Mexico State Licensing Board approved provider of continuing education credits for Counselors and Social Workers since 2002.

Soon, our sister web site, www.knowledgeatyourfingertips.com, will show high quality educational documentaries that look at continuing education issues, promising practices, and researched and established best practices from a wrap around service perspective utilizing a circular "Circular Story Telling" methodology. The concept for each documentary includes the input and planning phases from multiple community stakeholders interested in the social issue being examined.

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists and other professionals will be able to view these 30 minute films, take a pre-test and a thirty question exam for 3 CEUS per film.

Community Consultations

Over the years the Evolution Group, Inc. Staff has provided trainings, consultations, mediation, and workshops for the following organizations in the state-wide community:

Current Organizations We Serve

• Children, Youth, and Families Department Provider
• Presbyterian Healthcare System
• The Responsible Gaming Association of New Mexico
• Albuquerque Metropolitan DWI/Drug Court
• Metropolitan Domestic Violence Repeat Offender Program
• United States Federal District Court

Organizations Our Principles Have Served

Organizations with Whom Our Principles Have Consulted

Educational Film Collaborations

The Evolution Group, Inc. and Christopher Productions (christopherproductions.org) have been working together on various mental health and video projects for the past 5 years including:

2002 Knowing When to Stop (gambling addiction documentary)
2003 DWI first offenders video training (DWI 1st Offender Video)
2006 Dr. Donald Dutton video presentation for web development
2007 Gambling Addiction affects on family Video
2007 Gambling Addiciton affects on co-workers Video

Our online web site under construction is www.KnowledgeatYourFingertips.com.