TOWN HALL 

Understanding Pain - A Community Conversation

Central Oregon Behavioral Health Consortium is hosting a town hall event:
Understanding Pain - When pain is well understood, medication will be just one part of a good pain care plan, and persistent/chronic pain will be prevented as clinicians help patients understand how to change pain themselves.  Pain care is everyone’s job.  We make your job easier with tools and resources to create consistent messaging across the care continuum.   

 

Please Join Us: 
Date: November 8th, 2022
Time: 6:00pm -7:30pm
Location: OSU Cascade Campus - 1500 SW Chandler Ave. Bend, OR 97702 Room: Tykeson 111
Price: Free

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Learning Objectives:

 

  • Review contemporary pain science and identify role of biopsychosocial model of pain in a multi-disciplinary plan of care.
  • Introduce new state resources for pain education for clinicians and patients.
  • Learn and practice phrasing to change the conversation about pain towards an active approach to pain care
  • Explore opportunities to use state resources to support workflow modifications
  • Understand discipline-specific opportunities to decrease clinician burden and utilize team-based care.

Our Speakers:

Nora Stern, MS, PT

is a pain educator and physical therapist with more than 25 years helping people living with pain and the clinicians with whom they work. She is director of Know About Pain Consultation and Pain Education Productstm (knowaboutpain,com). Nora helps clinicians of all disciplines to adopt new language for guiding our patients with complex and persistent pain, with the goal of reframing, simplifying and improving our care plans, while saving time and decreasing job stress. At Know About Pain, Nora develops pain education across the entire care continuum including inpatient, outpatient and emergency services, working with hospitals, county health services and individual clinicians, continuing the cross-disciplinary training that she conducted with Providence Oregon.  Nora has trained primary care providers, behavioral health therapists, rehab therapists. It has been a privilege for Nora to be a part of the broad transformation of pain care happening in the state of Oregon with the many brilliant thinkers in our state.   (PT/OT/speech), peer support, nursing, and massage therapists.  

Laura Heesacker, LCSW

is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience. Laura is a practicing mental health therapist, consultant, mentor, and clinical supervisor across the pacific northwest. As a consultant, Laura provides technical assistance and mentoring to organizations in the development of full spectrum integrated behavioral health programs that include state of the art treatment for pain and substance use challenges. Laura is a founding partner at Bridges to Well-Being, a multi-service group behavioral health practice serving individuals and families with innovative, flexible, and compassionate care.  Laura was a founding member of the Oregon Pain Guidance (OPG) and has presented multiple times across the state and nation on the topic of chronic pain.  She lives in Southern Oregon and spends her time with her partner, adult children, and furry friends. She enjoys gathering with family and friends and hiking the trails the brim the hamlet she calls home.