Training for Fairfax County Public Safety Wellness Center with Victoria Taylor (Closed to the general public)

Three day, in person,  training for empl0yees and associates of the Fairfax County Public Safety Wellness Center.

Three Day NADA Five Needle Training

Preclass:

___VOCABULARY LIST: please be familiar with these words and terms   before class starts

Auricular

Auriculotherapy

NADA – National Acupuncture Detoxification Association

ADS – Auricular Detoxification Specialist

Acudetox

Lincoln Hospital

Energy Medicine

Yin/Yang

Clean Needle Technique

Universal Precautions

Recovery

Trauma Informed

Peer Support

Limbic System Response

Micro-system

Proximal/Distal

Superior/Inferior

Ear anatomy: Helix, anti-helix, triangular fossa, concha, tragus,

___Receive a body or ear acupuncture treatment.

___Review the attached monograph regarding research in Acudetox.  Find one study that interests you and come prepared to share about it.

___Watch a film or video about the acudetox movement such as

Dope is Death, Points to Change, The People’s Detox, “It’s First Aid!”- Tracing the Global Transmission of a Five-Point Ear Acupuncture Treatment, or Black Revolutionaries and Acupuncture.

Day 1 – in person

Housekeeping

Consent Form (preface)

Acuwellness experience/process in small groups

History of LINCOLN, NADA vision and mission

Acudetox research (postscript, client eval p141))

Acupuncture Energetics – the basics

NADA for Humanity

Points to Change

Beads/seeds/tea (36-37, 97-99)

Introduction to Ear Anatomy (pages 23-31)

Point Location: 2 D/plastic ears/in small groups

Materials review (209)/Documentation (47)

Needling basics (32-35)

Evening reflection:  Identify a time in your life when acudetox would have been useful.  How might it have helped?

Day 2

Point Location review

Patient directions (p 47/140)

Needling practice

Clean Needle technique/Universal precautions (51,144, 188)

Ethics pledge (117)

Modifying the protocol/needling cautions (34)

Acupuncture Energetics (85-88)

Point Functions

Clinical practice

Evening reflection: How will you introduce clients/patients/professionals to acudetox?  Prepare a brief answer to the question “What is NADA?”  This will be presented orally in class in small groups.

Day 3

Needling concerns

Acuwellness experience

Talking about NADA/scope of practice (15, 119,200)

Patient management/co-occurring disorders (41-44, 91)

safety and consent diversity exercise

Program implementation/sustainability (72-79)

Trauma and Disaster (104-113)

ADS competencies (6,119)

Clinical practice

Post class:  ADS Competency evaluation done online

Evidence of 40 ears needled