TRAINING FOR RICHMOND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITY - open only to staff of RBH - with Victoria Taylor, Lic Ac

This five day training is for staff of Richmond Behavioral Health Authority.

In person dates are

2/17 – 2/19/26: at  420 East Cary Street, Richmond Virginia 23219 (Cary St. 1st Floor Classrooms A&B)

3/9 & 3/10/26:  at  107 South 5th Street, Richmond Virginia 23219 (Conference Room #203)

Attendence is required at all sessions.  Also a preclass assignment, homestudy and post training clinical practicum (40 treatments) are required for sucessful course completion.

Materials provided

Training Resource Manual Reading Assignments with supplementary materials.

Plastic Ears

Beads and Seeds Kit with pointer

Sleep mix tea

Link to resource materials

Personal kit, provided at Clinical Class,containing: needles for 40 treatments, various sizes, 40 alcohol swabs, hand sanitizer, mask, clean field, sharps container, hair ties, bobby pins, cotton pads, cotton tipped swabs, gloves, transport container

All additional treatment supplies for the practice clinic, including consent forms and first aid.

Materials to be provided by students:

Pen, clipboard, snacks

Preclass Homestudy:

_______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 the film Dope is Death about Dr. Matulu Shakur and the origins of our movement.

Class One:  8:30–4:00

“Housekeeping”

Introductions

Guided tour of materials

Needles, Beads, and Sleep Mix tea

Acuwellness experience

NADA:  historical roots, mission statement, evidence based practice – Points to Change

Preclass assignment review

Nature of Acudetox/energy medicine – the very basics

Ear anatomy, intro to points

The five acudetox points

Homestudy:

Write:  Identify a time in your life when receiving acudetox would have been helpful.  How might it have contributed?

Read: review TRM: 1-37

Do: practice finding the points using the pointer, drink and offer Sleeepmix tea, wear and offer beads and seeds

Class Two, 8:30 – 4:00

Homework review

Acudetox based treatment program models

Point Location review

Safety, clean needle technique, ethics pledge

Clinical materials introduction

Introduction to Needling

Needling practice

First Needling experience

Homestudy:

Write: Compose a “NADA elevator speech” to answer the question “Hey, what’s

Acuwellness?”  Or “tell me about that thing you do with needles?”

Read Review: 41, 43, 44,47-48, 51-55, 117,119,120

Do: Do: Look at ears – on video and real life, notice the variety.  Practice needling the eraser, the plastic ears, your family/friends.  Do something nice for yourself

Class Three – 8:30 – 4:00

Point location/needling  review

Clinical concerns

Protocol Modifications

Introduction to Chi/Five Phases

2 Practice clinics

Homestudy:

Do: Spend some time in nature.  Reflect on what you see that reflects the  seasonal energy. Where do you see transformation?  Where do you see balance and imbalance?

Look for signs around you of empty fire/false yang.  These could be in nature or in yourself or others.  What signs and symptoms do you see?

Read: 85-89, 104-114, 80, 200

Write: Tell me how you experience transformation in nature.  What is empty fire/false yang?  How can it manifest in ourselves and others.

Class Four, 8:30 – 4:o0

Review clinical experiences

More about “the points”

Safety and Consent

DEIBA and the protocol

Working with trauma: “Unimagined Bridges” video

Clinics x 2

Homestudy:

Write:  Design a piece of media/press release/flyers/poster about a real or imagined acuwellness program.  Be sure the images you select reflect the services provided.  Please email it to me if possible so we can share in class.

Read: TRM 67-79, 119-121,140,144-153

Do:  Recruit patients for our practice clinics

Class Five  8:30 – 4:30

Acudetox experience

Clinical review/concerns

Patient Management scenarios

Program implementation

Practice clinics  x 2

ADS competencies

Evaluations

All assignments and clinical competency must be completed before a Certificate of Completion is awarded.