Welcome!
Welcome to the new home of CoDI online!
*Check it out:
CoDI Bring The Kids Home Thank You Luncheon
February 17th, 2012!
Click Registration Form- BTKH 2012 to register!
AND also our TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER page!
What Is CoDI?
CoDI, short for the Co-Occurring Disorders Institute, was created in 2001 as a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) through Mat Su Health then known as LifeQuest. It was developed to provide the most recent researched models and practices to professionals working with mental health, substance abuse, developmental disabilities and complex behavioral health issues in the Mat Su Borough. Providing trainings and technical assistance, CoDI became a vital partner with all the service providers in the Borough. The success of CoDI soon attracted statewide attention and lead to CoDI getting grants and contracts to provide these services to state agencies, decision makers, and statewide social service providers.
In 2004, Randy Moss, Debi Shade, and Stephanie Suanders incorporated CoDI into a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 corporation. The Co-Occurring Disorders Institute, Inc was born. The mission of CoDI expanded into providing statewide consultation for the Behavioral Health Integration Project from the State of Alaska Health and Human Services division. It also included managing conferences for Change Agents, The statewide Traumatic Brain Injury programs, and rural mental health issues. CoDI also sponsored statewide conferences featuring national experts discussing cutting edge topics for helping Alaskan citizens.
In 2008, CoDI became the Bring/Keep the Kids Home agent in the Mat Su Borough. This is an effort to help families with youth and children out of state in residential placement or at high risk for the child to be place out of state. CoDI provides a hybrid type of Care Management that is family driven, client centered, and is service brokering for the whole family. We also provide a menu of evidence based family psycho education and parenting courses along with CoDI sponsored support groups. This intent is to keep the youth in their homes when possible and at least in their communities to facilitate family healing.
CoDI also continued to offer trainings and technical assistance for many relevant topics and evidence based and best practices skills and models. Large and small conferences, individual topic research, and community based surveys with other important coalitions make up some of CoDI’s work. We see ourselves as a partner with and for the community to help promote health and peace for all our citizens.
CoDI is also a recognized training institute with endorsements from NAADAC #571, The National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) # 6061 and the State of Alaska LPC, LMFT and Social Work boards. This speaks to the quality and relevance of the trainings and information that CoDI presents. Please see the list of topics in the training section.
What Does CoDI do?
Bring the Kids Home Program:
This demonstration project is an effort to bring kids home from outside residential treatment centers and divert other kids from leaving the Mat-Su Valley. Learn more…
New: Safer Choices Program:
Safer Choices is an outcome based, two year pregnancy prevention program. Not only does the program teach abstinence first, it also provides students with refusal skills for any situation, knowledge about STD’s/HIV and also pregnancy. Learn more…
Strengthening Families Program:
A family skills training program that reduces problem behaviors, reduces substance abuse in children, improves school performance and strengthens family bonds. Learn more…
Click here to view CoDI’s Privacy Practices!
The Alaska Center for Rural Health-Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) is excited to announce the launching of the Phase I functionality of the Alaska CACHE: a Clearinghouse for Alaska’s Continuing Health Education website. Please take time to check out the Alaska CACHE and the Calendar of Events/Trainings at the website: http://www.akcache.org.
