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                                                       Ali Hall

Ali Hall is an independent contractor and trainer, and has designed and
facilitated over two hundred Motivational Interviewing workshops for behavioral
health clinicians, program administrators, educators, social and child welfare
workers, health care providers, health coaches, and criminal justice
professionals, and provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices.  
Ali is also a Motivational Interviewing consultant and received her training in
Motivational Interviewing (MI), the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity
(MITI) model, Motivational Interviewing for Supervisors (MIST), Evidence-Based
Practices for Supervisors, and Motivational Interviewing Assessment:  
Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA-STEP) through the University
of New Mexico, the Mid-Atlantic and North East Addiction Technology Transfer
Centers, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).  She serves on the
Dissemination Team of the CA-AZ Node of NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network and is
an Associate with the Center for Strength-Based Strategies.  Ali provides
motivational interviewing coding and skill development feedback and coaching.  
Ali also provides training in assessment, with an emphasis on evidence-based
practice tools such as the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory
(YLS/CMI), Risk and Resiliency tools, and the Level of Service/Case
Management Inventory (LS/CMI) for adults.   Ali designs and delivers training,
and provides consultation, in other substance abuse and behavioral health
evidence-based best practices such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Seeking
Safety, Brief Interventions, tobacco cessation, and effective interventions for
working with adults and youth with co-occurring conditions.  Ali’s publication
credits include treatment readiness, relapse prevention, grief and loss, and
stages of change-specific client curriculum, for homeless, community-based
and incarcerated populations.    

Prior to becoming a Motivational Interviewing trainer and consultant, Ali served
as Director of Training for a large behavioral health agency, providing training
to more than 650 staff throughout California working in incarcerated and
community-based client settings.  Well before that, Ali practiced employment
law in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, worked as a special
project assistant for the Office of Management and Budget and for the U.S.
Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., and as a consultant for the Screen
Actors’ Guild in Hollywood.  

Ali earned her undergraduate degree with honors, Summa Cum Laude, at
Occidental College in Los Angeles, completed master’s degree work at Cornell
University in Industrial and Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining and
Organizational Behavior, and received her Juris Doctorate, with an employment
law specialization, from the Cornell University School of Law, in Ithaca, New
York.  While in college, Ali was named a Division III All-American in swimming
and holds national top ten times in U.S. Masters Swimming.  She is an avid
student of Motivational Interviewing and practices it in her own life, particularly
as a cold water marathon swimmer, with sights set on several marquee events
and accomplishments.