Facilitator: Greg K.
Description: This session will focus on “Understanding Anonymity and Misconceptions”. How does one maintain their own recovery while working in the recovery field and problems they may have encountered? Attendees in recovery share information and learn from each others’ experiences. A primary purpose of the meeting is to share personal experiences as well as up to date and useful information to help those in recovery.
(Only NCASPPB [formerly known as NCSAPPB] credit available for this session – NO other credit available)
Presenter: Melissa Enoch, LPC, LCAS, CCS, MAC
Description: Long term stress can lead to Burnout, defined as mental and physical exhaustion. Participants will discover signs of burnout, its organizational impact, and steps to reduce and/or avoid burnout.
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Facilitator: Cameron L.
Description: This session will focus on: What is Narcotics Anonymous? How you can reach us. What we can do to help. A couple of us will give our experience of strength and hope.
(Only NCASPPB [formerly known as NCSAPPB] credit available for this session – NO other credit available)
Presenter: Melissa Radcliff
Description: On any given day, there are an estimated 2.7 million children in the United States with at least one incarcerated parent. In North Carolina the best estimate is more than 28,000. The most recent Annie E. Casey Foundation report shows that more than 5 million children (179,000 in NC) have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives. This workshop will focus on what we know and do not know about these children (often an invisible group dealing with shame, stigma, and a sense of isolation) and the impact of parental incarceration, what strategies could be developed and implemented to identify and serve these children, how to engage advocates in a conversation about advancing policies supporting the children (including policies that directly impact incarcerated and returning parents and indirectly impact their children), current gaps in resources and data collection, and new ways to partner and collaborate to better meet the needs of the children. The presenter will discuss the need to gather information and insight from these children themselves to ensure that their voices are heard. Participants will be encouraged to take what they learn back to their own professional settings to continue the conversation there and determine appropriate next steps.
Presenter: Mary Williams, LPC, LCAS, MAC, CCTP
Description: In order to effectively help individuals who have substance use disorders, it is extremely important for addiction professionals to have an awareness and an understanding about the impact of trauma upon the substance users’ ability to engage in treatment, to achieve sobriety, to benefit from the treatment process, and to sustain sobriety. Becoming equipped with trauma informed care principles and interventions may help the addiction professional with viewing the individual with a substance use disorder through more compassionate lenses and with feeling confidence and competence while utilizing trauma informed interventions within the counseling session.
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