January 4, 2012 Lori Obernauer
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I just finished reading “Linking Addiction Treatment and Communities of Recovery: A Primer For Addiction Counselors and Recovery Coaches” (by William White, MA and Ernest Kurtz, PhD).
December 28, 2011 Lori Obernauer
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This blog post is from Tania Lewis, Alumni Coordinator at Crossroads Centre, Antigua. Many thanks to Tania, a colleague who is a member of TPAS, Treatment Professionals in Alumni Services.
November 3, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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While browsing the web site of Faces and Voices of Recovery, I came across a listing of Mutual Aid Resources. As many of us in Alumni Services know, the 12 step community is not necessarily the “answer” for all our clients.
October 23, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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Over the past two decades, much of the research in the field of addiction and subsequent funding opportunities focused on prevention programs.
October 11, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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A project formally launched last month at Virginia Tech University’s Carilion Research Institute will seek to attract a critical mass of individuals willing to tell their stories about what got them well and what has kept them well.
September 17, 2011 Dennis Grantham, Senior Editor
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A Sunday workgroup at NCAD 2011, hosted by Sherri Lawton of La Hacienda (Hunt, Tex.) and Matt Feehery of Memorial Hermann’s PaRC (Houston, Tex.) examined the potential of program alumni and strategies for supporting, sustaining, and sharing the energy of these individuals in recovery.
September 17, 2011 Gary Enos, Editor
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The national director of children’s programs at the Betty Ford Center said it is time to see research on how parents’ recovery affects their children’s ability to avoid addiction, or their children’s own recovery capacity if they repeat the generational cycle.
September 4, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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We learn from our 12 steps programs that it is important to give back. We learn that being of service will help us stay clean and sober.
August 6, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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Invictus, the film, tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country.
July 17, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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I have noticed that many discussions in the Linked In “Addiction Groups” address the possibilities for recovery management.
June 26, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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I read an interesting book this past weekend: “Change or Die” by Alan Deutschman.
June 15, 2011 Lorie Obernauer
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TPAS, Treatment Professionals in Alumni Development, had it’s 2nd annual meeting at the WCSAD (West Coast Symposium on Addiction Disorders) in Palm Springs.
