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THE ADDICTIONS COMMITTEE
OF THE THE NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
Presents
THE 43 ANNUAL
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SCIENCE, SOCIAL WORK, AND SPIRITUALITY:
BRIDGING DIVERSE APPROACHES FOR EFFECTIVE ADDICTION TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY • LINCOLN CENTER CAMPUS
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue • New York, NY 10023
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Spirituality and Recovery in 12-Step Programs
Marc Galanter, M.D.
and
Complementary and Integrative Approaches for Treatment of Drug Dependency
Richard Brown, M.D.
Conference At-A-Glance
7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. — Pre-Conference Event
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. — Complimentary Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. — Welcoming Remarks
9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. — Morning Workshops
11:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. — Plenary Session
1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. — Lunch Break (on your own)
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. — Afternoon Workshops
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Registration and General Information
Pre-Conference Event 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
(This event does not carry NYS CASAC credits under OASAS)
Open 12-step Meeting — This meeting is for all those who wish to experience a meeting, as well as for members
of all 12-step fellowships. A social worker that is in recovery will share experiences, strength, and hope. Registration is not
required for the Open 12-Step Meeting. Participants will be admitted on a first come, first served basis as space permits.
Self-Help Information
In addition to the pre-conference Open 12-Step Meeting, contact information for the NASW-NYC Addictions Committee’s
Peer Consultation Committee and the self-help organization Social Workers Helping Social Workers will be available at the
conference.
Workshops & Registration
Plenary Session (11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.)
Registration for each workshop is limited by considerations
of space. Please indicate your 2nd and 3rd choices for both
morning and afternoon workshops, in case your first choice
is oversubscribed. Payment must accompany registration
form to complete registration. Notification of workshop
assignments will be given by email to all who register by May
30, 2011.
Refunds
Due to space limitations, we urge you to register early.
Assignment to the plenary will be on a first come, first served
basis. Those arriving late may be directed to a viewing room
where the plenary will be carried live on closed circuit TV.
To attend the plenary, check the appropriate box on the
registration form.
If you need to cancel your registration, refunds less a $20
administrative fee will be available until Monday, May 30,
2011 at 4 p.m. Absolutely no refunds after that time.
Exhibits by providers of treatment-related goods and services
will be open from 7:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at two locations:
the Pope Auditorium and the Plaza. To enter exhibitors’
raffles place your business card in the baskets provided. The
winners will be posted in the lobby after the lunch break. The
conference sponsors’ raffle winners will be announced at the
plenary session.
On-site Registration
The deadline for registration is May 30, 2011 at 4 p.m.
There will be an additional $20 fee for on-site registration.
Registration packets including session assignments and room
numbers will be available at the conference site from 8:15 a.m.
For Agencies Registering Multiple Attendees
Participants will not be registered until funds are received from
the agency. Staff who arrive the day of the conference, before
funds are mailed or received: 1.) Must pay on-site, 2.) Are subject
to the $20 on-site fee, 3.) Apply for Company reimbursement.
Substitution of pre-registered staff is not allowed. Refund for
the cancellation of a staff member is subject to the deadline of
May 30, 2011 less a $20 administrative fee.
Continuing Education Credit
• Certificate of attendance will be given at the end of each session.
All workshops are pending approval for NYS CASAC credits
under NYS OASAS Provider Number 0288.
• AM and PM Workshops are 2 clock-hours each; Plenary
session is 1.5 hours.
• The total OASAS credit for the day is 5.5 clock hours. CEU’s
for other credentialing bodies would be based on 5.5 clock
hours.
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Exhibits and Raffle
Refreshments
A continental breakfast is available and provided to all
conference attendees in the Pope Auditorium before the
morning workshops. Lunch is at the attendees discretion, and
facilities are available on campus or in the vicinity.
Wheelchair Access
The auditorium and the conference site in general are equipped to
accommodate wheelchairs.
Parking
There is limited on-street parking. For information/directions
call Fordham University at (212) 636-6000. Most of the
private garages offer discounts when validated at Fordham.
Check with the garage you prefer for policies.
Queries
If you have questions about the conference, you may contact
by e-mail John Crepsac at [email protected]
or Sara V. Rivera at [email protected]. For registration
confirmation or workshop assignments send an e-mail to
Monika Dorsey at [email protected].
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Plenary Session and Keynote Addresses 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks:
Welcome:
Introduction:
Louis Burns, LCSW, CASAC – Program
Consultant at Dads Helping Dads, Adjunct
Faculty at City College of NY and Fordham
Graduate School of Social Services Division
of Continuing Education, and Chair of the
NASW-NYC Addictions Committee.
Peter B. Vaughan, Ph.D.,
Dean, Fordham University
Graduate School of Social Service
John Crepsac, LCSW, CASAC, ICADC
Co-Coordinator NASW-NYC Addictions
Institute, Regional Outreach DirectorElements Behavioral HealthTreating Clinician
Substances of Abuse Program-NFL/NFLPA
Adjunct Professor of Social Work-NYU &
Fordham University, Private Practice-Chatham
Wellness Center & Midtown NYC
Susan A. Nayowith, Ph.D., LMSW; Director,
Office of Client Advocacy, NYC Deptartment
of Homeless Services; President, NASW-NYC
Chapter
Spirituality and Recovery in 12-Step Programs
Marc Galanter, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at NYU, Founding Director of the Division
of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at NYU, and Director of the NYU Fellowship Training Program
in Addiction Psychiatry. He is also a Division Director at NYU’s World Health Organization
Collaborating Center, and Director of its National Center for Medical Fellowships in Alcoholism
and Drug Abuse. He is Editor of the journal Substance Abuse, the annual book series Recent
Developments in Alcoholism, and author of the books, Network Therapy for Alcohol and Drug
Abuse, and Spirituality and the Healthy Mind: Science, Therapy and the Need for Personal Meaning.
His NIH and foundation-funded studies have addressed family therapy for substance abuse,
pharmacologic treatment for addiction, and self-help treatment for substance abusers.
Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-Step programs are widely employed by the addiction and mental health treatment
communities. Since AA is a self-described “spiritual fellowship,” it is important for clinicians to have an understanding of
how recovery takes place, in terms of mechanisms associated with spiritual renewal. In this talk, AA will be described as
a spiritual recovery movement. In this respect, it is one type of lay organization designed to deal with illness; such movements effect compliance with their behavioral expectations by engaging members in a social system that promotes new and
transcendent meaning in their lives. By drawing on available empirical research, it is possible to define both addiction and
recovery in spiritually-oriented terms.
Complementary and Integrative Approaches for Treatment of Drug Dependency
Richard Brown, M.D. is
an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia
University. After receiving his M.D. in 1977 from Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Dr. Brown completed his Residency in Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Psychobiology
and Psychopharmacology at New York Hospital. He is the recipient of numerous awards and
has authored over 80 articles and book chapters on pharmacological treatments, clinical studies,
and complementary approaches in psychiatry. Dr. Brown has engaged in yoga and meditative
practices including Zen meditation, yoga and breath practices, and Chi Gong for over 30 years.
He is a certified teacher of Aikido (4th Dan), yoga, Chi Gong, and meditation. Dr. Brown’s latest
book How to Use Herbs, Nutrients, and Yoga in Mental Health Care, written with Dr. Patricia
Gerbarg and Dr. Philip Muskin, includes integrative approaches for the treatment of anxiety,
depression, mood disorders, cognitive and memory impairments, attention deficit disorder, sexual
dysfunction, medical illnesses (e.g., cancer, heart disease, HIV), schizophrenia, and substance abuse.
This keynote address will introduce new integrative psychiatric approaches for treatment of drug dependency and co-morbid
disorders. Topics will include nutrients, i.e., SAMe and NAC; herbs, i.e., Ibogaine and passion flower; baclofen; cranial
stimulators; and mind-body practices, i.e., yoga and Chi Gong. Attendees will become aware of the history and recent progress
of these approaches. The efficacy of many of these practices, which can be described as spiritual in nature, is supported by
modern science in research.
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Morning Workshops 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
1. Integrating Internal Family System (IFS) and Body/
Mind Practices in the Recovery Process
4. A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Working With
Substance Abusing Clients
Moderator/Speakers: Roberto Ramos, LCSW, CSC – Private Practice,
EAP Affiliate for Behavioral Health Companies, and Qigong/Martial
Arts Practitioner; and Kathleen Kelly, LCSW – Consultant and
Trainer.
Moderator/Speaker: Evan Senreich, Ph.D., LCSW, CASAC –
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Lehman College-City University
of New York.
Explore the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model (a systemic
approach), and mindfulness practices to address emotional regulation
and cultivate inner calm. Clients often relapse when they act on
intense feelings, thoughts and beliefs that overwhelm them. Learn
through experiential exercises how to guide clients to identify, explore
and develop a relationship with their “parts,” empowering them to
restore emotional equilibrium. Learn also how clients can create
self-awareness, compassion and insight that can produce dramatic
changes in their life.
2. Ethics and Clinical Supervision
Moderator/Speaker: Langdon Holloway, Ph.D., LCSW, CASAC-NY,
LCADC-NJ – Clinical Supervisor, Flatbush Addictions Treatment
Center.
The NASW Code of Ethics states that supervisors “should have
the necessary knowledge and skill to supervise” and provides broad
guidelines of ethical supervision. In practice, specific situations raise
difficult supervisory issues. The objective of this workshop is to
augment supervisors’ knowledge of their roles, responsibilities, and
need for documentation. Vicarious liability, private supervision,
and student supervision will be covered. Confidential exploration of
supervisory challenges will be fostered.
3. The Search for New Targets in the Treatment of
Addictions: What Neurochemistry Can Learn From
12-Step Recovery
Moderator/Speakers: David Sack, M.D. – CEO, Elements Behavioral
Health and Promises Treatment Centers; and Peter Lazar, LCSW –
Regional Outreach Director, Elements Behavioral Health.
Extensive research supports the hypothesis that disturbances in
dopamine function may predispose to addictive behaviors, and that
the rewarding effects of abused substances are mediated through the
mesocorticolimbic dopamine system. Despite the wealth of data
supporting a central role of dopamine in the onset of drug misuse,
numerous attempts to treat addiction by re-regulating dopamine
have failed. This presentation reviews the limitation of the dopamine
hypothesis as applied to treatment of drug dependency and suggests
that new targets for treatment are needed. Based on observations
drawn from 12-step recovery processes, we propose that addiction is
sustained by disruption in learning, empathy and altruistic behavior,
and that pharmacologic treatments that correct these deficits may prove
effective in promoting sustained abstinence.
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Gestalt Therapy, with its holistic, humanistic, and existential approach
to working with clients, provides a multidimensional framework for
social work practice with substance abusing clients. In this workshop,
the basic theoretical elements of Gestalt Therapy will be presented and
related to substance abuse. Cases will be discussed, followed by an
experiential demonstration of how to use a Gestalt Therapy approach
when working with clients with addiction issues.
5. Translating Neuro-Science into Social Work
Techniques for Addiction Treatment: A Bio-PsychoSocial-Spiritual Approach
Moderator/Speaker: W. Mark Sturgeon, LCSW – Director of The
ReSolve Center for Recovery at Riverdale Mental Health.
Integrating the principals of recovery with psychiatric treatment and
spiritual practices, such as mindfulness and meditation, to foster
and facilitate networks of support and community within addiction
treatment and recovery. Human growth and development occurs within
the context of a relationship. Current researchers in neuro-science,
such as Daniel Siegel M.D. and Alan Schore M.D. are demonstrating
that a relationship holds power not only in changing patterns of
behavior but also holds the power to physiologically restructure the
brain. This workshop will include theoretical discussion of these
topics together with demonstrations of their practical applications in
treating individuals and families impacted by the disease of chemical
dependency.
6. Children of Substance Abusing Parents: Overview
of Dynamics and Treatment
Moderator/Speakers: S. Lala A. Straussner, Ph.D., LCSW, CAS –
Professor and Director, Post-Master’s Certificate Program in the
Clinical Approaches to Addictions Treatment, New York University
Silver School of Social Work, Founding Editor of the Journal of Social
Work Practice in the Addictions; and Christine H. Fewell, Ph.D., LCSW,
CASAC – Adjunct Associate Professor, NYU Silver School of Social
Work and Private Practice.
It is estimated that 27 million children in the U.S. live with a parent
who abuses alcohol or other drugs. This workshop will give an overview
of the latest research and clinical interventions for young, adolescent,
and adult children of substance-abusing parents. It will also discuss
the concept of mentalization and its implications for parent-child
relationships in substance-abusing families. Programs that have been
developed for substance abusing parents will be described.
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7. Neurobiology Can Help Us Understand and Treat
Our Narcissistic Clients
11. Transformations: Grief, Spirituality and
Healing
Moderator/Speaker: Laura McLarty, LCSW, CASAC, Credentialed
Psychoanalyst – Social Worker, Greenwich House Outpatient
Treatment, and Private Practice.
Moderator/Speaker: Karliese Greiner-Laurie, LCSW, CASAC – Private
Practice
We all have sat with the grandiose (but alternatively despairing and
empty inside narcissistic clients). This false self develops in the absence
of an attuned parent during infancy and later. The resulting patterns
in the brain can be changed by the clinician’s responses when he is
aware of the issues involved. Role-play and improvised scenes will help
develop practice skills to deal with such issues as Narcissistic Rage, Codependency, and Relapse. Hand-outs will also be provided.
8. Couples in Recovery: A Spiritual Path
Moderator/Speaker: Carole Gladstone-Ramos, LCSW, CASAC –
Private Practice; and Susan Eisenberg, LCSW – Private Practice.
Couples in recovery often have a history of unresolved pain and have
difficulty ending their power struggles. We will focus on Imago
Couples therapy skills along with some of the basic spiritual concepts
that underlie Imago theory and practice. We will introduce the natural
stages of a committed relationship, as well as the unconscious forces
that influence it. You will learn practical approaches, such as the
“Conscious Dialogue” to enable couples to build a spiritual foundation
for their relationship.
9. Using Action Methods to Explore Relationships
for ACOA’S
Moderator/Speaker: Nan Nally Seif, LCSW, DCSW, TEP – CoDirector of the Psychodrama Training Institute: A division of the
Sociometric Institute, and Private Practice.
Growing up in a family with addictions has a great impact on a person’s
ability to trust and develop healthy adult relationships. This primarily
experiential workshop will use psychodrama and sociometry to explore
the challenges of connection and disconnection in relationships for
adult children of alcoholics. Come join us in the journey toward
healthy, satisfying relationships.
10. Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of
Addictive and Compulsive Sexual Disorders
Moderator/Speaker: Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S – Director of
Sexual Disorders Programs, Elements Behavioral Health.
This presentation provides non-judgmental clinical insight and
understanding into sexual addiction treatment, and the relationship
of this disorder to adult intimacy disruption. The material offers clear
direction regarding the concept of sobriety from a sexual addiction
perspective, and an overview of spousal and relationship concerns.
The effect of the new media frontier (social networks, smart phones,
and the like) will be woven into the growing discussion of how online
life affects the problem of sexual addiction.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss which one experiences
in many forms throughout a lifetime. As practitioners, we can teach
our patients, through mindfulness-based techniques, many ways to
manage these life transitions. Through the utilization of compassion,
radical acceptance, and including one’s own spiritual practice, our
patients will be able to integrate difficulties related to grief and loss
into positive transformations.
12. Engaging and Retaining Clients: The Use of
Motivational Interviewing, Active Listening, and
Follow up in Treatment
Moderator/Speaker: Ellen Friedman, Ph.D., LCSW, CASAC – Project
Supervisor, Mental Health Association of NYC.
This workshop will demonstrate the use of several evidence based
practices to treat clients with substance abuse and gambling problems.
Participants will learn ways of applying motivational interviewing,
active listening and doing follow-up. In small groups, participants will
practice using these techniques. Guidelines will be provided.
13. Psychoanalytic Training for All Addiction
Specialists
Moderator/Speaker: John Bliss, LCSW, CASAC, SAP – Executive
Director, Bliss-Poston The Second Wind.
The connection between Addiction Treatment and Psychoanalysis has
been ambivalent and at times acrimonious. This workshop explores
the powerful and often surprising connections between the two. For
example, Freud wrote the earliest paper on process addictions. Freud
also hypothesized that the human body was home to a chemical system
that is similar to opiates. Bill Wilson acknowledged in writing to Carl
Jung that he was a key person in the foundation of AA. Heinz Kohut
should be considered the originator of Motivational Interviewing.
This workshop will explore these connections and psychoanalytic ideas
essential to addiction treatment.
14. Mindfulness Based Anxiety Reduction: Trusting
Life Enough to Stop Using
Moderator/Speaker: Cesar Bujosa, LCSW-R – Clinical Supervisor,
Housing Works ADHC.
Distrust in the life process is a common symptom in our patients. This
is evidenced by pervasive maladjusted behaviors inclusive of substance
abuse, controlling others, and scrambling for an ideal identity. Learn
how to help patients utilize higher power principles to organize a new
way of being that is non-reactive to the memories of abandonment,
defectiveness, and deprivation.
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15. Sex Addiction 101: Diagnosis, Treatment, and
Effects on Family
18. Dys/functional Family Roles: A Powerful
Recovery Tool
Moderator/Speakers: Andree-Maryse Duvalsaint, LCSW, SAP –
Diversity Chair at Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, Professor
at Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work, and Private
Practice; and Jodi Conway, LCADC, MAC, CSAT – Consultant, Stony
Brook Center, Framingham MA and Private Practice.
Moderator/Speaker: Ellyn Kravette, LSW, CASAC, CEAP – American
Airlines, Manager EAP NE.
Like an alcoholic unable to stop drinking, sex addicts are unable to
stop their self-destructive sexual behavior. Family break-ups, financial
disaster, loss of jobs, and risk to life are the painful themes of their
stories. Yet it often goes undiagnosed, and therefore untreated, by
those providing treatment for chemical dependency, mood disorders,
family and marital counseling and medical care. This workshop
will help you identify and evaluate your client for sexual addiction
and learn the performable tasks necessary in treatment and recovery.
Attendees will also understand the profound effects sexual addiction
has on the family, and the various treatment options available for the
partner/spouse.
16. Spirituality as Science: Using Altered States of
Consciousness (ASCs) to Outframe the Addictive
Process
Moderator/Speakers: Richard M. Gray, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor,
School of Criminal Justice and Legal studies, Fairleigh Dickinson
University; and George V. Doerrbecker, LCSW, CASAC – Adjunct
Instructor, School of Social Work, Rutgers University and Deputy
Chief Probation Officer (Ret.), U.S. Probation Department, Brooklyn,
NY.
Addictions treatment has often focused on spirituality as an important
mode of personal transformation. Recent advances in neuroscience
have revealed neuro-physiological patterns common to many kinds of
spiritual experience and how they can impact substance use disorders.
This workshop will explain the neurophysiology of spirituality, its
relationship to addiction and to readily accessible altered states of
consciousness. Participants will practice accessing and creating ASCs
and how to use them in their addictions practices.
17. The Art of Intervention: Identifying the Rock
Bottom for Successful Interventions
Moderator/Speakers: Jill Abramson, LCSW, CASAC, CSAT-4 –
Clinical Supervisor Stuyvesant Square Beth Israel Medical Center, and
Private Practice-CitiTherapy; Ken Seeley, BRI II, RAS-i, – Founder
Interventions 911; and Donna Chavous, CNDAI, CASAC-T –
Interventionist.
Raising the rock bottom for an addict is the key to a successful
intervention. But, what is a rock bottom? No matter what type
of intervention model is used, Ken Seeley has developed a method
for helping the families understand what a rock bottom is, how to
determine what the rock bottom is for their loved one and how to
successfully raise the rock bottom on the day of the intervention.
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Addiction and its idealization of a mythological perfect family is one
of the many stumbling blocks to releasing the life flow (spirituality).
This workshop explores the reality of today’s ‘normal family’ and
challenges the motivational therapist to help the addict reframe and
move forward into spiritual maturity (sobriety).
19. The Role of Hope in the Resolution of Eating
Disorders and Other Addictions
Moderator/Speaker: Joanne Gerr, LCSW – Private Practice.
As social workers, we are the ambassadors of hope to our eating
disorder clients. This is a challenging task in this population with
a frequent history of failure and despair. We will examine how to
promote hope and resilience in our clients. We will also discuss the
need for the therapist’s self care in containing our clients’ hopelessness;
practical strategies for individual and group treatment will be taught
to transform hopelessness into successful recovery.
20. Thinking “Out of the Box”: Responsible Use
of Moderate Drinking Strategies to Enhance Their
Motivation for Change
Moderator/Speakers: Arnold M. Washton, Ph.D., Recovery Options;
and Scott Stern, LCSW, CASAC – Recovery Options.
Moderation is a realistic and achievable goal for many problem drinkers
who are not alcoholics. It can also open the door to treatment for
individuals with more severe problems who are unwilling to engage in
traditional abstinence-based programs. A professionally guided attempt
at moderation is often the best way for clients to learn experientially
whether moderation is a realistic goal. Those unable to succeed at
moderation often become more motivated to abstain. This workshop
will describe how to responsibly use moderation strategies in officebased practice to attract a broader range of clients into treatment and
provide a reasonable starting place for individuals grappling with a
wide range of drinking problems.
21. The Treatment of Trauma and Addiction in the
Veteran Population
Moderator/Speakers: Grace Hennessy, M.D., Sally Herbert, MSW,
Antonio Lowe, CASAC, Anthony J. Selvitella, MSW, and Jessica
Nicolosi, Ph.D. — Department of Veteran Affairs, New York Harbor
Healthcare System.
This workshop will highlight the integration of treatment for militaryrelated trauma and substance use disorders at the Department of
Veteran Affairs, New York Harbor Healthcare System. Information
about treatment of co-occurring trauma and substance abuse for
veterans will also be presented. There will be ample time for questions
from workshop attendees.
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22. Psychoanalytic Adolescent Treatment for
Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders Using The
12-Steps As a Cognitive Tool
24. Buddha and Bill W: Addiction and Recovery
Moderator/Speaker: Jonathan Paul, LMSW – Counselor, Inter-Care;
and Harris B. Stratyner, Ph.D. – Vice President, Caron Treatment
Center, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry Mount Sinai
School of Medicine.
2,500 years ago the Buddha said craving and attachment is the cause
of suffering. In the 1930’s, Bill Wilson started the first Twelve-Step
program that worked with a deep form of craving and suffering:
addictions. In this workshop, we will explore some of the ways that
Buddhist teachings and meditation support and complement the 12Step Programs and can deepen spiritual lives. The session will include
mindfulness meditation practices, interactive exercises supporting deep
listening and discussion.
Workshop participants will learn how to engage adolescents with
addiction and co-occurring disorders utilizing the 12-steps as a
cognitive approach to help the adolescent change the way they view
their disorder(s). Cognitive behavioral tools will be discussed in depth,
such that the attendee will go away with having an appreciation for
cognitive restructuring which in turn will develop new schemata for
approaching disorders. Behavioral change will be understood relative
to developing a 12-step approach for life.
23. Skills You Didn’t Know Existed: Tapping Into
Effective Approaches
Moderator/Speaker: Andrew Park, LCSW, ATOD – Evaluating
Program Case Manager, NFL Substances of Abuse Program and
Private Practice.
Familiarity and comfort prevent growth as clinicians. These skills
originate in the “creative and unfamiliar part of the psyche.” The use
of Labyrinths, Mandalas, Drawing, and Neurotechnology Devices that
stimulate Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) are examples. Learn
the importance of play, laughter, fun, leisure and stress management,
and how to connect theory to skill attainment. “People that relapse
are not having fun” links ASC to “teaching how to have fun.” An
essential skill set is “learning how to feel good.”
Moderator/Speaker: Sandra Weinberg, LCSW – Teacher, New York
Insight Meditation Center, and Psychotherapist, Private Practice.
25. Teen Stress: Addiction and High Risk
Behaviors
Moderator/Speakers: E. Maura Hayes, LCSW, CASAC, SAP —
Social Worker, Weill Cornell Medical Center and Private
Practice; and Angie Oberhleman, NCC, LMHC, LCPC –
Private Practice, Stress and Emotional Wellness Counseling.
Studies report teens in the United States are unable to effectively
manage stress, leading to self-medicating, addictive and high risk
behaviors. Low self-esteem and poor self-image are typical outcomes.
Both are key factors in creating a positive self-identity vital for
adolescent development. The workshop will focus on a heightened
awareness of stress factors and techniques to assist teens (as well as
parents) to navigate successfully through this stage and avoid high risk
behaviors and addiction, i.e., relaxation and guided imagery, coping
skills of distraction, mindfulness, and more.
Become Involved.....
The NASW-NYC Addictions Committee meets the third Wednesday of every month
at the NASW-NYC Chapter office.
Visit www.naswnyc.org for more information
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Afternoon Workshops 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
26. Promoting Dignity: Mutual Aid Social Group
Work with Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Moderator/Speaker: Donna Robin Lippman, MS, LMSW – Therapist,
Lincoln Hospital Victims Assistance Program; and Recipient of The
2007 Roselle Kurland Award for Exceptional Accomplishment in
Practice and Promotion of Social Group Work, Hunter College School
of Social Work.
A gem among Social Work tools, Mutual Aid Social Group Work
provides exactly what survivors need to mediate the grueling legacy
of sexual abuse. Finding themselves “all in the same boat” has a
buoyant effect on group members whose addictions, eating disorders,
alcoholism, self-inflicted violence, and self-destructive patterns are
reflected in their enormous pain, shame, loneliness, and hopelessness.
This presentation/discussion will explore the transformation from
victim to dignity among group members at Lincoln Hospital Victims
Assistance Program.
27. Denormalizing Tobacco Use in Addiction
Services: Lessons Learned
Moderator/Speakers: Helene Benjamin, LCSW-R – Program Director
Queens Hospital Center Smoking Cessation Program; and Tony Klein
MPA, CASAC – Manager of Outpatient Services and Coordinator of
Tobacco Interventions Instructor, National Council on Alcoholism
and Drug Dependence.
Compliance with NYS OASAS Part 856 Tobacco-Free Services has
been challenging for some providers. This interactive workshop will
provide an opportunity to discuss the common barriers and identify
effective solutions. Recommendations, based on research findings and
the lessons learned from the NYS Tobacco Control Program Promising
Tobacco Intervention Projects, highlight the importance to strategically
confront our traditional acceptance of tobacco use in the treatment
setting and advance a shift of social norms to support tobacco-free
environments and treatment services.
28. The Case of Bernie O: A Multidisciplinary
Approach to a Multiply Addicted Client
Moderator/Speakers: Maria I. Cipriani, LCSW – Principal, Learning
for Life Group, and Private Practice; Joan Poelvoorde, LCSW –
Principal, Learning for Life Group, and Private Practice; Rev. Warren
Falcon – Principal, Learning for Life Group, and Private Practice; and
Rev. Tom Dybek, CASAC – Affiliate, Learning for Life Group, and
Substance Abuse Counselor.
The case of Bernie, a cocaine and sex addicted alcoholic, will be
presented and a panel of four will discuss a treatment plan from four
models: medical, Jungian, harm reduction, and alternative spirituality.
Attendees will be invited to participate with a treatment plan and
questions/insights. A mindfulness meditation will be included to give
participants an experiential tool to bring back to their own clients,
with a discussion to follow. Handouts describing the modalities will
be provided.
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29. Being Mistreated Early in Life but Acting Spoiled
Later on: How “Mismanagement” of Emotional
“Currency” Leads to Spiritual Bankruptcy
Moderator/Speakers: Michael D. Lukens, Ph.D. – Clinical Director,
Seaside Palm Beach, and Private Practice; and Regina Lukens, LCSW –
Consultant, Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches, and Private
Practice.
To most effectively work with high net-worth individuals, providers
need to understand the connection between early childhood ACEs
(adverse childhood events) and the craving for good feelings,
frustration intolerance, feelings of entitlement and arrested emotional
development. The latter broader problem manifests quite often as a
paucity of purpose or what might be called “spiritual bankruptcy.”
A new treatment approach, called Core Issue Completion Therapy,
not only connects these “dots” to form a picture of how the issues of
addiction, wealth and fame, and spirituality interact, but it is also
a powerful emotion-based method for effectively addressing and
resolving the underlying core “material.”
30. Spirituality-Based Perspectives, Approaches
and Applications: Strengthening the Healing and
Recovery Process from Substance Use and Other
Addictive Disorders
Moderator/Speakers: Tyrone Thaddaeus Brown, Ph.D., MS –
Substance Abuse Recovery Program Coordinator CASAC-T Internship
and Volunteer Program Supervisor, ArchCare Psychology Dept.; and
Amandia Speakes-Lewis, Ph.D., LCSW-R – Assistant Professor, Long
Island University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Graduate School of Social Service, and Private Practice.
This dual didactic and interactive workshop is designed to assist Social
Workers, other QHP’s, and Health and Human Services providers to
identify, explore and examine various spirituality-based perspectives,
approaches, and applications that can be administered in traditional
and non-traditional treatment settings as a means to strengthen the
therapeutic process and foster a deeper level of patient healing and
recovery from Substance Use and other Addictive Disorders.
31. Techniques to Strengthen Treatment Planning
Outcomes
Moderator/Speaker: George J. Tani, LCSW-R, CASAC, SAP –
Adjunct Professor, CUNY, New York City of College of Technology,
Human Resource Department.
Outcomes are important in both treatment planning and incorporating
successful techniques to facilitate the client’s presenting issues. A partial
overview of the workshop will include: red brick process to manage
anger, a working formula that quickly delves into the past to uncover
current blocks, white board work strategizing outcomes and designing
solutions, positive affirmation using a two set practice to empower self
efficacy, Krishna Mute’s question “the answer is in the question,” and
exercising for success incorporating meditative process.
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32. “Who Are You Calling Old?”: Understanding
and Addressing Addiction in The “Baby Boomer”
Generation
Moderator/Speakers: Louis Burns, LCSW, CASAC – Program
Consultant at Dads Helping Dads, Adjunct Faculty at City College
of NY and Fordham Graduate School of Social Services Division of
Continuing Education, and Chair of the NASW-NYC Addictions
Committee; and D. John Dyben, MA, MS, CAP, CMHP – Clinical
Director Hanley Center.
This interactive presentation is focused on increasing the awareness
and skill set of practitioners in working with the “Baby Boomer”
generation. We will explore how generational differences that tend to
be found in greater frequency within certain age and gender cohorts
can create barriers to sustained recovery. Special attention will be paid
to spirituality and the immense importance of understanding how this
is key to working with the “Baby Boomer” population.
33. COMEDY OR TRAGEDY? Creating, Improvising,
and Acting in Groups
Moderator/Speaker: Laura MacLeod, LMSW – Social Worker, New
Design High School and Adjunct Professor (group work), Hunter
College School of Social Work.
Improvisation is an acting exercise and therapeutic tool. Group
members “improvise” a scene based on information they are given,
or scenarios they create. The “improv” may be realistic: members
play themselves or fictitious: members play characters. Improvisation
fosters group cohesion and trust, creativity, and self-exploration.
Workshop participants will learn how to introduce improvisation to
their groups. I have utilized my background as a professional actress
to create instructions and guidelines designed for those with little or
no experience or talent (including the leader!). We will create our own
improvs, and decide: comedy or tragedy?
34. The Role of EAP in Addressing Addictions in the
Workplace: Past, Present, and Future
35. Healing the Healer: Getting in Touch With Your
True Self
Moderator/Speaker: Richard Brown, M.D. – Associate Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University.
Therapists looking to enhance their practice can benefit from mindbody practices rooted in yoga, Qi-gong and Buddhist meditation.
Coherent Breathing and Open Focus Meditation are two highly
effective self-regulation techniques that help to relieve anxiety, improve
focus, and increase one’s feeling of well-being. Coherent Breathingwhich involves rhythmic breathing that, with practice, can be done
during daily activities enhances and optimizes brain, heart, and lung
function and stimulates the nervous system’s relaxation response. Open
Focus Meditation complements the practice of Coherent Breathing.
Through repeated rounds of breathwork and meditation, gentle
movement, and small-group interaction, participants will discover
the benefits of these mind-body techniques and deepen their spiritual
awareness.
36. The Practical Application of EMDR and
Brainspotting in an Inpatient Addictions Treatment
Setting
Moderator/Speakers: George Koren, M.Ed., LPC, LCADC – Specialty
Therapist, Seabrook House; and Zina Rodriguez, MSW, LSW –
Clinical Outreach Representative, Seabrook House.
EMDR has been shown to be an effective treatment in dealing with
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This presentation details its use over
the past 5–6 years within an inpatient addiction treatment setting with
primary substance dependence diagnosed patients with or without a
co-occurring PTSD or grief reaction diagnosis. The basic tenets and
process of EMDR and Brainspotting will be presented, reduction of
in-session and in-treatment Subjective Units of Disturbance (SUDs)
levels. In addition, more recent work with Brainspotting with this
population and in this setting will be discussed, along with comparisons
of EMDR and Brainspotting. This presentation is not a training in
either EMDR or Brainspotting.
Moderator/Speakers: Daniel Pitzer, LCSW, LCADC, CCS – Clinical
Director, Sunrise Detox, and treating clinician, NFL program for
substances of abuse; Peter Schweitzer, CEAP – Director, Nassau
County Bar Association, Lawyer Assistance Program; and Walter
Scanlon, Ph.D., MBA, CEAP – Principal, Walter Scanlon Management
Services.
37. Sex Addiction in the Jewish World – A Fast
Growing Phenomena – Clinical Discussion of
Causes and Various Treatments
The EAP field is continuing to go through a radical shift in its
service delivery models resulting in less on-site intervention, training,
and collaboration with management. Incidents of addiction in the
workplace have not decreased and the availability of EAP as a resource
is limited. This panel discussion featuring three EAP and addiction
professionals will examine the changing role of EAPs with addictions
and the availability of EAP as a career for social workers and addiction
counselors. Looking at the past, present, and future of the field will
help social workers and addiction counselors best evaluate and prepare
for positions serving the workplace.
Sex addiction appears to be a large growing addiction in the Orthodox
Jewish community. Due to the easily accessible internet with its
mammoth amount of porn sites, phone sex and other live or virtual
sexual opportunities, this often highly secretive addiction has emerged
in the Jewish world among individuals otherwise seen as “healthy”
or unlikely to be described as an addict. Often due to its highly
secretive nature, treatment options require tremendous creativity to be
successful. This workshop will primarily explore treatment approaches
that sometimes include 12-step Recovery work, and/or other treatment
approaches that stay only in the psychotherapy office.
Moderator/Speaker: Dovid Schwartz, LCSW, PsyD, ACSW – Private
Practice.
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38. Working with Sex Addiction Within the Family
System
Moderator/Speakers: Tony Stiker, LMSW, CSAT – Psychotherapist in
Private Practice; and Eva Churchill, LCSW – Psychotherapist at Sexual
Addiction Treatment and Training Institute, and Private Practice.
This session will open with a very brief description of the term
“Sex Addiction” (Sexual Compulsivity), followed by a focus on the
challenges of working with sex addiction in existing coupleships. Topics
will include: Working individually with the addict and the partner;
Best practices for couples work, including using the “Therapeutic
Separation”; Co-dependence in the relationship; What is “Disclosure”
and what are the elements necessary to a successful one; and How to
include children in the family work. Additional topics may include:
Developing a healthy sexuality between the partners; and Clarifying
whether pornography is a betrayal.
39. Strategies for Treating Adolescents with CoOccurring Disorders
Moderator/Speaker: Earl S. Wiggins, MSW, CASAC – Director of
Adolescent Services at Arms Acres.
Treatment providers are seeing an increase in co-occurring disorders
among adolescents and consequently need to make treatment
adaptations to most effectively serve this population. There is an
increasing amount of research that justifies a developmentally sound and
integrated approach that considers both (substance abuse and mental
health) disorders as primary. This workshop will discuss some best
practices that can be utilized to enhance the engagement, assessment,
and treatment of adolescents with co-occurring disorders.
40. Utilizing Elements of Dialectical Behavior
Therapy (DBT) to Enhance Adolescents’ Recovery
Moderator/Speakers: Jonathan Paul, LMSW – Counselor, Inter-Care;
and Alisa Kriegel, Ph.D. – Clinical Director, New York Center for Living.
This workshop will look at key elements in DBT, which can help
enhance basic 12-step and group process treatment for addictions
with adolescents. Specific elements that will be looked at are DBT
skills and how to create effective skills acquisition in clients; the role
of “acceptance” and how it is important as a balance with “change”;
and incorporating “mindfulness” in a way that allows clients to become
more comfortable with their own “discomfort” in the recovery process.
the group process. Processing dreams in a projective group provides a
useful forum to transcend ego defenses of the addict. Attendees will
learn and experience the group process.
42. A Somatic Approach to Therapy: Embodiment:
The Body As a Sacred Vessel
Moderator/Speakers: Andree-Maryse Duvalsaint, LCSW, SAP –
Diversity Chair at Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center,
Professor at Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work, and
Private Practice; and Laurie F. Schwartz, M.S., LMHC – Co-Founder
and Director New York Center for Somatic Psychotherapy & Trauma
Resolution.
Our cultural heritage is one of denial of the body and lack of trust in the
body’s wisdom. In the somatic approaches to healing and consciousness
we endeavor to become aware of our relationship with our heritage,
and to transform our relationship with the body to one of self-respect,
trust, honor and appreciation for the body as a sacred vessel for life.
Body-centered somatic approaches to therapy provide a detailed model
for working with core organization on physical, psychological and
spiritual levels, reestablishing biological self-regulation, as well as the
ongoing potential for emotional resiliency.
43. “Let’s Talk About Sex Baby…”: Working With the
LGBT Substance User
Moderator/Speakers: Joseph Ruggierio, Ph.D. – Assistant Clinical
Director, Addiction Institute of New York, Director of the Crystal
Clear Project, and Private Practice; Robert Considine, LMSW –
Substance Abuse Clinician Addiction Institute; and Tina Saha, LMSW –
Substance Abuse Clinician Addiction Institute of NY.
What do you know about how sex, sexual orientation, and gender
affect the work of therapy? How does working with LGBT substance
users affect the outcome of treatment? Working with LGBT clients can
often challenge both heterosexual and gay therapists with regard to their
own feelings about drugs, sex, sexual orientation, and gender. Because
we live in a homophobic and transphobic world, we internalize these
biases and often pressure ourselves to think we are always comfortable
with a variety of issues. This experiential workshop will explore the
countertransference issues that may arise and some vignettes will be
shared.
44. The Treatment of Chronic Pain through a MultiModal Approach
41. Addiction, Healing and Spiritual Transformation
Through Recovery Dreamwork
Moderator/Speaker: Timothy Dunnigan, MSW, LCSW – Clinical
Marketing Representative-Father Martin’s Ashley; and Greg
Hobelmann, M.D. – Staff Physician, Father Martin’s Ashley.
Moderator/Speaker: James J. Baylis, LCSW – Director of the
Reflections Clinic at Flushing Medical Center.
Chronic pain is now recognized as a primary disease affecting people
physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. Treatment of
chronic pain with opioids is rarely successful in improving function
and lowering pain scores and has led to a vast increase in addiction to
these medications. The optimal treatment of chronic pain involves a
multimodal approach consisting of medical management, procedural
treatment, physical therapy, psychological therapy and various
alternative therapies tailored to each individual.
This workshop is designed to explore multiple complimentary
modalities in the healing of addiction. These modalities include 12step work, journaling, and projective dream group. Enhanced spiritual
connections seem to develop utilizing these skills. People with addictive
issues are able to develop clarity and transformation through
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45. Enhancing Behavior Change Through Change Talk
Moderator/Speaker: Nicholas R. Lessa, LCSW, CASAC – Executive
Director of Inter-Care.
Motivational Interviewing is a directive, client-centered, evidencedbased, therapeutic method employed in the treatment of substance
abuse. One of the basic tenets for its effectiveness is developing the skill
of evoking change talk statements from ambivalent clients. Change
talk is defined as in-session verbal commitments by clients to change
their problem behavior. The frequency and strength of change talk
utterances in session have been shown to predict success in the cessation
of both drug abuse and problem drinking. This workshop will assist
all participants in identifying the different categories of change talk
statements made by clients and how to increase these client statements
in session.
46. Treating Substance Abuse and Other Risky and
Addictive Behaviors: An Integrative Harm Reduction
Approach
Moderator/Speakers: Christine H. Fewell, Ph.D., LCSW, CASAC –
Adjunct Associate Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work,
and Private Practice; and Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D. – Co-Director,
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates, and Private
Practice.
The addictive behavior field is in the midst of a scientific revolution
regarding the understanding and treatment of these issues. Evidence
supports the complex psycho-bio-social view that these behaviors reflect
an interplay of biology, personal and interpersonal dynamics within
social contexts that is unique to each individual. This presentation
will look at the development and application of this model, and based
on this scientifically sound approach attendees will be able to acquire
foundational skills in assessment and treatment based.
47. Shaking Meditation: A Spiritual Tool That
Combines Meditation With Exercise
Moderator/Speakers: Joanna W. Foley, LCSW, CASAC, CPP – Private
Practice; and Richard Schiffman.
Would you like to add meditation to the skills you’re teaching clients?
If you can’t picture asking them to assume typical meditation postures,
then consider the practice of “shaking meditation” which brings
meditators comfortably to their feet. Shaking their bodies, meditators
explore “the dance of their souls,” and musical backgrounds can range
from rap to gospel, rock to Rachmaninoff. We will explore how shaking
meditation rouses the potential within for health, emotional wholeness
and spiritual unfolding.
48. Psychodrama in the Treatment of Substance
Abuse
Moderator/Speaker: George G. Biglin, ACSW, T.E.P – Private
Practice.
Psychodrama/psychodramatic techniques are all powerful tools. On
an individual level, psychodrama’s ability to three-dimensionally
concretize intensely complicated psychological processes is invaluable
in producing insight and ego mastery in the action-oriented recovering
person. On a group level, the visible dramatic enactment rapidly leads
to group mutual identifications, thus catalyzing the development of a
recovering group. This workshop will be fun, creative, and exciting. It
will highlight techniques to help engage clients and will demonstrate a
psychodramatic role-play. Participants will be taught how to conduct
safe and productive action.
49. Shamanism And Psychotherapy: How Easily
They Go Together!
Moderator/Speakers: Brian Murphy, LCSW, M. Ed. – Director of
Mental Health, New York Harm Reduction Educators; and Katherine
Dougherty, B.A. – Shaman in Private Practice.
In this workshop shamanism – the most venerable form of spiritual
healing – meets psychotherapy, one of our more recent inventions.
Learn how shamanic journeying helps bring a person to emotional
harmony and personal understanding by doing some yourself. You’ll
find that the philosophical underpinnings of shamanism espouse some
very current beliefs about respect for the planet and all its creatures,
and you’ll also learn that some of our current psychotherapies are very
aligned with shamanic practices.
50. From Incapacity to Proficiency: Cultural
Competence and Diversity Training in Addiction and
Mental Health Organizations
Moderator/Speakers: Allyne Spinner, LCSW – Senior Partner,
Diversonomix and Executive Director, First Steps to Recovery
Programs; and Maria Mendez, CASAC – Executive Vice President
of PAC Programs.
Culture deals with the totality of the individual and is humanity’s way
of creating and transmitting meaning. This workshop will provide
an introduction to individual and organizational cultural awareness
through didactic and experiential processes. Participants will be able
to identify where their organizations are along the cultural competence
continuum and develop their own trainings in cultural competence.
51. Moving Non-Spiritual People into a Spiritual
Program
Moderator/Speaker: Scott M. Banford, LCSW – Clinical Director,
Living Better Institute.
How do you introduce AA/NA to someone who says, “I don’t like the
religious part of the 12-steps and I’m not a spiritual person”? This
presentation uses a pragmatic description of the 12-steps that most
clients will understand. You will learn how to present the 12-steps to
clients, apply the steps in a way that makes sense to their current crisis,
and show them how in learning to live a lifestyle of recovery they may
have a spiritual experience.
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THE ADDICTIONS INSTITUTE WISHES TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT
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COMPULSIVE SEXUAL
DISORDERS
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our thanks to the following individuals for their support of this year’s Institute:
Susan Nayowith, Ph.D., LMSW, President, NASW-NYC Chapter
43rdAnnual Addictions Institute Planning Committee:
Robert S. Schachter, DSW, LMSW, ACSW
Executive Director, NASW-NYC Chapter
John Crepsac, LCSW, CASAC, NCACI, Co-Coordinator
Sara V. Rivera, MSW, Co-Coordinator
Louis Burns, LMSW, CASAC, Chair, NASW-NYC Addictions Committee
Marc Raybin, LCSW, CASAC
Kathleen Kelly, LCSW
S. Lala Ashenberg Straussner, DSW, CAS
Christine Fewell, Ph.D., LCSW
Laurie Storm, LCSW, CASAC
Peter B. Vaughan, Ph.D., Dean
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Elaine Congress, DSW, Assoc. Dean
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, MS, LMSW, Commissioner
NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
Special Thanks to the NASW-NYC Chapter Staff:
David Sack, MD, Chief Executive Officer
Elements Behavioral Health
Launa D. Kliever, MSW; Ammu Prashantini, MSW;
Monika Dorsey; Jessica Adams; and Kelly Moskos
Jillian K. Cohen, LMSW, Social Work Supervisor
The Center for Family Representation, Inc.
Brochure
Design & production: Jessica Adams
Editing & content: Sara V. Rivera, MSW and Monika Dorsey
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Exhibitors/ Contributors & Supporters
(at press time)
The Addiction Institute of New York
Alcoholics Anonymous Intergroup
Alcoholism Council of New York
Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches
Caron Treatment Centers/ Caron Foundation
Cititherapy Counseling Services (CCS)
Cornerstone Medical Arts Hospital
CRC Health Group (White Deer Run)
Crossroads Antigua Incorporated
Employee Assistance Professionals Assoc. NYC Chapter
Father Martin’s Ashley
First Steps to Recovery
Flynn House
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Foundations Recovery Network
Four Circles Recovery
Hazelden
Inter-Care Ltd. & Inter-Care Family Foundation
LGBT Community Center
Liberty Management Behavioral Health Group
Little Hill-Alina Lodge
Marworth-Geisinger Health System
Mountainside
National Association of Social Workers NYC Chapter
National Youth Recovery Foundation (NYRF)
NY Assoc. of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers (ASAP)
New York Presbyterian
NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (OASAS)
NY State Nurses Association (NYSNA)
Palm Beach Institute
Pride Institute
Promises/SRI/The Ranch-EBH
Realization Center
Reckitt Benckiser
Road Recovery
Saint Vincent Westchester-Behavioral Health
Seabrook House
Second Nature Wilderness Program
The Second Wind
Sierra Tucson
Silver Hill
Single Parent Resource Center (SPRC)
Social Work PRN
Sunrise Detox Centers
Together Magazine (NY Region)
Turning Point
Treatment Solutions Network
T.R.I. Center