Addiction 101 is an introductory training that will provide participants with an overview of the medical model of addiction. The training will cover the effects that addiction has on the individuals, mind, body, and spirit and the current treatment modalities and pharmacology used to treat substance use disorder.

Objectives:

• Understand the core components of addiction, and how it impacts one’s life, and relationships
• Learn the current treatment modalities, including all pathways of recovery.
• Expand Recovery Capital resources and reduce barriers
• Explore with participants the transformative power of understanding how their biases impact how they show up as a Recovery Coach
• Introduce the diagnostic criteria for substance use diagnosis using DMS-5 and ASAM criteria

For more information please contact Jennifer Burns at jenniferburnsconsulting@gmail.com.

*MBSACC Approved CEU

In this 18-hour training program, hosted by Addictions Training Academy, participants will:

Establish an understanding of the 6 principles of trauma-informed care

Learn skills to manage their own triggers and past experiences when something comes up when serving clients/peers

Demonstrate what trauma-responsive support is in terms of a coaching role

Gain knowledge and an understanding of how Trauma Informed Care can help co-regulate coaching sessions

Please email Candace Alley for more information, or to register.

Upon completion of this program, Participants will be able to:

Explore their personal challenges with ethics

Identify challenges in their current professional environment

Be introduced to Core Ethical Concepts through a relational framework

Review personal as well as organizational ethical approaches in relation to their work

Apply a relational behavioral ethical approach in their personal and professional lives

Practice ethical leadership in a supportive environment

To register, visit, https://www.choicerecoverycoaching.org/book-online  For questions, email, recovery@choicerecoverycoaching.org

Exploring Culture through a DEI lens training will provide an overview of how to become culturally informed and remain curious in the process of learning about cultural traditions, norms, and values. Recovery Coaches will learn the importance of adopting an understanding of providing equitable, diverse, and inclusive coaching. Recovery Coaches will be encouraged to explore their personal biases.

Objectives:

• Understand the core components of cultural sensitivity
• Explore with participants the transformative power of understanding how their biases impact how they show up as a Recovery Coach
• Expand Recovery Capital resources, and reduce barriers
• Introduce white privilege and oppression

For more information please contact Jennifer Burns at jenniferburnsconsulting@gmail.com.

*MBSACC Approved CEU

This training will explore the multiple pathways of recovery. Participants will be encouraged to embrace the recoverees pathway and remember that “you are in recovery when you say you are.” Participants will examine the different variables that one will take as they choose their pathway (ethnicity, culture, ses, gender identity) to meet their lifestyle and belief system.

Objectives:

• Explore the different pathways to recovery
• Understand the recoverees needs
• Identify stages of recovery
• Examine the methods of recovery

For more information please contact Jennifer Burns at jenniferburnsconsulting@gmail.com.

*MBSACC Approved CEU

Healing Centered Engagement for Peers & Coaches, offered by Jesse Heffernan and Helios Recovery Services provides 3 hours of training.

Participants will:

Understand key differences between a healing-centered & trauma-informed approach to care;

Identify 3 ways to address root causes of trauma in communities;

Identify 3 ways to improve strategies and outcomes with recoverees using HCE;

For more information, or to register, email jheffernan@heliosrecovery.com

Infinite Pathways of Recovery, offered by Meghann Perry and Choice Recovery Coaching provides 6 hours of training.

Participants will:

Identify the specific components that encompass individuals’ needs;

Understand how culture can impact individuals’ recovery pathways;

Discover where existing pathways meet individuals’ needs, or leave gaps;

Explore how to cultivate and design personal pathways for self and others;

Explore the stages of recovery in order to identify potential pathways; and

Practice implementing learned concepts in the creation of infinite pathways of recovery.

To register, visit, https://www.choicerecoverycoaching.org/book-online  For questions, email, recovery@choicerecoverycoaching.org

Participants will:

Understand and apply servant leadership values & competencies;

Develop servant leadership / EQ evaluation for staff and recoverees;

Know the 7 aspects of Recovery Leadership.

For more information, or to register, email jheffernan@heliosrecovery.com

Mental Health and Wellness Training will provide structured experiences, group discussions and interactions, this dynamic, engaging, and interactive training is designed to provide recovery coaches with the opportunity to increase their awareness of mental health and its potential incidence and impact for their recoveree’s, and challenge existing stereotypes of mental illness. Recovery coaches will have an opportunity to demonstrate proven techniques to ensure continued health and well-being for themselves and recoverees.

Objectives:

• Identify the stigma that is associated with Mental Health
• Evaluate mental status
• Practice elements of self-care
• Describe eight dimensions of wellness
• Understand signs of Mental Health

For more information please contact Jennifer Burns at jenniferburnsconsulting@gmail.com

Motivational Interviewing Training will provide an overview of how to refine your communication style to increase positive outcomes with your recoveree’s. Through Practical application, case study, analysis, and discussion, you’ll learn to use a compassionate, reflective listening curious effort to elicit your recoveree’s own desire for change.

Objectives:

• Understand Motivational Interviewing framework
• Identify Stages of Change and how to use MI in each stage
• Practice reflective listening
• Apply OARS in conversation

For more information please contact Jennifer Burns at jenniferburnsconsulting@gmail.com.

*MBSACC Approved CEU

Motivational Interviewing Course - Being offered April 21, 2023

Hours: 5 hours

Title of Class: Motivational Interviewing

Learning Objectives:

Participants who complete this training will:

• Build skills to enhance communication
• Describe MI
• List the different listening types in MI
• Develop an understanding of OARS
• Learn to recognize when change talk is happening
• Practice newly acquired skills

How to register: https://www.dolanacademy.com/offers/m4VaXezv

Motivational Interviewing: 3rd Edition for Recovery Coaches, offered by Lisa Hope and Prepared Training provides 4 hours of training.

Participants will:

Demonstrate the skills-rated by observer;

Develop 3 statements for each skill;

Create 2 measurable indicators for recoverees success by treating them as a resource;

Develop 1 concrete, individualized statement to avoid self-disclosure;

Develop 2 strategies for managing self-disclosure as a short cut.

For more information, or to register, email greyrecovery@gmail.com

Graduates of the CCAR's Recovery Coach Academy, or equivalent, can apply to be part of this online, mentorship training.

In this course, we will be covering the following topics:

• Initial consultation
• Value of the intake form
• The coaching agreement
• Establishing empathy
• Negotiating a change plan
• First meeting with a client
• Ethical considerations
• Reflective listening
• Recognizing readiness for change
• Managing your own stuff
• Getting your first client
• Building a resources toolbox
• Self care
• Boundaries
• Cognitive dissonance

EXERCISES:

• Motivational interviewing
• Setting smart goals
• OARS
• Developing a business plan
• Real life experiences

For more information and to register for this training, please contact Kevin Diakiw at kevin@still-here.ca

Participants will:

• Practice recovery wellness planning
• Develop the knowledge to become a local resource broker
• Describe and model design thinking
• Practice mindful listening and implement it in recovery coaching
• Demonstrate knowledge and application of business development in recovery coaching

For more information and to register for this training, please contact Kevin Diakiw at kevin@still-here.ca

Upon completion of this program, Participants will be able to:

• Discuss their relationship to storytelling and its role in their work.

• Evaluate the impact of culture on story sharing and listening.

• Define their personal culture of storytelling and recognize how their stories are perceived by others.

• Articulate how to best select and shape personal stories to achieve specific goals.

• Apply Recovery Coach Roles and Recovery Values to story sharing.

• Practice story creation using new perspectives within a recovery support context.

To register for this training, visit https://www.meghannperry.com/course-registration.  For questions, please contact Meghann Perry at meghann@meghannperry.com

Take 2 for you, Self-Care for recovery coaches will provide structured experiences, group discussions and interactions, this dynamic, engaging, and interactive training is designed to provide recovery coaches with the opportunity to practice self-care and reflective practices to manage work life balance. Participants will learn practical skills to reduce stress, and practice self-care management to prevent compassion fatigue and burnout. Participants will have an opportunity to demonstrate proven techniques to ensure holistic health and well-being for themselves.

Objectives:

• What is self-care?
• Psychological effects of stress
• Practice elements of self-care
• Describe compassion fatigue and burnout
• Physiological/Psychological effects of stress

For more information please contact Jennifer Burns at jenniferburnsconsulting@gmail.com.

*MBSACC Approved CEU

The UConn Recovery Community's Recovery Ally Training is a two-hour training program where participants learn how to be a person someone can reach out to when they are struggling to achieve or maintain their recovery.

You will learn the following:

• Understand the complex nature of addiction as a disease and that substance use disorders often cannot be resolved by the individual choosing to stop.
• Confront the myths and stigma regarding addiction and recovery and how its negative impact deters individuals from seeking support.
• Use empathetic language and effectively listen when a person chooses to honor you by disclosing that they are struggling with substance use.
• Define and understand that recovery is a lifetime journey with multiple pathways to achieving wellness in recovery.
• Know available recovery support resources that are on and off-campus and how to access them.

Contact urc@uconn.edu for more information.

Upon completion of this program, Participants will be able to:

*Define Harm Reduction

*Gain an understanding of what harm reduction is and is not

*Learn how to manage our own biases about harm reduction

*Gain an understanding of how Recovery Coaches allow individuals the voice and choice to choose their own harm reduction pathway to recovery

For more information and to register for this training, please contact Candace Alley at candace_alley@icloud.com