Conference Check-in (registration area outside auditorium)

Pick up name badges and conference materials

Coffee, tea, juice, pastries

Located in outdoor atrium adjacent to the Burns auditorium.

Morning General Session

Welcome, conference overview, introductions

Tony Denison, Master of Ceremonies
noted film and television actor

Invocation

Rev. Dan Regan, OSB
Senior Chaplain, U.S. Navy, ret.

Welcome from the University

Bradley Smith, CADC-II, CTRTC, CCJP
Special Programs Coordinator, Office of the Senior Vice President for Student Affairs

Addiction Recovery Management

Studies of Professional Health Programs (PHPs) prove that sustained recovery is possible after treatment. Most patients, however, receive treatment that is time-limited. This lecture describes how the Chronic Care Model, and the Recovery Management approach it suggests, is better suited to the long-term support of people with addiction. Lessons learned from the creation of a sober living program modeled after PHPs in Utah are reviewed.

Kevin McCauley, M.D.
Co-Founder, Institute for Addiction Study and le Mont Michel

Second Morning Session

Avenues for expungement of criminal records

Recovering individuals often discover that records of criminal convictions present serious obstacles to meaningful employment–and even basic necessities such as housing–long after their debt to society has been paid. Mr. Kim will discuss a program which can assist individuals in the process of having their criminal records expunged.

Joshua Kim
A New Way of Life Reentry Legal Clinic

Brain healing in recovery: An experienced addictionist discusses scientific accuracies of the "BIg Book" and its legacies

With evolving research into neuroplasticity, recent brain science has gone beyond drug substitutions and adjusting "chemical imbalances" and now fully embraces familiar and time-tested principles of recovery. This session empowers attendees with exciting and important information. This knowledge can be directly applied to those motivated for meaningful, lifelong recovery built on abstinence and methods compatible with programs like AA and NA.

Al J. Mooney III, MD, FAAFP, ABAM
Clinical Director, Five County Mental Health Authority, Henderson, NC
Medical Director, The Healing Place of Wake County, Raleigh, NC
Chairman, Willingway Foundation, Statesboro, GA

Luncheon Program

Humanitarian Award: Richard Alarcón

Los Angeles City Council Member, Council District 7

Ken Schonlau Award: Peggy Albrecht

Founder, Executive Director, Friendly House, Los Angeles

Spirit of Recovery Award: David Sheridan

Board Member, Treasurer, the Sober Living Network
Executive Committee, National Association of Recovery Residences

Online Training for Sober Living Providers

The Sober Living Network's training workshops are being made available online. What's new and different? Wil Cuadros will show segments from the online material and discuss implications for recovery housing providers and others who need this information.

Wilfredo Cuadros
Director of Global Business Development, ICDC College

Luncheon Keynote Address

Health Care Reform and Recovery–a View from Washington

A leadership perspective on addiction, recovery and changes in how recovery services will be delivered in the future. What's good? What needs to be improved? What can we expect from Washington?

Onaje Salim, MA, LPC
Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment,
Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch

Afternoon Concurrent Sessions – Block I

Choose from among these 90-minute sessions:

Housing Rights for the Disabled: Roundtable Discussion

This panel will discuss the conflicting demands, expectations and rights of residents in our neighborhoods. Conflicts include identification of some residents as "the other," in terms reminiscent of the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s. Are disabled households the latest target of local discrimination? What can disadvantaged communities do when the ones engaged in discrimination are their own city governments?

Hon. Richard Alarcón, Council Member, Los Angeles City Council, District 7

Deborah Smith Parker, housing rights advocate

Matthew Gorman, Partner, Alvarez-Glassman & Colvin

Back to the Basics of Sponsorship
How to sponsor or be sponsored through the Twelve Steps in two hours or less

For more than twenty years, Wally P., AA archivist and historian, has studied the Twelve Step recovery program as practiced in the 1940s. In the mid 1990s, he reintroduced the "original" Step process back into the Twelve Step community with remarkable results. To date, more than 500,000 people have been through "Back to Basics." The results speak for themselves: "It works—it really does."
In this ninety minute PowerPoint presentation, Wally will describe the history of sponsorship, the fifty key paragraphs that were used to take newcomers through the Twelve Steps, and the process the "old-timers" used to achieve the remarkable recovery rates of the "early days."

Wally P.
author, lecturer, AA archivist, historian

Old Plight, New Flight

Discussion of the Choice Theory Connection Program, and the remarkable results of 300+ women who learned within the past year to master Relationships, Behavior and Choices (RBC).

Les Johnson, MA, PhD (Honorius Causa), CTRTC,
Principal, El Prado Adult School
Director of The Choice Theory Connection Program, CA Institution for Women

Dr. Cheryl Grills
Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Dr. B.J. Davis
Clinical Director, Strategies for Change, Sacramento CA

Approaches to Co-Occurring Disorders

In this session, Shari Corbitt and Seth Kadish will address denial management issues as well as explaining negative patterns of thought, emotion and behavior. This will be an interactive presentation.

Shari Corbitt, Psy.D.

Dr. Seth C. Kadish

Afternoon Concurrent Sessions – Block II

Choose from among these 90-minute sessions:

A National Approach to Standards and Terminology for Recovery Residences

This workshop will discuss the establishment of national standards for recovery residences from two perspectives. Beth Fisher will discuss current work in establishing uniform national standards, from a provider and an organizational persective. Onaje Salim will discuss these developments and how they address longstanding SAMHSA interest in the residence component of recovery support.

Beth Fisher, LCSW, LCAS, MAC, CCS
Executive Director, Hope Homes, Inc., Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC
President, National Association of Recovery Residences
President, Georgia Association of Recovery Residences

Onaje Salim, MA, LPC
Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment,
Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch

Guidelines to Enhance the Skills of Sober Companions in the Recovery Process

One of the most rapidly growing services in the field of addiction treatment is that of recovery companions or sober companions. This service increases a client's external recovery capital and therefore can be a source of support in early recovery. Because this area is in its early stage of development guidelines are needed that will help these individuals avoid the pitfalls and hazards that accompany this service. Dr. Berger and Mr. Andes will present the guidelines they utilize for sober companions in the Executive Class Treatment Program. Similar skills can be utilized to improve the quality of care provided in sober living homes. Mr. Finley will act as moderator and participant.

Moderator: Andrew Finley, M.A.

Allen Berger, Ph.D

Roger Andes, M.A.

Craving and Relapse

This lecture educates on how to avoid the craving cycle by gaining awareness of the set-up behaviors and trigger events that precede it, thus, minimizing relapse potential. Participants will also gain the ability to educate clients in simple terms the etiology of triggers and how to lead clients through the trigger recovery process.

Bob Tyler, BA, CADC II, ICADC

Live Life by Design Rather Than by Default

This workshop centers on the process of identifying the core values upon which a statement of purpose will be created; a vision for the next chapter of life will then come from this statement of purpose. Goals and actions steps are the final part of the process. The workshop will include lecture, questions and answers, and small group discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to craft their vision in this way.

Marcia Ullett, MA, LMFT, CPC

Conference Adjourns