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Introducing our new Chairman of the Board
Carol B. Sisco, Ph.D. elected new Chairman of NACoA’s Board of Directors. (More)
President
Bush Honors NACoA Board Member
Dr. Frances L. Brisbane, Dean of the School of Social Welfare,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, received the highest
Presidential Volunteer Service Award. More
New
Website for Teens -
www.shoutinginside.com
Teens
talk about the reality of living with alcoholic parents –
visit this powerful new blog site,
developed by NACoA's Cleveland Affilate Recovery
Resources
The
Betty Ford National Leadership Award was presented to The
Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy at NACoA’s 25th Anniversary Dinner
Celebration on Thursday evening, April 17, in Washington, DC. More
Meet
Our Founders We are pleased to
introduce anew the pioneers who founded NACoA 25 years ago.
Recovery
Month 2008 will be honored and celebrated in September across the country in hundreds of events by hundreds of thousands of people in recovery and their families and friends. NACoA is a proud
and active planning partner of this critical annual public information
campaign that draws attention to the effectiveness of intervention
and treatment, and the joys and strength experienced as families
move into and sustain recovery. Visit the website for educational
tools, strategies, and public service ads that can be used all
year long in your community. Join the Voices for Recovery: Real People, Real Recovery.
NACoA
Announces Second Online Course
Preventing Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Course for Clergy
Washington,
D.C. – The National Association for Children of Alcoholics
(NACoA) announces a new online course, Preventing Alcohol and Drug
Problems: A Course for Clergy, which offers three (3) contact hours
of education...Learn
More
New intergenerational family recovery support curriculum available
Celebrating Families!™, a successful,
evidence-based curriculum that addresses the needs of children and
parents in families that have serious problems with alcohol and
other drugs, has been acquired by the National Association for Children
of Alcoholics (NACoA) from the California-based Family Resources
International, Inc. Visit
the web site
New
Handbook on Student Assistance
Help Is
Down the Hall: A Handbook on Student Assistance, developed
by NACoA with support from the federal Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention, offers basic information on SAPs, their benefits to
students and schools, and outlines the tools and strategies for
their success. More...
New
Clergy Certificate Program
NACoA, in partnership with NAADAC, The Association for Addiction
Professionals, has created a new milestone for congregational leaders,
a Certificate in Spiritual Caregiving
to Help Addicted Persons and Families.
To learn more and access the application
form…..
New
Clergy Prevention Handbook
NACoA’s latest publication from The Clergy Education and Training
Project® is Preventing and Addressing Alcohol and Drug Problems:
A Handbook for Clergy, which was prepared with support from
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention. This handbook provides some basic
information on alcoholism and addiction, the impact of parental
addiction on children, facts about adolescent alcohol and drug use,
and prevention strategies. It also has an appendix with handouts
for use with children of alcohol and drug dependent parents. Download
this handbook ….
Social
Work Curriculum Materials Available
NACoA has developed a curriculum module and PowerPoint
presentation based on the newly designated COA core competencies
for social workers. In addition, the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism offers online a full curriculum on alcohol
abuse and alcoholism, including a strong section on alcohol and
families. More…
ACE
Study
Robert
Anda, MD, MS, Co-founder and Co-Principal Investigator of the
10-year Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, sponsored by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente,
prepared an overview of the study for NACoA, which we are pleased
to make available here. The
Health and Social Impact of Growing Up With Alcohol Abuse and
Related Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Human and Economic
Costs of the Status Quo.
The Information about Drugs
and Alcohol (IDA) research compendium provides access
to over 100,000, bibliographic abstracts, full text articles and
reports which focus on drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, as well as
children of alcoholics, mental health, social marketing, employee
assistance programs, and health communication issues. The public
is invited to search the data base, which is continually updated.
Researchers who are published in peer review journals on related
topics are invited to submit their material by emailing nacoa@nacoa.org
with a copy of the article and, if they choose, an abstract to
include in the compendium. (The abstract must be different from
the original if it is a copyrighted article.) See
announcement.
The
Children’s Program Kit, now being used in thousands
of venues to provide educational support groups for children and
youth -- in school-based student assistance programs, in faith
organizations’ youth programs, in treatment programs for
the children of clients in treatment, and in youth-serving agencies
across the country. The Kit is available free through the SAMHSA
Health Information Network clearinghouse or call 1-800-729-6686,
and ask for CPKIT-D.
For the Native American version, ask for NCPKIT-D
NACoA's
suite number has changed from 100 to 301.
Please make the change in your address book
