We’re Over the Top – Twice!!

Thank you one and all – we reached our $100,000 Challenge in mid-December and then we reached the second challenge of $25,000 by December 31. NACoA and the children and families we serve all send a heartfelt THANK YOU – and Happy New Year.

NACoA’s Online Education Center
NACoA has created an Online Learning Center as an opportunity to offer on demand education and training opportunities for professionals, clergy, and any one interested in learning how to help the millions of children in their midst hurt by parental alcohol and drug addiction. Starting with two courses for faith leaders and lay leaders, NACoA is planning to add other courses designed for other professionals and the general public on supporting COAs to help them build resilience. The courses can be accessed at any time 24/7 for a convenient way to increase your knowledge and skills. Just go to http://nacoa.macrovolt.com to learn more about the courses and to register. The current courses are “Addiction and the Family: An Online Course for Faith Leaders” and “Preventing Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Course for Clergy.”

Website for COA 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

Celebrating Families! Listed on NREPP
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 accepted for listing on the National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices. The curriculum – and related consulting and training -- is available through NACoA. It is being used, with outstanding results, in over 15 states to support early family recovery. Visit the web site.

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 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

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

Meet Our Founders We are pleased to introduce anew the pioneers who founded NACoA 25 years ago.

Introducing our new Chairman of the Board
Carol B. Sisco, Ph.D. elected new Chairman of NACoA’s Board of Directors. (More)

Recovery Month 2008 was celebrated in September by NACoA and its affiliates across the country, joining hundreds of other local, regional and national organizations in the greatest ever Recovery Month. NACoA partnered with its colleague organization Entertainment Industries Council to host a reception for the state directors of the alcohol and drug prevention and treatment divisions and their leadership teams on August 20, honoring Recovery Month, and the kick-off Recovery Month Luncheon September 4 at the spectacular Newseum in Washington DC.

Helping COAs through 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…..

Clergy Prevention Handbook Available On-line
NACoA’s latest publication from The Clergy Education and Training Project® is Preventing and Addressing Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Handbook for Clergy, 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 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.
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