News from International Affiliates
NACOA-UK features You Tube clip of young women discussing growing up with an alcoholic mother.
NACOA Deutschland has expanded website; will host second national conference in Berlin (January, 2010)
Renascent Fellowship, Inc. is NACoA’s newest international affiliates. Renascent has the largest number of treatment beds in Canada and provides comprehensive services for addicted persons and their family members
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.
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.
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.”
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 …
NACoA continues to be an active participant in the Recovery Month Planning Partners, chairs its Strategic Planning and Sustainability Subcommittee, and works on its Multi-Media and Kit Materials subcommittees. Why? Because recovery includes the whole family, including the children, and NACoA’s mission is “to advocate for all children and families affected by alcoholism and other drug dependencies.” Please join us and other planning partner organizations in preparing for September’s Recovery Month 2009.
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…..
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
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