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Training for professionals in the field of Substance Use Disorder treatment, Certified Recovery Specialists
and families in recovery from Substance Use Disorder.
Here are some topics I am currently offering; most topics are available in two-, three- and six-hour periods and are available both in-person and virtually. All sessions can be adapted for your audience and include relevant resource materials. New topics are added frequently.
The Impact of Substance Use Disorder and Recovery on Families
When a loved one develops Substance Use Disorder, the family often experiences financial hardship, extreme stress and emotional or physical illness. This training offers suggestions for ways professionals can educate and support families.
Enabling and Boundaries in Family Recovery
This training examines how enabling behaviors develop and the relationship between Substance Use Disorder and enabling behaviors. We also discuss why healthy boundaries are important in a recovering family and examine ways to support families as they communicate boundaries to recovering loved ones.
Also available through the DDAP TMS
Communication Skills for Peer Workers
Peer support workers often walk a fine line between personal and professional relationships with others in recovery. This training provides information on effective communication skills, active listening, and body language in order to assist in outreach to individuals and families in recovery. We will also discuss the importance of keeping professional boundaries while interacting with respect to personal recovery and sharing experience, strength and hope in healthy ways.
Parents and Prevention: The Role of Family in Prevention of Substance Use
Families, particularly parents and grandparents, play an important role in preventing early substance use. What strategies can adults use increase positive communication with children? Skills specific to parents in recovery from alcohol or other substance use disorders will be included in the presentation.
The Impact of Substance Use Disorder and Recovery on Parenting and Children
In this workshop, you’ll learn how Substance Use Disorder impacts parenting behavior, children and family functioning – both in times of active substance use and in recovery. Participants will learn strategies for providing safety to children in homes with parental substance use, as well as support for parents and caregivers of children.
Also available through the DDAP TMS
Issues Affecting Parents in Recovery
Parents in early recovery often face considerable obstacles as they regain connection with their children. In this session, we will discuss strategies for collaborating with parents in recovery and how caring professionals and communities can support recovering families.
What About You?
Self-Care For People Who Help Others
Clinicians and peer support workers often advise clients and consumers to focus on self-care and healthy boundaries in recovery. But how do we practice these important behaviors in our own lives? This workshop will provide information on how professionals can identify warning signs of harmful stress, how we can use simple strategies for self-care and how our relationships with others affects our ability to respond to clients.
Kindness Counts: What Adults Can Learn from Mr. Rogers
Mr. Rogers created nearly 900 episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — and in the process, cultivated life lessons to last beyond childhood, and so much of his wisdom applies to us in our many stages of adulthood. In this workshop, we look at ten lessons from Mr. Rogers and how we can bring Mr. Rogers’ gentle spirit of kindness to our work with families and communities.
Parenting One Day at a Time
Parents with Substance Use Disorder face many challenges as they try to reconnect with their children in early recovery. Some parents have a strong relationship with children but need some reassurance and information specific to parenting in recovery. Others have been absent from their child’s life and need basic information to begin the process of reunification. Parenting One Day at a Time offers parents/caregivers an opportunity to discuss their concerns in a supportive setting, ask questions and get answers to their parenting questions, and move forward in recovery as nurturing parents. Sessions can be held in-person at your location, or virtually; workshops include access to parenting resources and reference materials.
Next session begins in May 2025. Contact bbitler@outlook.com for details and registration.
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