WIN A NEW HOUSE IN VAIL VALLEY, CO
Be a winner! Buy a ticket – or even 5 tickets, and designate NACoA as your preferred charity. The entire amount you pay will go to support NACoA’s work. For details on the house and to purchase tickets go to www.eaglenestraffle.com. To learn about NACoA’s inclusion in this special raffle read the press release
September is Recovery Month, and NACoA and its affiliates are celebrating the hope and healing being experienced by millions of people in recovery and their families across the country. There are Runs, Walks, Bridge Crossings, Faith celebrations, educational programs, soberfests, major league baseball games, community picnics, backyard barbecues, and town hall meetings across the countr throughout the month. Visit www.recoverymonth.gov to learn more about being a part of celebrations in your community.
Honoring ACOA Recovery in Recovery Month
Introducing NACoA leaders who have also been leaders in the family recovery field for years – and their personal stories of recovery and giving back. MORE…
National Conference on Addiction Disorders
Washington, DC | September 8-11, 2010
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Earn up to 30 Credit Hours!
Listen to a mother share the impact of Celebrating Families!™ - a unique and successful evidence-based family recovery program curriculum that addresses the needs of children and parents in families that have serious problems with alcohol and other drugs. It is listed on the National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices. The curriculum – and related consulting and training – is available through NACoA. For more information, visit the website - Celebrating Families!™
Lost Childhood: Growing Up In An Alcoholic Family
A half-hour award-winning documentary showing young children of alcoholics who speak about their experiences with an honesty and wisdom beyond their years. DVD and viewers’ guide now available through NACoA. For more information on this award-winning documentary, visit www.lostchildhood.org
Webinar Presentation Slides Available
Addiction, Families and Recovery: Strategies and Tools for Faith Leaders and Other Pastoral Ministers, presented by The Clergy Education and Training Project®
Certificate Program for Clergy and Other Pastoral Ministers
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…..
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
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
On Demand education and training opportunities for clergy, other professionals, and any person interested in learning how to help the children in their midst who are being hurt by parental alcohol ordrug addiction. The most recent course added specifically addresses children of alcohol or drug addicted parents and ways to support them and 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.
Handbook for Clergy, developed by NACoA for SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, is now available both on-line and link to new copy and singly or in quantities for distribution to clergy in your community – For more information or to order.
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...
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
