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Year in Review 2025
For many in higher education and the recovery community, 2025 was a year marked by uncertainty, loss, and profound change. Across the country and beyond, we witnessed programs lose funding, positions go unfilled, and students face shrinking access to the support...
Understanding Kratom: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know Now
A Critical Discussion Led by Jana Wu, LCSW, LADC, ICADC As kratom-related admissions surge nationwide, with Mountainside Treatment Center reporting a striking 169% increase this year alone, higher education professionals face an urgent need to understand this...
Rolling the Dice on Our Future: Addressing America’s Youth Gambling Crisis
Presenter: Saul Malek Learning Outcomes: - Attendees will learn to recognize how substance use (e.g., alcohol or drug misuse) exacerbates problem gambling, including shared risk factors like impulsivity and stress, and how these interactions worsen gambling outcomes...
Making the Most of What We Have: Frameworks for Maximizing Campus Overdose Prevention Efforts
Presenter: Dylan Dunn, MS With more campuses being willing to address opioid-related risks within their communities, even more campuses are wondering how to do this work well. Meanwhile, budgets continue to tighten and job responsibilities keep growing. In this...
From Concept to Catalyst Building Advisory Boards
Presenter: Blake Schneider, MA Learn what an advisory board is and explore a case study of the advisory board development at Kennesaw State University. This purpose-driven session helps to think through how to start an advisory board, as well as imagine future goals...
ABC Retrospective
Presenter: Ayesha Al-Akhdar, MA, CPS-AD The work of harm reduction and Access, Belonging, & Connection (ABC) are tied to each other. This month's instalment of the Harm Reduction speaker series will provide an overview of the ABC tools and perspective that we have...
Making the Case for Collegiate Recovery: Leveraging the Okanagan Charter to Advance Student Well-Being
Presenter: Mack Park, MSW Discover how Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs) can advance your campus’s commitment to the Okanagan Charter. This session will show you how to make a strong case to administrators, highlighting CRPs as both a smart investment and a powerful...
Call to Action: Protect Funding for Collegiate Recovery
Congress is finalizing next year’s federal budget, and funding for the Peer Support Technical Assistance Center (CARS: Center for Addiction Recovery Support) — which sustains ARHE’s national work — is at risk. The Senate version of the appropriations bill includes $2...
Trauma Informed Language and Approaches 101
Presenter: Lex Johnson, LPC, MS As Trauma and AOD are closely linked it is important to be trauma informed in how we interact with others including our language and knowing how to support a survivor of traumatic experience(s). In this seminar, we will address ways...