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Staff Chats: Men’s Mental Health & Peer Support: A Conversation with Mike and Chris
Join Mike and Chris, Peer Recovery Navigators with the UCalgary Recovery Community, for a powerful conversation on men’s mental health and the vital role of peer support in recovery. Drawing from their lived experience, they’ll explore topics such as the student...
Staff Chats: Mapping Change – Using Environmental Scans and Storytelling to Transform Substance Use Prevention and Recovery
Santee Ezell, MS, PCED, CHES, CHWI, CPM, CNP facilitates this a presentation which explores how college staff and faculty can utilize environmental scans and storytelling to enhance campus substance use prevention and recovery efforts. By integrating data with...
Staff Chats: Arts Based Programming in Collegiate Recovery
Rachelle Ellis is a Registered Art Therapist and Certified Health and Wellness coach with a demonstrated history of providing direct art therapy services to adults with substance use disorders, as well as adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses who are...
The Interweaving of Sexual Violence and Substance Use
Alexi "Lex" Johnson LPC serves as one of the professional staff of the RSVP (Rape and Sexual Violence Prevention) at The University of Georgia. RSVP provides specialty counseling, robust wrap-around supports, and advocacy for primary and secondary survivors of sexual...
Staff Chats: Community Colleges- Leveraging a CRP to Create a College-to-Workforce Pathway and Gain Institutional Buy-in
Naming a system that increases access to academics and workforce development, supports the local community, its residents, and its economy, while striving for academic excellence can describe both community colleges and collegiate recovery. The community college was...
Staff Chats: Collaborating With Campus Partners
Lindsay Garcia, MFA, PhD talks to us about Collaborating with Campus Partners and how to provide coordinated care for students in or seeking recovery across campus! https://vimeo.com/1062571798?share=copy#t=0 Staff Chats take place on Tuesdays at 12pm ET and explore...
Staff Chats: Alternative Peer Groups – What Are They and How Do They Work?
Michael Wilkerson and Robin Bergeron will talk about what Alternative Peer Groups are and how they work so that folks can increase collaboration with APGs in their area. https://vimeo.com/1061387217?share=copy#t=0 Staff Chats take place on Tuesdays at 12pm ET and...
Staff Chats: Collegiate Recovery in Community Colleges
Join Aaron Blankenship for this informative session on his experiences working within a collegiate recovery program at a community college and the helpful perspective he shares on how the unique barriers and opportunities available in community college settings....
Introduction to Collegiate Recovery Webinar Series: What is Collegiate Recovery and Why Is It Important (Collegiate Recovery 101)
Learn about what collegiate recovery programs are and why they are important. In this session, ARHE staff will briefly outline the history of collegiate recovery, as well as the research and evidence base supporting them. They will then outline examples of how...