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Supporting Families, Supporting Recovery: Overcoming Stigma in LGBTQIA2S+ SUD Treatment
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Description
This webinar explores the complex impact of stigma and family rejection on LGBTQiA2S+ individuals facing substance use disorder, while also examining the challenges families may experience in understanding, accepting, and supporting their loved ones. Addiction professionals will gain tools to navigate these dynamics with empathy, promote healing on both sides, and foster inclusive, affirming environments that support recovery and reconciliation.
This webinar is brought to you with support from NAADAC’s LGBTQiA+ Committee.
Presenters
Doug Smith, BS, CADC II, has 21 years of experience working in behavioral health services, including serving as a direct clinician, Clinical Director, and Director of Clinical Development. He has innovated many modern approaches to treatment services, including developing new patient-centered treatment models. Smith developed the Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy (EABT) model and speaks nationally to professionals in the field about its positive outcomes. He is a member of the Oregon NAADAC Board and serves on the NAADAC- LGBTQIA+ committee as well. Smith is the recipient of the Oregon Association of Addiction Professionals’ 2023 Innovator of the Year Award as well as the 2018 Addiction Professional of the Year Community Service Award. He is also a NAADAC-approved education provider.
Rue Ether (they/them) is a nonbinary mental health and addiction professional based in Minneapolis Minnesota. Ether is finishing their final year in graduate school at Metropolitan State University. They currently work as an addiction counselor with primarily LGBTQIA+ clients. Ether is committed to promoting equal rights through diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts both in their counseling work and through advocacy. In their spare time, Ether enjoys playing board games, getting outside, reading, and spending time with their two cats.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe how stigma and family rejection correlate with LGBTQIA2s+ individuals’ behavioral health challenges.
- Participants will be able to evaluate the difficulties that family members experience supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Individuals.
- Participants will be able to interpret how to address these dynamics in treatment to increase positive outcomes.
Content Level
All Levels .
- Beginning level courses introduce learners to a content area; include information about a condition, treatment method, or issue; and involve learning and comprehending content.
- Intermediate level courses provide information that builds on knowledge practitioners with some experience already have. These courses focus on skill-building or adding knowledge, possibly following a brief overview of basic information, and involve using information in concrete situations and understanding the underlying structure of the material.
- Advanced level courses provide content for participants who have been working in the content area and have a clear understanding of the issues. These courses cover and address the complexities involved in the work and involve synthesizing material to create new patterns or structures or evaluating material for a specific purpose.
Interactivity
Polls and Q&A.
Price
Education is FREE to all professionals.
Earn 1.5 Continuing Education Hours (CEs)
To earn a CE Certificate for viewing this webinar, you must view the webinar in its entirety, pass the CE quiz, and complete the online survey evaluation.
- Upon completing the webinar, you will have access to the CE quiz within the course you are taking. Find the CE quiz and click “purchase.” NAADAC members will be prompted to register for the CE quiz for free, while non-members will be prompted to pay a $25 processing fee to access the quiz.
- A score of 80% or higher is required to pass the CE quiz and access your CE certificate. You have 10 opportunities to pass the quiz. If you are unable to pass the quiz in the allocated number of tries, then you must retake the course.
- Upon passing the CE quiz, you will be required to complete the survey evaluation for the course. Once that is completed, your CE certificate will be immediately available to print. All certificates will be stored in the NAADAC Education Center under your profile name. Click here for detailed step-by-step instructions for accessing your CE quiz and downloading your CE certificate.
This webinar is eligible for ASWB ACE CE hours. Click here for NAADAC Social Worker certificate instructions.
This course meets the qualifications for one and a half (1.5) hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Who Should Attend
Addiction professionals, employee assistance professionals, social workers, mental health counselors, professional counselors, psychologists, and other helping professionals that are interested in learning about addiction-related matters.
Accessibility
Live closed captioning is available and the captioning capabilities are in compliance with the practices defined in Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. In addition, transcripts are available for on-demand webinars recorded on and after March 27, 2019.