"New
hope for a new life."
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Women's Alliance for Recovery Services firmly believes in the importance of information and education
as a tool for recovery and for imparting better care.
To that end we provide on-going educational workshops and training
to an
audience comprised of recovering individuals and service providers
in charge of their care. They include a variety of topics,
some of which are listed below:
- The effects of alcohol and other drugs on pregnancy
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Assertiveness in Recovery
- Relapse Prevention
- HIV/AIDS
- Managing Anger
- Dual Diagnosis
- Domestic Violence and the cycle of abuse
- Dealing with co-dependency
- Effects on children of incarcerated women
- Chemical Dependency: a family disease
- Ethics in the Substance Abuse field
- Recovery Management
- Parenting issues
- Cultural Competence/Diversity
- Evidence-based approaches to addiction
- Continuum of care
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