Events

Intervention Certification: Next Steps for Improving Care

  There was a time when addiction treatment professionals believed that addicts must lose everything before making the decision to seek treatment and be committed to recovery. This led to missed opportunities and worst case scenarios for treatment field professionals. Thankfully, this is no longer the case. Treatment field professionals have embraced the still emerging [...]

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Mindfulness Meditation as a Tool for Recovery

  Mindfulness is an ancient form of awareness. It has been used, typically in the Buddhist lifestyle, to clear the conscious, relieve stress, improve thought process, and stimulate productivity. Today, it has been integrated into the addiction treatment field as a tool for recovery: a practice known as Mindfulness Meditation. It has proved to be [...]

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St. Louis Luncheon

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Professionals Weekend 2011: Success

For over three decades, New Directions has been a leader in the addiction field, while providing a gender separate, long term continuum of care for all women, pregnant women, and women with children. We exist to provide a place where women and their families can begin the journey of recovery. We pride ourselves in providing [...]

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NAATP Now

New Directions for Women and National Therapeutic Services will be hosting a special NAATP Now Event in Orange County, California on January 12 – 14th.  We invite CEOS and Executive Directors of West Coast treatment providers to attend in order to spend time with other NAATP members and treatment providers and gain a better understanding [...]

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Celebrating Sobriety on the Water – NDFW Alumnae Cruise 2011

What a wonderful time we shared during this year’s Alumnae Cruise! New Directions for Women hosted our Annual Alumnae Reunion Harbor Cruise this past September 2011.  Over forty women in recovery and their guests celebrated the glories of recovery with a day of pampering and fun. In honor of Recovery Month, we held a women’s [...]

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Rebecca Flood Presents at NCAD 2011

  New Directions for Women strives to transform women, children, and their families, one day at a time. Part of this mission includes reaching out to the treatment field by offering lessons that improve the quality of care that each center is able to offer, or improve the addiction treatment field as a whole. Recently, [...]

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A Great Place to Volunteer!

Volunteers are integral to non-profit organizations. They increase the amount of products produced and people served. They brighten the environment through service and positive motives. They carry the mission, without monetary compensation, to their individual communities. They are the lifeline and progressive force standing boldly as the face of the non-profit world. We celebrate the [...]

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Mindfulness Meditation Training with Fran DiDomenicis, Ph.D.

Please join us for a workshop on the Applications of Mindfulness to Addictions Treatment and Relapse Prevention. This half day workshop will introduce participants to the basics of mindfulness and how it can be applied to addictions treatment and relapse prevention, and provide 4 continuing education units (CEU’s).   Participants will be guided through a [...]

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ATCPCC 2012

3 Days…50+ Treatment Centers, Private Practitioners, Interventionists…AND YOU Announcing the Sixth Annual Addiction Treatment Centers & Professionals Consortium of California, July 23 – 25, 2012 at the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California. REGISTER HERE >> Why attend? Listen to what our attendees say: “It’s so great to get a bunch of treatment [...]

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