NDFW at the ATCPCC Conference shopping with colleagues in the treatment field

The 2011 ATCPCC conference continues to offer memories of what it truly means to 
exist in the addiction treatment field’s network. In many fields there is great competition 
between companies, which causes conflict and dissension. New Directions for Women proudly hosts the Addiction Treatment Centers & Professionals Consortium of California so that the alcohol and drug rehab providers in attendance can learn about each other’s programs to better serve our patients.

In the above picture, we celebrate relationships with other treatment centers 
and individuals who support quality care in the treatment field. ATCPCC is designed to offer free time so that treatment professionals can network and intimately get to know one another. The above picture shows Shannon Chrismore (Proctor Hospital), Tania Bhattacharyya (NDFW), Becky Flood (NDFW)
and Pat Connors (Calloway Labs & Seabrook House) spending quality time during the ATCPCC 
Conference. New Directions for Women thanks all of our partners and friends, in the field of addiction treatment, for supporting and healing the millions of people in America who suffer from the chronic disease of addiction.

Becky Flood and and Jamie Holland at ATCPCC

New Directions For Women has just hosted ATCPCC 2011 in Santa Barbara, CA. Highlights are soon to come but we wanted to offer a story of encouragement.

New Directions for Women takes pride in empowering those in the treatment field. Along with contributing to the recovery and sobriety of women in treatment, New Directions for Women prides itself in serving as a motivational and experiential place for those who eventually launch into a full time treatment career.

Jamie Holland is a perfect example of the potential that comes along with serving and working at New Directions for Women. Jamie Holland studied through her practicum and performed her internship with New Directions for Women. While with our treatment center she developed relationship, acquired skills, and nurtured passions that helped her to move into her current vocation. Jamie Holland now works at a local treatment center, Sure Haven. This relationships serves as another resource for New Directions for Women to use in the effort to create a safe sober families and a sober world.

This is a wonderful success story of how a female professional emerges out of New Direction for Women to return as a resources to the addiction treatment community through conference and fellowship. Stay updated with ATCPCC and New Directions for Women by browsing our Website and finding us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter under New Directions for Women (NDFW).

Thank you to Randy Haveson of HERO House for this lecture “How to get back into the College Setting”

Hi, everybody. I’m Randy Haveson. I’m the Founder and Executive Director of the HERO House, the higher education recovery option. We are a sober living program specifically for college students. We have locations in Atlanta, and we recently opened in Southern California. We have men and women’s programs in both locations.

First, I’d like to thank New Directions for Women for this opportunity to be here and speak to you today. The topic that I’ve chosen to talk about is how to transition back to college successfully once you’ve entered into recovery.

I watch a lot of people who go back to school after being sober for a little while, and they fail miserably. So I wanna give you some tips on how you can do it successfully so that when you do go back, it lowers the anxiety and helps build your confidence in order to be successful.

When I started the HERO House five years ago, one of the things that I found as I was interviewing treatment centers, a lot of them were saying, “We don’t like our residents or our clients to go back to college too soon. We find that they don’t do well.” It was amazing to me that these treatment centers were discouraging people from actually going back to college.

What I realized what was happening is people would go back to college, and they’d go with that mindset of, “I’ve missed so much time. I have to take 18 credits my first semester back,” or “I have to get right back into my major,” and they’d take organic chemistry and advanced calculus in their first semester and would fail miserably.

So, one of the things that we do at the HERO House is we help people to ease themselves back into a college setting. Recovery is Number 1, and it’s important to stick with the number of meetings you’ve been going to, calling your sponsor, working the steps, doing the things that you do, and adding college to that routine and slowly making that a part of your routine.

So, what we suggest at The HERO House, and what I suggest to anyone going back to school, is that in your first semester only take one or two classes and ease yourself back into it. Don’t worry about, “I’m gonna be behind another semester.” That’s not the important part. The important part is learning how to balance the recovery and the education.

So take two classes and my suggestion is take one fun class and one class that might be a little challenging for you. Maybe take a history class and creative writing, or take an anthropology class and a music appreciation class. Find something that’s gonna be fun for you to do so that when you sit down to study it’s not gonna be a chore. You’re actually looking forward to it.

Some other tips that I give to our residents is, number one, I know that everyone who’s been to college and hasn’t done well sits in the back of the room. That tends to be the place where most people hang out when they’re not really paying attention, when they’re not really doing the things that they need to do for themselves successfully academically.

What we tell our residents, sit in the first two rows of the classroom. That way you’re more engaged with the professor. We also tell ‘em don’t be a ghost in the classroom. Make sure your professor knows your name. The first day of class, go up to the professor, either before or after class, introduce yourself, shake their hand, and say, “Hi, my name’s Randy, and I’m really excited to be in your class. Thanks for being here,” or whatever it is that you wanna say that’s comfortable for you. Introduce yourself to your professor, and let them know who you are, and that’s gonna really help you later on.

That’s gonna be the difference. If the professor is debating, “Do I give the person an A or a B, or a B or a C,” you’re gonna get the higher grade if that person knows who you are and you have a connection with the professor. Make sure you talk to them. Make sure you go in for office hours. If there are any questions you have about the material that’s being presented, go and talk to the professor. They wanna know that you’re not just another Social Security number sitting in their classroom, that you’re someone who really cares about the subject matter. You are an actual student, so go in there and talk to your professor and find commonalities that you have, music or things that they talk about in class. Engage the professor.

They’re teachers because they enjoy teaching people, so let them know that you’re an eager student. You’re gonna be amazed at how much better you’re gonna be doing with your academics.

At The HERO House, by teaching these tricks and some of the other things that we do, our typical GPA any given semester is 3.2 to 3.5. And these are for students and residents who came to us. The joke I usually use with people when they get to us, for the most part our students, when they get to us, usually their BAC is higher than their GPA, but we like to help them to turn that around. We like to help them to learn that, yes, they can be successful in school.

A lot of people come to us with very low confidence, very low self-esteem when it comes to their academic performance. That’s why by easing them into it – we might pull ‘em from a four-year college and put ‘em at a two-year community college in their first semester just to kinda ease them back into it, like putting the training wheels back on the bike, so they learn their balance point and learn how to go back to school and be successful.

It’s amazing how many times we’ll get students who started out saying, “Well, maybe I’ll go into being a teacher. Maybe I’ll be an auto mechanic, or maybe I’ll be a –,” and they just choose these random things. Once they get into school – we just had a student in our program a little while ago. He said, “Yeah, maybe I’ll wanna go into psychology. I’m not really sure.” In his first semester with us, he pulled a 4.0 GPA. He came to me and said, “You know what I really wanna do, what my dream has been? I wanna go into pre-med.” It blew us away. It’s like, “Absolutely, let us help you do that and learn how to take those classes in order to be successful. If you wanna be a doctor, we’re gonna help you to do that.”

We have dozens of stories like that at The HERO House where we’ve taken people who have very low confidence. We help them to build those skills to be successful in their academics and successful in their recovery.

One of the things that I love talking about is our success rate at The HERO House. We recently did a study, and we found that of all the people who’ve graduated The HERO House program, 80 to 85 percent of ‘em are sober today. I love that fact. I love talking about these people who came in, and they’re just learning how to get sober, and they really wanna go back to school, but they’re not sure how to do it. We help them with that. A lot of what we do at The HERO House is based on self-esteem and self-confidence and helping to raise that and helping them feel like, “Wow, you know what? I can do this,” and to watch them shine.

At The HERO House, once you’re a HERO House graduate, you’re HERO House family forever. We’ve had people who have come back to us a year after they’ve graduated and sit down with our program directors and talk about, “Now, I wanna go into this. What do I need to do to make that happen? What grad school should I go to?” We help them throughout their educational process because we wanna be a support to them throughout their life and throughout their careers. Anything we can do to go out of our way to help them, we’re gonna do it.

Another unique thing about The HERO House is that our staff are not people only from the treatment field. Yes, we have people from treatment, but I also draw people from the higher education field as well. Our program director in Atlanta was the assistant dean of students on three college campuses before he came to us, so he brings that academic knowledge to our students in order to help them to be successful in that arena.

Here in California we just brought on a new program director. She was the assistant director of counseling and the director of leadership programs at a college back in Florida. We brought her to HERO House so that she could teach our students how to be student leaders, how to be successful in their academics as well as in their recovery

I believe that when someone’s in treatment, they need to have that recovery bubble, and they need to learn how to be comfortable in that new skin as a recovering person. But at The HERO House, we’re looking for those young men and women who are getting out of treatment saying, “You know what. I get it. I’m an addict. I wanna go to meetings. I wanna get sober, but I really wanna go back to school, but I’m not ready to live in an apartment on my own, and I don’t really wanna go back to a dorm. Where can I go in that in-between spot in order to be successful in both?” That’s what The HERO House does.

We don’t believe in putting our residents or our students in a recovery bubble. Some of our staff are in recovery. Some of ‘em aren’t. A lot of ‘em have higher ed training. Some of ‘em have a lot of recovery training. A lot of our recovery coaches were trained down by Synapse to be relapse prevention therapists.

We provide a lot of good balancing and a lot of life skills for our residents to teach ‘em how to be positive and productive members of society. I’m just thrilled with the work that we’re going. My staff is amazing, and our residents are doing really, really great. If there’s anyone out there who’s wanting to get back into school or wondering how to do that, you’re more than welcome to contact us.

If there’s anything I can do to help, I’m more than happy to do that. I have an hour-long program that I can do for treatment centers in sober livings on how to make that transition. I’m only given ten minutes here, so I’m hoping I’m giving you some snippets that might be helpful, but if you want something a little more extensive, I can help you out with that, too.

My email address is Randy@HEROHouse.com. Our website is www.HeroHouse.com. I like to keep it simple, and that one seems to be pretty simple.

If there’s anything we can do to be of service to help out, we’d love to answer any questions you might have. I believe that people can go back to school right out of treatment or right into a fresh recovery program if they’re given the right support system in order to make that happen. That’s what we’re providing. I wanna see a lot more people in recovery. Whether you’ve been sober for 60 days or six years, whether you are 18 years old or whether you’re 60 years old, if you wanna go back to school, I totally encourage people all the time to follow your heart. Go back to school. Get an education. Start slow, and you’re gonna be amazed at what you’re gonna be able to accomplish.

Thank you again for this opportunity. I truly appreciate being here, and I hope to hear from some of you. We’re done.

“I just wanted to take a second and tell everybody about this event ATCPCC – also known as the Santa Barbara Event – it’s the Addiction Treatment Centers and Professionals Consortium of California. It is a three-day beautiful event in Santa Barbara at the Fess Parker where treatment centers from all over are able to get together and share information, meet each other, get the opportunity to learn a little more about how we can best work together … because we can’t do this alone as we’ve all learned.  We need each other to help our patients get the best care possible and it’s a combined effort. A lot of these names are returning participants to the event and they’ve seen great success and benefit from coming together and sharing each other’s information and connecting those dots that can sometimes be thousands of miles away.” – Victoria Herbert, Admissions Leader for New Directions for Women

We’re very pleased to announce the winner of our Hotel Room giveaway at the beautiful Fess Parker Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara for the upcoming ATCPCC 2011 event.  The winner was picked from treatment centers and private practitioners that signed up by the deadline for Early Registration (February 1, 2011).  Congratulations to Newport Academy!

Registration for ATCPCC 2011 is open NOW. For more information on this terrific, business building event, please visit our ATCPCC 2011 page.

3 Days…50+ Treatment Centers, Private Practitioners, Interventionists…AND YOU

Announcing the Fifth Annual Addiction Treatment Centers & Professionals Consortium of California, July 25 – 27, 2011 at the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California.

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Why attend? Listen to what last year’s attendees say:

“I couldn’t believe how many resources we had until I came to this conference. I’m so glad I came here. I can’t wait till next year.”

Richard Watts
ABC Recovery Center

• Earn 18 CEUs at this single event (CAADAC and CA Board of Behavioral Services certified)
• Exclusive access to 60+ participating addiction treatment organizations over three days
• Form lifelong referral sources

This conference is an opportunity to exchange information with other treatment providers and professionals in an effort to create a seamless continuum of care to meet the needs of all patients. During the conference each facility, interventionist or therapist is provided a formal opportunity to present information about what distinguishes their services and programs and how to access their services. There are also numerous networking opportunities and a chance for some summer relaxation in beautiful Santa Barbara. Our hope is that everyone will leave this conference knowing where to turn when they are presented with a situation that is outside their area of expertise.

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“All I have to say is this is the best conference of the year. Ya gotta come.”

Kelley White
Coastal Mountain Youth Academy

Who Should Attend

Executive Directors, CEOs, Medical Directors, Private Practitioners, Administrators, Therapists, Admissions Personnel, Interventionists, Treatment and Discharge Planning Personnel. Marketing Representatives may attend if a Clinician is also in attendance.

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Space is Limited

Out of courtesy for all presenters it is mandatory that you attend the entire conference and do not leave early.

“It’s one of the best conferences that I have ever attended, and I really feel that I get bang for my buck.”

Rick Parish
Sober Escorts Inc

Please make your own hotel reservations.  Contact the hotel at 805.564.4333 and be sure to mention New Directions for Women ATCPCC Conference.

“New Directions has done an outstanding job to bring together the leaders in addiction treatment from around the country. We’ve heard from each other on new trends, new ideas, new ways of doing business, interventions, everything from the intervention process right through to aftercare. This is the place where leaders in the field need to be, and I’d encourage you to be here next year.”

Jim O’Brien
CEO, Maryville Addiction Treatment Centers

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More Comments from Attendees:

“ATCPCC is a great opportunity for professionals to talk about the work we’re doing. And it’s really a benchmark for the level of care that we’re offering, so I find it invaluable. ATCPCC is worth our time, and it’s an absolutely incredible site right on the ocean in Santa Barbara!”

La Rhea Steindler
Pat Moore Foundation, Harmony Heals of Laguna Woods

“I highly suggest you come to this conference. You get intimate space with treatment centers, the professionals that work there, and you really get to know each other from not just a professional space but kind of a personal space, and you have a better connection with each other.”

Alonso Dominguez
Executive Director, Echo Malibu Treatment Centers

“ATCPCC is a fantastic opportunity to network with your colleagues in the field and a bunch of people who passionately believe in recovery for all people and all circumstances. I recommend you be a part of this process and network with your peers and share all the gifts of your program and what you’ve been involved with it.”

Bev Roesch
Cirque Lodge

“It’s so great to get a bunch of treatment centers in a room just to hear all the ideas and experience…it’s just a great comparison. We get to see who’s great at what, and really they’re all great at what they do, but everyone specializes in something.”

Jen Sneider
A&E “Intervention” television series

“We’re a mood and thought disorder program based out of Orlando and Sevierville, Tennessee, and this is an opportunity for me to meet with a group of individuals, some I know, some I don’t know, and it was just a great chance to connect with a bunch of people and find out a lot about other programs, and I hope to be here next year. This was really wonderful. I want to thank everybody involved, and I’m very grateful to be here.”

Tom Maisel
Pasadena Villa

To Register

Register online through the link below or fax your registration to 949.574.8977. Make checks payable to New Directions for Women, 2607 Willo Lane, Costa Mesa, CA 92627.

Please contact Tania Bhattacharyya at 949.313.1192, ext 103 or tania@newdirectionsforwomen.org if you have any questions.

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Why attend New Directions for Women’s Addiction Treatment Centers and Professionals Consortium of California (ATCPCC)? Our attendees say it best! Check out some of their comments below.

Adrianna Castanellos | Pacific Coast Reocvery Center

I love this conference. I was one of the first people to put this conference on with Becky from New Directions for Women, and it’s just grown, and it is awesome here, and I’m coming back next year.

David Likens | ABC Recovery Center

I just want to tell you how much I enjoyed this conference. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to come out and to meet people in the industry and to make connections and to really learn what other people are doing, and I think I’ll come again next year.

Richard Watts | ABC Recovery Center

I couldn’t believe how many resources we had until I came to this conference. I didn’t realize how many people and how many people so dedicated to this stuff and how many resources I had at my fingertips. I’m so glad I came here. I can’t wait till next year. Thank you so much.

Stan Speck | Cottage Residential Center

I’m the manager at Cottage Residential Center in Santa Barbara, California. This is our third conference at the ATCPCC. It’s been a wonderful conference again this year. It’s a very valuable resource for us. We’re able to connect with providers all over the United States. It’s an awesome experience, and we love doing it, so we’ll be back next year. Thanks.

Ben Eiland | Alta Mira Recovery Centers

I just wanted to say I’ve had a great time at this conference. It’s been great to meet a lot of great people and smooze. Thank you very much.

Kelley White | Coastal Mountain Youth Academy

All I have to say is this is the best conference of the year. Ya gotta come!

Rick Parish | Sober Escorts Inc.

I’d like to thank Becky Flood and New Directions for this conference. I always enjoy myself here and make brand new friendships and referral sources. It’s one of the best conferences that I have ever attended, and I really feel that I get bang for my buck.

Ed Diehl | Seabrook House

I absolutely love being here out in Santa Barbara at this New Directions–sponsored conference. You meet great people that work pretty effectively, and it’s just a great deal. It’s my second year here. I’ll certainly be back next year, and thanks. Thanks for all being here.

Michelle McCormick

I’m a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in Newport Beach, California, but right now I’m standing in Santa Barbara in an awesome conference sponsored – for addiction and chemical-dependency-treatment professionals from around the nation, and because of Becky Flood from New Directions, who put this thing together, hosting it, now, there’s folks from the East Coast as well as the West Coast. It’s been a dynamic experience for me, getting to meet treatment professionals from intervention all the way through after-care, and talking about their programs and how we might work together and collaborate. Especially as a private practitioner, I don’t feel alone anymore ’cause I’ve been here and I’ve connected with people, and that’s what’s important. We’ve got a team ready to hit the road and go out there and make a difference in people’s lives in the area of addiction. So Becky Flood, thank you so much for the hosting as New Directions, and I’d love to thank the Life Adjustment team – I think that’s right – for sponsoring this awesome conference. And thank you for the ping-pong paddles, too. That was fun. Thanks.

Sam Usher | Addictions Consultants

I just wanted to thank New Directions one more time for the most amazing networking opportunity that I ever had the opportunity to go to. I’m an EAP, and so I have an opportunity to hear the finest and the best treatment programs present their services, and then, as an individual treatment provider, I also have the opportunity to talk to people about being a referral resource and after-care program. So it’s an ideal opportunity. I encourage anybody working in the community profession to come join us in Santa Barbara next year. It’s marvelous. Thank you.

Gina Tabrizy | Pat Moore Foundation & Harmony Heals

What I’m really excited about is I’m at the 2010 conference of the ATCPCC. It was put on by New Directions and Southworth Associates, an this year we have Life Adjustment teams supporting us. This is an amazing weekend. There is every kind of person in the field of treatment that you want to know, from the East Coast to the West Coast, every facility from the little man to the big one, there’s something available for everyone. As a private practitioner, I need all of those resources, and they made them available to us. What’s beautiful about this conference is that we each get an opportunity to stand up on a podium and give a five-minute spiel about our facility, our work, with a captive audience. Everyone has the opportunity to sit, and we’re all there to support each other. It’s a beautiful environment. It was done – it’s exceptional. The work that they put into putting this together, the organization. Thank you so much, Becky Flood and John Southworth. It was an amazing conference, and I’m coming back next year, and I’m representing both of my facilities. That’s what I’m gonna do. So thank you so much.

Jason Ross | Alternatives in Treatment 

I’m thrilled to get to go to the conference here out in Santa Barbara this year, and I pray they’re gonna let me come back next year so I can do more networking and be around some great people who are here.

Jim O’Brien | Maryville Addiction Treatment Centers.

We’re located in Southern New Jersey. But tonight I’m standing in Santa Barbara, California, in a beautiful setting, where I’m participating in the ATCPCC conference of executive leaders in the addiction-treatment field from around the country. This is a great conference. It’s put on by New Directions for Women, my long-time friend Becky Flood, from – who I knew back in New Jersey, is the executive director there. Her and her staff have done an outstanding job in a beautiful facility to bring together the leaders in addiction treatment from around the country. We’ve heard from each other on new trends, new ideas, new ways of doing business, interventions, everything from the intervention process right through to aftercare. This is the place where leaders in the field need to be, and I’d encourage you to be here next year at this beautiful facility in Santa Barbara for three days of incredible networking and information. Thank you.

Diahann Klein

I came to this conference actually kinda last minute, actually, and Santa Barbara, not a bad place to be, that’s for sure, but I did not know what I was in for. This is probably the most amazing conference I have attended to date. The relationship building runs way deeper because it’s a smaller, more intimate crowd, and you really, really get to hear about the programs from the people that either really built them or are right in the trenches on a daily basis, so it really comes from the heart, and I’ve learned a tremendous amount by being here.

Mike De Wees | EMarketed

I’m here at the ATCPCC, and I’m very proud to be here representing EMarketed thanks to Becky Flood and everybody at the New Directions for Women organization, Life Adjustment team for sponsoring. Great luau. We had a blast. We met so many great people and made some great contacts, and the education level just went up – skyrocketed through the roof, so I will definitely be back next year. I recommend anybody who is considering coming to come and join us. Santa Barbara was gorgeous this year, sunny and beautiful, and the activities were wonderful, so see you next year.

Brandi Eliot | Northwest Academy

I recommend anybody come to the conference. And thanks so much to John and Becky for being so accommodating and making it so great for all of us. This is my second year, and I will be back next year. See you there.

Nancy Belkap | Casa Serena

I’m the program director of Casa Serena, and I’m gonna do this again next year. Maybe I can host some people to come to my facility.

La Rhea Steindler | Pat Moore Foundation & Harmony Heals

I work as the program manager at the Pat Moore Foundation, and I’m also a therapist at Harmony Heals and Laguna Woods for Gina Tabrizy – and I just want to thank New Directions for Women for putting on this incredible conference. This is the second year I’ve attended, and it’s just great to get these treat – addiction treatment professionals from all over the country together. You know, you get an idea of what the new trends are and what’s happening. I find it is a great learning experience. It’s nice to know what other people are doing in other parts of the country, and it’s a great opportunity for us as professionals to talk about what we’re doing and the work we’re doing. And it’s really a benchmark for, you know, the level of care that we’re offering, and I find it invaluable, and I just want to thank you very much for having it. It’s worth our time, and it’s an absolutely incredible site right on the ocean in Santa Barbara. And I plan to be back again next year.

Josie Ramirez-Herndon | Villareal & Associates

I just wanted to thank you and Becky and Tania for putting together this conference in Santa Barbara. This is my second year here, and I absolutely love it, and I’m gonna keep coming and spreading the word. Thank you very much.

Alonso Dominguez | Echo Malibu Treatment Centers

I highly suggest you come to this conference. You get intimate space with treatment centers, the professionals that work there, and you really get to know each other from not just a professional space but kind of a personal space, and you have a better connection with each other, so sign up next year.

Bev Roesch | Cirque Lodge

I’m just finishing up the conference here provided by New Directions for Women. It’s a fantastic opportunity to network with your colleagues in the field and a bunch of people who passionately believe in recovery for all people and all circumstances, and I recommend that you come be a part of this process and network with your peers and share all the gifts of your program and what you’ve been involved with in this setting.

Patricia Meyers | Promises

I’m the clinical director of admissions at Promises, and I absolutely love this conference and will absolutely be back and would refer it to anybody who asks, and I love Ann.

Karen Kellejian | Echo Malibu

It’s my first time at the conference, and I just can’t say enough about the wonderful opportunity to meet our colleagues in our field, to connect with them on a very different level than the usual conferences. The quality of the interactions is tremendous, and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Jen Sneider | A&E Intervention

Came here for the 2010 ATCPCC conference, and it is fantastic. It’s so great to get a bunch of treatment centers in a room, and just get to hear everything from everybody really is just a great comparison – gets to see who’s great and what, and really they’re all great at what they do, but everyone specializes in something, so thanks so much, and I hope I’ll be back here next year!

Tom Maisel | Pasadena Villa

We’re a mood and thought disorder program based out of Orlando and Sevierville, Tennessee, and this is an opportunity for me to meet with a group of individuals, and some I know, some I don’t know, and it was just a great chance to connect with a bunch of people and find out a lot about other programs, and I hope to be here next year. This was really wonderful. I want to thank everybody involved, and I’m very grateful to be here.

Tammy Eurick | Alternatives in Treatment

This is my fourth year here at the Santa Barbara conference, and it’s the best conference, it’s my favorite, and I love Becky Flood, and she’s my mentor, and she’s the reason that I’m back in school, and I will go to this conference every year.

Ann Premazon | Premazon Business Consulting

I love this conference. I want to thank Becky Flood in New Directions. I want to thank John Southworth. I want to thank the Life Adjustment team. I learned so much, and I’m so grateful to be able to be here. This is my second year, and I will be back next year, and I encourage anybody to come. Again, thank you so very, very much for having me, and this conference is the best conference ever. Have a great day!

Aubrey Hutchings | Pasadena Villa

This is our first time here at the conference. It’s been fantastic. We mostly treat mood disorders and thought disorders, Asperger’s, with co-occurring, so with the substance abuse. It’s been fantastic to meet so many different people in the field. Everybody was extremely kind. We just had a great time getting to know different people, and what a wonderful just group of resources. Thank you.

In these challenging economic times, New Directions for Women realizes it is more important than ever to continue the fight against addiction. The loss of a job can often trigger a need to escape reality through alcohol and other drugs. The 4th Annual Addiction Treatment Centers & Professionals Consortium of California (ATCPCC), which occurred in Santa Barbara, California from July 28 – 30, 2010, was meant to create a forum in which addiction experts could share resources and knowledge at a time when it’s needed most. This event gave addiction experts from about 50 premier addiction treatment centers throughout the U.S. an opportunity to meet established practitioners, discuss trends in the industry, and to network and better serve clients through best practices with an emphasis on excellence. ATCPCC allowed those in the addiction treatment field to gather and discuss their trade in a forum that allows for networking, learning and improving the addiction treatment profession. Many pertinent and upcoming issues were discussed, and we believe everyone returned home with wonderful memories of summer relaxation, as well as many new relationships! New Directions for Women is strongly committed to the mission of treating chemically dependent women and is a proud host of ATCPCC. We thank the almost one hundred attendees who shared their time and talent with us, and look forward to releasing information about ATCPCC 2011 shortly.

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