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The Mind of a Successful CEO

Becky Flood CEO and Executive Director of New Directions for Women We asked Becky Flood, CEO and Executive Director for New Directions for Women, to give us a general reflection on her experience and employment in the treatment field. We asked her to give us honest reflection about why she works so hard and continues [...]

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Employee Appreciation: Peer Recognition

New Directions for Women is striving to improve the level of care we can offer to women, children and their families. We recognize how important this task is. We recognize that the life changing work of treatment and recovery is worth investing time and resources to ensure the best product. We know that none of [...]

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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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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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Farewell but Not Goodbye – Geity

For the past 3 years New Directions for Women has celebrated the presence of an excellent and hard working individual. The year 2008 marked the date when Geity Parmach entered the doors of New Directions with the goal of managing billing records. This is one of the many important tasks that occur in the administrative [...]

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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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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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NDFW Open House 2011

New Directions for Women hosted our Annual Open House on August 24th, 2011. The sun gently graced our beautiful 3-acre facility permitting comfortable breezes from the Newport Back Bay Nature Preserve, as we welcomed more than 160 people to this year’s event. What a wonderful opportunity it was to share our campus with neighbors, community [...]

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