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This is the 38th year of the Women's Recovery Conference, where gender-responsive care, focusing on the needs of women in recovery and their families, is exclusively presented. The 2024 Women's Recovery Conference offers up to 15.5 credit hours with a variety of credit options.
The entire conference is designed to provide tools that help heal and empower women in recovery, foster stress resilience in a time of unprecedented change, promote collaboration, build trust, and maintain clinical excellence. In the ever-changing environment of caregiving, this is key information all providers must know to overcome current challenges, improve client outcomes, and to promote overall women's health through sustained recovery. Fresh, gender-responsive approaches are taken on mandatory topics such as supervision, ethics, HIV, STIs, and bloodborne pathogens. The conference also offers a choice of innovative care modalities that frontline providers may implement to motivate and empower women, while optimizing balance on the inevitably precarious path of recovery. Information is offered on rewiring the female brain for recovery, medications for opioid use disorder, strategies for harm reduction, and reduction of unintentional self-sabotage. This conference emphasizes culturally-appropriate care, the fostering of strong communities, and the enhancement of physiological, perinatal, and maternal support for women in recovery.
Attendance Options:
One-day, two-day, and three-day options are available, with options for "Wednesday Preconference Only" registration, "Thursday Only" registration, or "Friday Only" registration. The event is designed with both In-Person and Live Webinar coverage and direct online access to presenters, allowing for the provision of mental health credits which are classified the same as "live." The live webinar format also serves to assist practitioners who are unable to get away from their practice and who need to receive vital North Carolina updates to inform care.
Please note that all session times listed below are in Eastern Standard.
Vital information for all providers working with women who are impacted by the opioid crisis is embedded within the entire three-day event.
A NOTE ON CREDITS
The 2024 Women's Recovery Conference offers up to 15.5 credit hours. *Please note that sessions will not be recorded, and live attendance (either by In-Person or Live Webinar option) is required to obtain credit. Ethical Obligations in a World of Change at the morning Preconference on Wednesday offers 3.00 hours of Ethics training if selected. For detailed information about NCASPPB credits, please click here.
Mental health and substance abuse professionals, including substance abuse counselors, psychologists, social workers, licensed clinical mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, peer support specialists, school counselors, and other professionals interested in these topics.
At the 2024 conference, session content supports the following overarching conference goals:
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Provide concrete information, therapeutic insights, and treatment skills which may be applied to process substance use, behavioral addictions, and dependence on other substances |
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Prepare providers with effective, evidence-based behavioral interventions to help women enter recovery, prevent return to use, sustain optimal health in long-term recovery, in benefit of women as well as their families |
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Update providers on current North Carolina policies and laws impacting women in recovery and their families |
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Inform providers of current legislation surrounding reporting on and care of pregnant women |
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Present information on prevention and support relative to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders |
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Describe at least three effective evidence-based strategies which meet the gender-responsive needs of women with substance use disorders based on SAMHSA recommendations / research |
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List at least three strategies for preventing self-sabotage in early recovery |
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List at least three time-tested strategies that promote healthy adaptation and maintain balance amid constant change, particularly effective for women in recovery |
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Provide current information on gender-responsive ethics, infectious disease prevention, provider supervision, and optimization of spiritual, physical, and emotional health in recovery |
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Introduce skills to provide and ensure continuous, ethical care for women in recovery, within current workforce limitations |
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Discuss strategies for closing major gaps in the current United States (US) care delivery system regarding treatment access for pregnant and parenting women and marginalized groups |
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Detail ways in which systems can be trauma-informed and culturally-sensitive |
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List at least three evidence-based modalities of care that foster social, psychological, and physiological well-being in women's recovery while reducing risk of return to use |
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Provide current research on women and effective medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) |
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Describe treatment approaches which foster resilience, build trust, and increase commitment to individualized therapeutic goals of women in recovery, while optimizing health outcomes |
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Introduce a "Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams Model" tested by Buncombe County, NC, that may be expanded for use in other geographical areas to improve outcomes for families |
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Demonstrate a commitment to honor diversity, celebrate individuality, promote authenticity, and foster genuine collaboration |
TEST FEE - Registration Team Only
FREEEarly Registration Fee Entire Conference - PRECONFERENCE (Wednesday) + MAIN CONFERENCE (Thursday & Friday)
$370.00Early Registration Fee Entire Conference - PRECONFERENCE (Wednesday) + MAIN CONFERENCE (Thursday & Friday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees (*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status) $260.00Registration Fee Entire Conference - PRECONFERENCE (Wednesday) + MAIN CONFERENCE (Thursday & Friday)
$385.00Registration Fee Entire Conference - PRECONFERENCE (Wednesday) + MAIN CONFERENCE (Thursday & Friday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees (*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status) $275.00 Early Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE ONLY
(Thursday & Friday)
Early Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE ONLY
(Thursday & Friday)
Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE ONLY
(Thursday & Friday)
Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE ONLY
(Thursday & Friday)
Early Registration Fee - PRECONFERENCE only (Wednesday)
$150.00Early Registration Fee - PRECONFERENCE only (Wednesday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees
(*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status)
Registration Fee - PRECONFERENCE only (Wednesday)
$165.00Registration Fee - PRECONFERENCE only (Wednesday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees
(*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status)
Early Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Thursday)
$150.00Early Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Thursday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees
(*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status)
Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Thursday)
$165.00Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Thursday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees
(*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status)
Early Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Friday)
$150.00Early Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Friday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees
(*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status)
Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Friday)
$165.00Registration Fee - MAIN CONFERENCE only (Friday)
for students, peer support specialists and MAHEC employees
(*Must provide proof of enrollment or peer support status)
MAHEC has a pay-up-front policy for all CE programs. The only exceptions will be for pre-approved programs where an individual payment plan is appropriate. Registrations received without accompanying payment will not be processed and participants who have not paid the course fee will not be admitted into the program.
Unless otherwise noted in course materials, the following cancellation policy applies to all programs: