Membership Status Membership Expiration Date: Not a Member If you are not a current member, Join Now! Membership Benefits Table of Contents - Today Is World No Tobacco Day 2017 - Final Day for Awards Nominations! - Last Chance to Apply for Annual Conference Scholarships - May Product Discount – Last Day! - Upcoming Webinar - Self-Care for Addiction Professionals: Why It Counts and How to Do It - Alaska Training Institute: Call for Presentations - Call to Action: Support Mental Health Bill - 2017 Call for Poster Presentations - NAADAC Career Center Events NAADAC WEBINAR SERIES Upcoming Webinars On Demand Webinars FAQS - Self-Care for Addiction Professionals: Why It Counts and How to Do It Wed, 06/14/2017 3-4:30pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1.5 CEs More Information Register Now! - The Dynamics of Motivation: There's No Place Like Home Wed, 06/28/2017 3-4:00pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1 CE More Information Register Now! - Treating Eating Disorders as Substance Use Disorders? Wed, 07/12/2017 3-4:30pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1.5 CEs More Information Register Now! - NOW What’re We Supposed to Do? Evidence-Based Practices for Medication-Assisted Treatment Wed, 07/26/2017 3-5:00pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 2 CEs More Information Register Now! - Value Based Reimbursement: Huge Opportunities for Treatment Programs Wed, 08/09/2017 3-4:30pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1.5 CEs More Information Register Now! NAADAC EVENTS - NAADAC in HAWAII  Honolulu, HI  05/31/17-06/01/17 More Information Register Now! - Alaska Training Institute  Anchorage, AK  08/16/17-08/18/17 More Information - 2017 Annual Conference: Elevate Your Practice  Denver, CO  09/22/17-09/26/17 More Information Register Now! PARTNER EVENTS AFFILIATE EVENTS Promote Your Job Listing with NAADAC Need to fill a position in your agency or educational program? NAADAC's Career Center is the place to go. Your career ads will reach NAADAC members and a professional mailing list of 48,000+ professionals each week for three months. That is almost a third of the 95,000 addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals that the Department of Labor estimates work in the United States. Each career ad runs until its closing date or for three months. More Information Update Your NAADAC Profile Log into NAADAC to verify your contact information and preferences. Make sure you are taking advantage of everything NAADAC has to offer its members! Update Profile Post Your Event on NAADAC's Calendar NAADAC’s Calendar of Events is a marketing tool for the promotion of NAADAC, affiliate, and partner events and webinars. Posting events on the calendar is free and easy to do – just click “submit an event” and fill out the event submission form. Adding your event to the NAADAC calendar has many benefits: - Listed on NAADAC's main calendar - Searchable by State, Webinars, or National events - Listed on State's Affiliate webpage - Upload event logos and links - Automatically listed on NAADAC.org's front page Post Your Event Today May 31, 2017 Today Is World No Tobacco Day 2017 Tobacco use kills more than 7 million people every year and costs households and governments over $1.4 trillion through healthcare expenditure and lost productivity.On World No Tobacco Day 2017, the World Health Organization is highlighting how tobacco threatens the development of nations worldwide, and is calling on governments to implement strong tobacco control measures. These include banning marketing and advertising of tobacco, promoting plain packaging of tobacco products, raising excise taxes, and making indoor public places and workplaces smoke-free. [ More Information ]  Final Day for Awards Nominations! Last chance to nominate an individual or organization for one of six national 2017 NAADAC Awards! Celebrate and honor an individual or organization that has achieved excellence in the substance use disorders field. Awards will be presented at the 2017 NAADAC Annual Conference. Awards include: Addiction Educator of the Year Lifetime Honorary Membership Award Lora Roe Memorial Addiction Counselor of the Year Medical Professional of the Year Mel Schulstad Professional of the Year Organizational Achievement Award William F. "Bill" Callahan Award Deadline: May 31, 2017 [ More Information ] Last Chance to Apply for Annual Conference Scholarships Thanks to the generous support of our partners, NAADAC is able to provide a limited number of scholarships to cover full or partial registration fees for its 2017 Annual Conference in Denver, CO from September 22-26th. All scholarship awardees are expected to pay for all other fees, travel, and lodging expenses. Scholarship awardees will be notified by July 15, 2017. Deadline: June 1, 2017 [ More Information ] - [ Download 2017 Scholarship Application ] Last Day - Up to 50 % Off NAADAC's Employee Assistance Professional's Guide to SBIRT The EAP and Behavioral Health Professional’s Guide to Screening, Brief Intervention and Treatment is a 200+ skill-based training manual on SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment). This Learner's Guide brings together the tools that employee assistance professionals (EAPs) and other helping professionals need to screen clients for unhealthy drinking, deliver effective brief counseling, refer and co-manage with addiction specialists for EAP clients with serious problems and provide successful case management & follow-up The program has many links to brief, 2 to 4 minute web training videos that show both appropriate and inappropriate SBIRT techniques. Supplementary materials such as questionnaires, practice scripts, clinical tools, research articles, and links to additional training resources are provided [ More Information ] - [ Buy Now ] Upcoming Webinar - Self-Care for Addiction Professionals: Why It Counts and How to Do It Wed, June 14, 2017 @ 3:00- 4:30pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Working as an addiction professional can be challenging and rewarding. For many, burnout is replacing a feeling of satisfaction. Self-care helps you respond to and prevent burnout. It also enables you to carry out your professional responsibility, which is to do well for your clients. Modeling good self-care is good for you and everyone else, including clients. The principles of self-care are the same as for recovery, as exemplified by recovery-oriented systems of care. These principles promote a person-centered, strengths-based approach that helps people marshal the individual, social, and environmental factors that support their well-being.This webinar gives you skills to make lasting change so you can be well to do well. Earn 1.5 CEs (free for NAADAC members - join now!). [ More Information ] - [ Register Now ] 2017 Annual Alaska Training Institute: Call for Presentations We cordially invite you to submit a proposal to present at the 2017 Annual Alaska Training Institute: Times of Change. The 2017 Annual Alaska Training Institute will be held in Anchorage, Alaska at the Anchorage Marriott Downtown from October 16 - 18, 2017.Deadline for Submissions: June 15, 2017 Learn more on eligibility requirements, presentation topics, benefits and selection criteria.  The 2017 Annual Alaska Training Institute Prospectus is now available! [ Apply Now ] - [ Download Prospectus ] Call to Action: Support Mental Health Bill NAADAC supports funding to implement the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Reform Act of 2016 and fulfill the vision laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act by allocating sufficient resources to implement the law.Specifically, the law expands efforts to integrate physical and mental health, strengthens enforcement and transparency of mental health parity, increases the mental health workforce, and updates a number of existing programs at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, such as the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant and grants on jail diversion, homelessness and suicide prevention. Make your voices heard! Please contact your legislators and urge them to support this important bill. [ More Information ] - [ Take Action ] 2017 Call for Poster Presentations NAADAC members and non-members are invited to submit poster presentation proposals for display at the 2017 Annual Conference. NAADAC encourages young investigators, researchers, and addiction professionals from diverse organizations and fields to submit. The 2017 Annual Conference will be held at the Denver Marriott Tech Center from September 22-26, 2017. Posters will be on display throughout the regular conference session days of September 23-25, with presentations taking place on September 24th.Submission Deadline: Sunday, July 16, 2017 [ More Information ] - [ Apply Now ]  NAADAC Career Center The NAADAC Career Center provides a variety of employment listings at no charge for addiction-focused professionals. If you are looking to find a new career, the NAADAC Career Center can help! Check out our latest listings! Clinical Director at Crysalis House in Crownsville, MD Behavioral Counselors at Spectrum Health Systems in Greenville, VA Clinical Settings Addiction Counselor at So Others Might Eat (SOME) in Washington, DC Behavioral Health Specialist at Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Scottsdale, AZ Technical Experts Leads - Opioid Addiction at JBS International in North Bethesda, MD Manager Operations RedBlock (ORB) at Amtrak in Philadelphia, PA Intake Manager at Universal Healthcare Services, Addiction Division in Bonneville, WA Clinical Director at Universal Healthcare Services, Addiction Division in Bonneville, WA Program Director CCBHC at Lifeworks NW, in Portland, OR Certified Addiction Counselor at Mountainside Treatment Center, in Caanan, CT Substance Abuse Counselors - Entry & Junior Level, in Soledad, CA Director of Broward Addiction Recovery Center in Broward County, FL [ All Career Center Listings ]