Women's Alliance for Recovery Services

"New hope for a new life."

Education and Training

Women's Alliance for Recovery Services  firmly believes in the importance of information and education as a tool for recovery and for imparting better care.

To that end we provide on-going educational workshops and training to an audience comprised of recovering individuals and service providers in charge of their care.  They include a variety of topics, some of which are listed below:

  • The effects of alcohol and other drugs on pregnancy
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
  • Assertiveness in Recovery
  • Relapse Prevention
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Managing Anger
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Domestic Violence and the cycle of abuse
  • Dealing with co-dependency
  • Effects on children of incarcerated women
  • Chemical Dependency:  a family disease
  • Ethics in the Substance Abuse field
  • Recovery Management
  • Parenting issues
  • Cultural Competence/Diversity
  • Evidence-based approaches to addiction
  • Continuum of care