Assessing Recovery Capital For Addictions Professionals
3 hours • Accredited • Targeted for Peers, CPRAs, CARCs, CASACs, LMSWs, LCSWs
This training is designed to support the assessment of a client’s recovery and negative recovery capital. Professionals will learn about the six measures of recovery capital (RC), how to assess negative recovery capital (NRC), and how to use the responses from the Mixed-Method Recovery Capital Assessment Tool (MRCAT) to create a personalized recovery plan. The MRCAT is an easy-to-use, five-minute, brief questionnaire that takes the guesswork out of recovery planning. It is client-centric and utilizes a simple rating scale to ascertain where the client’s RC is strongest, and which recovery measures need additional support. The MRCAT should be utilized as an on-going tool, and revisited, to support and revise self-defined recovery goals. Results from the MRCAT can be easily copied and pasted into case notes to reduce workflow redundancy and increase billable hours.
Lesson 1 — Understanding the recovery capital framework
Lesson 2 — Learning how to use the MRCAT
In person — Contact for rates
Virtual — $150 per person
Understanding the intersection of Race, Poverty, Geography and Addiction on Recovery
4 hours • Accredited • Targeted for Peers, CPRAs, CARCs, CASACs, LMSWs, LCSWs
Health equity research suggested that a consistent relationship between race, poverty and geography, as well as substance use disorders and their related mortality rates, explained the disparity (NYC Health, 2021). These relationships were referred to as structural racism. Structural racism in New York City was one of the greatest contributing factors to racial, economic, health and community-based disparities impacting BIPOC communities.
This seminar uses data from a phenomenological study to understand how race, poverty and geography intersected with justice involvement and addiction in the lives of Blacks in Harlem. Listen to the lived experiences and perceptions of structural racism and its impact on their ability to gain recovery and negative recovery capital. Negative recovery capital referred to relapse (human), engagement with norms of substance use (cultural), isolation (social), homelessness and incarceration (physical) (Laudet & White, 2008).
Sit back, listen, and learn how the attainment of negative RC, in the form of mass incarceration appeared to most frequently intersect with race, poverty, geography and drug enforcement policies for Blacks; and what we can do to disrupt structural racism by developing racial justice initiatives in healthcare.
Lesson 1 — Overview and background
Lesson 2 — Understanding the problem
Lesson 3 — Solutions and strategies to engage