- Morning Workshop
April 9, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
By Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, ACSW, TEP. More details to come.
- Day 1
March 28, 2019
8:00 am - 4:00 pm - Day 2
March 29, 2019
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
The 26th Annual Conference will enable participants to promote better outcomes for women and children exposed to High Risk Pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, Substance Use Disorder, Co-Occurring Disorders, incarceration, Opioid Use Disorder, other emerging drug trends and healthcare related issues.
- Morning Workshop
February 12, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This training begins with a review of biological differences between men and women as well as how societal expectations and norms impact male development. The training will then move into a clinical focus on gender specific addiction treatment barriers and common treatment themes.
- Evening Event
January 24, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us for a stacked panel event where students, families, employers and professionals can ask any questions about substance abuse and treatment with our credentialed staff.
- Morning Workshop
January 8, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This training by Maricelle Sheldon, MBA, CADC, CPG is for clinicians, educators, and other professionals who have contact with family members who need support with their substance-using loved ones.
Strength comes in numbers. That’s the concept behind Lancaster County Joining Forces, a collection of organizations and individuals working to save lives and help neighbors who are struggling with addiction. This fall, as part of the fight against the opioid crisis, Joining Forces coordinated efforts among several organizations and coalitions to host a three-part educational…
People struggling with substance abuse were once, and sometimes still are, judged harshly. Today, we know addiction is a disease, just as cancer, diabetes and other common ailments are. The National Institute of Drug Abuse, respected institutions like the American Medical Association and studies published in notable publications all define addiction as a disease. According…
“Fentanyl overdose survivors require little if any hospital treatment.” Study that sentence carefully. It’s the headline of an article describing results of a recently published Canadian study. Further on, the article states, “75 per cent of the fentanyl overdose patients were classified as “low-risk” upon arrival.” Compass Mark recognizes addiction as a medial disease; as…
The brain disease of addiction was described way back in the 1700’s by Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Philadelphia. It was declared a disease by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1965. Modern brain research gets better all of the time, and has identified how four parts of the…
Working in the helping professions isn’t easy. Doing so during an addiction epidemic is harder still. If hope doesn’t prevail, we cannot continue. Interventions for addiction fall along a continuum- from health promotion and prevention to treatment and finally, long-term support for recovery. We’d like to share hope today, and we find it at every…