Reach over 5,000 Conference Attendees

Connect with over 5,000 addiction health care workers, employers, unions, EAPs, physicians and the general public over a month long Building Recovery Capital initiative across Canada in SIX cities as an EXHIBITOR and SPONSOR

Keynote speakers include

• Dr. Gabor Maté
• Johann Hari
• David Sheff, Author of Beautiful Boy
• Steven Page, Co Founder of the Bare Naked Ladies
• Plus discussions with Portugal and Iceland drug policy leaders
• Lived and Living Experience
• Continuing Education

Key workshops

• Building Recovery Capital in Healthcare
• Building Recovery Capital in the Workplace
• Building recovery Capital in Community

30 plus events in  SIX cities

• New Westminster
• Calgary
• Regina
• Winnipeg
• Toronto *contact Toronto committee
• Halifax

Value added options – Reach over 30,000

• We’re are collaborating with Recovery Day events across the country
• Call for more details

Please call 1-888-525-9771 to reserve your exhibitor booth and ask about our branding placement opportunities today. 

Our national marketing campaign and registration starts mid March 2019. 

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Recovery Capital Conference – Halifax, Nova Scotia

REGISTER FOR THE RECOVERY CAPITAL CONFERENCE – HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – September 24th 2019

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
1055 Marginal Rd, Halifax, NS B3H 4P7

OVERCOMING ADDICTION IN CANADA

Do you manage employees, work in healthcare?   Register Today.

Attend the Recovery Capital Conference and engage in dialogue sessions to assist in the development of a Recovery Capital Assessment Toolkit and learn about the upcoming New Recovery Capital Certification.

Receive the education that qualifies you for the NEW Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation Recovery Capital Associate (RCA) certification and learn about the Recovery Capital Professional Certification (RCP)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT RCA and RCP

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Join us for a national dialogue where delegates will be engaged across Canada to provide input regarding Building Recovery Capital in Canada, and offering suggestions for a Recovery Capital Tool Kit for Canadians, designed by Canadian Addiction Recovery Stakeholders like  you.

Our goal by 2022, every Canadian with a substance use disorder participates in a nationalized Recovery Capital Assessment to sustain recovery from addiction and find their own pathway to better health outcomes.

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Presented by

Last Door Recovery Society   |   Westminster House,

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction  |    Cedars at Cobble Hill

Orchard Recovery Centre        |   iRecover Addiction Treatment

Portage Atlantic   |   Ledgehill

Exhibitors

Narcotics Anonymous  |  Gilead  Sciences Inc  |

Who Should Register?

Physicians, Occupational Health Leaders, Human Resources Managers, Health Care Policy Makers, Therapists, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Interventionists, Residential Treatment Centre Management and Clinical Teams, Students, Union Leaders, Community Leaders, Disability Management Coordinators, Professional Regulatory Bodies, Insurance Carriers, Labour Relations Specialists, Employee Assistance Program providers, Labour Lawyers, Safety Committee Members, Union Representatives.

With expert speakers, continuing education units, and exhibitors .. this Canadian Conference will engage delegates in the collaborative practice of solution-focused care for people and their families, supported by paraprofessionals, peers, and mutual support systems.

This year’s conference also features the premiere of a Canadian documentary film on the Portuguese model.

Hotel – Please mention the Recovery Capital Conference to receive your conference rate at booking Westin Nova Scotian 

Conference Centre – Pier 21 Convention Centre

EDUCATION AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

BUILDING RECOVERY CAPITAL IN THE WORKPLACE WORKSHOPS

Dr. Paul Farnan and Dr Paul Sobey

Addressing and resolving substance use issues – challenges for the workplace.

Substance use disorders in the workplace are costly, difficult to identify early and can profoundly impact worker health as well as workplace safety and morale. Employees with substance use disorders generally present with complex medical and psychosocial needs. The issues that arise when trying to assist employees with substance use disorders can be challenging and require collaboration between key stakeholders.This session is designed to assist stakeholders in developing customized approaches to having the difficult conversations required, coordinating assessments, treatment and follow up with the goal of safe and durable return to work. Using didactic and interactive approaches the presenters will discuss the foundations of a recovery informed workplace and how structuring a cooperative substance use in the workplace policy can benefit from this approach.

BUILDING RECOVERY CAPITAL IN HEALTHCARE WORKSHOPS

Dr. Ray Baker and Jessica Cooksey

Recovery Oriented Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills for Addiction Clinicians

A training experience for specialized clinicians, community based volunteers, paraprofessionals and primary care health providers, introducing the attitudes, knowledge and skills most effective in helping persons with addictions and psychiatric disorders as they enter and progress along their individual journeys of recovery. Topics covered include definitions of recovery, description, discussion, measurement and application of recovery capital and the principles and practices included in an effective recovery oriented system of care.

Additional Ticket Option – Evening Session, Building Recovery Capital in Communities and Family.

David Sheff *EVENING SESSION ONLY*

An American author of the books Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy and Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction

Just Say Know: Helping Families and Communities Face the Drug-use and Addiction

In the past, people thought addiction was a choice made by people without will power or morals, who wanted to get high no matter how much they hurt their loved ones – or themselves. Suffers were shamed and blamed. We demanded of them confession and contrition.

But addiction isn’t a choice. It’s a progressive, chronic, and potentially fatal disease. People who are ill don’t need blame, chastisement, or punishment, but compassion, support, and the best medical treatment available.

Addiction doesn’t only affect the one who’s ill, but their family; every family with an addicted loved one knows the confusion, debilitation, and fear. Like their addicted loved one, they need support. They also need help navigating what can be the most harrowing challenge they’ll ever face.

The good news is that the addicted – and their families – can heal. No person or family can face addiction alone. To help our loved ones and families, communities must come together and work together. Our efforts must involve the efforts of parents, teachers and schools, social services agencies, providers of health care, businesses, faith-based groups, law enforcement, politicians, and others. When we face addiction together, we move out of darkness and suffering and into light, hope, and healing.

Moderation provided by:

Linda Lane Devlin of Interventions on Demand

September 7th 11 am. Anvil Centre Room Studio 413

Moderated by Jessica Cooksey

Learning Objectives

• Identify distinct recovery capital areas that can be enhanced and barriers to be addressed in individuals’ recovery processes
• Identify evidence-informed approaches that can engage with and support people in their goals recovery from complex mental health and substance use challenges and improved in quality of life
• Updated knowledge about the interventions that are most effective for promoting recovery among people with complex mental health and substance use challenges

Dr. Julian Somers SFU

Recovery Capital: When Wealth and Poverty Have the Same Price.

Updating knowledge about the interventions that are most effective for promoting recovery among people with complex addictions;

Promoting the use of “recovery capital” as a concept to differentiate effective and less effective interventions, even when they cost the same amount of money

Keir Macdonald Look Out Society

Recovery Capital through Harm Reduction

Identify evidence-informed approaches that can engage with and support people in their goals recovery from complex mental health and substance use challenges and improved in quality of life. Updated knowledge about the interventions that are most effective.

Susan Hogarth Westminster House for Women

Recovery Capital Through Residential Treatment

A community based women’s residential treatment program perspective on building Recovery Capital. Identify distinct recovery capital areas that can be enhanced and barriers to be addressed in individuals’ recovery processes

There is a growing recognition that there are many pathways of recovery. This presentation explores the barriers and facilitators to recovery capital. Using the concept of Recovery Capital – a biopsychosocial recovery presenters provide a lens to identify distinct areas that can be enhanced and barriers to be addressed in individuals’ recovery processes. Three distinct community services present person-centered approaches to strengthening recovery capital. Because recovery is a relatively understudied topic, this presentation highlights evidence-informed approaches that can engage with and support people in their goals recovery from complex mental health and substance use challenges and improved in quality of life.

Register Today – 30+ speakers, CEUs, networking opportunities 

Recovery Capital Conference of Canada

September 6th and 7th, 2018

PRESENTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

REFRESHMENT BREAK SPONSORS
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
Together We Can	John Volken Academy	Inner Visions Recovery
Sage Counselling and Addiction Services	Interior Chemical Dependancy	All Cleared Pardons	Narcotics Anonymous
Chopra Health Centre	Western Addiction Forum	Sunshine Coast Health Centre	New West Recovery

Register Today 

PRESENTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

REFRESHMENT BREAK SPONSORS
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
Together We Can	John Volken Academy	Inner Visions Recovery
Sage Counselling and Addiction Services	Interior Chemical Dependancy	All Cleared Pardons	Narcotics Anonymous
Chopra Health Centre	Western Addiction Forum	Sunshine Coast Health Centre	New West Recovery

Dr. Julian Somers

Date: September 7th 11 am to3:30 pm

Community Focus  – Studio 413

Abstract:

Many people receive addiction treatment only when their lives have become complicated by other challenges, including involvement with the law, loss of housing and employment, or mental illness. This talk examines research on the life trajectories of people who experience complex addictions. It also reviews evidence concerning interventions, and considers how the concept of recovery capital can explain why some interventions are more effective than others.

Over the past 10 years a series of studies in British Columbia have involved people experiencing complex addictions. This research has used a variety of methods: economic analyses; cohort studies; randomized controlled trials; qualitative interviews; and comparative outcome studies. Many of these studies have focused on integrated multi-agency interventions.

Taken together, the results show that people develop complex challenges over time and frequently seek help for their health and social problems. The results also show that mainstream resources in most communities have limited effectiveness for people with complex addictions, leading to greater problems in other domains and relocation to new places.

A variety of specialized programs have been developed for people with complex addictions including Drug Treatment Court, Housing First, Assertive Community Treatment, and Intensive Case Management. Evidence confirms that these programs can deliver better outcomes than the status quo on a wider range of outcomes: housing stability; crime reduction; community integration; improved health; etc. But the results also show that it’s possible to spend equivalent amounts of money of programs that yield significantly different results.

Differences between similarly-funded interventions can be explained by considering their effects on recovery capital: court outcomes are better when they provide health and social services; housing outcomes are better when people live in diverse neighbourhoods versus exclusively with others who were homeless; health outcomes are better when people have the authority to make decisions. There is an urgent need to replace ineffective services with effective ones, and to move the point of interventions upstream. This talk concludes with a focus on opportunities to achieve both objectives.

Learning Objectives:

• Increasing knowledge regarding the relationship between addiction and additional serious life challenges including conflict with the law, employment loss, and homelessness;
• Updating knowledge about the interventions that are most effective for promoting recovery among people with complex addictions;
• Promoting the use of “recovery capital” as a concept to differentiate effective and less effective interventions, even when they cost the same amount of money.

References:

Rezansoff SN, Moniruzzaman A, Fazel, S, Skeem J, McCandless L, Somers JM (2017). Housing First improves adherence to antipsychotic medication among formerly homeless adults with severe mental illness: results of a randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 43(4): 852-861. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbw136

Somers JM, Moniruzzaman A, Palepu A. (2015). Changes in substance use among people experiencing homelessness and mental illness: 24-month outcomes following randomization to Housing First or Usual Care. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.13011.

Somers JM, Moniruzzaman A, Rezansoff SN, Brink J, Russolillo A. (2015). The prevalence and distribution of complex co-occurring disorders: a population study. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. DOI: 10.1017/S2045796015000347.

Bio:

Dr. Julian Somers completed his clinical training at the University of Washington, Seattle’s Harbourview Hospital, and British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital. He was Director of the UBC Psychology Clinic and President of the BC Psychological Association.

Dr. Somers has led Provincial and multi-jurisdictional programs addressing public health crises involving addiction, physical and mental health, social welfare, public safety, and housing. He began his academic career in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and is currently Full Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

The Somers Research Group is internationally recognized for public health initiatives with governmental, private, and not-for-profit collaborators. Dr. Somers has led large-scale applied randomized trials, multi-site interventions, and population-level studies described in over 100 publications. He has also created advanced information systems for public health surveillance and to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and services.

Members of the Somers Research Group have garnered numerous awards and distinctions for research in the public interest. Dr. Somers serves as an advisor to senior officials in government and corporate roles and is a frequent media contributor.

Recovery Capital Conference of Canada
September 6th and 7th, 2018

PRESENTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

REFRESHMENT BREAK SPONSORS
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
Together We Can	John Volken Academy	Inner Visions Recovery
Sage Counselling and Addiction Services	Interior Chemical Dependancy	All Cleared Pardons	Narcotics Anonymous
Chopra Health Centre	Western Addiction Forum	Sunshine Coast Health Centre	New West Recovery

Beyond Cannabis Legalization: Refocusing on Communities and Public Health
Andrew Freedman, Colorado’s First Director of Marijuana

September 14th 1:30-3:00 pm Round Room

Abstract: Over the past decades, North America has been torn apart by diametrically opposed and deeply held beliefs about cannabis. To some it inspires love, medicates the sick, and promotes wellbeing. To others it is a limitless font of crime, addiction, and social unrest. Through the last half of the 20th century we witnessed two Beatles’ arrests for possession of hashish, an Olympian stripped of his Gold medal, and a grisly Mexican drug war. Voters became tired of the War on Drugs, and the new millennium brought a wave of populist-led legalization efforts.
Evaluating the success of these legalization efforts has been almost as divisive as legalization itself, with some claiming that the sky has fallen and others claiming only upside. Freedman understands something that few else can. The cannabis legalization experiment cannot be easily shoehorned into a simple narrative. He knows that its short-term successes and shortcomings do not definitively answer the “Should we legalize?” question. He knows that we can’t yet conclude whether legalization will be good or bad for society. Informed by his unique experience, Freedman’s conclusions are much richer than the doom-and-gloom pronouncements of prohibitionists or the panaceas presented by proponents. How you legalize matters. Getting legalization right matters. Alone among policy experts, Freedman is able to offer a nuanced evaluation of the history-making experiment – and how it will profoundly impact the world for generations to come.
Join Freedman as he provides a tempered view of what we currently know about the effects of legalization. Freedman will then lead a dialog about how best to engage your community on this divisive topic going forward.

References:

1. Lessons and approaches to engaging the community.

2. An agenda-free look at current data and how best to collect data going forward.

3. Preparing the public health community to engage in the future policies of legalization.

Learning Objectives: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1500043; https://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/ors/docs/reports/2016-SB13-283-Rpt.pdf; https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303848; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/add.13886

Bio:

Andrew Freedman is Co-founder and Senior Director of Freedman & Koski, Inc. Andrew’s first-in-the-nation consulting firm works with government, research institutions, communities and private businesses to get cannabis legalization right. Andrew brings vast experience from his three years as the State of Colorado’s first Director of Marijuana Coordination. During this time, he developed distinctive experience effectively implementing voter-mandated legalized recreational and medical marijuana while protecting public health, maintaining public safety, and keeping marijuana out of the hands of children.

Dr. William R. Miller

September 7th 3:15 pm Main Ballroom Anvil Centre

Abstract:

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centered counseling method to strengthen autonomous motivation for change and mobilize internal resources.

A large outcome literature indicates that MI often sparks a turning point in addiction careers. It has been a key element in screening and brief intervention, and appears to be of differential benefit with people from historically disempowered groups. Dr. Miller, the original developer of MI, will describe key components of MI and consider possible applications to build recovery capital including:

(1) outreach with “low motivation” clients,

(2) ongoing recovery check-ups,

(3) individualizing recovery plans,

(4) peer communication styles in mutual-help groups,

(5) sampling of recovery-relevant resources and activities,

(6) mobilizing family and social capital,

(7) exploring values and meaning in recovery. He will also address the importance of one’s underlying mindset and “heartset” in helping relationships

Learning Objectives:

1. Differentiate the four component processes of motivational interviewing.
2. Describe the client behaviors of “change talk” and “sustain talk” and give examples of each.
3. Identify at least three different ways in which motivational interviewing can be used in building recovery capital.

References:

DiClemente, C. C., Corno, C. M., Graydon, M. M., Wiprovnick, A. E., & Knoblach, D. J. (2017). Motivational interviewing, enhancement, and brief interventions over the last decade: A review of reviews of efficacy and effectiveness. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31(8), 862-887.
Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
Miller, W. R., & Moyers, T. B. (2017). Motivational interviewing and the clinical science of Carl Rogers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(8), 757-766.
Moyers, T. B., Martin, T., Houck, J. M., Christopher, P. J., & Tonigan, J. S. (2009). From in-session behaviors to drinking outcomes: A causal chain for motivational interviewing. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(6), 1113-1124.
Moyers, T. B., & Miller, W. R. (2013). Is low therapist empathy toxic? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27(3), 878-884.

Bio:

Dr. William R. Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico where he served as Director of Clinical Training for the doctoral program in clinical psychology and as Co-Director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA). Dr. Millers publications include over 50 books and 400 articles and chapters. Fundamentally interested in the psychology of change, he has focused in particular on the development, testing, and dissemination of behavioral treatments for addictions. With more than 40 years of experience in addiction research and treatment, he has served as principal investigator for numerous research grants and contracts, founded a private practice group, directed a large public treatment program, and served as a consultant to many organizations including the United States Senate, the World Health Organization, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health. In recognition of his research contributions, Dr. Miller is a recipient of the international Jellinek Memorial Award, two career achievement awards from the American Psychological Association, and an Innovators in Combating Substance Abuse award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He maintains an active interest in the interface of spirituality and psychology. His books have been translated into 23 languages, and the Institute for Scientific Information has listed him as one of the world=s most cited scientists.

Recovery Capital Conference of Canada
September 6th and 7th, 2018

PRESENTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

REFRESHMENT BREAK SPONSORS
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
Together We Can	John Volken Academy	Inner Visions Recovery
Sage Counselling and Addiction Services	Interior Chemical Dependancy	All Cleared Pardons	Narcotics Anonymous
Chopra Health Centre	Western Addiction Forum	Sunshine Coast Health Centre	New West Recovery