Gail Avent serves as the Executive Director and founder of Total Family Care Coalition, a family-run organization located in SE, Washington DC. Ms. Avent developed a grassroots peer-to-peer program and operates as a certified recovery peer support provider. Ms. Avent is the recipient of a Federal Statewide Family Network grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA). In her position, she is responsible for overall operations of her organization and she is also the Lead Family Contact, providing oversight of contracts and ensuring advocacy for families and youth through the implementation of the System of Care (SOC) for DBH. Ms. Avent partners with DBH to develop certified family and youth peer support worker trainings and serves as committee chair on DBH’s Peer Certification Committee. Ms. Avent knows about personal loss, and is the parent of four who has lost two. She lost one child to street …show more content…
Ms. Avent is passionate about her work. She has a son who struggles with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorder. This son was once committed to DYRS. Ms. Avent has held many positions over the years, ranging from being a metropolitan police officer, attorney and director of a workers compensation and safety program. She holds a Bachelor of Criminal Justice Degree from American University, Juris Doctorate Degree from Antioch School of Law and a Master’s in Business Administration from Strayer University. Gail is also a graduate of the Georgetown University Leadership Academy. Gail received an award of 2016 Women of Excellence in Ward 7. Finally, Ms. Avent is often called upon by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) as a subject matter expert to discuss topics such as Peer Support Workforce Development to being a presenter at the 2017 State Youth Treatment (SYT) Grantee Meeting presentation titled “Family Experience – Parent of a Youth
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book
The challenges that the social worker identified and the impact the abuse could have on Brandon include the trauma and abuse, illness and struggle may be injurious, but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity. Every environment is full of resources. Resources can provide great strengths. One of social workers’ major roles is to link clients with the resources they need to empower them to improve their lives (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman,
Gerda Weissmann Klein is a Holocaust survivor that was born in Bielsko, Holand. She went through the misery of knowing what pain and suffering is. When she was 15, the Germans took over Bielsko and that is when everything started happening. On April nineteenth of 1942, the Jews were asked to move to the ghetto. Then they were forced to work in work camps and Gerda and her parents got separated. Later she went to a concentration camp, a 5 month death march. Stating of what this teenager (now woman) went through, Gerda was very qualified to write this book, knowing what actually happened inside the camps.
Intervention options include trauma focused substance abuse treatment and parenting with children present. Barriers to this plan include financial issues, maslows hierarchy of needs, if she is unable to keep housing then she will not be able to address psychological well-being. May need a mezzo intervention to ensure. Macro intervention to affordability and transportation etc. Affordability of quality care and transportation/price to travel. Progress will be evaluated through her maintained sobriety, and tracking of skills through the parenting program as well as a parenting stress index, scl 90-r, and
A speaker representing the California Department of Health Care Services requested assistance in providing substance abuse prevention and treatment services. They explained how grave the present situation was, and how they were seeing improvements in the control of substances. The county is reducing the number of opioid related deaths as well as reducing the number of total prescriptions. Police officers were also said to be receiving training on how to handle the invasive and dangerous problems associated with substance users. Unanimous support was again received and the next request was discussed.
Christine’s current position requires a bachelor’s degree in a health related field, although she noted other counselors at her place of employment have master’s degrees. She is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) in the State of New Jersey. Certification involved verifying education and experience, completing an exam, and paying a fee. Christine is also a member of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC). Membership in this organizat...
A meeting with the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer will be scheduled to discuss the findings and at that time, a subsequent meeting with the rest of the administrative staff of directors scheduled. The complete written summary will be presented to all in attendance. A presentation will be given, questions posed by meeting attendees answered by the program evaluation staff and recommendations for outpatient substance abuse programming. Should it be requested, the program evaluation team may meet with the Ohel-Bais Ezra Board of Directors to present their findings (Greene, 1988). The Ohel-Bais Ezra administration may not request or desire this meeting, although it might be beneficial for the organization and funders as a whole. This would require an additional expense as this was not calculated into the previously submitted program evaluation
Strong Start research and demonstration project provided high fidelity wraparound services to mothers in early recovery from substance use as an intervention to increase protective factors in the mother that are identified as preventative of child maltreatment. The study evaluated the effectiveness of the program in accomplishing this. As well it intended to ensure routine development screening of the infants. Additionally, the study brokered collaboration between community services for coordinated and planned service provision while also integrating natural supports. National Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC-EC) funded this as one of four studies which sought to illuminated the effectiveness of prevention–promotion
In this summary the author Tanya Barrientos is explaining how hard it is be different. In the beginning of the summary Barrientos explained how people automatically assume that she is Latina. She grew up in an English-speaking world. Her parents are born and raised in Guatemala but she moved to the United States at the age of three. When her parents came to the United States of America they stopped speaking English immediately. Her parents wanted her to read, talk, and write only in English. She felt like she was the only one who needed to learn how to speak Latino, even though she looks like she can already. In the summary she went on saying that she was trying to fit in and become a regular person so other Latinas won’t judge her. All she
In the articles “Springing Forward” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Are Engineered Foods Evil?” by David H. Freedman, the main topic of discussion is about genetically modified foods. When reading the two articles there is are some similarities and differences between them. The two authors have different views on genetically modified foods.
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The alarming statistics of children that are living with an addicted parent within the United States today has become problematic and challenging to transform. According to Tower (2013) 12% of children that are eighteen or younger live with at least on parent that has an addiction to drugs or alcohol (p. 88). This is not a fixed statistic due to the fact that not all child welfare agencies keep statistical information on parents that abuse substances. Also, some drug treatment programs do not inquire on whether the substance abuser has children (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2009).
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