Dawn Farm Education Series - free information on addiction and recovery

The Dawn Farm Education Series is a FREE annual series providing helpful, hopeful, practical information about substance use disorders, recovery, family concerns and related issues. The Education Series is designed to reduce the misinformation, secrecy, shame and stigma that prevent people with addiction and their families from getting help and getting well, and to help create a community culture that supports recovery. Programs are designed to have broad appeal and to be inclusive of anyone with a personal or professional interest.

The 2016 - 2017 series will start September 20, 2016, and will include new programs and presenters as well as updates to previous favorites! Here are a few highlights:

• Dawn Farm is excited to collaborate with the University of Michigan Collegiate Recovery Program/ Students for Recovery/ Wolverine Wellness to present programs by eminent researcher Dr. George E. Vaillant, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (here and here;) and by nationally-known lecturer, creative filmmaker, and innovative program designer Dr. Kevin McCauley, MD (here and here.)
• Best-selling authors Jeff and Debra Jay, who literally "wrote the books" on the processes of intervention and Structured Family Recovery™, will present Intervention to Durable Recovery: The Power of Family.
• NEW programs will address the critical topics of In Our Midst: The Opioid Epidemic, and a Community Response” by U/M Professor Stephen Strobbe, RN, Ph.D.; “Safe and Effective Management of Pain and Addiction" by Dr. Carl Christensen, MD, Ph.D. and Dr. Mark Weiner, MD; and “Co-Occurring Disorders: Understanding Self-medication and Complex Recovery” by Jeremy Suttles, MSE, LMSW; UMH – Adult Inpatient Psychiatry.
• Other programs will address information about treatment and recovery, suicide prevention, relapse prevention, family concerns, spirituality, tobacco cessation, trauma, grief and loss, mindfulness, domestic and sexual violence, collegiate recovery programs, health care concerns for people with addiction and more.

For additional information please see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series or contact Dawn Farm at 734/485-8725 or info@dawnfarm.org. A printable flier is available here.