TRAINING LINKS
   
  Addictive Behaviors Research Center
  Dr. Alan Marlatt serves as Principal Investigator of this training program in alcohol research.
   
  FIRST STEPS TO URBAN OUTREACH
  The mission of First Steps to Urban Outreach, Inc.  is to provide, competent, innovative, and quality training to organizations’, businesses, and individuals in the communities in which they serve. We are caring and committed people who have put both professional and educational experience together in order to enhance and optimize community health.
   
  Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates
 
Offers a "harm reduction" approach to substance abuse treatment. Research has found that it is easier for some people to begin counseling when specific goals are not required to enter treatment. In harm reduction treatment, any treatment goal is valid that helps reduce harm to an individual. Therefore, total abstinence is one goal among several alternatives. In other words, abstinence falls under the umbrella of harm reduction. This results in an approach that tailors the treatment to fit the individual, rather than trying to make the individual fit into a treatment model.
   
  IPDA
 
The Institute for Professional Development in the Addictions (IPDA), a state-wide not-for-profit agency works to ensure that the multidisciplinary addictions workforce and allied health professions have ongoing opportunities to increase knowledge, skills and competency in order to meet the mounting demands presented by those with complex problems related to substance use disorders.
   
   
  MASTER DIRECTORY OF LINKS
   
 
AA ALTERNATIVES MODERATION PUBLIC HEALTH
ALCOHOLISM PARENTS & KIDS RESEARCH
COUNSELING POLICY & ADVOCACY RESOURCES
EDUCATION PREVENTION TATARSKY
HARM REDUCTION PROFESSIONALS TRAINING
INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS TREATMENT