Total CE Credit Hours: 1
Course Info URL: http://www.addictioncounselorce.com/courses/102870
About the Course:
Women who are recently released from incarceration face challenges for thriving in communities (e.g. safety, employment, maintaining social support). Several of these challenges are based in cultural and gender factors specific to women – particularly, women of color. This publication authored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides information on the nature of challenges for recently-incarcerated women and strategies for addressing each of these challenges.
This course is based on the article, After Incarceration: A Guide to Helping Women Reenter the Community created by SAMHSA in 2020.
Publication Date:
April 2020
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Recommended For:
Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Course Objectives:
To identify several considerations that may challenge recently-incarcerated women’s success in communities
To identify the cultural and socioeconomic factors that can contribute to each consideration challenging long-term success in residence in communities
To describe several concrete strategies for helping recently-incarcerated women to overcome barriers to success in communities and strategies for building effective self-care
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American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders (AAHCPAD)
1 credit hour
American Psychological Association (APA)
1 credit hour
CE Learning Systems is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB ACE)
1 credit hour
CE Learning Systems, LLC, provider #1020, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE Learning Systems, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/23/2019 – 2/23/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit(s).
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
1 credit hour
CE Learning Systems, service provider of Addiction Counselor CE has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5951. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CE Learning Systems is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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