Call for Presentations
The 2008 National Conference on Women, Addiction and Recovery: Inspiring Leadership, Changing Lives will integrate plenary sessions, mini-plenary sessions, and workshops together with exhibits and networking opportunities to assist attendees in gathering knowledge, building skills, and invigorating initiatives to improve women’s services. We invite you to join colleagues from across the nation to share your experience, strength, and hopes for women, their families, and communities affected by substance use disorders. This conference offers the opportunity to share research, showcase promising practices, infuse knowledge into practice, and discuss implementation of effective interventions for women with substance use disorders.
As suggested by the conference theme, “Inspiring Leadership, Changing Lives,” the 2008 conference will focus not only on what—effective practices to improve outcomes for women—but also on how—building conference attendees’ capacity to successfully institute effective practices. Plenary and workshop sessions will encourage and emphasize the importance of and steps toward leadership in the women’s substance abuse treatment field.
We invite you to share your expertise through workshops that support attendees in developing and advocating for a comprehensive continuum of prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery supports for women.
Conference Overview and Format
Throughout the course of the 2 ½ days, approximately 30 workshops will be offered. We expect that most of the sessions will be 90 minutes inlength with some 3-hour skill-building workshops. Workshop styles may range from a modified traditional presentation to skill-building training to more experiential varieties.
Technology Transfer
An important measure of the success of the 2008 conference will be the extent to which participants receive information that they can use and share with professional colleagues. Thus, we seek proposals that will impart knowledge to attendees as well as address how attendees can share the material with colleagues in their communities. Table 1 contains a sampling of ways in which presenters can empower attendees to use the materials presented.
