All courses provide continuing education hours for CASAC, SW, MHC, and MFT !
For more information regarding our Professional Development Trainers, please view our faculty page. If you and your employer are interested in hosting a professional development training for your workplace, please review our course listings for more information.
Please click on the month below to view the available courses for that month.
January • February • March • April • May • June • July • September
If you wish to see more re-credentialing opportunities, please visit our CASAC Re-Credentialing page.
We also have free EBP Training Opportunities available. For more information, please visit our SOR Training page.
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January
Ethics for Addiction Professionals – (15 Hour – Includes Confidentiality, 6 Hr Ethics, & Practica 5 & 6)
This course reviews the ethical principles, canons, and obligations of those in the helping professions and outlines the parameters of appropriate professional boundaries. In small groups, participants examine case vignettes depicting ethical and professional boundary dilemmas, including relatively new ones posed by technology and social media. A wide variety of ethical professional challenges are analyzed using an ethical problem-solving model, considering professional codes of conduct, the law, common organizational policies and universal ethical principles.
- Date: Thursday January 23, 2025, Thursday February 6, 2025, Tuesday February 11, 2025, Tuesday February 25, 2025, and Wednesday February 26, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dr. Dolores Jewell. J.D., Ph.D., Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: December 31, 2024
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Confidentiality & Legal Issues (3 hours)
This course will provide an overview of the federal and state laws that govern drug and alcohol treatment, and includes the rationale and history of confidentiality laws, the requirements and provisions of 42 CFR, Part 2, HIPAA and Jonathan’s Law, the need for and appropriately constructed consent forms, exceptions to confidentiality rules, confidentiality on HIV/AIDS, the need to seek out supervision regarding confidentiality and legal issues and reporting violations of confidentiality laws. Several vignettes regarding confidentiality and legal issues will be examined by the class.
- Date: Thursday January 23, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dr. Dolores Jewell. J.D., Ph.D., Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: December 31, 2024
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February
Ethical Decision Making (6 hours)
This course acquaints participants with a definition of professional ethics and boundaries and enables them to use appropriate decision-making skills when faced with ethical dilemmas. The following topics are included: the definition of ethics, universally accepted ethical values, professional codes of conduct/ethics, policies that exist in human service organizations related to ethical conduct, the parameters of professional boundaries and how to maintain them, including the use of clinical supervision, and a decision-making model for making ethical decisions when faced with ethically-challenging situations.
- Date: Thursday February 6, 2025 and Tuesday February 11, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dr. Dolores Jewell. J.D., Ph.D., Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: January 27, 2025
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March
Overview of Addiction: Introduction (6 hours)
The history of human drug taking, addiction, and treatment and recovery movements are examined in this course. Forms of drugs, routes of administration and drug responses, progression of drug use, dependency and recovery are also explored.
- Date: Tuesday March 4, 2025, and Wednesday March 5, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dayna Slade Smith, MA, MS, MAC, SAP, Adjunct Instructor, OTI
Registration Deadline: February 21, 2025
April
Tobacco and Nicotine Dependence (3 hours)
This course will provide an overview of tobacco use, understanding of the etiology & progression of dependence, & treatment for nicotine dependence.
- Date: Wednesday April 30, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Andre Toussaint, PhD., Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: April 18, 2025
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May
Toxicology Testing & Screening (3 hours)
In this course, participants will learn about the array of toxicology screening methods, their strengths and limitations, and means of accurate administration and proper use.
- Date: Wednesday May 7, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Timothy Cheslik, DPM, CASAC, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: April 28, 2025
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June
Foundational Skills of Counseling (6 hours)
The foundations of good counseling with individuals with substance use disorders are covered in this course, including the qualities of an effective counselor, therapeutic alliance, and basic counseling skills.
- Date: Wednesday June 4, 2025, and Tuesday June 10, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Gretchen Grappone, LICSW, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: May 23, 2025
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July
Group Counseling (12 hours)
The history of human drug taking, addiction, and treatment and recovery movements are examined in this course. Forms of drugs, routes of administration and drug responses, progression of drug use, dependency and recovery are also explored.
- Date: Thursday July 3, 2025; Tuesday July 8, 2025; Wednesday July 9, 2025; Thursday July 10, 2025;
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dayna Slade Smith, MA, MS, MAC, SAP, Adjunct Instructor, OTI
Registration Deadline: June 24, 2025
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Groups in SUD Treatment (6 hours)
Several types of groups commonly used in treatment for substance use disorders will be examined in this course including psycho-educational, cognitive-behavioral, process, support, relapse prevention, and those for medication-assisted treatment. Evidence-based models, i.e., Matrix and Seeking Safety, will be looked at more closely as examples.
- Date: Tuesday July 15, 2025, and Wednesday July 16, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Adelya Urmanche, PhD, Adjunct Instructor
Registration Deadline: June 30, 2025
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Reoccurrence of Symptoms / Relapse Prevention Pt 1 & 2 (6 hours)
Participants will learn the elements of a stable long –term recovery and recovery wellness. These concepts will be used to understand how relapse occurs and how to use cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients prevent relapse and maintain recovery.
- Date: Thursday July 17, 2025, and Tuesday July 22, 2025
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dayna Slade Smith, MA, MS, MAC, SAP, Adjunct Instructor, OTI
Registration Deadline: July 8, 2025
September
Counseling and Communicating with Families and Significant Others (12 hours)
This course provides an overview of working with families and significant others. It includes the core beliefs of addiction specialists related to the family, the evolution of the family in American society, types of family structures, the family system and the concept of homeostasis, the impact of drug and alcohol abuse on family relationships, the developmental stages of the individual and family, the function of rules and roles in a family system, the use of genograms in family work, stages of assessment of individuals and families, working with the family system, relapse prevention with families, children of alcoholics and substance abusers, and fetal alcohol syndrome.
- Date: Wednesday September 11, 2024; Thursday September 12, 2024; Tuesday September 17, 2024 and Wednesday September 18, 2024
- Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Trainer: Dawn Matherly, Ph.D, LMFT, Adjunct Instructor, OTI
Registration Deadline: September 6, 2024
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Free, OASAS-Sponsored EBP Trainings
Free training for staff and peers in Brooklyn and on Long Island: OASAS-Funded State Opioid Response (SOR) Grant-Funded Training.
We have a new page now as we’re adding more training offerings! Visit https://opiny.org/sor-trainings/ for more information and to apply!
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