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Eighth Annual UNC Horizons Program Conference

UNC Horizons Program will host their annual conference focusing on the needs of women and their children affected by substance abuse and related issues. Watch this page for updates related to our conference!

"Trauma and Addiction - Pathways to Healing for Mothers and Children"

The challenges faced by women with co-occurring substance abuse and trauma issues and their children are unique and complex. Join us for a day of comprehensive and enlightening presentations designed to help service providers empower clients to overcome the devastating impact of addiction and trauma.

Keynote Presentations:

Stephanie Covington HeadshotStephanie Covington, PhD, LCSW

The Addiction-Trauma Connection: Spirals of Recovery and Healing

Co-Director of the Institute for Relational Development. Co-Director of the Center for Gender and Justice. Recognized for her research and curriculum development in the area of gender responsive, trauma informed treatment.  Author of titles including "Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women" and "A Woman’s Journal: Helping Women Recover."

 

Panel of Providers:

Challenges in the Management of the Pregnant Opiate Dependent Woman and Her Newborn.

A panel of Health providers will share their knowledge and address questions from conference participants on this topic during the afternoon keynote. Email questions to: horizons_conference@med.unc.edu.

Choose one of the following interactive workshops for the morning session, and one for the afternoon:

  • Creating a Trauma-Informed Environment (morning workshop only), and Healing Trauma: Strategies for Abused Women (afternoon workshop only) – Stephanie Covington, PhD, LCSW.
  • Attachment in Troubled Families: Parent-Child Interaction Styles and Treatment Implications (morning workshop only), and Attachment in Troubled Families: Adult Attachment Styles and Treatment Implications (afternoon workshop only) – Betty Rintoul, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Director of Encouraging Connections, providing early childhood mental health
  • The Effects of Trauma and Addiction on Children and the Parent/Child Relationship – Donna Potter, LCSW, Center for Child and Family Health (morning workshop only)
  • The Neurobiological and Behavioral Factors Underlying Mother-Infant Interaction: A Multi-Site Research Study in Progress – UNC Mother-Infant Biobehavioral Research Group (afternoon workshop only)

Registration fee of $85 includes continental breakfast, lunch and snacks ($80 per person for groups of three or more from the same agency who register and pay together). $60 for students/retirees (copy of student ID must be attached). MH & SA CEUs applied for with NCSAPCB.

Wednesday April 11, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Friday Center, Chapel Hill NC
For more information, call (919) 966-9803

Registration forms are available on our conference brochure. 
Please click to download the brochure.