NC-TAC Webinar: The Neuroscience of Substance Use Disorders
2025-11-18 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Substance use disorders are influenced by many factors, including the individual neurology of a person’s brain, individual behaviors, complex environmental influences, and experiences in one’s family and community, developing over years. In this session, we will discuss how factors such as trauma and resilience supports can have a bidirectional relationship with brain chemistry, human behavior, and social drivers of health like access to employment and housing. We will review how medications for addiction treatment are particularly effective at improving outcomes due to direct intervention into these complex neurological pathways. Presenter: Dr. Shuchin Shukla, MD, MPH, Addiction Medicine Specialist. Register here.

NC-TAC Webinar: Invisible Sentence-Recognizing, Supporting, and Advocating for Children of Incarcerated and Returning Parents
2025-10-01 11:00 - 12:30
On any given day, there are an estimated 2.7 million children in the US with at least one incarcerated parent (21,000+ in NC), with more than 5.2 million children (160,000 in NC) having experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives. This session will focus on what we know about the children and the impact of parental incarceration and re-entry, resource and data gaps, ways to collaborate and partner to better meet their needs, and the importance of including children’s voices. Participants will be encouraged to take what they learn back to their own professional settings to continue the conversation there and determine appropriate next steps.
Presenter: Melissa Radcliff, Program Director, Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons
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