Your gateway to advanced education in addiction, mental health, peer support, and justice-involved care. This fully online institute runs July 7 to August 31 and features certifications, masterclasses, microcredentials, and general education sessions.
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Before registering, please review the full training agenda carefully to ensure you are available for the dates and times,PLEASE CLICK HERE of each course you plan to attend.
– Some courses are delivered live via Zoom, while others are self-paced online.
– It is your responsibility to confirm the delivery format and schedule before completing registration.
– Missed live sessions may affect your ability to receive a certificate of completion.
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Provides access to everything the Summer Training Institute offers. Ideal for professionals looking for maximum value and the full range of certifications, masterclasses, and continuing education units.
What’s Included:
- 4 Masterclasses: Understanding Triggers, Relapse Prevention Strategies, Addiction & the Brain, Motivational Interviewing
- 6 Microcredentials: Vicarious Trauma, Family Systems, Indigenous Indigenous Intimate Partner Violence , Digital Addictions, Affirming Care, Psychedelics & Harm Reduction
- 8 General Education Sessions: Ethics, Trauma & Cultural Sensitivity, Justice-Involved Support, LGBTQ+ & ChemSex Addiction, Telehealth, DSM-5-TR Updates, MAT, Co-Occurring Disorders
Access: Fully online with downloadable resources and hybrid/self-paced delivery. Includes all certificates of completion and credentialing where applicable.
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $449Unlock access to all four advanced masterclasses designed to elevate your clinical insight, strengthen your intervention strategies, and deepen your understanding of complex addiction-related topics. These courses are ideal for professionals who want to go beyond foundational knowledge and expand their specialized skills.
- 🔁 Understanding Triggers: Explore how internal and external triggers impact recovery and learn tools for prevention and intervention.
- 🔁 Relapse Prevention Strategies: Learn how to identify early warning signs, create relapse prevention plans, and support sustained recovery.
- 🧠 Addiction & the Brain (Clinical Neuroscience): Understand how addiction affects brain systems related to reward, memory, and behavior.
- 🗣️ Motivational Interviewing: Master core techniques in client-centered communication to help individuals move toward change.
Format: Fully online, self-paced access with downloadable tools, scenario-based learning, and certificates of completion for each course.
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $159This package gives you access to all 8 general education sessions — foundational trainings built for professionals working in addiction, peer support, and justice-focused roles. These courses are ideal for strengthening your core knowledge, meeting continuing education requirements, or expanding your practice into new areas.
- ⚖️ Ethics
- 🧠 Trauma & Cultural Sensitivity
- ⚖️ Justice-Involved Individuals & Addiction Treatment
- 🌈 LGBTQ+ & ChemSex Addiction
- 💻 Telehealth
- 📘 DSM-5-TR Updates
- 💊 Medication-Assisted Treatment (MATs)
- 🩺 Co-Occurring Disorders & Health Conditions
Format: All courses are fully online, self-paced, and include downloadable resources and certificates of completion. Courses are designed to be accessible, flexible, and practical for real-world application in community-based and clinical settings.
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $199This package gives you access to all 6 focused microcredentials designed to build expertise in trauma, identity, cultural safety, harm reduction, and family systems. Perfect for professionals looking to expand their toolkit with short, practical training that meets CEU requirements.
- 💥 Vicarious Trauma & Compassion Fatigue
- 👪 Family Systems in Recovery
- 🪶 Indigenous Intimate Partner Violence (Panel)
- 💻 Digital Addictions
- 🏳️⚧️ Affirming Care for Trans & Nonbinary Clients
- 🍄 Psychedelics & Harm Reduction
Delivery: All microcredentials are self-paced or Zoom Hybrid.
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $399This combined package gives you access to all 8 General Education courses and all 4 Masterclasses offered in the Summer Training Institute. It’s ideal for professionals who want deep training across foundational and advanced topics—without enrolling in full certification tracks.
📚 What’s Included:
- All 8 General Education Courses: Ethics; Trauma & Cultural Sensitivity; Justice-Involved Individuals & Addiction Treatment; LGBTQ+ & ChemSex Addiction; Telehealth; DSM-5-TR Updates; Medication-Assisted Treatment (MATs); Co-Occurring Disorders & Health Conditions
- All 4 Masterclasses: Understanding Triggers; Relapse Prevention Strategies; Addiction & the Brain (Clinical Neuroscience); Motivational Interviewing
🧾 What You’ll Get:
- 12 separate certificates of completion
- Downloadable resources and tools
- Zoom and self-paced access
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Register – $299
Certifications
This 6-hour training prepares experienced peer supporters to become effective trainers in their field. Participants will develop presentation skills, training outlines, and facilitation techniques that align with adult learning principles and trauma-informed approaches.
- Role of a peer trainer and facilitator
- Designing inclusive, effective learning experiences
- Managing challenging group dynamics
- Teaching trauma-informed practices
Format: Zoom hybrid with downloadable workbook and live Q&A.
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Register – $299Explore the world of gaming addiction with this specialist course. Understand how digital dependency develops, who is most at risk, and what effective interventions look like from clinical and peer-based perspectives.
- Definition and diagnostic criteria for gaming disorder
- Neuroscience and behavioral factors
- Gaming culture, social context, and risk factors
- Evidence-based treatment options and recovery strategies
Format: Fully online with case-based scenarios and peer-reviewed articles.
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Register – $299Designed for counselors and peer workers supporting individuals impacted by gambling addiction. This certification covers the psychological, financial, and relational consequences of problem gambling and how to address them.
- Screening and assessment tools
- Stages of change and motivational techniques
- Relapse prevention and financial recovery planning
- Family involvement and group-based treatment models
Format: Online delivery with interactive elements and quizzes.
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Register – $299The CAPAS (Certified Advanced Peer Addiction Specialist ) Certification is built for frontline community workers and peer leaders. This course offers a practical and political framework for working in harm reduction, advocacy, and trauma-informed peer support.
- Peer ethics, boundaries, and dual roles
- Stigma, oppression, and structural advocacy
- Building community trust and systems navigation
- Policy engagement and collective wellness practices
Format: Self-paced online with optional Zoom discussion sessions and downloadable field toolkit.
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Register – $299Microcredentials
💥 Vicarious Trauma & Compassion Fatigue – $79
This 2-hour microcredential explores vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue—two common impacts on those working in addiction, mental health, peer support, and justice settings. Learn how to recognize the signs, protect your emotional well-being, and build lasting resilience.
- Understanding trauma fatigue and burnout
- Warning signs and prevention strategies
- Tools for recovery and boundary-setting
Format: Self-paced online | 2 Hours | Certificate issued
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Register – $79👪 Family Systems in Recovery – $79
This 2-hour microcredential explores how families respond to addiction, how roles and dynamics shift, and how healing can take root. Learn strategies to engage families and promote healthier communication and boundaries.
- Family systems theory basics
- Attachment and communication patterns
- Engagement tools and boundary-setting
Format: Self-paced online | 2 Hours | Certificate issued
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $79🪶 Indigenous Intimate Partner Violence Credential – $79
This 4-hour microcredential centers Indigenous voices in the context of Intimate Partner Violence. Includes a live 2-hour panel and 2 hours self-study, focusing on culturally responsive healing and intervention.
- Challenges for Indigenous survivors
- Community-driven, culturally safe strategies
Format: Hybrid: 2-Hour Live Panel + 2-Hour Self-study
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Register – $79💻 Digital Addictions – $79
This 2-hour microcredential explores technology-based behavioral addictions. Learn to identify screen dependency, online gambling, and gaming-related issues especially in youth and justice-involved populations.
- Causes and patterns of digital addiction
- Warning signs and intervention tools
- Harm reduction and healthy tech use
Format: Self-paced online | 2 Hours | Certificate issued
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Register – $79🏳️⚧️ Affirming Care for Trans & Nonbinary Clients – $79
This 2-hour microcredential gives you tools to provide respectful, affirming, trauma-informed care to gender-diverse individuals in mental health and addiction services.
- Inclusive terminology and care strategies
- Barriers to service access and how to address them
- Creating safe, affirming environments
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $79🍄 Psychedelics & Harm Reduction – $79
Explore the evolving landscape of psychedelics in recovery and harm reduction. This 2-hour microcredential offers balanced, evidence-informed insight into current practice and ethical considerations.
- Overview of common psychedelics
- Risks, benefits, and misconceptions
- Ethical engagement and client safety
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
Register – $79📚 General Education
⚖️ Ethics – General Education Course (6 Hours) – $49
Ethical practice is the cornerstone of every helping profession. This 6-hour course explores professional standards, boundaries, confidentiality, consent, and ethical decision-making across service fields like mental health, corrections, healthcare, and peer support.
- Core principles of ethical practice
- Confidentiality, consent, and documentation
- Dual relationships and boundary management
- Ethics in interagency collaboration
- Managing ethical dilemmas with real-world scenarios
- Professional conduct, accountability, and integrity
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When: July 9, 2025 @ 1:00 pm EST
Register – $49🧠 Trauma & Cultural Sensitivity – General Education Course (2 Hours) – $29
You’ll learn how culture, race, gender, and history shape how people experience trauma and healing. This course gives you the language, awareness, and practical strategies to provide trauma-informed services that honor individual and community values.
- What it means to be trauma-informed
- Cultural considerations in trauma response
- Understanding historical and generational trauma
- Avoiding retraumatization in practice
- Language, behavior, and engagement strategies
- Practical tools to enhance culturally safe care
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When: Available beginning July 14, 2025
Register – $29⚖️ Justice-Involved Individuals & Addiction Treatment – General Education Course (3 Hours) – $29
This 3-hour course explores the unique barriers, risks, and needs of people navigating both the criminal justice system and substance use recovery. From probation and parole to incarceration and diversion programs, you’ll learn how to support individuals in settings that are often punitive, high-stress, and resource-limited.
- How incarceration, probation, and court systems impact addiction recovery
- Common challenges facing justice-involved clients
- Trauma, stigma, and trust in treatment
- Practical ways to build engagement and retention
- Working within court mandates and treatment orders
- Ethics, boundaries, and system collaboration
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When: July 19, 2025 1:00 pm EST
Register – $29💻 Telehealth in Mental Health and Addiction Services – General Education Course (6 Hours) – $49
This 6-hour course teaches you how to provide high-quality support through virtual platforms while maintaining clinical standards, client engagement, and legal compliance. You’ll learn the core skills needed to conduct telehealth sessions in mental health, addiction, peer support, and justice-involved settings.
- Setting up a professional, private telehealth environment
- Building rapport and trust through a screen
- Confidentiality, consent, and telehealth-specific ethics
- Handling crises and emergencies virtually
- Working with justice-involved and high-risk clients online
- Adapting documentation, session flow, and engagement techniques
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When: Available beginning July 21, 2025
Register – $49💻 🌈 LGBTQ+ & ChemSex Addiction (6 Hours) -$29
This course explores the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities and chemsex practices, with a focus on culturally informed harm-reduction and client-centered care. You’ll learn:
- The social and historical context of chemsex within LGBTQ+ communities
- Common substances, patterns of use, and associated health risks
- Trauma-informed assessment and reducing stigma in clinical practice
- Evidence-based harm-reduction strategies and safer-use education
- Strategies for outreach, engagement, and referral to specialized services
📘 DSM-5-TR Updates – General Education Course (2 Hours) – $29
Stay current with the latest changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR). This 2-hour course breaks down the most important updates so you can apply them confidently in assessments, documentation, and treatment planning.
- Key changes introduced in the DSM-5-TR
- New and revised diagnostic criteria
- Language updates related to race, culture, and gender
- How to apply the updates in real-world practice
- Impacts on treatment planning, referrals, and reporting
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When: Available beginning July 28, 2025
Register – $29💊 Medication-Assisted Treatment (MATs) – General Education Course (6 Hours) – $49
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is a critical, evidence-based approach to treating substance use disorders—especially opioid and alcohol dependence. This 6-hour course provides a clear, practical overview of how MAT works, who it benefits, and how it fits into a comprehensive recovery plan.
- Overview of MAT-approved medications (Methadone, Buprenorphine, Naltrexone, etc.)
- How MAT supports recovery and reduces relapse and overdose
- Client eligibility, access, and coordination with prescribers
- Addressing stigma and client fears about MAT
- Integrating MAT into counseling, peer support, and justice-based care
- Ethical considerations, consent, and monitoring
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When: August 8, 2025 @ 12:00 pm EST
Register – $49🩺 Co-Occurring Disorders & Health Conditions – General Education Course (2 Hours) – $29
Many clients don’t just face addiction or mental illness—they live with both, often alongside serious physical health conditions. This 2-hour course introduces the essentials of working with co-occurring disorders, helping you better understand the complexity of these cases and how to support clients navigating multiple challenges at once.
- What defines a co-occurring disorder
- Common mental health and medical conditions found alongside addiction
- How to identify red flags and assess layered needs
- Strategies for engagement, referral, and coordinated care
- Reducing stigma and increasing treatment access for complex cases
Delivery: Self-paced online modules
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When: Available beginning August 11, 2025
Register – $29🗣️ Motivational Interviewing – Masterclass (2.5 Hours) – $49
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, person-centered approach that strengthens an individual’s motivation for and commitment to change. In this 2.5-hour masterclass, you’ll learn the principles and techniques of MI and how to apply them effectively in addiction recovery, mental health care, and peer support settings.
- Core principles of MI: partnership, evocation, and acceptance
- The “OARS” model: Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, Summarizing
- Recognizing and responding to change talk
- Rolling with resistance to reduce confrontation
- Helping clients set and achieve goals aligned with their values
Designed for peer workers, counselors, and front-line staff, this course equips you with practical MI strategies you can use right away to support lasting behavior change.
Delivery: 1 hr live Zoom session + self-paced modules
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
When: August 12, 2025 @ 12:00 pm EST
Register – $49🧠 Addiction & the Brain (Clinical Neuroscience) – Masterclass (2 Hours) – $49
This 2-hour masterclass explores how addiction affects brain systems related to reward, memory, stress, and decision-making. It’s designed to support professionals in explaining addiction in a non-shaming, science-based way.
- How addiction hijacks the brain’s reward system
- Key brain structures involved in substance use and relapse
- The impact of trauma and stress on addiction pathways
- Why addiction is a brain disease—not a moral failure
- How neuroscience insights can support recovery
Delivery: Self-paced online modules
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When: Available beginning August 4, 2025
Register – $49🔁 Relapse Prevention Strategies – Masterclass (3 Hours) – $49
This 3-hour masterclass equips participants to recognize relapse warning signs early and stay on track in recovery. You’ll explore evidence-based strategies to reduce risk, build recovery capital, and support lasting change.
- The stages of relapse: emotional, mental, and behavioral
- Common triggers and high-risk situations
- How to build a personalized relapse prevention plan
- The role of routine, structure, and accountability
- Reframing relapse: from shame to strategy
- Tools for post-relapse support and re-engagement
Delivery: Self-paced online modules
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When: Available beginning August 4, 2025
Register – $49🔁 Understanding Triggers – Masterclass (2 Hours) – $49
Triggers are more than just moments—they’re powerful cues that can lead to relapse, emotional distress, or behavioral setbacks. This 2-hour masterclass helps you understand what triggers are, how they work, and how to manage them in addiction recovery, mental health care, and peer support.
- What psychological and environmental triggers are
- How to help clients recognize internal and external triggers
- Techniques for grounding, coping, and de-escalation
- How to build trigger management into treatment and recovery plans
- Real-life examples of successful interventions
Delivery: Self-paced online modules
ADACBGA Summer Institute Agenda 2025
When: Available beginning July 7, 2025
Register – $49
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