Thursday, January 16th
12:30 PM -3:45 PM EST
Overview:
This presentation delves into the profound impact of parental addiction on children, offering a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of their unique experiences. Growing up in an environment of addiction subjects children to significant trauma and chronic, unmanaged stress, leading to lifelong effects. These can manifest as social, behavioral, attachment, cognitive, and academic issues, an earlier onset of substance use, and, for about half of these children, addiction.
Targeted interventions are crucial in offering these children trust, emotional sharing, and the development of coping skills. Unfortunately, services for children in these circumstances are severely limited. Factors such as poverty, parental incarceration, systemic racism, and other forms of discrimination further hinder access to and participation in available services. The stigma surrounding addiction, family rules that discourage discussing home issues, and fear of disbelief make it challenging to identify and intervene effectively. Survival roles often adopted by these children help protect their safety and position within the family.
Trauma-informed adults play a critical role in creating a safe and predictable environment that fosters recognition, support, and resilience development. By understanding their needs and nurturing their strengths, these children can begin to heal. Validating and strengthening the resiliencies and strengths they have developed is essential. In this presentation, Dr. Wendy Wade will help the participants how to help children identify their needs, accept help from trained adults, and recognize other safe people in their lives. The presentation will also demonstrate three activities designed for working with children in groups, which can be modified for individual use.
Objectives:
- Restate three traumatic adverse effects of parental addiction on children’s cognitive, behavioral, physical, and social-emotional development
- Explain two ways children carry the family’s stigma and pain by adopting survival roles
- Demonstrate understanding of children’s resiliencies to effectively guide them in developing three effective coping skills and heal.Â
Course materials are only available to enrolled students.
National Approvals
eCare BHI, as the accredited and approved sponsor, maintains responsibility for all the programs and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.

Professional Counselors — The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6703. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC are clearly identified. E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Addiction Professionals — NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute is officially on file with NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) as an Approved Education Provider. They are formally known as NAADAC Provider #139138. Please note that E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Social Workers — Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute, #1706, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. E Care Behavioral Health Institute maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 06-03-2020 – 06-03-2026.Â

CE Broker
CE Broker is a continuing education tracking system in which licensees track their compliance and report their completed CE hours credit (CE Broker Tracking #50-33336)
State Approvals
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- Nevada CPC’s and MFT’s accept ASWB-approved training
- North Dakota Board Of Counselor Examiners LAPC and LAPCS accept ASWB approved training
- Rhode Island Board of Mental Health Counselors and Marriage & Family Therapists MHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council LPC and LPCS accept ASWB approved training
- Utah Division of Professional Licensing – CMHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Washington State Department of Mental Health MHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Wisconsin Council on Mental Health LPCS accepts ASWB-approved training
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