This presentation is designed to enhance provider competence and confidence in working with LGBTQIA+ clients within Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment settings. Beginning with a foundational review of key terminology, attendees will explore essential language and concepts that promote affirming, inclusive care. The session will then provide an overview of substance use patterns, risk factors, and systemic barriers that uniquely affect LGBTQIA+ individuals, grounded in historical and clinical context. Finally, participants will engage with evidence-based, culturally responsive strategies to improve engagement, reduce harm, and support long-term recovery for LGBTQIA+ clients. This training aims to foster both understanding and action toward more equitable, inclusive treatment environments.
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Renewal Training
CLINICAL HOURS
1 CEU
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$35
About the Training
This presentation is designed to enhance provider competence and confidence in working with LGBTQIA+ clients within Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment settings. Beginning with a foundational review of key terminology, attendees will explore essential language and concepts that promote affirming, inclusive care. The session will then provide an overview of substance use patterns, risk factors, and systemic barriers that uniquely affect LGBTQIA+ individuals, grounded in historical and clinical context. Finally, participants will engage with evidence-based, culturally responsive strategies to improve engagement, reduce harm, and support long-term recovery for LGBTQIA+ clients. This training aims to foster both understanding and action toward more equitable, inclusive treatment environments.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will
101 Review of Terminology: Attendees will learn/review key terminology related to the LGBTQIA+ community and why it is necessary to be an affirming provider in SUD treatment
LGBTQIA+ Substance Use Overview; Risk Factors & Barriers to Care: Attendees will learn history of LGBTQIA+ issues in counseling and how this impacts clients and SUD counselors
Clinical Implications & Strategies for Inclusive Practice: Attendees will learn culturally appropriate interventions and take away key points for growth and harm reduction
Course offering 1 CEU.
Renewal Credit Information
IMPORTANT NOTE: These courses are tuition-based, and scholarships will not apply to this training. However, if you work for a DMHAS-contracted SUD treatment agency, you may be eligible for other scholarship-based courses offered through the Addiction Training and Workforce Development (ATWD) Program, funded by the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services. For more information, please contact trainings@njpn.org
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LCADC: Forty hours of continuing education earned every two years.
CADC: Sixty hours of continuing education earned every two years.
What are the renewal requirements for the CADC and LCADC? N.J.A.C. 13:34C-5.1
The ADCC requires licensees or certificate holders seeking a return to active status to submit a completed renewal application, a renewal fee, and an affidavit of employment and evidence of having completed the number of continuing education renewal hours required for license or certificate renewal for the biennial period. The applicant must have completed the continuing education renewal hours within three years prior to the date of the application.
I let my certification or license lapse. How can I become reinstated? N.J.A.C. 13:34C-1.6