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voiceNews, Features and Opinion for Recovering People and Professionals Readers need to resubscribe In thIs Issue 2 Hazelden trains Navy, 11 John MacDougall column Marine counselors 12 A New Day, A New Life and Dear Readers: 3 Building on a legacy of leadership Cyber Bullying In the interest of reducing expenses and being environmentally 6 Hazelden publishes new program 14 Hazelden earns James W. West friendly, we are cleaning our mailing list and asking all readers to on co-occurring disorders Quality Improvement Award resubscribe to the Voice. There are two easy ways to resubscribe: 7 An integrated approach to 15 Hazelden to celebrate 60th 1. Go online to hazelden.org/voice and click on “subscribe.” Please co-occurring disorders provide both your email address and your name and mailing 16 Innovative MORE program address to ensure that you receive all Voice mailings. Please have the 9 Grad School’s Eileen O’Mara retires phase-in is complete address panel from this Voice handy when you resubscribe. 2. Call 888-257-7800, ext. 4800 or 651-213-4800 and leave a voicemail. Include your name and mailing address as it appears For a Butler Center for Research update and expanded on the back page of this issue, and include your email address to Voice content, visit hazelden.org/voice. receive email notification of futureVoice content. Don’t lose your Voice! If we don’t hear from you, we will stop sending the Voice. See the enclosed letter for more details. Marty Duda, Voice editor Step Eleven: Cultivating conscious contact with a Higher Power BY DOUG TOFT In 1938, an alcoholic stockbroker named Bill W. declared his intention to write a book about an obscure new program of recovery from alcoholism. The program, which included 12 suggested steps, was unabashedly spiritual. Bill’s goal was to present this aspect of the program in terms so simple and so practical that one alcoholic could easily explain it to another. Today there are over 25 million copies of Alcoholics Anonymous (the “Big Book”) in print. And Bill managed to distill the essence of The Lavinia Neill Meditation Center in Center City offers outstanding spiritual practice into the 32 words of Step Eleven: “Sought through space for prayer and meditation. prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God Step Eleven — continued on page 4 SUMMER 2008 VOLUME 13, ISSUE 2 Hazelden delivers training for U.S. Navy, Marine counselors Hazelden is currently providing two weeks of three-day Professionals in Residence training training to 220 substance abuse counselors and on Hazelden treatment units, and a two-day mental health professionals from the U.S. Navy clinical care training. and Marine Corps at its Center City, Minn., The five-day training teaches the principles of campus. The training, which began in January Quit and Stay Quit, a Hazelden curriculum that Says Kris VanHoof-Haines: “The of this year and runs through October, is one provides another nicotine cessation program to training presents Hazelden with an of the largest training initiatives ever delivered be used by the Navy and Marine Corps to help unprecedented honor to support by Hazelden. people quit tobacco. Trainees are certified to our troops during war time.” “Our goal is to provide participants with the deliver the program, and they receive instruction knowledge and tools to better understand and on complementary resources such as the respond to addiction and related co-occurring Twelve Steps of Nicotine Anonymous, stress curricula. At the end of the training, participants disorders among Navy and Marine personnel management and wellness, and quit techniques are asked to develop an action plan to describe and their families,” said Kris VanHoof-Haines, for adolescents and young adults. The three- how they will implement what they’ve learned. executive director of Content Development and day Professionals in Residence program offers Training at Hazelden Publishing. “The training didactic learning about addiction and Hazelden’s The broad continuum of services and presents Hazelden with an unprecedented Twelve Step model of care and the opportunity products at Hazelden “makes us uniquely honor to support our troops during war time.” to observe patients and staff and participate in qualified to provide well-rounded training the treatment process. The two-day training to Navy counselors,” said VanHoof-Haines. ‘LeaRn fROm the best’ enhances counseling skills and addresses topics “This training effort has demanded a huge “This is a great opportunity for our counselors to such as motivational interviewing, Twelve collaboration among our treatment and learn from the best in the addiction and recovery Step facilitation, post-traumatic stress disorder mental health counselors, educators from the field,” said Charlie Gould, director of the Navy (PTSD) and addiction, and American Society Graduate School of Addiction Studies and Substance Abuse Program. “Hazelden offers the of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria for our Professionals in Residence program, and cutting-edge knowledge and resources needed to diagnosing addiction. curricula trainers from our Publishing division. provide expert training to our staff. The training Staff have rallied to provide unwavering support will help us bolster our substance abuse program The training complements Living in Balance, and stepped up big time to make this training and standardize our approach to care.” the evidence-based Hazelden curriculum that something we can all be tremendously proud of.” serves as the Navy’s core program to treat Given the increasing rate of addiction and —Marty Duda alcohol and other drug addiction. All counselors mental health disorders seen among veterans receive a separate, customized Hazelden training from our armed forces, it is imperative that on Living in Balance. voice the professionals who treat U.S. service men summeR 2008 VOLUME 13, ISSUE 2 and women have the most current information “Hazelden gives our people a look at how InteRIm PResIdent Dan McCormick and effective tools to do so. Studies suggest civilians receive addiction treatment, and it gives bOaRd ChaIR Norbert Conzemius that about one-third of returning Iraq and them more exposure to co-occurring disorders edItOR Marty Duda COntRIbutIng WRIteRs/edItORs Afghanistan soldiers have addiction or mental such as PTSD,” said Gould. For instance, one Linda E. Peterson, Susan Maricle and Teri Ryan health disorders such as post-traumatic stress part of the Professionals in Residence training PhOtOgRaPheRs Tad Saddoris: pp. 1, 3, 4, 9 disorder (PTSD), anxiety or depression. includes a session on PTSD, led by Don Elverd, John Noltner: pp. 2, 7 PsyD, a Hazelden psychologist and a combat Paula Gardin: p. 10 (Vitrano, Nakken) Gould says there’s a need to educate our service Eric Melzer: p. 11 veteran of the Vietnam War. The training stresses men and women about the disease of addiction. gRaPhIC desIgn Chantelle Audier the need to address co-occurring disorders PRInteR Gannett Offset–Minneapolis “Addiction is a serious chronic disease, and concurrently with treatment for addiction. If your address needs to be updated or if you wish to be we want to identify it promptly, treat it, and removed from the Voice mailing list, please contact us at 800-257-7800 or 651-213-4200, or email: mailinglist@ put men and women on the road to recovery,” Kaylene McElfresh, Hazelden program manager hazelden.org. Please provide your name, address and the continued Gould. “Addiction is an equal of the Navy and Marine training, says the key code of the mail piece you received. overall training experience has been warmly InquIRIes and LetteRs opportunity disease—it can affect anyone—so Voice Editor, RW 3 it’s not a shame to surrender to it and seek help.” received. Participants have found the sessions Hazelden, P.O. Box 11 Center City, MN 55012-0011 on ASAM criteria and co-occurring disorders For the last eight months, counselors have 651-213-4455 or particularly helpful. toll free 888-257-7800, ext. 4455 been traveling to Hazelden for two weeks get the VOICE On the Web In addition to the knowledge gained, each This issue and archived issues of the Voice can be down- of training. The training includes a five-day loaded from the Hazelden Web site: hazelden.org/voice. session that focuses on nicotine cessation, a trainee receives printed materials and treatment © 2008 Hazelden Foundation Hazelden and the Hazelden logo are registered 2 VOICe SUMMER 2008 hazelden.org trademarks of the Hazelden Foundation. MAT-0628 F (08/08) message fROm InteRIm PResIdent Building on a legacy of leadership Dan McCormick, Interim President and CEO Hazelden’s presence as a leader in the field in both areas. Better yet, a solid foundation has Publishing divisions continues to identify more of addiction and recovery has been felt for been laid to realize even greater gains. evidence-based practices to treat and prevent six decades. Our history of innovation and addiction. And Tim Sheehan, PhD, senior vice Leadership can be defined in many ways. I see knowledge is second to none. president and provost of our Graduate School it as the process of creating an environment of Addiction Studies, and his staff continue to Hazelden is where the Minnesota Model of for individuals to step forward and take educate future leaders in the addiction field. care evolved, and it’s an organization that action. As you read this issue of the Voice, literally gave its model away—sharing its you’ll find evidence of numerous leadership As Hazelden considers its future directions and perspectives with all who sought to emulate it. initiatives at work. You’ll read about Hazelden’s commitments, it needs to continue to leverage It’s an organization that acquired Twenty-Four integrated approach to treating patients with its leadership position to advance the vision Hours a Day in 1954 and built on that core co-occurring disorders—the critical mental that all who seek recovery will find it and that text to become the world’s largest publisher of health component of care that has gone the stigma of addiction will be overcome.