Ep.65 Addiction Treatment Leading to a place of health

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣 How an unexpected conversation started Caitlin's path to recovery

🟣 Being the only Recovery Coach for 100 miles and the desire to know more led to getting a PhD in Human Services Counseling

🟣 Networking through her role as President of the Idaho affiliate of NAADAC led to her moving to Alaska to work at True North Recovery

🟣 Living room model with walk-in crisis support and mobile crisis team

🟣 MAT, MAUD, MOUD, and autonomy of recovery paths

🟣 Collaborating with police and emergency services to provide wraparound care

🟣 Sober Living: providing a safe place for OP and transition to an independent life

🟣 Fairbanks Reentry Service helping stabilize lives after prison

🟣 Prison Policy Initiative findings about Alaska's incarceration rate

🟣 How limited resources help Alaskans collaborate

🟣 Department of Health distributing Overdose Rescue Kits through Project Hope

🟣 NAADAC getting a seat at tables you didn't know existed

🟣 Mentoring in the NAADAC and NBCCF Minority Fellowship Program

🟣 Stigma, systematic discrimination, and changing what it means to be somebody who uses substances and is in recovery

🟣 Harm reduction as a social justice movement

🟣 A message for those in active addiction, inspired by the Dalai Lama

Caitlin Hegwood, PhD (She/Her)

LPC, LPC-S, MAC, ACADC, CADC-II, CCTS-I, CYI

Therapist, Elevate Wellness

Chief Clinical Officer, True North Recovery

🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-hegwood/

🔗True North Recovery https://tnrak.org/

🔗Elevate Wellness, LLC https://elevate-wellness-llc.com/

🔗Prison Policy Initiative https://www.prisonpolicy.org/

🔗Alaska Department of Health + Project Hope https://health.alaska.gov/en/services/project-hope-get-naloxone/

🔗Light up the Couch Podcast https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmHOA07fwo7kW3_ytEhIzoedC8Jyks4yo

Guest location: Alaska

Addiction Podcast Host:

⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠