Exploring Pathways of Recovery (Spring 2025)

This training counts toward the MA PGS Certificate Clinical Core Competency Coursework

When we recognize that recovery looks different for every person, we can better advise our clients. This three-hour training will introduce various forms of recovery from gambling disorder & comorbidities, from 12-step programs to cognitive based therapies. Participants will also explore stigma around recovery and how to best support clients.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• • Define recovery
  • Name 2-3 different pathways of recovery
  • Explore the 10 different principles of recovery as defined by SAMHSA
  • Discuss impacts of intersectionality (race, class, gender, etc.) on people’s ability/capacity to access recovery resources
  • Challenge personal biases/stigma towards certain recovery pathways

3 CE credits for the following program are available through this course:

Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors

• MA Technical Assistance Center for Problem Gambling Treatment is authorized by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to sponsor, conduct or approve continuing education programs for alcohol and drug counselors/assistants (LADCs).

TRAINING CANCELLATION POLICY: Each Exploring Pathways to Recovery training requires a minimum of 10 participants. Trainings with fewer than 10 participants will be canceled, given the challenges that arise with facilitating an interactive 3-hour training with less than 10 active participants. Registrants will be notified of any training cancellations by email and will be referred to additional resources and upcoming trainings.

Instructors

Laurie Jo Wallace (Senior Director, Capacity Building Assistance at HRiA): She has spent the last 3 decades years promoting healthy communities and healthy youth in Boston. She has expertise in peer leadership, program development, curriculum development, coalition building, youth/adult collaboration, conflict resolution, physical health and healthy eating, and alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention. She brings special expertise in youth development, having provided training and support to numerous programs, coalitions, and youth serving agencies in the Boston, Massachusetts, and across the US. She has also trained youth and adults in Canada and Singapore.

Alex Fidalgo (Senior Training Associate, Training & Capacity Building Assistance at HRiA): He leads trainings for the BeHERE Program. Alex has been providing peer recovery services and supervision for many years in communities around Massachusetts, including Worcester and Springfield. As a person in long-term recovery, Alex works as a Recovery Coach Supervisor for Multicultural Wellness Center Services, as a Mentor for the Hamden Sheriff Department, and as a Recovery Coach Trainer under the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS). Alex advocates for peer coaching and is well-known in the community for his passionate approach to peer advocacy. He graduated from the Latino Behavior Health Workforce Program and was trained as a Recovery Coach in 2014. He is a certified problem gambling specialist (MA PGS) and addiction recovery coach (CARC). His pathway of recovery is spiritual, and he is committed to his church. Alexander Fidalgo was born in NY, raised in Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida.