NCADD-NJ HEALTH CARE REFORM SERIES
Part III: Key Elements of Health Reform

NCADD-NJ's Advocacy Leadership Program is Accepting Applications for its 2011 Class

NCADD-New Jersey is now accepting applications for its 2011 Advocacy Leadership Program, which will admit up to 30 participants. Going into its fourth year, the Advocacy Leadership Program is designed to foster, support and promote a generation of leaders in New Jersey committed to confronting the state’s most pressing addiction treatment, prevention and recovery issues.  To learn more about the Program and application process please click here.

NCADD-NJ HEALTH CARE REFORM SERIES
Part II:  Focus on Recovery Support

Treatment of addiction as a chronic disease was the focus of the first document in this Health Care Reform series. This second document in the series, “Focus on Recovery Support”, discusses the supports that help stabilize a person to create the best opportunity for long-term recovery.  The chances of sustaining recovery depend a great deal on the person building what is known as recovery capital (described in detail in the “Focus on Chronic Care” brochure). The term recovery capital refers to basic human needs that include a place to live, a job, a network of family, friends and colleagues. “Focus on Recovery Support” outlines Case Management, Supportive Housing, Employment and Job Training, and Improving Quality of and Access to Care as helping to provide the foundation for a life in recovery. READ MORE...

NCADD-NJ HEALTH CARE REFORM SERIES
Part I:  Focus on Chronic Care

Addiction is increasingly understood to be a chronic disease. Until recently, the most common scenario in treating addiction was an “isolated acute episode” followed by one-time, short-term intervention. The broadening recognition of addiction’s chronic nature compels a fundamental change in treatment, a move away from acute episodic care and toward an environment that promotes ongoing management of the disease and sustains recovery. Some experts refer to this environment as “the recovery zone."  READ MORE... 

DHS BUDGET HEARING

NCADD-NJ advocacy leaders impressed an important point on Department of Humans Services (DHS) Commissioner Jennifer Valez and her senior staff: not all cuts to the budget produce a savings. That statement echoed in the testimony of most of the 10 addiction treatment advocates who appeared before the panel, and each recounted a story that served as a case in point.  READ MORE...

WELCOME 2010 ADVOCACY LEADERS

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence-New Jersey convened its third class of advocacy leaders at a two-day retreat in Trenton on October 1 and 2. The 2010 Leader Class added 24 members to the advocacy program, bringing the total to 80 people representing 32 of the state's 40 legislative districts. The leadership program is part of NCADD-NJ's Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Initiative. READ MORE...