Subject: News & Views: June 2022

Celebrating the LGBTQIA+ Community

Podcast

The Journey to Becoming Yourself

Alicia Renegar is a Certified Addiction Peer Recovery Coach and SMART Facilitator in Columbus, Indiana. As a gay woman, she faced much adversity and discrimination throughout her life. She shares how she has turned this negativity into strength and is helping others on their path to recovery.

In this podcast, she talks about the challenges and discrimination she faced in school, how deep-seated trauma led to her addiction, plus more.

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Guest Blog by Jeffry Muhleman

Being in the LGBTQ Community and Seeking Recovery

Members of the LGBTQ+ community come to recovery with a unique set of issues. Please understand that these issues are not necessarily exclusive to the LGBTQ+ community, as anyone in a marginalized minority (defined by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, etc.) would find commonality with the many issues that could be discussed. For the sake of this post, though, the discussion is from the LGBTQ+ perspective.

Sober Voices

The Sobriety Diaries:
Recovery From a Queer Perspective

In celebration of Pride Month, SMART Recovery is proud to present The Sobriety Diaries- Recovery from a Queer Perspective, hosted by Nate Kelly, made possible by our wonderful recovery content partners at Sober Voices.

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NAADAC Webinar

Advancing Awareness in LGBTQ Care

SMART strives to bring timely, content rich articles and information to our community from a variety of sources.

The need for specialized treatment for LGBTQ+ individuals was first addressed in 1979 at the Rutgers Summer School on Alcoholism, which led to the founding of NALGAP: The Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies. The co-founders of NALGAP will discuss those origins along with landmarks that followed NALGAP’s establishment, including how SAMHSA eventually published A Provider's Guide for Working with LGBT Individuals and a curriculum for training all professionals on the specific issues of LGBT clients.

The webinar is free to watch.

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Inspirational Video

Facilitator Spotlight

Michael Werner

Michael Werner has been with SMART since the beginning, though not in recovery himself. His motivation, as a facilitator, comes from seeing people transform their lives. If he's learned anything, it's that people are resilient and to never give up on them.

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