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Community & Contribution Track Guide

🤝 Community & Contribution Track

Engage, connect, and be recognized! This pathway helps you participate in forums, earn badges, and contribute to the professional community.

1

Start at Your Member Hub

Begin your community engagement journey from your Member Hub, where you can access all the social and community features available to your membership tier.

Community focus: Use your Member Hub as the starting point to discover forums, recognition programs, and ways to contribute to the professional community.

2

Use Quick Links for Community Participation

Explore the quick links in your Member Hub for easy community participation. Use tools like “Nominate a Clinician,” submit Q&A questions, and access other community contribution forms.

Quick participation tools: Direct links to nomination forms, Q&A submissions, and other ways to contribute without navigating multiple pages.

3

Understand Your Points & Badges

Visit your points and badges section to learn how participation earns recognition. See which activities contribute to your standing and how achievements are tracked.

Note: Points & badges are enabled for Premium and All-Inclusive members. Basic and Standard members can proceed to step 4.

Recognition system: Explore how engagement earns points, what badges are available, and how your contributions are recognized.

4

Explore Featured Chats

Check out the featured chats in your Mini Hub to see current community discussions. These give you a preview of forum conversations and community culture.

Note: Basic tier members have limited featured chat access. Standard, Premium, and All-Inclusive members have expanded options.

Community preview: Featured chats introduce you to the types of discussions happening in the forums and help you get comfortable with the conversation style.

5

Prepare for Full Forum Participation

Before joining the full forum experience, review community guidelines and the forum walkthrough. This ensures respectful, productive participation.

Essential preparation: Learn how to contribute meaningfully to professional discussions and build positive relationships.

6

Continue Building Community Connections

Keep engaging regularly. Build relationships, share your expertise, and support fellow professionals in their growth.

Ongoing engagement: Participate in forums, contribute helpful content, nominate colleagues, and grow your impact.

Need help with community features? We’re here if you have questions about participation or any tools.

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Cultural Competency Guide – Coming Soon

This practical guide equips clinicians with the tools needed to deliver culturally responsive, equitable addiction treatment. Through real-world examples, reflection prompts, and actionable resources, it supports providers in building empathy, reducing disparities, and honoring client identities and lived experiences.

Covers:

  • Cultural humility framework
  • Bias recognition strategies
  • Sample cultural assessment forms
  • Case studies from diverse communities

This upcoming guide delivers practical tools to strengthen inclusive, respectful client care.

Join the waitlist to get notified when it’s released and gain early access to exclusive companion tools.

Estimated Release: Spring 2026

Want early access or release updates? Fill out the form below.

Cultural Competency Waitlist

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CE Course Coming Soon – Coming Soon

This 5-hour self-paced course is designed to enhance clinical awareness and confidence when working with individuals in early addiction, co-occurring conditions, or unclear diagnoses. It provides an in-depth look at how addiction presents across populations and offers practical strategies for recognizing early, acute, and masked symptoms.

You’ll explore:

  • The difference between signs vs. symptoms

  • Clinical red flags often missed in intake or early treatment

  • Cultural, behavioral, and neuropsychological indicators of substance use

  • Case-based decision-making to strengthen recognition skills

📚 Already Available: The full resource guide is live in our store and can be used now

Coming Soon: This course is currently pending CE approval through NAADAC. You’ll earn 5 CE hours upon launch.

🗓 Estimated CE Release: Mid to Late Summer 2025

Want early access or CE release notifications? Join the waitlist below.

CE Course - Recognizing and Addressing Signs and Symptoms in Addiction Waitlist

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Breaking Barriers – Coming Soon

This upcoming guide offers clinicians a compassionate, evidence-informed framework for supporting LGBTQIA+ clients through the addiction and recovery journey. Developed with cultural humility and intersectionality at its core, Breaking Barriers includes:

  • Clinical guidance on affirming care across diverse identities and experiences
  • Scenarios and case studies for reflective practice
  • Tools to help clients explore identity safety, stigma, and resilience
  • Strategies for addressing minority stress and internalized shame in treatment

Designed for individual therapists, group facilitators, and programs ready to do better by queer and trans clients.

Estimated Release: December 1, 2025

Want early access or release updates? Fill out the form below.

Breaking Barriers Waitlist

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Closing the Divide – Coming Soon

This enhanced eBook explores the deep-rooted gender disparities in addiction care—and offers concrete strategies for closing the gap. Designed for seasoned clinicians, advocates, and program directors, this guide includes:

  • Data-driven insights on gender differences in access, engagement, and outcomes
  • Real-world case studies and reflection prompts
  • Worksheets and trauma-informed tools tailored by gender identity
  • Strategies for building inclusive, gender-responsive recovery systems

Join the waitlist to get notified when it’s released and receive early access to exclusive companion tools.

Estimated Release: October 31, 2025

Want early access or release updates? Fill out the form below.

Closing the Divide Waitlist

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Parenting in Recovery – Coming Soon

This upcoming resource is designed to help clinicians support clients navigating both recovery and parenthood. The Parenting in Recovery workbook explores strategies for rebuilding trust, establishing stability, and fostering meaningful communication between parents and children.

Whether used in family therapy or individual treatment, this guide includes:

  • Evidence-informed parenting strategies

  • Tools for restoring structure and safety at home

  • Guided activities to promote connection and resilience

  • Session-ready prompts and clinician insights

Built for therapists, counselors, and parenting specialists, this resource will be released in Spring 2026.

Want early access or release updates? Fill out the form below.

Parenting in Recovery Waitlist