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Three professional tools you can use right now— no email, no account, just help when you need it.

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Brief Symptom Addiction Checklist

Quick 5-question screening tool with simple recommendations. Takes 2-3 minutes. Useful for initial conversations or quick check-ins.

  • Just 5 quick questions
  • Simple recommendations provided
  • Printable results page
  • Easy conversation starter
  • Good for initial screening

Note: This is a brief screening tool, not a diagnostic instrument. Results should be used as a starting point for further assessment and clinical conversation.

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Level of Care Decision Guide

Use this visual tool to walk through key clinical factors when considering inpatient vs. outpatient placement. Click through the decision points to see recommendations.

  • Quick visual decision pathway
  • Considers multiple factors
  • Helps organize clinical thinking
  • Starting point for placement decisions
  • Downloadable reference guide

Note: This tool is designed as a starting point to organize clinical thinking. Always consider your full clinical assessment, agency protocols, and client preferences when making placement decisions.

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Drug Category Matching Game

Interactive matching exercise for drug classifications. Match substances to their correct category: Stimulant, Depressant, or Hallucinogen. Perfect for telehealth groups.

  • Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens
  • Instant feedback as you play
  • No time limit
  • Great for groups or solo learning
  • Screen-share for telehealth sessions

Tip: Use this in telehealth groups by sharing your screen. Clients can call out answers while you click — makes for an engaging psychoeducation activity.

📊 Take the Brief Screening:

Answer 5 quick questions about addiction symptoms to receive simple recommendations. Takes about 2-3 minutes.

🌳 Level of Care Decision Guide:

Click through the decision points to explore inpatient vs. outpatient placement considerations.

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💊 Drug Category Matching Game:

Match each substance to its correct category: Stimulant, Depressant, or Hallucinogen. Get instant feedback as you play.

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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

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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

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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

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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