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Happy Summer and welcome to Daystar Education!  You will find a wide array of excellent workshops for people wanting to increase their competence for working with addicts. Our summer calendar is a bit lighter than the rest of the year, but still has plenty to offer those of us who don’t have the summer off.

PLEASE REGISTER EARLY…The five core classes often fill weeks in advance, so don’t be disappointed by trying to register too late.  In our other many workshops, we also encourage you to register early, so we don’t cancel an event just before you sign up!!

We continue to offer new and ongoing workshops, focusing in on special needs and special populations:
Treating Adolescent Addiction
Sexual Addiction
Families and Addiction
Domestic Violence and Addiction
Assessing/Screening Co-Occurring Disorders
Criminality and Substance Abuse

Daystar participants are very loyal and its great to see people come back because they know they will have a productive learning experience. Participants are the core of why we succeed. Good training involves your interest and expertise, as well as many trainers who often lead workshops even when it’s not always profitable.

ASIST (SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING) IS AUGUST 30-31. This evidence-based, engaging workshop is immediate clinical application.   This Is a national model, most often delivered at sites of employment, not generally available. Many counselors have no training in suicide prevention, even though treatment populations are at high risk.

Grief, Spirituality and Shame. (What an attention getter!) Each of these one day offerings address common issues clients have in treatment. They often have less than ten participants, creating an   environment for exploration and learning. Transforming Grief is August 4, Public Spirituality August 12, Resolving Client Shame October 4.

Its about time, its about change. More than a campaign slogan, we now face the greatest opportunity to move the human family forward experienced in a long time. Having an African-American president challenges all of us to address racism, individually and collectively.

In the treatment field, agencies rarely have racial parity with clients. This inadequacy may very well be the reason treatment admissions and completions are down when looking at clients of color.  In spite of this problem, counselors of color, especially African American counselors are being pushed from the field due to criminal background check failures. Counselors have lost their jobs, abruptly, even after working for an agency for many years.

Please join us at a community forum on Wed. July 21 at PCC Cascade, Terrell Hall 122 6-8 pm. Counselors, community members and elected officials will come together in an effort to reverse this trend that is pushing recovering people out of the chemical dependency field, especially people of color.


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Daystar Education, Inc.

2054 N. Vancouver

Portland, Oregon 97227
(503) 234-1215
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