Posted: Friday, December 06, 2013

Fay Baker, LICSW, The Providence Center’s director of project implementation and acute services, will be among treatment professionals discussing family dynamics in helping people recovery from substance abuse disorders as part of a national panel series on improving addiction treatment sponsored by Addiction Professional magazine.

Tuesday, December 10
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Eleven Forty Nine Restaurant
Warwick, RI

Register here for the event. One hour of continuing education credit will be available.

Baker will be joined by Addiction Professional Editor Gary Enos and experts from around the area and the country for an examination of family dynamics in addiction treatment. Upon attending this course, participants will be able to:

Baker is a long-time visiting faculty member of the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, St. Louis. She has been a teacher, trainer and consultant on local, regional, and national levels for many years, most recently in training behavioral health staff and administrators regarding trauma informed care and gaining knowledge and skills for working in an integrated care environment.

• Understand how changing family structures are affecting client outcomes
• Understand how meaningful connections with a patient’s natural supports in the community reinforce the goals of a recovery-oriented system of care
• Identify techniques for engaging families in the addiction treatment process

Baker is a licensed independent social worker (in RI and MA) with several decades of clinical and administrative experience in community behavioral health. She has been working with a variety of integrated care models since the early 90s. At TPC, Baker oversees emergency services department, RESPECT program, Crisis Stabilization Unit and integrated care programs. More recently, she has led the development of several new programs growing out of The Providence Center’s partnership with the Care New England hospital system. These include Symmetry at Duncan Lodge, a residential substance abuse treatment program and a new program to serve those who use emergency rooms as a source of regular behavioral health care.