Cleveland Addiction Agency and National Association Partner to Help Clergy Counsel...

Cleveland Addiction Agency and National Association Partner to Help Clergy
Counsel the Children of Alcoholics
Recovery Resources and National Association of Children of Alcoholics Offer
Free Training Seminar for Clergy on January 30, 2008

CLEVELAND, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Recovery Resources, a nonprofit alcohol
and drug treatment agency and the National Association of Children of
Alcoholics (NACOA) have partnered to provide clergy and others involved in
pastoral care with a free one-day training program. The seminar will help
participants to understand how the disease of alcoholism and other drug
addictions impact the family, how to recognize its symptoms and how to best
intervene and support families confronting the problem.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday, January 30 from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm
(EST) at the Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland, 2500 East 22nd Street,
Cleveland 44115. It is open to clergy, lay ministers, leadership staff and
pastoral care nurses and staff. The program is free and includes lunch.
Awareness and educational materials on the children of alcoholics will be
distributed to attendees.
Sis Wenger, president and CEO of NACOA and the Rev. Mark A. Latcovich,
Ph.D., vice rector and academic dean of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland will
conduct the training. Free pamphlets, posters and other educational materials
will be distributed.
To register for the training, visit comchallenge@yahoo.com or call (440)
331-5655.
Recovery Resources Inc., established in 1954, helps people to triumph over
mental illness, alcoholism, drug- and other addictions. With more than 125
employees and an annual operating revenue of $8.2 million, Recovery Resources
ranks among the largest nonprofit corporations in Greater Cleveland and
largest independent behavioral health providers in Ohio. For additional
information, visit www.recovery-resources.org.
SOURCE Recovery Resources

Helen Jones of Robert Falls & Co. Public Relations for Recovery Resources
Inc., +1-216-923-1251, or After Hours, +1-216-233-2478, hjones@recres.org