12:00 PM - 01:30 PM PST
A-1 - Winning the Cultural Battle: Understanding Cultural Tradition and Ceremony for Successful Treatment of Addictions and MH in the LGBTQ2+ Community John Dennem, PhD, MA, CADC-II, LPC CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

01:30 PM - 01:45 PM PST
SSW1 - Am I a Sex Addict? Join us for the sponsor break. These sessions are intended to educate, create community, and to help you to get to know our sponsors. Please attend live to get the maximum benefit and to win prizes. A fun approach to sexuality

01:45 PM - 03:15 PM PST
A-2 - Creating a Safe and Supportive Collective Healing Environment when Fundamental LGBTQ+ Rights are at Risk. Lauren Costine, PhD; Angie Martell, PLLC; Robert Turner LMSW, M.S. ED CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

03:15 PM - 03:30 PM PST

SS-002 - The correlation between Interpersonal trauma and Substance Use in the LGBTQ Community. Join us for the sponsor break. These sessions are intended to educate, create community, and to help you to get to know our sponsors. Please attend live to get the maximum benefit and to win prizes. Early and ongoing interpersonal trauma experienced by members of the LGBTQ community often contributes to higher risk of substance abuse as well as other negative health outcomes. Evidenced-based trauma treatments have been producing promising results to support healing from past pain and freed...

03:30 PM - 05:00 PM PST
A-3 - We All Mess Up (and that's ok!): Addressing the Stumbling Blocks of LGBTQ+T Inclusivity in Practice Shane'a Thomas, LICSW, EdD CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM PST
NW - Community Partner Special Event: Speed Networking Meet the Community Partners and our Sponsors at this fun event hosted by Advanced Therapeutic Services. Win Prizes.

08:00 AM - 08:45 AM PST
BT - Open OA Meeting OpenOA meeting led by Charles W

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST
B-1 - The Chem-Sex Spectrum: Expanding Perspectives in LGBTQi+ Mental Health & Addiction Treatment Patrick Lockwood, PhD CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM PST
SST1 - FIERCE FACE MAKE UP in 12-Steps with Glen Alen Glen Alen is an Emmy Award-winning makeup artist and Drag illusionist. He has 12 FIERCE makeup steps to share. Glen also has 29 years of sobriety under his belt and is an HIV survivor of over 30 years. Sponsored by Manny Rodriguez, CEO, and Founder

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
B-2 - FIGHT, FLIGHT, or FUCK CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM PST
SST2 - HANG MAN: Come and play with us. Test your words smith with Christian Coulter and Monica Montoya. Win Prizes. Hosted by the Dream Team at Renewal Behavioral Health and Montare BH.

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM PST
B-3 - Preparing LGBTQ Clients for Success Beyond Treatment: Self Esteem, Safety and Spiritual Development Donna Chavous, RAS, CCMI, CIP CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

01:30 PM - 01:45 PM PST
SST3 - Sending messages of hope and inspiration from valley girls Welcome to VGR! Meet the owner and tour our facility Christina Fornecker

01:45 PM - 02:00 PM PST
SST4 - Mindfulness Meditation with Multi Concept Recovery Tori Ratchford, Counselor and Program Manager at Multi Concept Recovery, will be guiding a Loving Kindness meditation. Loving-Kindness(Metta) is one of the Four Heart Practices (Brahma Viharas) in Buddhist Philosophy. Heart Practices are the "sublime states" of emotional wellbeing in Buddhism. These are the states of being that are believed that through Mindfulness and meditation can be cultivated (developed) and nurtured.
SST5b - Starting the Converstation Sam Pow, LCSW, brings an eclectic, strengths-based approach to his role at La Ventana. Rooted in positive psychology, Sam incorporates ideas from existential therapy and narrative therapy with the practical skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). His goal is to cultivate a space in which clients feel empowered to heal emotional wounds while creating the foundation of safety and stability they need in order to build healthier habits. Art, music, mindfulness, and meditation are tools Sam inv...

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM PST
B-5 - Aging, Sex and Intimacy Among Gay Men: From Problem to Practice through the Creation a 6-week Workshop Leo Abaunza CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

03:30 PM - 03:45 PM PST
SST6 - "Not One More” Trivia – Q&A around eating disorders & within the LGBTQ+ community

03:45 PM - 05:00 PM PST
B-6 - Sex in the COVID-19 Age: Lessons Learned From the HIV epidemic and New Frontiers to be Explored. Brent Heinze, LPCC CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM PST
SST5 - LGBTQ TRIVIA with The Community Partners, facilitated by AKUA Networking Fun and Games. Lots of Great Prizes given away at each sponsored event. Hosted by Akua and Our Community Partners

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM PST
B-8 - Flying Standby Please attend to view Tonya Meek's bittersweet comedy, "Flying Standby", reveals how the determination to escape her alcoholic mother carried her through a turbulent ride of addiction, lost love, and a final desperate flight toward reconciliation. Tonya will take questions and speak with attendees after the viewing of the video. Tonya Meeks, LMFT

08:00 AM - 08:45 AM PST
AA1 - AA Meeting with Janet H AA Meeting

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST
C-1 - Reaching the Underserved LGBTQi+ Community Who Suffer from Additions/Mental Illness and Support Their Success Kenneth Seeley, CIP, CCMI, CTP; Eric McLaughlin, MSW, CCMI-M, CIP CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM PST

SSF1 - Virtual reality, Thinking outside the box for your Alumni Talking about how the new virtual reality headset platform and functions that can support your Alumni’s new sobriety as well create endless touchpoints to connect with your Alumni in a way that would support their continued success. Our Grand Prize for Attendance and Participation is an Occulus Virtual Reality. Nicole Topor from Delphi Behavioral Health is going to do a Short 10-minute Work Out. Check out her booth at the Exhibit Hall.

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST
C-2 - Checking Your Unconscious Biases in a Therapeutic Setting TJ Woodward CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM PST
SSF2 - Walking Across the USA and LGBTQ Advocacy Ken Seeley Rehab Centers presents a Live Q&A with Richard Noble on-site at their new facility. Richard has a fascinating story about walking from coast to coast for gay rights and how his LGBTQ advocacy transfers into his work in recovery

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM PST
C-3 - Check your BLAH! - a self-monitoring psychosocial intervention during a global pandemic Delene Van Dyk, RN CE Credit Hours: 1.00     Live Interactive Webinar

01:30 PM - 01:45 PM PST
SSF4 - Andrea Dressler and Camille Parson with AKUA- Presenting "Supporting our LGBTQ community in cultivating healthy attachments to thrive" AKUA Mind & Body is launching a new LGBTQ Support group via Zoom starting Feb. 2nd! LGBTQ and friends are welcome to join. Meetings will be held monthly to support our community in any way possible.

01:45 PM - 02:00 PM PST
SSF6 - Fitness Wellnes Continuum Mindfulness living with Came to Pass Recovery

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM PST
C-4 - Eating Disorder Treatment for People of Marginalized Sexual Identities Steffanie Grossman, Ph.D. CE Credit Hours: 1.50     Live Interactive Webinar

03:30 PM - 03:45 PM PST
SSF3 - MINDING YOUR L, G, B, T & Q's

03:45 PM - 05:00 PM PST
C-5 - Providing Proven Healing Modalities for Clients Who Have Experienced Institutional and Systemic Oppression and Trauma Jona Genova

09:00 AM - 10:15 AM PST
D-1 - Creating Trans-Affirming, COVID-Era Services Willy Wilkinson, MPH CE Credit Hours: 1.25     Live Interactive Webinar

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM PST
SSS1a - PRIDE INSTITUTE Lucas Miller Business Development Director will present about PRIDE Institute, a nuanced Recovery for LGBTQ+ People (ages 18 or above)

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM PST
D-3 - Providing affirmative services to transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) youth Beth Zacher Burke, LCSW CE Credit Hours: 1.25     Live Interactive Webinar

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM PST
SSS1 - TRANS TRIVIA: Meet the Michael's House Team and Win Przes Lynne Biehl & Sally Lawes

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM PST
D-4 - Trauma-Informed and Culturally Affirming Approaches to Working with LGBTQ+ Social Service Consumers Jazzmun Nichcala Crayton; Beck Gee-Cohen MA CADC-II; Jake Weinraub, LMFT CE Credit Hours: 1.00     Live Interactive Webinar

01:00 PM - 01:30 PM PST
NW-4 - Transgender Networking Space Connect with other industry professionals and community advocates.

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM PST
D-5 - A inside look at being a Trans, GenderFluid, 2-spirit, Non-binary Mother/parent to a biologically born child “The Journey” Kristina Padilla, LAADC, ICAADC, CGS CE Credit Hours: 1.25     Live Interactive Webinar

02:30 PM - 02:45 PM PST

SSS7 - We just wanted to say Hello from the Big Easy. It is important to acknowledge that the pandemic has increased the vulnerability for many of us and the impact can be particularly difficult to manage when it is exacerbating one’s symptoms of trauma-related or other mental health symptoms. LGBTQ folk, in general, have an increased vulnerability to experience a traumatic event ranging from form physical, emotional, psychological, and or sexual abuse within or from outside of family, institutional and organizational trauma, religious/spiritual a...

02:45 PM - 04:00 PM PST
D-6 - Supporting Transgender & Gender Diverse Clients in Eating Disorder Treatment Vaughn Darst, MS, RD CE Credit Hours: 1.25     Live Interactive Webinar

04:00 PM - 04:15 PM PST
SSS6 - GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY GRAND PRIZE OCULUS, $50 GIFT CARDS, FREE PASS TO OUR NEXT FINDING FREEDOM EVENT