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Building Effective Relationships with Lawmakers: Understand Your Role as a NAADAC Constituent

Building Effective Relationships with Lawmakers: Understand Your Role as a NAADAC Constituent
A Recorded Webinar
Recorded on Wednesday, August 16, 2018

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Description
This session seeks to provide insight into the role advocacy has in shaping policy and ultimately your practice. NAADAC members will also learn strategies for engaging Congress and amplifying your profession’s voice.
Learning Objectives
  • Participants will understand the intersection of advocacy, policy, and practice.
  • Participants will learn strategies for influencing Congress.
  • Participants will be able to identify NAADAC resources for engagement.

Presenters
Tim Casey

Tim Casey has a proven record of leadership in advancing the federal priorities of national associations, corporations, consumer organizations, and nonprofits. On Capitol Hill Tim is a trusted resource to Members of Congress and their staff. Casey's experience in the House and Senate combined with his time as a senior lobbyist for prominent health care organizations offers clients sound policy advice, strategic political counsel, and a keen instinct for delivering on key priorities before Congress and the Administration.
Julie Shroyer

Julie Shroyer has had long-term relationships with health and education policy decision makers that allow her to be a forceful voice for clients’ interests. With 29 years of government relations experience on health care issues, she is in daily contact with Washington’s leading health care experts on Capitol Hill, in regulatory agencies, national organizations, and advocacy coalitions. Her work has resulted in numerous legislative victories, including increased Congressional awareness of client policy initiatives, earmarked appropriations, and favorable legislative and regulatory language.

Interactivity
Polls and Q&A.

Price
Education is FREE to all professionals.
Earn 1 Continuing Education Hour (CE)
To earn a CE Certificate for viewing this webinar, you must view the webinar in its entirety, pass the CE quiz, and complete the online survey evaluation.

  1. Upon completing the webinar, you will have access to the CE quiz within the course you are taking. Find the CE quiz and click “purchase.” NAADAC members will be prompted to register for the CE quiz for free, while non-members will be prompted to pay a $15 processing fee to access the quiz.
  2. A score of 80% or higher is required to pass the CE quiz and access your CE certificate. You have 10 opportunities to pass the quiz. If you are unable to pass the quiz in the allocated number of tries, then you must retake the course.
  3. Upon passing the CE quiz, you will be required to complete the survey evaluation for the course. Once that is completed, your CE certificate will be immediately available to print. All certificates will be stored in the NAADAC Education Center under your profile name. Click here for instructions on how to access your CE certificates.

Click here for a complete list of organizations who approve NAADAC to provide continuing education hours.

This webinar is NOT eligible for ASWB ACE CE hours or NASW CE hours.

Who Should Attend
Addiction professionals, employee assistance professionals, social workers, mental health counselors, professional counselors, psychologists, and other helping professionals that are interested in learning about addiction-related matters.
Accessibility
Live closed captioning is available and the captioning capabilities are in compliance with the practices defined in Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. In addition, transcripts are available for on-demand webinars recorded on and after March 27, 2019.

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This presentation is for individual use only and may not be reproduced without permission from NAADAC.

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