Programme
TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER – VISITS AND CIVIC RECEPTION
Service Visits are available to book in advance and will take place between 09:00 and 15:00
- Harper House, Phoenix Futures Specialist Family Service
- Phoenix Futures Therapeutic Community Residential Service
- Recovery Through Nature – Phoenix Futures and John Muir Trust at Glenlude
- Communities of Recovery Fife – RtN / Recovery Café
Welcome Reception at Merchants House, Glasgow. 18:00 – 19:00
Civic reception hosted by The Rt Hon The Lord Provost of Glasgow and the Phoenix Futures Scotland Board.
WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER – THE GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL
09:00 Registration
09:45 Opening Remarks by David Mackie, Chair of Phoenix Futures Scotland
10:00 Welcome and Opening of the Conference by Angela Constance, Minister for Drug Policy, Scottish Government
10:15 Opening keynote speaker David Best, Professor of Addiction Recovery, Leeds Trinity University
10:45 Welcome from Phaedon Kaloterakis, President of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities
11:00 Celebration of Life & EFTC Award
Noon Lunch
13:00 Plenary Session 1
SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Supporting parents in residential treatment: An overview of the Parents Under Pressure program Anita Harris, Coolmine, Ireland
Specialist Family Service – Scotland. An overview of the specialist program Lyndsey Hague & Kerry McGhee, Phoenix Futures Scotland
Family Services in The Therapeutic Community Robin Rettmer and Lillian Marquez, Amity Foundation, USA
The incorporation of Early Years into the Therapeutic Community – Holistic and multi-disciplinary working Leandra O’Malley Coolmine, Ireland
DELIVERING TREATMENT IN A PRISON SETTING
Mapping addiction professionals’ demands towards AOD-related work: challenges on education and training in a treatment organisation in a post-COVID era Remos Armaos, KETHEA, Greece
Customised training in addiction by the Ecett Good Practice Based Academy Georges van der Straten and Andrea Ascari for Ecett-Networks
Servant Leadership as an approach in a Therapeutic Community Lisa Larkin, Coolmine, Ireland
Creating a sustainable workforce Gerard Byrne, Australasian Therapeutic Communities Association
RESPONDING TO COMPLEXITY, MENTAL NEEDS AND TRAUMA
Addiction treatment and the complexity of neuropsychological functioning Susie Longbottom, Association AURORE (CT), Mailys Miquel, CEID (CT) France
The impact of Trauma over time: Working with the Wounded Self Dr Lynne Magor-Blatch, Australia
Mental Health: Implications for the Therapeutic Community Peter Lindsayhall, Phoenix Futures UK
COVID-19 impact on access to care services and clients’ profile changes in KETHEA treatment services Gerasimos Papanastasatos, Greece
14:30 Break
15:00 Plenary Session 2
WOMEN AND INCLUSIVITY
Including Women in Recovery Donatella Olisterno, Phoenix Futures Scotland
The Post Patriarchal TC: Hamsa Circles to Empower Women Pamela Jay and Anna Bond, Amity Foundation USA
Barriers on the Pathways to Safety Arhonda Lynch, University College Cork, Ireland
Trauma-informed women’s treatment standards of care Dr. Sushma D. Taylor CenterPoint, INC, USA
BUILDING INCLUSIVE APPROACHES
Building Inclusive Treatment Programs Edward Carlson, Odyssey House Louisiana, USA
Synanon Revisited: An Experiment in Social and Environmental Justice Rod Mullen, Amity Foundation USA
The Role of Ceremony in the Teaching and Therapeutic Community Robin Rettmer and Carmen Jacinto, Amity Foundation, USA
Reflections on the occupational inclusion of TC members in the current socio-economic-hygienic conditions. The establishment of ARGO Social Cooperative Enterprise Stelios Gkiouzepas, ARGO, Greece
UNDERSTANDING OUR TREATMENT POPULATIONS
Proyecto Hombre Observatory of the profile of people with addiction problems under treatment Fernando Gonzalez, Proyecto Hombre Association, Spain
Complexity, is this the new straightforward? Gerard Byrne, We Help Ourselves (WHOS), Australia
Cost-Benefit of Therapeutic Community. Latest Methodology, Research Findings and Policy Applications Petros Triantos, KETHEA, Greece
Implementation of quality standards, quality assurance and control systems in the context of specialised services for people who use drugs/live with behavioural addictions: An Irish Case Study Pauline McKeown, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Eoin Coughlan, Coolmine Ireland
16:30 End of day programme
19:30 Celebration Dinner (Breaking Bread Together) The Haberdashery, 545 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 7PQ
An opportunity for delegates to enjoy an evening of conversation together over dinner. (Tickets for dinner to be purchased separately via the Book Conference Tickets – EFTC Conference (eftc2022.scot) page).
An EFTC General Assembly will be held at 16:45 – 18:15
THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER – THE GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL
09:15 Welcome Opening Remarks by Dr Susan Kinnaird, Chair of Phoenix Futures
09:30 Keynote Speaker – George De Leon
In conversation with George De Leon
11:00 Break
11:30 Plenary Session 3
MEASURING OUTCOMES
Measuring the Integrity of the TC: The Community Indicator and Membership activities Jesse Losoya and Claudia Plepler, Amity Foundation USA
An examination of the reliability and validity of the recovery capital questionnaire (RCQ) John Burns, Rowdy Yates, University of Stirling Scotland
Use of Machine Learning to Extract Predictors of Graduation From Social Networks in TCs Keith Warren, The Ohio State University, USA
Implementing routine outcome measurement in therapeutic communities: findings on QoL from TC Wouter Vanderplasschen, Ghent University Luca Littera, Dirk Vandevelde, De Kiem, Belgium
SUSTAINING OUR APPROACHES IN A CHANGING WORLD
Policy and Advocacy as a Tool for Sustainability Lonnie Granier, Odyssey House, Louisiana, USA
Finding the Balance Between Corporation and Community Doug Bond, Jesse Losoya, and Regina Slaughter, Amity Foundation, USA
It Works If You Work It: Diversifying Service Delivery to Manage Modern Day TCs Helena Likaj Odyssey House Louisiana USA
UNDERSTANDING OUR TREATMENT POPULATIONS
Documenting the TC through Film and Video Featuring the Film Prison Circle*
Documenting the TC through Film and Video Kaori Sakagami, Out of Frame, JAPAN Rod Mullen, Thijs Boonen, Amity Foundation, USA.
Following the presentation the Film Prison Circle will be shown in full. With a break for lunch and delegates invited back into the session after lunch to complete this extended workshop.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Plenary Session 4
DELIVERING TREATMENT IN PRISON
Creating Therapeutic Communities in Romanian and Moldovan prisons using values of the TC as guide Rune Hafstad, Cristina Teoroc, Phoenix Haga, Norway, Ina Vutcariov, Phoenix Jilava, TC Catharsis, Romania
The ongoing, growth-promoting effect of installing the TC-principles in one prison-wing on the whole prison Anja Schillebeeks, ‘t Kader, Belguim
Prisoners’ experiences in the autonomous Therapeutic Community of KETHEA PROMITHEAS and in the day care Therapeutic Community of KETHEA EN DRASI Natalia Eftaxia Zachartzi, Centres for the Prevention of Addictions and the Promotion of Psychosocial Health “SEIRIOS, Greece
INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS
How Might we Develop an Integrated Care Pathway for Concerned Persons? An Action Design Research Study Aoife Stack, Coolmine, Ireland
Impact of Resonance Factor in Community project: From London to Dublin Annette McManmon-Kenna Coolmine, Ireland
Better outcomes for poly drug use using community reinforcement approach Laurie O`Sullivan, Coolmine, Ireland
Documenting the TC through Film and Video – with a conversation with filmmaker Kaori Sakagami*
(continuation of the session started before lunch with time to discuss the film and the filmmaking process with Kaori Sakagami)
15:30 40 Years of EFTC – A Birthday Celebration. Hosted by Phaedon Kaloterakis, Kethea and President of EFTC
16:15 Closing remarks by Karen Biggs, Phoenix Futures
16:30 End of the 18th EFTC Conference