EAPA’s 2008 Annual World EAP Conference
EAPA’s 2008 Annual World EAP Conference
Hilton Atlanta ♦ Atlanta, GA ♦ October 15-18, 2008
Phone: (703) 387-1000 x317 ♦ Fax: (703) 522-4585 ♦ Email: confmgr@eapassn.org
Mail To: EAPA Conference, 4350 N. Fairfax Drive, Ste 410, Arlington, VA 22203
Sales Information: Jaime Barnhart, CMP, (703) 387-1000, Email: confmgr@eapassn.org
2008 EAPA Annual World Conference Exhibitor Rules and Regulations
New Senate Bill No. 518 Regular Session 2006
Senator Schedler has submitted Senate Bill No. 518 which could create a Board of Certified Employee Assistance Professionals within the Department of Health and Hospitals. For a complete overview of the new bill please go to: http://senate.legis.state.la.us and go to “Find A Bill”. Once at the Regular Session 2006 web page, go to the search for a [...]
Louisiana Board of Certified Employee Assistance Professionals
House Bill No 386 Act No. 428 which was passed during this last session. Among other things the new law stated “relative to boards, commissions, authorities, districts, and like entities; to abolish certain inactive boards, commissions, districts, authorities, and like entities”. It additionally stated “; to remove references to, provisions for, and the powers, functions, [...]
SAMHSA Posts Updated Directory of 11,000 Treatment Programs
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration posted an updated guide to finding local substance abuse treatment programs. The guide, “National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs 2005,” provides information on thousands of alcohol and drug treatment programs located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and four U.S. [...]
Call for Entries
Look how times flies, when you’re getting ready for the EAPA conference! Yes it’s only a few months away and we have updates and information you can use. This issue offers a great message from President Dotty Blum, updates from the Board committees, new professional development resources, events in and around EAPA land and the [...]
Caregiving magazines are filling a need
USA TODAY REPORTS
“…one in five adult Americans — 21% of the U.S. population — provide unpaid care for someone 18 or older. That’s 44.4 million people — more than the populations of Texas and New York state combined.”
To read the article click the link below:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-06-12-caremags-usat_x.htm?csp=34
New book provides support for adults caring for aging parents
Newsweek reports on a new book titled, “Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You,”.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7393641/site/newsweek/
NY Times reports that marital therapy may not help
In a recent New York Times article the paper reports that marital therapy does not work nearly as well as it should. They point to studies that show two years after ending counseling, 25 percent of couples are worse off than they were when they started, and after four years, up to 38 percent are [...]
Washington Post Report: Medical Boards Let Physicians Practice Despite Drug Abuse
The Washington Post has an interesting series of articles, which began last Sunday, on doctors and substance abuse. It reports that Doctors with substance abuse problems are allowed to keep practicing, often despite relapses, and medical boards rarely revoke licenses.
This series began on Sunday and will run through Tuesday, the links to all the articles [...]
Alzheimers Education Conference
The Louisiana Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association presents the 11th Annual Education Conference. The conference will be held in Lafayette, La on Thursday April 28th and Alexandria, La on Friday, April 29th.
Continuing Education Credits are available for:
Louisiana Nursing Home Administrator- 6.0 Contact hours
Activity Professionals- 6.0 Contact hours
Recreational Therapist- 6.0 Contact hours or .6 CEU’s
Social Workers- [...]