Community Addictions Training - Summer Session

Nechi Institute’s Community Addictions Training (CAT) Certificate offers students training in alcohol and drug counselling skills. This program consists of eight courses; each course relates to and builds on skills learned during the previous course.

Course list

• CAT 1: Communication & Ethics
• CAT 2: Addictions
• CAT 3: Family Disease
• CAT 4: Assessment & Intervention
• CAT 5: Treatment
• CAT 6: Aftercare
• CAT 7: Personal Growth
• CAT 8: Prevention

Students attend classes which are 5 and ½ days in length and travel to our Centre for a total of eight weeks during a ten-month period. This program is also offered as an eight-week summer session.  Deadline for Summer CAT is:  June 1, 2012

Notes

• Pre-requisite is one-year sobriety (if you have a history of addictions).
• Each course in the Community Addictions Training Certificate Program is approved for 45 hours study credit by the Canadian Council of Professional Certification.