Person-Centered Care for Addiction: Compassionate Interventions for Effective Recovery Support: May 15, 2026: In-Person @ CODAC

Person-Centered Care is a philosophy and set of strategies that seeks to minimize harm associated with high-risk behaviors while supporting positive, incremental behavior change. This approach believes all people are capable of change and will do so when they are ready and when circumstances allow. It uses compassion, dignity, respect, and consistent positive regard to promote healing and long-term recovery. This training will include a review of the basic principles and practices of person-centered care for addiction, an overview of why it works, sample person-centered strategies, and interactive activities to enhance learning.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the core tenants of the person-centered approach
• Explain why a person-centered approach for addiction works to increase recovery outcomes
• Describe high-risk behaviors and corresponding person-centered strategies
• Explain how motivational conversations play a key role in the person-centered approach

Trainer Bio

Daisy M. Hernandez, MSW, LCSW, MBA serves as a Trainer and the Director of REC Peer Recovery TA at C4 Innovations. She earned her Master of Social Work as a fellow of the Integrated Behavioral Health Fellowship from Westfield State University and her Master’s in Business Administration from Elms College.  Ms. Hernandez has dedicated her clinical social work career to community mental and behavioral health organizations within under-served communities.  Her professional experience spans the entire spectrum of substance use disorder (prevention through recovery). As a native of Puerto Rico, she has leveraged her lived experience, bilingualism, and education to support and advance racial justice and empower individuals who are over-represented in behavioral health and social services as a result of negative impacts of social determinants of health, including re-entry. 

Training Facts:

• Date
  • May 15, 2026
• Time:
  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET
• Location: In-person training at CODAC, 45 Royal Little Drive, Providence RI, 02904
• Subject: Person-Centered Care for Addiction
• Practice level: Beginner, Intermediate 
• CE credit: 
  • ASWB: 6 hours
  • NAADAC: 6 hours
  • NBCC: 6 hours
• Course type: In-person
  • 6 hour training
• Covered topics: Person-Centered Care for Addiction
• Date created: 2025

Who Should Take This Course:

Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-centered organizations.

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this course once purchased. Therefore, no refund will be given. For special circumstances before the live sessions begin, C4 may cancel your registration and move your credit to another module of equal value or refund the course to the original source of payment. 

Training Certificates:

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

1. Attending the entire 6 hour in-person training
2. Completing all required learning activities
3. Completing the course evaluation form and the certificate request form

6 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB, NAADAC, and NBCC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants roughly two weeks after the completion of the training evaluation and certificate request form. 

Accommodations: 

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Project Coordinator, Isabel-Kai Fisher at rhodetta@c4innovates.com.

Grievances: 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Project Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com. 

In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate, you must arrive on time, fill in the sign-in sheet, and stay for the duration of the training, completing the evaluation. If you are a social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the sign-in sheet.

C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2023-10/17/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.  

C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6576. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

This course has been approved by C4 Innovations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.