Course Description:

 Women’s Specific Considerations along the Recovery Continuum, is a presentation with a formal presentation and time for discussion or Q and A. The intended audience is mental health and substance use disorder treatment providers and peer support workers (e.g., Certified Peer Support Specialists and Recovery Coaches). The depth of the presentation is for beginner-intermediate audiences but can apply to everyone depending on the audience's baseline knowledge of the topic. The session centers around exploring 4 women-specific considerations along the Substance Use Disorder/Mental Health recovery.

Women’s Specific Considerations along the Recovery Continuum is a breakout session for mental health and substance use disorder treatment providers and peer support workers. Facilitated by Caroline Beidler, MSW, this session explores barriers to women’s recovery, resilience-centered practices, building safety and trust, and honoring women’s strengths. Participants will gain practical tools to enhance recovery support services, understand trauma impacts, and foster authentic allyship.

Course Goals:

After attending the session, participants will be able to

(1) Identify barriers to women’s recovery such as stigma, social pressures, and relationship challenges.

(2) Understand the impact of trauma on women and how to support trauma recovery and increasing protective factors.

(3) Describe approaches to enhancing safety and trust within treatment and recovery support services provision and peer support like authentic allyship.

Contact Hours & CEUs: 3.0 hours

Cost: $30.00

Approved by NAADAC, TDMHSAS, TCB, and CPRS

Is Lunch Provided? No, snacks are included

Handouts: will be given out before or the training

Presenter:

Caroline Beidler, MSW is an author, speaker, and the Managing Editor of Recovery.com, a company that combines independent research with expert guidance on addiction and mental health treatment. Our mission is to help everyone find the best path to recovery through the most comprehensive, helpful network of treatment providers worldwide. She is the author of three books, Downstairs Church, You Are Not Your Trauma, and the title soon to be released with Nelson Books, coming Spring 2026. Her own lived experience in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery inspires her to help other others find recovery in all its varying forms. In four short years, she has built a global network of recovery supporters through her storytelling platform and accompanying newsletter, Circle of Chairs which reaches thousands weekly.

She is a creative and visionary, founding an annual global event on International Women’s Day with different sponsoring organizations each year that brings in thousands of supporters, along with co-leading a global research initiative on family recovery with leaders around the world. Her writing is described as funny, gritty, relatable, and insightful. When she isn’t writing, speaking, or building community, Caroline lives in Eastern Tennessee with her husband and six-year-old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up her community’s local recovery ministry.