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Tom Garrett, Executive Director of Legal Services Law Line of Vermont., Inc. speaks with McKenna Freese, Dylan Frazer, and Dani Fuoco, all Health Care Advocates with        Law Line of Vermont.

Suzi Wizowaty, Director of Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, speaks with John Gorczyk, former Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections and Kathy Fox, Sociology Professor at the University of Vermont.  More information:

Website: www.VermontersforCriminalJusticeReform.org

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Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, gives a talk titled “Women, Sharia Law and Reform in the Middle East” at the University of Vermont.

Coleman directs the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of expertise include the political economy of the Middle East, democratization, civil society, economic development, educational reform and gender issues. She is the author and coauthor of numerous books, including Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions (Council on Foreign Relations, 2013), The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security (Routledge Press, 2012), Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010), Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), and Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006).

In addition to the Marsh Professor-at-Large program, the talk is sponsored by President Tom Sullivan; the Department of Economics; the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies; the Department of Political Science; and the Vermont Council on World Affairs.

Ivette Torres, Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Peer recovery support in behavioral health is a powerful and essential component of the recovery process. More recently, however, the recognition of the importance of peer support has led to more structured and intentional applications of this recovery support approach. For example, many peer “recovery support specialists” and “recovery coaches” have received training on the most effective ways to help peers in recovery. Use of trained individuals along with other strategies for providing peer support is found in both mental health and substance use settings. Peer support is especially effective within certain groups such as military service members and veterans, young adults, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations. In some applications, online technologies are used to facilitate peer support processes. This show will also address the use of peer support in recovery community centers and recovery living settings.

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