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Leaders Promoting Recovery From Addiction Recognized for Outstanding Achievement

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Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 26, 2013

Faces &amp Voices of Recovery honored leaders in the addiction recovery movement, highlighting the extraordinary contributions of the country’s most influential recovery community leaders and organizations at America Honors Recovery nowadays. The occasion, sponsored with Caron Therapy Centers, showcased their exceptional efforts advocating for the rights of men and women and their households in or seeking recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

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Kristen Johnston, Award-winning actress and best-promoting author, accepted the Voice of Recovery award. Johnstons advocacy on behalf of addicts and addiction recovery is unparalleled, stated Faces &amp Voices of Recovery board chair Dona Dmitrovic. She has bravely told her own story, giving hope to other folks and is a effective voice for recovery.”

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Speakers and presenters integrated former member Congress Mary Bono (R-CA) federal Substance Abuse and Mental Well being Services Administration (SAMHSA) Administrator Pam Hyde and White Home Workplace of National Drug Manage Policy Deputy Director Michael Botticelli.

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The Vernon Johnson award was accepted by Tom Coderre, Andre Johnson and Scott Strode. Coderre is the Chief of Employees for the Rhode Island State Senate and the Board Chair of Rhode Island Communities for Addiction Recovery Efforts (RICARES). He is a leader and sturdy public advocate for recovery, peer recovery help services and ending discriminatory policies. Johnson is the CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project, exactly where he is an exceptional leader and “recovery carrier,” bringing his message of hope to so numerous although developing a robust peer recovery assistance organization. Strode is the Founder and Executive Director of Phoenix Multisport in Denver, CO and has devoted his life to assisting addicts and alcoholics find recovery by means of sport.

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The Joel Hernandez Award was accepted by Executive Director Gretchen Burns Bergman on behalf of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Therapy &amp Healing), San Diego, CA. A New PATH was produced in 1999 by parents of men and women whose lives have been devastated by addiction.

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The Lisa Mojer-Torres Award was accepted by Arthur C. Evans, Jr., Ph.D. Evans heads up the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Wellness and Intellectual disAbility Solutions, exactly where he has led the transformation of Philadelphias service technique to one that focuses on recovery.

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The Vernon Johnson and Joel Hernandez award recipients have been selected from nominees submitted by organizations and advocates from across the U.S. The honorees had been featured at an awards ceremony that fosters excellence in advocacy connected to recovery from addiction. America Honors Recovery carries on the legacies of 3 addiction recovery trailblazers who dedicated their lives to removing barriers for people and households impacted by addiction: Johnson Institute founder, Dr. Vernon E. Johnson, and recovery advocates, Joel Hernandez and Lisa Mojer-Torres.

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The award recipients and Faces &amp Voices of Recovery-supported recovery neighborhood organizations nationwide have launched local and state campaigns to assistance individuals in or seeking recovery from addiction and their families. Their efforts seek to finish discriminatory laws that hold men and women in or seeking recovery from jobs, housing and other services. They develop and provide revolutionary peer recovery help services like a expanding network of recovery community centers. The advocates also educate the public and policymakers about the reality of recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

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Interviews of the awardees are accessible upon request.&#13

The awards system is offered on the web at http://www.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org.

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ABOUT FACES &amp VOICES OF RECOVERY&#13

Faces &amp Voices of Recovery is organizing the more than 23 million Americans in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, their families, close friends and allies in a campaign to finish discrimination broaden social understanding and attain a just response to addiction as a public overall health crisis. For a lot more data, go to facesandvoicesofrecovery.org

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ABOUT CARON Treatment CENTERS &#13

Caron Treatment Centers is a nationally recognized non-profit provider of alcohol and drug addiction treatment. With more than 50 years in the field, Caron is a single of the oldest and largest organizations supplying primary, relapse and longer-term residential therapy for adolescents, young adults, adults and older adults, as properly as families affected by the disease of addiction. Carons therapy is gender separate and gender-specific. Caron has substantial experience in the treatment of co-occurring psychological/psychiatric disorders inside its patient community. Formerly the Caron Foundation, the acclaimed Caron Remedy Centers network operates treatment centers in Wernersville, PA Dallas, TX and West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Delray Beach, FL. Caron also operates The Hanley Center and Gate Lodge. Caron has regional offices in Boston, Bermuda, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. For more details, go to caron.org

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Internationally Recognized School of Business Partners with Pearson Embanet to Launch Rigorous On the internet MBA

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

Increasingly, students who want a flexible path to earning a degree are seeking to online studying applications to access high quality higher education. In response, larger education institutions around the nation are investing in comprehensive educational services that create and scale on the web applications that are higher top quality, rigorous and drive student achievement.

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Pearson Embanet, the major provider of online plan services, and the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Company are announcing that they are partnering to launch an online MBA plan. Classes are scheduled to start in January 2014. The Smith School is an internationally recognized leader in management education and analysis and is one of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park. The on the web MBA will offer you specializations in the regions of Finance, Accounting, Details Systems and Business Analytics, and Marketing. With a faculty that is regularly ranked in the leading ten by the Monetary Times and Bloomberg Businessweek, this system will give students experiential finding out possibilities through Action Finding out Projects. These hands-on group projects give students encounter working collectively with organizations and organizations in their local location and with partners about the globe.

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The Smith School is a community of people who foster development and advancement in the organization globe by empowering, difficult and nurturing each other, mentioned G. Anand Anandalingam, dean of the Robert H. Smith College of Enterprise. By supplying this rigorous system online, we will give tough-operating, driven, dilemma-solving students the knowledge and support to launch extraordinary careers.

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We look forward to supporting the University of Maryland in their technique to provide this high high quality degree on the web, said Dr. Gloria Pickar, Embanets Group President and Chief Academic Officer. The solutions we provide in the locations of advertising, enrollment, student help and course design will support the Smith Schools vision of generating this degree accessible to students no matter exactly where they reside.

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The MBA program at the Robert H. Smith School of Company is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Organization (AACSB). AACSB International is the premier accrediting agency for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs in organization administration and accounting.

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For much more data about the on the internet MBA, visit http://onlinemba.umd.edu/.

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About the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Enterprise&#13

The Robert H. Smith College of Company is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One particular of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School delivers undergraduate, complete-time and component-time MBA, executive MBA, MS, PhD and executive education applications, as well as outreach solutions to the corporate neighborhood. The school delivers its degree, custom and certification applications in five finding out locations in the United States and China. Far more information about the Robert H. Smith School of Company can be identified at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu.

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About the University of Maryland http://www.umd.edu&#13

The University of Maryland is the state’s flagship university and 1 of the nation’s preeminent public analysis universities. Ranked No. 19 amongst public universities by U.S. News &amp Planet Report, it has 32 academic applications in the U.S News Leading ten and 73 in the Prime 25. The Institute of Greater Education (Jiao Tong University, Shanghai), which ranks the world’s top universities based on study, puts Maryland at No. 38 in the globe and No. 13 amongst U.S. public universities. The university has developed six Nobel laureates, seven Pulitzer Prize winners, far more than 40 members of the national academies and scores of Fulbright scholars. The university is recognized for its diversity, with underrepresented students comprising one particular-third of the student population. For much more information about the University of Maryland, go to http://www.umd.edu.

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About Pearson Embanet&#13

Pearson is the worlds top studying firm, delivering educational supplies and services. Pearson, via its acquisition of Embanet, is the biggest provider of educational services for standard non-profit, fully on the web degree applications. These comprehensive solutions that help institutions create and scale their on the web applications contain plan technique, design, academic services, marketing and advertising and student recruitment, system and student services, and technology solutions. For a lot more data, visit http://www.embanet.com.

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Urban Settlement Solutions Recognized for Unprecedented Development: Named to Black Enterprise Magazine’s Leading one hundred Black Owned Organizations Nationally

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Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) June 25, 2009

Urban Settlement Services, LLC., the largest minority owned Settlement Service Business in the nation, has been chosen by Black Enterprise Magazine as 1 of the prime Black Companies in the nation and is listed on the “2009 B.E.100s List.”

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With continued increases in income and contract awards, Urban Settlement Solutions has grown to turn into of the biggest providers of home retention services in addition to the title, appraisal and closing services they have presented for more than ten years. The firm, founded by Charles and Elisa Sanders, is the second biggest black-owned business in Pennsylvania, with a employees of 125 and revenue of 50 million grossed in 2008.

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The company, with offices in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Colorado, processes and supplies details relating to loan modifications, loss mitigation, predictive data analytics, title, title insurance and appraisal info. It is a leading supplier of actual estate info items to mortgage lenders, servicers and government agencies. In 2008, the firm processed approximately 600,000 loan work-outs that helped thousands of households to maintain their houses.

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Black Enterprise magazine, which recently released its 37th annual BE 100s report, ranked Urban Settlement Solutions, number 82 on the list in the Industrial /Service Organizations category.

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“This is the 1st year my organization has produced the list, and I am really proud to be listed among the country’s most successful minority-owned firms,” stated Charles Sanders, the company’s CEO and Founder. “I take into account Black Enterprise Magazine as the nation’s premier supply for news when it comes to Blacks and Economics.”

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To be eligible for the BE one hundred list, a business have to be at least 51% black-owned and have been completely operational for the preceding calendar year. The business must manufacture or own the products it sells or offer industrial or customer services. The listing is recognized as the most respected measure of black-owned business overall performance.

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Even though it is critical that Urban Settlement is a certified MBE, Sanders’ achievement functioning in the mortgage market comes from his company’s consistent performance as a Teir-1, high scorecard vendor. It is also due to the company’s advocacy position working with lenders to assist American households attain and defend the dream of homeownership.

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About Urban Settlement Services&#13

Urban Settlement Services was founded by CEO Charles Sanders, a nationally recognized vendor recruiter and provider of actual estate info, technologies, items and services. Chuck has helped create numerous of the nation’s best vendor management captives and has managed hundreds of thousands of real estate transactions. Urban Settlement’s technologies, employees, vendor database and buyer satisfaction has resulted in Urban Settlement becoming a preferred Tier 1 vendor for numerous of the nation’s Best 20 lenders. For a lot more information pay a visit to http://www.urbansettlement.com

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The College of William & Mary Recognized for Alcohol Coaching Program

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(PRWEB) June 12, 2013

Well being Communications, Inc. (HCI), the providers of the Suggestions (Coaching for Intervention ProcedureS) Plan, is pleased to announce that The College of William &amp Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia has been awarded the 2013 Guidelines Award of Excellence. This is an award bestowed by Wellness Communications President &amp CEO, Adam Chafetz, and is chosen by an internal committee primarily based on each volume of students certified and feedback from Ideas Trainers and student participants. There have been four (4) other campuses that received the award in 2013. According to Mr. Chafetz, William &amp Mary takes a collaborative, proactive strategy to making sure their students are safe. They have repeatedly demonstrated their commitment to preventing the misuse of alcohol on their campus and in their neighborhood by education their students in Tips.

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William &amp Mary has been employing the Guidelines alcohol training plan since 1989, resulting in close to 1,800 Suggestions certified students. At William and Mary, Guidelines is a collaborative effort in between Overall health Promotion and Student Leadership Improvement. W&ampMs alcohol policy, which at the moment resides under Student Leadership Development, demands Tips instruction for student groups hosting events. By means of Suggestions instruction sessions, W&ampM is providing students with a strong foundation to host safer events with alcohol. In addition to the Guidelines curriculum, the offices have worked collectively to add a supplemental piece particular to hosting events on W&ampM’s campus. It includes registering events with Student Leadership Improvement and abiding by the campus’s alcohol policy.

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Sarah Menefee, a Well being Promotion Specialist and certified Suggestions Trainer at W&ampM, credits the collaboration with Student Leadership Development for the success of the plan. Along with campuses across the country, William and Mary performs challenging to reduce high risk drinking, stated Sarah. Tips is an important element of a complete strategy to maintaining students safe if they choose to drink alcohol. As a trainer, I take pleasure in that the Tips curriculum gives an interactive format to support our students keep protected even though hosting events with alcohol. I uncover that students are quite engaged in the course of the training and leave with expertise they can apply not just to hosting events, but to watching out for their buddies and producing a responsible atmosphere at W&ampM.

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Suggestions for the University is a two-hour plan that aids students make sound options when faced with challenging choices about alcohol use. Working together with other students and administrators at their college or university, students address drinking behaviors particular to their school and create intervention methods acceptable to their campus. All sessions are taught by certified Suggestions trainers, employing video and printed components to facilitate discussion of the course content material. Tips for the University supplies students with the knowledge and self-assurance necessary to decrease higher-risk drinking behavior among their peers. Far more than 1,200 campuses nationwide have implemented Tips for the University. In addition, the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), a project of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Solutions Administration (SAMHSA), has recognized the Suggestions for the University training plan by awarding higher marks for each the top quality and effectiveness of the program. For much more information, you can visit http://www.tipsuniversity.org.

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About Well being Communications, Inc.

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Well being Communications, Inc. (HCI) was founded in 1982 by Dr. Morris Chafetz, founding director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Positioned in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, HCI is a nationally recognized professional in the field of alcohol coaching. Its flagship program, Suggestions, was the initial of its sort and continues to set sector requirements for this sort of training. Several public officials and government agencies have recognized and endorsed Ideas training as life-saving and vital to the progress produced in decreasing alcohol-connected injuries and deaths. More information can be located at http://www.gettips.com.

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Samuel Scott Economic Group Recognized As Fastest Growing Private Company

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) Might 31, 2013

Samuel Scott Monetary Group has when again been acknowledged for their exceptional development and production. The boutique mortgage organization was just named on the San Diego Organization Journals 10th annual list of the Fastest Increasing Private Organizations. In a special reception being held on July 11th, the official rankings for these exceptional businesses will be revealed.

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There is no question about it. Getting recognized on this list is clearly a testament to the tough work of our staff, stated Todd Pianin, founder and Senior Managing Director of Samuel Scott Financial Group. If you continually deliver first-class service, people are going to want to operate with you.

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Given that the beginning of the year, Samuel Scott has hired several new Mortgage Advisors and substantially expanded their support staff. With new Administrative, Marketing and advertising and Financial professionals operating complete-time in the office, the firm is remarkably organized and efficient. A lot of of their loan originators are also adding new pros to their teams and raising the bar on buyer service.

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Mark Robertson, a consistent Leading Producer at the organization, stands out for his teams amazing development in 2013. Already well supported by two committed Loan Partners, Robertson has recently hired a new Loan Officer, Loan Companion and Marketing and advertising Assistant. I believe in going above and beyond for my customers, mentioned Robertson. I am so proud of my team, and know that my clientele are going to feel the influence of this kind of assistance. Its a win for everyone.

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Alex Scoma, yet another major Mortgage Advisor at Samuel Scott, has been expanding his team and developing new methods to serve his customers and true estate partners. Identified for his meticulous systems and powerful client communication, Scoma now manages two full-time Loan Partners. He says his focus is on guiding clients through a seamless true estate transaction.

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The San Diego Enterprise Journal’s List of Quickest Expanding Private Companies contains some of the most dynamic local organizations and represents the vitality and expansion becoming noticed throughout San Diegos reinvigorated economy. Were honored to be on this list, said Pianin. It motivates us to remain focused and hold putting our clients first. With the energy that emanates from our office, its no surprise we are attracted to such talented experts.

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About Samuel Scott Financial Group

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Samuel Scott Financial Group is a boutique mortgage organization recognized for superior client service and the way their Mortgage Advisors tailor the residential loan process to fit each individual client. Constant and reliable, Samuel Scott Monetary Group has been selected as The Best Mortgage Organization in San Diego for the 7th straight year by readers of regional publications. In 2012, the San Diego Organization Journal recognized Samuel Scott as a single of The Very best Areas to Function in San Diego and they had been named in the Inc. 500 | 5000 list of Fastest Expanding Businesses in the nation.

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Career Opportunities at Samuel Scott Financial Group

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Samuel Group Monetary Group is expanding throughout Southern California. If you share our passion for initial-class service and continually strive to set the benchmark for financial excellence in the mortgage market, we want to speak with you about career opportunities for Mortgage Advisors and loan professionals. Please speak to Russ Schreier, at 858-436-1187 or Russ(at)SamuelScottFG(dot)com to schedule an interview.

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