Thursday, March 13

12:00-1:00 pmRegistration

1:00-1:15 pmWelcome & Kick-off

1:15-2:15 pmKeynote: Terrence Walton

2:15-2:30 pmNetworking Break

2:30-3:45 pmKeynote: Dr. Kristjansson

Journey of Recovery Begins with Prevention led by Dr. Kristjansson, Professor Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences PI and Co-Director, WV Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health West Virginia University.

3:45-4:45 pmNetworking & Reception

We invite you to a networking reception to connect with colleagues and industry leaders.

5:00-6:30 pmCraven County Community Meeting

Open to the Public.

Friday, March 14

8:00 -9:00 amCoffee & Networking with Exhibitors

9:00 -9:15 amWelcome Back to Day 2

9:15-10:00 amKeynote Speaker: David Best

Recovery, Recovery Capital and Inclusive Recovery Cities led by Professor David Best, PhD, Director, Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (CARR), Leeds Trinity University

10:00 -10:45 amPanel Session

10:45-11:00 amRefreshment Break

11:00-11:15 amQ&A Session

11:15-11:45 amTask Force Report Out

11:45 am-12:00 pmGroup Photo

12:00-1:00 pmLunch

1:00-1:30 pmRecovery Story

1:30-4:00 PMCase Studies, Community Connections and Closing

Speakers

David Best, BA, MSc, PhD

David Best is Professor and Director of the Centre for Addiction Recovery Research. He also holds honorary posts at the Australian National University, Eastern Health Clinical School at Monash University in Melbourne and the Public Health Institute in California. He is also a co-founder of the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO in the UK and founder of Inclusive Recovery Cities. He is the author of eight books on addiction recovery and more than 240 peer-reviewed academic papers.

Alfgeir L. Kristjansson, PhD, MSc

Dr. Kristjansson is a Professor of Public Health at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Public Health,

Center PI and Co-Director for the West Virginia Prevention Research Center (WVPRC), and adjunct

faculty at Reykjavik University in Iceland. He earned his PhD in Social Medicine from the Karolinska

Institute in Sweden in 2010 and was a post-doctoral fellow in Health Behavior at Columbia University in

New York City between 2010-2012. Dr. Kristjansson has published widely on substance use prevention

and the Icelandic Prevention Model, as well as more generally on adolescent behavioral development

and the well-being of children, youth and families. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator (PI) of

several US-based federally funded studies, including the Young Mountaineer Health Study in WV funded

by NIAAA, and the Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative funded by the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) via the WVPRC. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed

manuscripts in scholarly journals within public health, health education, preventive medicine and

multidisciplinary journals focused on adolescents.

Terrence D. Walton, MSW NAADAC Executive Director

Terrence Walton is an addiction professional and the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. For more

than 50 years, NAADAC has represented addiction professionals and supported them in their life-saving work.

Before joining NAADAC, Walton spent ten years as Chief Operating Officer for All Rise (founded as the National Association of Drug Court Professionals), where he led

national and international initiatives to support addiction treatment and justice system professionals who work with individuals and families impacted by addiction and involved

in the legal system.

Previously, Walton was Director of Treatment for the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia (PSA). During his 15 years at this Federal law enforcement and community supervision agency, he directed the departments that provided substance use disorder and mental health assessment, treatment, drug treatment courts, and other

alternatives to incarceration and conviction programs. Additionally, he previously served as the director of what was then Washington, D.C.’s leading adolescent outpatient substance use disorder treatment center, Sasha Bruce Youthworks’ Necessary Interventions for Adolescents (NIA).

Walton holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Master of Social Work degree with specializations in program administration and substance use disorder from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

He is an active member of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP), focusing on developing the global addiction and prevention workforce. He was a certified drug and alcohol counselor for more than twenty years and has devoted his entire professional life to helping individuals, families, and communities impacted by addiction recover and thrive.