November 2007 Newsletter (click on title and download for easier reading) INCASE TO JOINTLY APPROVE NEW JERSEY CURRICULA
A memorandum of understanding was approved by the Institute for Addiction and Behavioral Studies, Inc., an affiliate of the Addiction Professionals Certification Board of NJ (ICRC), and INCASE to establish a pilot program whereby the two bodies will collaborate in approving addiction counselor certification coursework at colleges and universities in NJ, utilizing the INCASE Program Approval Standards. The Institute will issue a joint certificate of program approval, and INCASE will receive one-third of the annual program approval fees as established by the Institute. The memo was signed by Kirk Bowden, INCASE President, and
Rich Bowe, Executive Director of the Institute and the Certification Board, at the Tempe conference, September 28, 2007, following a presentation to the NJ Board by Peter Myers, Chair of INCASE Program Approval and Institute member in NJ.
 BOWDEN TAKES PRESIDENCY OF INCASE AT TEMPE CONFERENCE
Kirk Bowden, Ph.D., LPC, MAC, succeeded Michael Loos, Ph.D. as INCASE President in late September.
Dr. Bowden chairs the Department of Chemical Dependency at Rio Salado College, and serves as Program Director of Professional Counseling and Addiction Studies at Grand Canyon University. He is a consultant to the State of Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners and a former member of that Board. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Teaching in the Addictions. Prior to becoming a full-time addictions educator he was an adolescent therapist and clinical supervisor at Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center.
 READING WINS PRESIDENT-ELECT POSITION
A contested election for President-Elect of INCASE was
won by Ed Reading, Ph.D., LCADC, CCS. Dr. Reading
has been in the addictions treatment field since 1969, in a wide variety of capacities; as clinician, treatment administrator, author, presenter and educator. He coordinates the addictions curricula at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. He served on the Addictions Professionals Certification Board of NJ (ICRC) before being appointed to the new state Licensing Board, which he now chairs. He has been on the Boards of the National Catholic Council on Alcoholism and the Federation of State Physicians Health Programs. In this latter vein, he has also served as Asst. Director of the Impaired Physicians Program and has presented often at ASAM. In his campaign statement, he pointed out that ironically, while he is an ordained Catholic Priest, he has only taught substance abuse, not theology.
 TRAINERS AND EDUCATORS MEET IN NEW YORK STATE
Dan Yalisove, INCASE Secretary, and Peter Myers, Board member, traveled to Albany NY in late September at the invitation of the NY State consortium of treatment providers, which held a “Trainers and Educators Summit”. They presented information about INCASE and generated interest among educators not previously involved with the organization. A steering committee was formed to organize an educators conference to piggyback on next years Summit. The committee includes Bryan McCabe of Hudson Valley Technical College in Troy, and Joan Standora of Kingsboro CC, CUNY, in Brooklyn.
| JTADD adds new Editorial Board Member from CASAA
Theresa Moyers, Ph.D., of the University of New Mexico’s Center for Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction joined the Editorial Board of our Journal of Teaching in the Addiction. Dr. Moyers has worked closely and co-authored many manuscripts with William Miller and Stephen Rollnick on Motivational Interviewing, as well as a video training series on MI/MET via CASAA. The Haworth Press, publisher of JTADD and many other addictions journals, has been acquired by the Taylor and Francis Group.
Dr. Shane Koch continues his fine work as Editor of JTADD, the Journal of Teaching in the Addictions.
 Shane is in the market for manuscripts! Contact him at dskoch@siu.edu
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