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Healing Together: Engaging Families in Recovery

Precious B. Higgins, LSCSW, LCSW
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain how substance use disorders affect the entire family system and why family engagement is clinically essential.

  • Identify common family roles and systemic dynamics that emerge in response to addiction.

  • Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive strategies to reduce resistance and build rapport with families.

  • Recall appropriate national and local resources to support families’ parallel recovery journeys.

Educational Goal

To equip behavioral health professionals with trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies to engage families in recognizing their own need for support and healing as part of the addiction recovery process.

Description

This training equips behavioral health professionals with practical, trauma-informed strategies to engage families in the addiction recovery process. While the focus in treatment often centers on the individual, families play a critical role in long-term outcomes and are frequently navigating their own grief, confusion, and trauma. This session explores how substance disorders affect family systems, outlines common relational dynamics that emerge, and provides tools for clinicians to build trust, reframe resistance, and encourage family participation in parallel healing. Participants will learn how to introduce support options without blame, teach healthy boundary-setting, and access culturally inclusive resources that empower families to take an active role in recovery.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Precious B. Higgins, LSCSW, LCSW
Precious B. Higgins, LSCSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Kansas and Missouri. She combines over 10 years of experience in community mental health, forensics, crisis services, and co-occurring diagnoses to serve as the Clinical Director at Sunflower Recovery Center in Kansas. Precious obtained her undergraduate degree in social work from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2013 and obtained her graduate degree from Park University in Missouri in 2018. From there, Precious continued to dedicate trauma-informed and person-centered care to those from vulnerable communities experiencing mental illness, substance abuse disorders, or a combination thereof. Additionally, Precious has been able to guide new clinicians in empowerment to provide excellent services to the population served as Clinical Director and previous adjunct professor of her alma mater, Park University. Precious is passionate about people and behavioral healthcare, and believes that there is always more to learn and to advocate for and there will always be work to be done.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Sunflower Recovery Center