The University of Nevada, Reno Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT) is hosting the 2nd Annual Women's Alliance to Strengthen Treatment Access and Retention (WASTAR) Conference.

This conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (HHS-SAMHSA) Grant #PA-06-001, will be held at the Montbleu Resort in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on September 17-18, 2007.

This two-day women's conference in substance abuse treatment will be focused on four main topic areas:

• Assessment & Engagement
• Treatment & Evidence-based Practices
• Recovery
• Filling in the Gaps: Meeting Client Needs

Our design is unique in that conference attendees will remain within one of four assigned groups, while the Circle speakers move from group to group. In this manner, attendees will complete two of the topic sessions each day and build peer connections through extended contact.

Featured speakers are:

• Joseph Amico, MDiv, LISAC, CAS
  President, Board of Directors, National Association of Lesbian & Gay Addiction Professionals
  
  
• Olivia S. Ashley, Dr. P.H.
  RTI International, Research Triangle Park, Substance Abuse Etiology, Prevention, and other Risk Behaivors
  
  
• Louise Bauschard, LCSW
  Coordinator of Volunteer Services, Washington County Community Corrections
  
  
• Lula Beatty, PhD
  Chief of Special Populations, National Institute of Drug Abuse
  
  
• Thomas Brady, PhD
  Research Scientist, MayaTech Corporation
  
  
• Mary-Lynn Brecht, PhD
  Director of Statistical Support, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs; Director of the Research Support Core of the Center for Vulnerable Population Research (UCLA School of Nursing)
  
  
• Kathleen Carroll, PhD
  Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Substance Abuse, Yale University
  
  
• Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW
  Institute for Relational Development, Co-Director, Center for Gender and Justice
  
  
• Norma Finklestein, PhD
  Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Health and Recovery, Cambridge, MA
  
  
• Tom Freese, PhD
  Director, Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center
  
  
• Dawn Gibbons, B.G.S.
  Nevada's First Lady
  
  
• Carla Green, PhD, MPH
  Senior Investigator at the Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Psychiatry, at Oregon Health & Science University
  
  
• Catherine Cortez Masto, JD
  Nevada State Attorney General
  
  
• Glen R. Hanson, D.D.S., PhD
  Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Associate Director, Utah Addiction Center, University of Utah
  
  
• Lee Ann Kaskutas, Dr.P.H.
  Director of Training, Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley
  
  
• Charles O'Brien, MD, PhD
  Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Research Director, MIRECC; Director, Treatment Research Center
  
  
• Anne Helene Skinstad, PhD
  Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa; Program Director, Prairelands Addiction Technology Transfer Center (PATTC)
  
  
• Barbara Sullivan, PhD
  Associate Director, Addiction Research and Education Center, University of Utah
  
  
• Constance Weisner, Dr.P.H., MSW
  Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco
  
  
• Claire Wilcox, MD
  Psychiatric Resident, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 

Visit WASTAR's website to register and view the conference program or call 775.784.6265 / 866.617.2816 (toll free) for additional information.