Cultural Elements in Treating Hispanic Populations
June 12-13th, 2014
Location: Lacey Community Center
6729 Pacific Ave. SE, Lacey, WA 98503
Time: 8:30 am-3:00 Banquet A Room
Cost: No cost
Credits: 10 CEU’s (NAADAC and NBCC)
Trainers: Victor Flores, MC, LAC and
Janese Olalde, M.ED, CADC II, CGAC II
Overview
Learning Objectives
Participants in this course will:
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Understand how cultural
change affects
Hispanics/Latinos and their
drug use.

Identify and address problems
faced by Hispanics/Latinos
around access and readiness for
treatment and recovery

Explain the relationship
between culture and treatment

Gain basic competencies for
managing clients with cooccurring disorders
This training session is an aide for SUD counselors to improve their
skills in response to treatment challenges presented by clients from
Hispanic and Latino cultures. The word “culture” is loaded with
meaning and has many potential implications, so the ideas expressed
in this brief overview are not exhaustive nor intended to provide a
“freeze frame” cultural portrait of all Hispanics and Latinos that
pretends they are all the same or unchanging. Such a portrait defies
reality.
The approach taken in this training session is to highlight key
similarities and differences in cultural beliefs, attitudes, and practices
commonly seen among Latino SUD clients that potentially influence
their substance use behavior and responsiveness to treatment.
“Americanization” has variable impacts across generations of
Latinos. Indeed, the “sending” nations from which Latinos have
historically emigrated, and continue to do so, are also experiencing
rapid social changes that influence substance use and SUD in their
own societies
Please click on the registration link below to read the trainer’s bios.
Register on-line by June 6th at:
NWATTC’s website:
https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=nwmeet&caleventid=23399
www.ATTCnetwork.org/northwestfrontier
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