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Sponsored in part by SAMHSA
This conference is supported, in part by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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| Stephanie Asteriadis, M.A.,received an M.A. in Counselling and Educational Psychology in 1998. She is coordinator of the Nevada Prevention Resource Center (NPRC) in the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT) and has been funded to disseminate substance abuse and related materials throughout Nevada since 1998. She has been project manager for a college substance abuse prevention program and produced and evaluated a senior problem gambling prevention kit. Asteriadis teaches Introduction to Substance Abuse Prevention at the University of Nevada, Reno. |
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| Jerry Bauerkemper, is the executive director of the Nebraska Council on Compulsive Gambling. Bauerkemper was the first director of problem gambling for the state of Nebraska. In addition, he was appointed to the Nebraska commission on problem gambling. He is on the executive committee of the board of directors of the National Council on Problem Gambling. Bauerkemper has been providing counseling to gambling families since 1986. He has published research on the prevalence of problem gambling in the Nebraska Probation Department. He received the “First Step” award in 1999 for his work with problem gamblers. Bauerkemper is a nationally recognized expert on problem gambling and has provided training throughout the United States. |
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Bruce Biddlecome, LADC-T, comes to us from Salinas, California. Biddlecome began working with Latinos on a voluntary basis at Sun Street Centers. After working with Latinos in addiction, he decided to pursue a career in the field. Biddlecome relocated to Minnesota to pursue his degree in addiction studies. After completing his degree Biddlecome began working with several agencies that deal specifically with the Latino communities. Including Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, New Guidance Counseling Clinic and RIOS Programs, where he has expanded his work with Latinos in the area of Chemical Dependency and Prevention.
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| Robert Boswell, Ph.D., has served as the senior vice President of Pioneer Behavioral Health since February 1999. From 1992 to 1999, Boswell served as executive vice president of Pioneer. Prior to that, he served as administrator of the company’s Highland Ridge Hospital facility and is principally involved with the its substance abuse facilities. From 1981 until 1989, he served as the associate administrator at the Prevention Education Outpatient Treatment Program—the Cottage Program, International. Robert serves on the board of directors for the National Center for Responsible Gaming and is a board member of the National Foundation for Responsible Gaming.
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| Lisa Chaney, M.S., is a research analyst with 15 years professional experience covering a wide variety of research topics. Currently she works with data and information systems Group in Girard, Kansas where she designs and carries out several statewide research and evaluation activities on behalf of the Kansas Department of Social Rehabilitation Services. Current activities include the design and implementation of the Kansas Synar Coverage Study and evaluation of the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG). In addition, Chaney works with the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center to provide analysis and consultation to the Kansas Communities That Care (KCTC) student survey. |
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Maya Chilese, M.A., PLMHP, CCGC, is currently the children's behavioral health manager for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services: Division of Behavioral Health. Chilese has a professional history in prevention/early intervention prior to working as a Mental Health and Addictions therapist, specializing in gambling as well as gender specific treatment. She has most recently developed and piloted a youth gambling prevention curriculum as well as providing professional trainings in the fields of both prevention and treatment. In addition, Chilese coordinates an initiative bridging faith communities into substance abuse supports. |
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Tim Christensen, M.P.A., is currently the treatment administrator for the Arizona Office of Problem Gambling. He is the current president of the association of problem gambling service administrators, and serves on the executive committee of the board of directors for the National Council on Problem Gambling. He has extensive experience providing technical assistance and contract monitoring for public mental health and substance abuse services. Tim has provided consultation to numerous state governments on the development and implementation of publicly funded problem gambling programs. |
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| Renee Cunningham-Williams, Ph.D., M.P.E., LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and associate professor of social worker at Washington University in St. Louis. She brings nearly 15 years of award-winning epidemiologic, nosological, addictions and mental health research to her roles in guiding behavioral science efforts as a standing committee member for the National Intitutes of Health grant review study section on addictions (RPIA), for SAMHSA, private foundations and for several scientific journals. Her community service includes involvement with professional and service agencies devoted to improving the lives of vulnerable populations due to addictions, poverty and health/mental health disparities. |
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R. Kent Dean, Ph.D., LAC, CCGC, has been a counselor in substance related disorders and coexisting psychiatric disorders for thirty years. Dean's current emphasis is on treating those with pathological gambling in an intensive outpatient program setting through the Louisiana Association on Compulsive Gambling and on providing continuing professional education. |
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Wes Ehrecke , CAE, is the President of the Iowa Gaming Association (IGA), a position created in April 2000. Ehrecke is a 30-year veteran in the association management profession. Other positions held include executive vice president & CEO of the Minnesota Bankers Association, executive vice president and general manager of Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives, and senior vice president of the Iowa Bankers Association.
Ehrecke is Past President of the Iowa Society of Association Executives; recently completed serving as a director of the American Society of Association Executives(ASAE); and has served as Chairman of ASAE’s Local State and Regional and Future Leaders Committees; and as a director as well as an officer on numerous foundation and professional boards, including Greenlee School of Journalism Advisory Council,Iowa State Parks Foundation, Leadership Iowa, Iowa and Minnesota 4-H Foundations, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Graduate School of Banking at Madison, and the Valley High School Athletic Booster Club.
Ehrecke was named a Fellow by the American Society of Association Executives in 1991, and also received the group's Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation. He is a graduate of Iowa State University, with a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication; the 1990-91 Leadership Iowa program; and the Institute for Organizational Management at Notre Dame.
Ehrecke is a native Iowan. He was born and raised on a dairy and livestock farm in east central Iowa. He has been married for 28 years and has three children. |
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| Ron Eisenbarth, NCAC-II, CADC-III, is a nationally certified addictions counselor, Kansas certified addictions counselor III and a Kansas certified problem gambling counselor. He has been working professionally in the addictions field in Kansas for the last 38 years. Eisenbarth served as past-preseident of the Kansas Association of Addiction Counselors (KAAT), for 15 years. Eisenbarth currently serves as president-elect for the Kansas Coalition on Problem Gambling (KCPG). |
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Gary Gonder, M.P.A., is deputy executive director at the Missouri Lottery. Gonder has worked at the Missouri Lottery for more than 16 years. In 2006, Gonder was promoted to deputy executive director of the Missouri Lottery, where he oversees the Lottery's administrative and operational services. Previously, Gonder served as the Missouri Lottery’s communications director overseeing the Lottery's internal and external communication programs.
Gonder is the current chairman of the Missouri Alliance to Curb Problem Gambling, a unique partnership of private and public entities whose mission is to raise awareness for the issue of problem gambling, direct compulsive gamblers to assistance and free treatment and create prevention programs for all ages.
Gonder holds a bachelor's degree in journalism, advertising and photojournalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Gonder also holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Missouri College of Business and Public Administration.
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Roads to Recovery
Aug. 12–14, 2009
Hilton St. Louis Frontenac
1335 S. Lindbergh Blvd
St. Louis, MO
Check out handouts and session materials from the 2008 Midwest Conference.
Check out information on the exciting new conference bookstore includes option to place special orders and pre-purchase items.
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