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Meet Our Speakers

George S. Braucht

is a Licensed Professional

Counselor and Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor

with over 14,000 hours of supervised psychotherapy and

applied community psychology experience in alcohol and

other drug, crisis intervention and mental health services.

He specializes in workforce development and continuous

quality and outcome improvement consulting. Besides

teaching psychology, George also enjoy facilitating

behavioral health and healing justice trainings with

professional and peer service providers. During a 27Ǧyear

career with criminal justice agencies, he designed and

implemented the Enhanced Supervision Program, a

professional workforce development initiative for

probation/parole/correctional officers, counselors, and

other reentry service providers; established a statewide

parolee recovery outpatient counseling program and inǦprison residential substance

abuse treatment programs; implemented the Transitional Housing for Offender Reentry

Directory; established Georgia’s first day reporting centers and managed two statewide

reentry initiatives. He is a Senior Instructor of the Georgia Peace Officers Standards and

Training Council. In 2010 George coǦfounded the Certified Addiction Recovery

Empowerment Specialist or CARES Academy for peer service providers that operates in

several states. More recently he assisted in developing Recovery Residence Manager and

Recovery Capital Scale trainings. George serves on the Board of the Georgia Association of

Recovery Residences and he is a Charter Board Member and Affiliates Committee CoǦ

chair of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Since 2008, George has been a

Certified Trainer with the Heart and Soul of Change Project who’s Partners for Change

Outcome Management System is detailed in SAMHSA’s National Registry of EvidenceǦ

based Programs and Practices.

George S. Braucht, LPC & CPS

Founder

Brauchtworks Consulting

Contact: 404.301.3941

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