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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 Email: george@brauchtworks.com

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