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June 25, 2025 Your Voice Matters: Help Us Understand Mental Health & Relationships in Oregon Northwest Treatment in Oregon City, OR has partnered with a data analytic company, Commonly Well, to conduct a survey looking at the connection between Mental Health & Relationships. This includes our family, friends, romantic partners, our alcohol and drug use, […]

June 15, 2025 History Repeats, We Resist: We’ve Saved Ourselves Before A Message from Philip T. McCabe, CSW, CAS, DRCC — NALGAP President Throughout history, LGBTQ+ people have faced cycles of erasure—our lives omitted from public memory, our contributions to care and healing dismissed, our stories redacted from official records. But each time they tried

June 15, 2025 Preston Ciere photographer If You Do Not Stand Up For Your Neighbor/Friend/Family Member, There Will Be No One To Stand Up For You When They Come After You Anne Helene Skinstad,PhD, Member NALGAP Board of Directors These are very unusual times, a phrase that has been used many times since January 20th,

April 10, 2025 Apply for the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program to Relieve Your Educational Debt! Application deadline: June 30, 2025 at 11:59pm ET Learn More(opens in new tab)Apply Now(opens in new tab) Are you a Master’s degree student? Do you want money to put towards your educational debt? Are you planning on working with underserved

January 19, 2025 NALGAP Continues with Its Mission of Supporting Addiction Professionals in Times of Uncertainty NALGAP’s mission is to confront all forms of oppression and discriminatory practices in the delivery of services to all people and to advocate for programs and services that affirm all genders and sexual orientations. NALGAP provides information, training, networking,

Fall 2024 Printable Download(opens in new tab) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Evidence-Based Practice Center (EBPRC) Summit Anne Helne Skinstad, Psy.D, Ph.D Native Center for Behavioral Health SAMHSA invited many different groups of grantees and key stakeholders from across the country to various Summits this summer to prepare for the development of

April 4, 2024 Great Opportunity for Training and CEU’s Want CEU’s that include LGBTQi+ issues? Our own Joe Amico, current Secretary and Past President of NALGAP, will be doing the first full day tract on general LGBTQi+ issues which covers “alphabet soup”, why the need for pronouns, making your practice more LGBTQi+ friendly and other

NALGAP November 21, 2021 Dr Rachael Levine received the NALGAP Founders Award

2021 Access the Substance Abuse News & Resource Center, a service provided by Join Together Check out the Article Youth who identify as LGBTQ+, an umbrella acronym that encompasses different sexual orientations and gender identities, face a heightened risk for substance use because of the stigma and discrimination they often experience. You can help protect