NEW WEBINAR - Stigma and the Workplace

TUESDAY DECEMBER 8, 2020 at 8:00 AM EST (UTC-5)

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WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

Progress in the recovery process is crucial for achieving outcomes that will manifest the best possible integration into society for people in recovery. The Life in Recovery research showed that one of the main obstacles to integration was finding employment. This webinar will emphasize the effects of stigma that people in recovery face in the workplace and also highlight the significance of personal responsibility in creating and building recovery capital that could potentially decrease the levels of stigma. The webinar will also cover some government programs aimed at employing marginalized groups and will address the stigma that has emerged in the implementation of these programs. Special attention will be given to the concept of social entrepreneurship (social economy), the shift that could result in sustainable entrepreneurial solutions based on engagement and charitable work. These solutions have the potential to contribute to successful integration of people in recovery facing multiple disadvantage experience, among which unemployment and homelessness pose a major barrier to successful recovery and reintegration.

SPEAKERS

Boro Goic

Boro is the president of NGO Celebrate Recovery in his home town of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been actively involved in the recovery field since 2002.

After successfully completing a rehabilitation programme, he worked as a volunteer in one of the major rehab centers based in Croatia. During his time in the center, he realized that he had a calling to be involved in the recovery field. After he moved back to his home town, he established NGO Celebrate Recovery with the aim to help individuals and families come out of drug addiction.

He is still very active in grass root activities is his country and region. During the last 10 years, he supported several NGOs and networks in early phases of establishment and was the founder and organizer of several conferences in the addiction recovery field.

In 2013, he became Chair of the Recovered Users Network, a unique European platform which represents the rights and voices of recovered users. Furthermore, he has been part of the global drug policy debate as a representative of recovered users and has been advocating for balanced and recovery- oriented drug policies on the national, EU and UN levels.

Since 2009, he has been the manager and owner at a nursing home for elderly people with more than 80 patients and 20 workers. Some of the workers are recovered addicts.

Aleksandar Zugic

Aleksandar Žugić is the chairman and one of the founders of the Christian Association for Support in Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts Izlazak in Serbia. Since 2008, he has been actively involved in providing support in the recovery process, from the first call, all the way to the post-treatment process, resocialization and reintegration, to addicts, recovered addicts, and their families.

Since 2013, both personally and through the work of the Association, he recognized the need to participate and contribute in the segment of drug policy, where he actively strives to strengthen the link between state institutions and civil society organizations, as well as international cooperation.

In his work he is assisted by a team of associates. He has organized a dozen expert meetings and conferences where the results of current research was presented, as well as examples of good practice in the treatment of addiction. From the begining, all the time, he works on the  destigmatization of the addiction diseases and people who struggle with it. This is the reason for holding the large number of public and media appearances, forums and roundtables at the local, national, and regional level.

Based on his personal experience of addiction and firmly adhering to biblical principles, he believes that every person who struggles with addiction deserves a second chance in life. For that reason, he is ready to provide encouragement and support to every person in the recovery process.

He is married and has three children.

DETAILS

*  Webex meeting platform will be used

*  Webinar will be in English

*  Webinar will be recorded