I really loved this training and I felt that it was extremely helpful and will be a great foundation for running a group in a correctional setting. I enjoyed the connections my colleagues and I made as well as the way I personally learned more about myself through this training. This training also taught me that in order to be able to help and serve others, I first need to take care of myself and that is something I will strive to do more of. 

- Erica A

Since its first publication in 1998, Stephanie Covington’s Helping Women Recover has been an invaluable resource in the treatment of women recovering from addiction and trauma. The 2019 update will find appreciative audiences across a broad spectrum of addiction treatment and recovery support arenas. There exists no other resource combining historical insight, rigorous scientific research, clinical treatment, and the lived experiences of women in recovery. This revised edition is filled with step-by-step facilitator instructions, scripts, materials, and delivery tips. Helping Women Recover is a landmark work that will leave a lasting legacy of transformed lives. 

- William L. White
Author, Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America

Overall great training, I have been running this group for about a year and now i have some added pieces to use when doing this group in the future.

- Sara M

Completing the activites as we went through the sessions was really helpful. I think this will help me so much when I ask the clients to do these exercises.  This training was awesome. I am about to start facilitating HWR and this training made me feel so much more comfortable and confident in myself. I am so grateful for the opportunity.

- Taylor C

Helping Women Recover, 3rd edition, integrates updated statistics and current evidence about the impact of relevant programming for women, making this curriculum both an excellent primer and tool.  The well-organized and comprehensive overview of factors that contribute to women's substance misuse provides historic context and insight about the evolution of understanding the multiplicity of issues that must be explored and addressed to effectively and respectfully support women in their recovery journeys.  Helping Women Recover is an ideal curriculum for facilitators, who will appreciate the comprehensive approach, the clear explanation of goals and elements of each module and session, and the specific direction and guidance for supporting individual women in each group.  Importantly, Helping Women Recover acknowledges and offers direction for coping with the environmental and management factors that are specific to correctional settings.  Dr. Covington has further developed an ideal tool for educating and supporting women. 

- Georgia Lerner
Executive Director, Women’s Prison Association

Stephanie Covington understands women: who they are and what they've experienced. She combines a thorough, practical approach to treatment with comprehensive and sophisticated theories about women who have experienced all kinds of trauma. This integrated, accessible treatment guide will be invaluable to therapists and the women they treat. It is a wonderful curriculum, Stephanie is a master teacher. 

- Stephanie Brown, Ph.D.
Director, The Addictions Institute, Menlo Park, California
Author: A Place Called Self: Women, Sobriety and Radical Transformation

I believe for me completing some of the exercises on my own / on groups were very helpful.  Hands on is always the better form of learning for me.  I really enjoyed the training and believe I have a new sense of confidence in teaching the class to our women in our county jail.

– Sandy T

Helping Women Recover by Dr. Stephanie Covington is another major contribution to the field of women’s addiction treatment. The first part of the book contains vital knowledge for any clinician who works with women. She puts the history of women’s treatment into perspective and then provides information that clearly differentiates the differences between substance abuse treatment of women and of men. I was particularly moved by her definition of addiction in women’s lives as representing the “chronic neglect of self in favor of something or someone else”. The rest of the book provides practical, trauma-informed, and well-grounded activities to benefit the recovery of women in treatment. The experience and wisdom embedded in this text is long overdue. 

- Sandra L. Bloom, M.D.
Associate Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
Author of Creating Sanctuary