SPECIAL GUESTS 2011
Ivette A. Torres
Associate Director for Consumer Affairs at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
" Ivette Torres joined the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the fall of 1997. Ms. Torres oversees the CSAT team responsible for generating and disseminating substance abuse treatment information to SAMHSA's mission-related constituents. She develops national communication strategies and campaigns including the observance of the National Recovery Month, celebrated each September." . . . . (http://www.recoverymonth.gov/About-Recovery-Month/Biographies/Ivette-Torres.aspx)
Stephen J Gumbley MA, LCDP
Stephen Gumbley is presently the director of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England at Brown University. Mr. Gumbley served on a CSAT national task force on Substance Abuse Treatment Issues for Sexual Minorities (Special Populations Workgroup); he has been a member of the Equity Action Advisory Council, the Rhode Island Foundation’s resource and funding development project for the LGBTQ community. A nationally-recognized trainer, Mr. Gumbley has taught at the regular and advanced schools of the New England Institute on Addiction Studies, the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England, and the Drug And Alcohol Treatment Association of Rhode Island, including courses on treatment issues for LGBT clients. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Chemical Dependency and Addiction Studies track at Rhode Island College and has taught at the Community College of Rhode Island. He is chair of the Board of Directors of Faces & Voices of Recovery, a national enterprise that organizes and mobilizes the recovery community.
Mr. Gumbley has been working in human services for more than 30 years, specializing in substance abuse education, prevention and treatment since 1988. He is a master’s level, licensed clinician, and has served as clinical supervisor and program director in a variety of treatment settings.
