From Experience to Expertise: NY Wants to Invest in Your Addiction Counseling Career

The addiction treatment field desperately needs qualified professionals, but education costs often create barriers for those most passionate about helping. Find out how scholarships are breaking down these barriers across New York State at Outreach Training Institute (OTI). Our guest shares her personal connection to the field and talks about OTI's virtual training programs.  

Podcast Guest 

• Kalisha Smith of the Outreach Training Institute

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This scholarship, especially the Suffolk scholarship, is covering the full cost and one of the things that this actually does is create a great pathway for individuals to get into employment, because we not only provide the training for our individuals, we provide all material, all training to get them to the place where they meet the 350-hour requirement to become a CASAC-T. 

—Kalisha Smith, Outreach Training Institute 

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