Stigma and the Workplace - Webinar Resources

Drug Free America Foundation is pleased to share the resources from the recent webinar, Stigma and the Workplace held December 8, 2020. 

Webinar content:

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.

Presenters:

Boro Goic is president of NGO Celebrate Recovery in his home town of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Aleksander Zucic is the chairman and one of the founders of the Christian Association for Support in Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts Izlazak in Serbia.

Here are the links:

Stigma and the Workplace Webinar Recording
Stigma and the Workplace presentation by Boro Goic
Stigma and the Workplace presentation by Aleksander Zucic