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Drug Addiction: When Is An Intervention Specialist Needed?
The addiction to the abuse of drugs is a highly complicated phenomenon, especially in Alaska and Hawaii. The addiction develops gradually until it finally takes the full control of life such it controls what you think and even what you do. Whichever drug is abused, it has negative effects on the functioning of the brain as well as the health of the abuser.
Some of the people who are addicted to the abuse of drugs may turn violent or abusive when you tell them they are addicted. Others may try to hide the behaviors such as hiding the drug in unmarked bottles. Whatever, the behavior, it is always possible to tell that a person is abusing drugs and get them into Alaska drug rehabilitation programs[1]. It is recommended that at first you approach the loved one politely and using the kindest words possible. If you do not succeed in convincing that person they seek drug addiction help you should consult an interventions specialist for help.
The intervention specialist is not required in all the cases of addiction. This is professional who is only required when the addicted person does not fully cooperate in seeking the addiction help voluntarily. Some people may be addicted such that they cannot form the required decision of seeking help at drug addiction rehab center. In that scenario, the person who can come to the rescue is an intervention specialist. If you are interested you can find Hawaii drug rehab programs near you.
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The intervention specialist is professional who mobilizes a panel or team which is in the best position to convince the person who is addicted to the abuse of drugs to seek voluntary treatment. The addicted person shod not at anytime be accorded, threatened, forced or intimated so as to undergo the treatment. The cooperation of the patient is very important.
The intervention specialists undergo special training on how to handle those people who are addicted to the abuse of alcohol. They are trained on how to handle the people who are addicted to the abuse of drugs and other substances without forcing those patients in anyway. Some people suggest that the intervention specialists who are reformed drug addicts are the best because they convince the patient to seek treatment based on their personal experience.
You should ensure that you choose an intervention specialist who is a member of the Association of Intervention Specialists. At the official website of the intervention specialists www.associationofinterventionspecialists.org[3] you will find the names and contact details of the intervention specialists by the US States. You will also learn more about the importance of specialist intervention in drug addiction. These professionals do very great job in helping your loved one see the benefits of seeking voluntary drug addiction rehab.
The intervention specialist after interviewing or observing the behavior of the patient will decide on the best place where the intervention can take place. The intervention team should ideally consists of those people are in the best position to influence the addicted person to give up the behavior of abusing drugs by accepting to undergo treatment. Family, friends, workmates and all the other necessary professionals can be involved.
Tags: drug rehabs, intervention[4][5]
Read more https://jxtended.com/drug-addiction-intervention-help/
Read more https://community.joomla.org/showcase/sites/business/construction/
Present: Michael Babker (PLT), Mike Carson, (OSM), Ruth Cheesley (CLT), Ofer Cohen (OSM), Chris Davenport (PLT), Victor Drover (OSM), Javier Gomez (PLT), Alice Grevet (OSM), Tom Hutchison (PLT), David Hurley (PLT), Peter Martin (CLT), Paul Orwig (OSM), Sander Potjer (CLT), Jacques Rentzke (OSM), Marijke Stuivenberg (OSM), Radek Suski (OSM), Matt Thomas (PLT), Sarah Watz (OSM)
On November 7, 2013 in Boston, the Joomla Project leadership teams (CLT - Community Leadership Team; OSM - Open Source Matters; PLT - Production Leadership Team) met for an all-day joint meeting prior to the Joomla World Conference. The text that follows is the notes from this meeting.
BUDGET DISCUSSION AND PROCESS
(led by Vic Drover, OSM Treasurer)
The financial reports need to be simplified (irrelevant or unused account lines) and shared with all three teams regularly. Orbitz reporting should include more detail.
The budgeting process needs to be done in a more timely fashion.
CLT budget liaison: Olaf Offick; PLT budget liaison: Javier Gomez.
Explore the idea of using the budget to drive project execution for more tangible impact.
Discussions are underway with our accounting firm to allow for team-specific status reports. It requires reworking our entire accounting code structure.
Infrastructure projects: capital projects that are not specific to one team could be proposed during 3 cycles during the year (March/June/August). Projects would need to be requested within those time frames.
Physical address and registration of the project: the state of New York has high taxes. There would be a cost to move to another state (re-register TMs, etc.), but it might be worth the savings in taxation. Investigate moving to a more business-friendly state (Delaware, Texas).
ACTION ITEM: Finalize the budget for 2014 (Vic Drover, Olaf Offick, Javier Gomez)
MARKETING
Marketing ideas, thoughts and brainstorming:
INTERNATIONALIZATION
A translation tool is urgently needed not only for the software, but also for promotional materials. It will make marketing more effective and increase participation.
Some improvements in internationalization over the past months:
Most Wikipedia pages about Joomla in different languages are out of date – they could use some updating.
The continuation of several core translations is in question, and for that we need an integrated translation tool.
The teams discussed several cases of international groups requesting more control over top level domain names in their countries.
LEADERSHP TRAINING
Budgeting for professional leadership training and team building would benefit the project. We would need a group that fits our vision and have agreement from all teams. Training could be broken down into chunks and done in different regions. Target areas we want to improve over the next year.
ACTION ITEM: Mike Carson will start research on professional leadership training outfits so that Vic can have some information to create a budget.
TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES
Members of the CLT discussed having more of a connection with events. A liaison would be good. Perhaps some teams should not even be under any one leadership team but have liaisons from each team. Events can fall under all teams (i.e. PLT for code sprints, dev conference, etc.).
Coding events should be publicized in such a way that local people can join in.
The teams again discussed flattening the leadership structure. For now we need to work within this structure and each team should focus on its areas. There is a tendency to focus outside those areas. What is the primary focus of each team and are we meeting those goals?
A project management tool would help us all. The CLT has been experimenting with Feng Office (Peter Martin demo-ed this Open Source tool). Eventually the volunteer portal will take the place of this workflow.
When people leave teams we lose continuity. A project management tool would help with that. The volunteer portal will also be for leadership teams, and it will help for continuity.
Deadlines are tricky in a volunteer project. Things need to be broken down into small parts that different people can take on and help out with. Too often leadership tries to take on the work and then becomes the roadblock because of overload. We need a more dedicated focus – don’t do it all yourself, find people in the community to help. We have unlimited volunteer resources. Leadership training would help.
ACTION ITEM: CLT finish evaluation of Feng and make a recommendation. Team to examine tools. Need input from all teams. Peter Martin, Mike Carson.
TESTING RESOURCES FOR PLT
Automated testing resources cover us adequately but not completely. Through Open Source options we have good coverage. We lack a Microsoft server to test against others. We need more resources so we can test. There is not enough testing on non-mysql databases. Having more people to test would really help. We need to budget it for next year.
REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS
Email Vic Drover for the link to the form and info for travel/expense reimbursement.
THIRD PARTY EVENT ATTENDANCE
There should be more coordination on attending other events and getting people to represent Joomla, with more measurement of impact.
ACTION ITEM: David Hurley, Mike Carson and Radek Suski will update and curate the list of third party events.
REVIEW OF LEADERSHIP TERMS
Last year all three teams agreed to go to one year terms. Is this process working? How does renewal work? Members wishing to renew send an email to the public list stating goals accomplished and goals for renewal, and then the team votes. OSM hasn’t had any renewals this year.
OSM is voting Bylaws changes – according to these changes and in order to be in line with New York State law, next year everyone will have to be elected again at the same time, at the Annual Meeting. This reinforces one year terms. OSM needs to stagger officer terms so we don’t lose everyone at once.
The CLT has a self-evaluation form to be filled out before asking for term renewal. Their team has three different exit dates coming up, and has just put out a call for nominees.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS
The question of offering scholarships for people to attend JAB was discussed.
Overall, the process for JWC scholarships was successful with 11 attendees sponsored from India, Cuba, Argentina, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Kenya. The process will improve and allow more time to process visas, etc.
The word “scholarship” makes it sound like it’s only for young people or students, which is not the case. We need to find a better name for it.
There was a discussion about requiring leadership members to fill in a form to request funding to attend leadership summits/events.
ACTION ITEMS FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP TEAM: Change the name from “scholarship” to something else; plan to advertise the form well in advance of the event; create 2 different forms (one general and one for leadership members)
MORE EXPOSURE TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS + EDUCATION HUB
Some people speak regularly at schools all around the world about Joomla. It would be good to pool slide decks for presenting Joomla to educational institutions in a hub so that they can be shared, with an explanation of what they were used for. This effort could tie into certification.
ACTION ITEM: Sarah Watz and Ruth Cheesley will work on this idea
PAID STAFF
This topic was discussed at JAB, and it is important to have a consensus about it. The process of putting out an RFP has fairly wide acceptance. It could be a way to get around discomfort with paid staff positions, although an RFP isn’t appropriate for every kind of service (i.e. management type positions).
Leadership needs to decide what’s most important? Growth, increasing adoption, productivity and progress, or the ideology? It’s a decision we need to make over and over again.
A weakness of our existing structure is that it is hard for us to make decisions on complicated topics. We need a set of internal guidelines to which we all agree.
ACTION ITEM: come up with a unified voting process for all teams. Chris Davenport will find the original rules and share them for discussion.
OVERALL PROJECT GOALS
The rest of the meeting was spent reviewing the overall project goals for 2013, and discussing overall project goals for 2014.
Those discussions will be the topic of a separate, upcoming blog.
Read more https://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1785-joint-summit-report-nov-7-2013.html
Read more https://feeds.joomla.org/~r/JoomlaExtensionsUpdated/~3/enWHeARq54k/23041
GiBi Sprint[1] is our best-selling extension to create a PDF catalog for VirtueMart.
In a previous article we reviewed its basic features. Now let's have a look at some more advanced uses.
In the configuration of each catalog you can see all available languages and choose to enable all or only some of them.
Sprint is able to get translations from VirtueMart 2 itself, which includes multilanguage, or from JoomFish in case of VirtueMart 1.
All included translations will be printed in the catalog, optionally prefixed by the relevant flag icon.
That is a huge saving in time and printing cost!
We already mentioned, in our previous article, how Sprint can be used from frontend. But there is more to say about it.
Your first, simplest choice is to create the catalog from backend and then create a menu item to let the user show it. You can show either the HTML or PDF catalog.
Don't forget that you can create several catalog with different categories and/or different graphics. For example you create two different catalogs:
And that is not all.
You can also let your users choose the categories they want in the catalog. They won't be able to change any other settings: they can only include or exclude categories amongst the ones that you have made available in that catalog. Those categories will have the graphic setting you have chosen in advance.
So, not only you can offer your users different catalogs, but they are also able to create their own custom catalog!
Since you're creating a PDF catalog ready to print, why stop at the content?
With GiBi Sprint you can set a front cover and a back cover. Any image you set will automatically be stretched to cover the whole page.
With that, the summay article and the index, your PDF catalog is ready to be read, printed, distributed anywhere!
There are a lot of new features we're thinking about. Here a list of random ideas:
We'd love to hear your feedback about that, so we can focus and the most wanted feature(s) for our next releases.
Please get in touch from our contact page[2] or via Twitter[3]!
Read more https://extensions.gibilogic.com/blog/92-gibi-sprint-advanced-features.html
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