Kristina Padilla – Welcome to the LGBTQIA2+ Rainbow Community – What you didn’t know and how to become an Ally to your clients

Kristina Padilla, M.A., LAADC, ICAADC, CGS Associated seminars and merchandise: 1

Kristina Padilla is a frontrunner with the California Consortium of Habit Packages and Professionals (CCAPP), the place she serves as the Vice President of Schooling overseeing CCAPP’s Schooling Division. She is also the Vice President of Strategic Growth for the group whereby she travels all through California and the nation bringing dependancy centered companies collectively to promote the occupation, enhance entry to companies and enhance the high quality of AOD service provision by training, enterprise growth, and funding in high quality programming. Mx. Padilla led California’s modern felony justice program serving as the Offender Mentor Certification Program Director for 3 years the place she managed 12 in-jail applications for coaching counselors. She labored carefully with the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in California prisons for the length of the contract bringing innovation and progress to the state’s in custody therapy programming. Mx. Padilla additionally was the earlier Program Director/Adjunct School of the Peer Help coaching and Placement Program which skilled friends in Restoration/psychological well being to become licensed and how to work with different friends in restoration akin to, self-route, advocacy, ethics, particular person centered strategy, personalization, empowerment, energy base, aim setting, respect, cultural sensitivity and competency, duty, hope and at the very core of the program. 

Mx. Padilla has a Bachelor’s of Science in Felony Justice Administration and a Grasp’s Diploma in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Household remedy. Mx. Padilla is a Licensed Superior Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LAADC), and an Worldwide Licensed Superior Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (ICAADC). She can also be a Licensed Gang Specialist of the Nationwide Gang Crime Analysis Heart (NGCRC) and is on the Board of Administrators of the Nationwide Affiliation of Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender Habit Professionals and their Allies (NALGAP) the place she is the membership chair and is the California consultant. She can also be on the Board of Administrators for the Girls’s Affiliation of Habit Therapy (WAAT) Board the place she is Chair. Mx. Padilla is the Chief Tutorial Officer for the CCAPP Academy at CCAPP and is a previous Board member for the Nationwide Alliance for Psychological Sickness (NAMI) Sacramento chapter. Mx. Padilla sits on the Advisory Board for (NATI) Native American Institute in New Mexico and is a advisor for Faces and Voices NRI (Nationwide Restoration Institute). 

Mx. Padilla can also be an impartial advisor on LGBTQIA2+ Program growth & Design/points/companies/Counseling/Remedy/Mentoring/Coaching and Teaching and travels the Nation offering coaching and lectures at conferences in addition to in-service coaching for non-earnings, for-earnings, county and state staff. Mx. Padilla can also be an Habit Expertise switch heart (ATTC) Coach and “Equality California” Management Academy fellow. Mx. Padilla is a candidate at Harvard, The Derek Bok Heart For Educating and Studying acquiring her “Higher Education Teaching Certificate” and might be accomplished by July 2020. Mx. Padilla is a mom to a lovely 4-12 months-previous little woman named Karisma. She additionally is part of the LGBTQ+ (Rainbow) Community and identifies as a Trans, Gender-Fluid, 2-Spirit, non-binary, biologically born Girl, Kristina’s pronouns are She, Her, and Hers and she goes by the prefix of Mx.Padilla.   

Speaker Disclosures:
Monetary: Kristina Padilla is the Vice President of Schooling and Strategic Growth at the California Consortium of Habit Packages and Professionals. She receives a talking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-monetary: Kristina Padilla is on the board of administrators for the Nationwide Affiliation of Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender Habit Professionals and their Allies.