 Chemical Health Rule Wellness Advisory Committee Newsletters
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Presenters: John Suby
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John W. Suby works
with the MIAA on the You Lead program, Coaches and Captains, and Student Leadership
Workshops. His past experience includes serving as president of Addiction Prevention Inc., an independent consulting firm specializing in addiction prevention. He has also worked for Spofford Hall, a drug/alcohol treatment facility in Keene, N.H. In that position he served first as an adolescent specialist, and later as Director of Marketing for the New England region. Before Joining Spofford Hall, John worked for ten years at the Freedom From Chemical Dependency (FCD) Foundation in Needham, MA, an organization which provides education in schools across the country. During his tenure there, John served as Executive Director, and was responsible for day-to-day operations and supervision of all FCD consultants. He also played a key role in the start-up of the Family Learning Center, which conducts workshops, seminars and conferences for a variety of different audiences. He has lectured and/or conducted workshops on "Drug and Alcohol Prevention Planning" at the Massachusetts Governor's Alliance Against Drugs, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) conferences, and the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) conference in Rome, Italy. He has been a featured speaker at the New England and New York State College Health Associations' annual meetings, the Greater Boston Alcohol Council's annual meeting, the New England Teachers Conference and the New York Association of Independent Schools. John has served as a faculty member at more than a dozen educational universities for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and as a regular faculty member at the New England School of Addiction Studies. He was also a guest speaker at a national conference for physicians at Beth Isreal Hospital in Boston, MA, has addressed the Brigham & Women's Center for Prenatal and Family Health also in Boston, and has lectured at Harvard University on several occasions. Prior to his work at FCD, John worked as a consultant at St. Elizabeth's Comprehensive Alcoholism Program in Boston. He was also Program Director of the Substance Abuse Program of Care About Now (CAN) in Chelsea, MA. His duties at CAN included running substance abuse programs in the Massachusetts State Prison System, and training social workers and correctional officers in the areas of addiction identification and intervention. John is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (L.C.S.W.) in the State of Massachusetts. He served for six years on the Board of Trustees at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA. He is a graduate of Hobart College in New York and has a M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Boston State College. John also serves as a clinical consultant for Sobel & Raciti Associates, a New England-based E.A.P. firm. |