Dealing with Loss from Overdose and Suicide: Ethical and Soul-Care Implications - November 7, 2025
Includes a Live In-Person Event on 11/07/2025 at 8:30 AM (EST)
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- Learners - $75
A 6-Hour Training with Jacqui Abikoff, LICSW, MLADC
8:30am-4:00pm
130 Pembroke Road, Suite 150, Concord, NH 03301
Presentation: This workshop will deal with the impact on friends, family members and treatment providers from the death of a client/participant from overdoes and/or suicide. It will examine the impact on treatment providers, recovery support providers and other care-givers as well as on the ethical and clinical issues to consider in providing organizational postvention support and response to staff, family and community.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify at least 3 similarities between the impact of suicide and overdose on family/friends, service providers, and the community;
- Explain their own emotional and cognitive responses to the death of a client/participant to overdose or suicide;
- Explain ethical responses to family members, friends, community members, and the press after the loss of a client to suicide or overdose; and
- Identify ethical and practical steps that agencies can take to respond to staff needs after a death by suicide and overdose.
6 Contact Hours Available
CRSW Performance Domains: 4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 4, 11-13 & 15-17
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 2 & 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Jacqui Abikoff
Executive Director
Horizons Counseling Center
Jacqui Abikoff, LICSW, MLADC, is Executive Director of Horizons Counseling Center, an outpatient substance use and co-occurring disorders treatment and recovery center in the Lakes Region of NH. She has worked in program development in the area of criminal justice and trauma informed treatment, she was active in developing and administering the Recovery Court Program in Belknap County and in developing and implementing treatment programming for incarcerated populations. She has been a strong voice in the establishment of clinical and ethical practice standards in behavioral health on the state and national levels for over 30 years. Ms. Abikoff has chaired the Public Policy and Ethics Committees of the NH Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors Association and the NH Providers Association and she served on the NH Board of Licensing for Alcohol and Other Drug Use Professionals. She provides training and consultation on confidentiality, professional ethics, co-occurring disorders, suicide prevention, clinical supervision, and criminal justice programming for behavioral health providers, criminal justice and healthcare programs both locally and nationally.