2012 Annual School
July 15 - 19, 2012
Jim Knorp
MSW, CAP
Place of Residence: Tallahassee, Florida
Business: SCATTC
Title: Project Manager
Current Courses:
Clinical Supervision (Tampa, 2012)
Previous Courses:
Understanding Addiction & Recovery (Tallahassee, 2011);
Clinical Supervision (Jacksonville, 2011);
Addictions A-Z (Jacksonville, 2010)
Jim Knorp has been a professional in the addictions field for over 30 years. He is currently the Project Manager for the Southern Coast ATTC and is responsibile for trainings and technical assistance projects within the states of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. He began his career in substance abuse/dependence in 1978 as a counselor trainee at a state funded in-patient treatment program. He has served as a Board Member of the International Credntialing Reciprocity Consortium from 1984 to 1993 and was a board member of the Michigan Certification Board of Addictions Specialists (MCBAS). He served as chair for two terms over a 12 year period. He is the Chairperson for a recovery advocacy group, Floridians for Recovery (FFR) and a Board Member of the Florida School of Addictions Studies (FSAS).
Jim is a Certificed Addictions Counselor, Certified Addictions Professional and a Certificed Relapse Prevention Specialist. He is also an associate adjunct professor at the Florida State University School of Social Work. He holds a Master of Social Work degree issued from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1997.
Jim has worked in a varity of settings, primarily in adult in-patient residential treatment facilities at both hospitals and free-standing treatment centers. He has trained with a number of treatment professionals at the State and County levels in his home state of Michigan and here in Florida. He has delivered 15 or more rounds of training in the Clinical Supervision curriculum developed by the Northwest Frontier, ATTC. He has also worked with criminal offenders at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This is the most restrictive mental health setting within the state.
He brings his experience as a trainer and an educator to the service of the substance abuse and mental health treatment fields. Since evidence-based practices are the "wave of the future", Jim hopes to add his experience along these lines to the vast knowledge of the treatment provision community. Jim has contributed to the development of "TAP 21-A" and is currently working with a National Committee to develop a curriculum to train this publication.
The FSAS his honored to welcome Jim back to the FSAS Annual School where he will co-instruct Clinical Supervision with Karen Garrett on July 16-19, 2012 at Springfield College School of Human Resources in Tampa, Florida.
