The West Coast Symposium on Addiction Disorders will occur as a live experience from May 30-June 1, 2024.

To be eligible for documentation of credit, participants must attend the full activity and submit a completed evaluation form. Participants who complete the evaluation online within 60 days of the live event will receive immediate documentation of credit.

For questions regarding this educational activity, please call 609.371.1137. See the registration rates section of the website for fee information.

This activity is designed for all behavioral or allied health professionals, CEOs, presidents and vice presidents, directors, other C-suite executives, physicians, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, alcohol and drug counselors, mental health counselors, clinical counselors, collegiate recovery and professional monitoring organizations, EAPs, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, peer support, recovery coaches, sober living operators, and staff.

After attending the West Coast Symposium, participants should be able to:

• Apply clinical skills from a broad range of professional core functions including assessment and therapeutic approaches
• Cite advances in the field resulting from research and practice innovations
• Discuss ways to build a collaborative culture within the allied health professions
• Proactively address the challenges, risks, and opportunities presented by a changing competitive environment

HMP Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 20.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

HMP Education has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit(s) for activities planned in accordance with the AAPA CME Criteria. This live activity is designated for 20.0 AAPA Category 1 credit(s).

This continuing nursing education live activity awards 20.0 contact hours.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13255 for 20.0 contact hours.

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Program accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. 

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the AmericanPsychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, HMP Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this live course receive 20.0 general continuing education credits. 

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, HMP Education is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The APA pre-approves New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Washington D.C., for Marriage and Family Therapy credit. HMP Education has applied for pre-approval from the following states: California and Florida. HMP Education is an approved provider for this conference from the following marriage and family boards for the live activity:

New York: HMP Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0085

HMP Education, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7340. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. HMP Education, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

This course has been approved by HMP Global, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #182840.  HMP Global is responsible for all aspects of the programming. 

HMP Education is an independent provider of continuing medical education. HMP Education has no proprietary or financial interest in medical or healthcare products over which the FDA (USA) or EMA (EU) has regulatory authority. 

In accordance with our disclosure policies, HMP Education is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited continuing education. These policies include assigning relevance to, and mitigating, all perceived or real relevant financial relationship (conflicts of interest) between any individual with control over the content and any ineligible company (commercial interest) as defined by the ACCME and CPME. 

Any individual with control over accredited content, including planner, faculty, and reviewer, is required to globally disclose: 

1. Individual relationship(s) or lack thereof, and its nature, with any/all ineligible company, and; 

2. Any investigational, off-label, or non-FDA approved content or discussion 

HMP Education has reviewed these disclosures, assigned relevance based on the relationship and scope of content, and identified those with the potential to compromise the goals and educational integrity of the education. Relevant relationships, or lack thereof, are shared with the learner. 

Education has been independently peer-reviewed to validate content, mitigate identified financial relationships (conflicts of interest), and ensure: 

1. All recommendations involving clinical medicine is based on evidence that is accepted within the medical profession as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients. 

2. All scientific research referred to, reported, or used in accredited continuing education in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. 

3. Content is appropriate, fair and balanced, unbiased, referenced, and non-promotional. 

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. 

HMP Education complies with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity needs accommodation(s), please call 609.371.1137. 

Applications for commercial support from healthcare related industries are pending. Commercial support will be acknowledged as it is received.