Love First Training Institute
June 22 – 27, 2025
Interventionist Training and Certification at the McIver Center at The Retreat
The 5-day, 30 CEU course covers every aspect of structured family intervention. You will learn advanced methods of the Love First model, including executive-style intervention, invitational-style/process intervention, workplace intervention and other variations. You will learn how to individualize the intervention process to the needs of families and the addicted person, including working with dual diagnosis, volatile situations, and special populations.
Active learning dominates the training experience. Participants engage in problem solving, analysis, evaluation, and team-based learning. You will also learn how to incorporate Structured Family Recovery® into the intervention process, to encourage long term family recovery. Experienced professionals only.
Active learning dominates the training experience. Participants engage in problem solving, analysis, evaluation, and team-based learning. You will also learn how to incorporate Structured Family Recovery® into the intervention process, to encourage long term family recovery. Experienced professionals only.
Jeff & Debra Jay, co-founders of Love First, Inc., are clinical interventionists and co-authors of Love First, a family's guide to intervention, 3rd ed., Hazelden, 2021. Jeff Jay, CADC, CIP has been working in the addiction treatment field since 1986, including work for the Hazelden Foundation. He has appeared as an expert on CNN, PBS, and the Jane Pauley Show.
Debra Jay, MA is a noted author, lecturer and interventionist. She has been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has been seen most recently on ABC Evening News and Good Morning America. Debra is author of It Takes a Family, 2nd ed., Hazelden, 2021 the guide to Structured Family Recovery®
Debra Jay, MA is a noted author, lecturer and interventionist. She has been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has been seen most recently on ABC Evening News and Good Morning America. Debra is author of It Takes a Family, 2nd ed., Hazelden, 2021 the guide to Structured Family Recovery®
