Northern Ohio Recovery Association Training Institute

ation in 2004 to prevent the use of alcohol, to***co and other drugs utilizing a holistic healing and recovery approach. Her vision is to establish innovative care to support continued recovery in communities throughout Northeast Ohio. In December of 2014 the organization celebrated its ten year anniversary. Bradley has been in recovery for over 24 years and understands the importance and magnitude of blending personal and professional knowledge to promote the power and possibility of recovery. In 2014 she extended the expertise on substance abuse to the administration of President Barack Obama. Throughout an impressive career, more than two decades, Anita has served as a clinician and administrator; she specializes in community organizing, program planning and program development. The no non-sense but compassionate executive has extensive experience in planning, implementing and evaluating new and evolving substance abuse treatment programs, and has provided technical assistance to a multitude of other agencies. She has also monitored treatment agencies for program compliance, quality improvement, in addition to providing guidance and technical assistance to agencies to ensure success of ongoing programs. She has conducted numerous training sessions on substance abuse treatment for her peers. Before founding NORA in 2004 Bradley was the Executive Director of Compass House, Inc. There she lent her skills, talent and management style to the county’s largest residential treatment center. With oversight of a 1.5 million dollar budget her responsibilities included oversight of a 30 member staff, more than 100 volunteers and of budget of 1.5 million dollars. During her tenure she was successful in garnering funding and cultivating relationships within in the service system; writing and administering grants; enforcing service standards and policies in addition to monitoring agency performance of the Board of Trustee and agency funding partners. Bradley is the recipient of local leadership and volunteer service awards, in the substance abuse and recovery profession. She was the inspirational catalyst who organized a public recovery month event, called the Ohio Recovery Ride. This event catapulted the planning of other yearly initiatives and recovery activities, in a tri-county region. Indeed Anita is a powerful force in Northeast Oho. She continues to promote and ensure a continuum of recovery by sustaining a peer recovery model that is both paramount and essential to on-going sobriety. Bradley is the recipient of local leadership and volunteer service awards in the substance abuse profession. She was the inspirational catalyst who organized a public Recovery Month event called the Recovery Motorcycle Ride, which has stimulated the planning of other yearly recovery and substance abuse prevention events. In addition to her many professional accolades, Anita remains loyal to her roots, initiating several AA groups, in Northeast Ohio, which still continue. Northern Ohio Recovery Association operates a Training Institute that provides quality training to the behavioral healthcare workforce, consumers and family members throughout Cuyahoga County and Vicinity. The Training Institute also provides CEUs and RCHs.