Venera M. Blish, CCDC, NCRC

Recovery date 10/5/88

Executive Director, LEGACY Sober Living

Experience

• Entered treatment field in 1991 with Cedars-Sinai CDU
• Seven years as inpatient, outpatient and family counselor and intake director
• Founder Encore Relapse Prevention Education (1998)
• Chemical dependency counselor certification
• UCLA Alcohol and Drug Studies and Alcohol and Drug Counseling programs
• National Board of Addition Examiners
• National association of Forensic Counselors

Additional addiction training

• T. Gorski Relapse Prevention Model
• Intervention – Ed Storti Model
• Crisis intervention training
• Motivational training

Founder Legacy (2003)

Jessica Earnhardt, CCDC

Recovery date 6/10/98

Executive Director, LEGACY

Experience

• Entered treatment field in 1999 with Promises Treatment Program
• Five years experience as counselor, director of woman’s program, director of sober living facility and private sober coach
• Chemical dependency counselor certification
• Institute of Advanced Counseling

Additional training

• Sober living management (Sober Living Coalition)
• Intervention – Ed Storti Model

Founder LEGACY (2003)