Parent & Family Connection is a safe and professionally-facilitated resource for parents, guardians, and other family members that have a child (or children) or other loved one, in recovery or in active addiction. It’s a place to share support, wisdom, and perspective to help cope with the collateral effects of addiction. It is open to everyone and free of charge.

The Columbia Parent & Family Connection meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

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Facilitator: Tim Dunnigan, LCSW-C, CIP

Tim received his Master’s in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Maryland,  School of Social Work in Baltimore (’02).  He immediately moved to New York City to work with the FDNY as a psychotherapist, providing individual, couple’s, and group counseling for the firefighters and EMS workers that responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11.  In 2006, Tim returned to Baltimore to work at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Employee Assistance Program, providing individual counseling and clinical workshops for the medical center’s employees.  In 2007, he received his Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) licensure and started his private counseling and intervention practice in Towson, MD.   He received his Certified Intervention Professional (CIP) credential in 2010, providing intervention services in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Since 2006, Tim has been involved with Ashley Addiction Treatment’s in-patient treatment center for substance use disorders providing family therapy and clinical outreach services.