1. Milan G. Njegovan, Ph.D., CCC
Counseling Approach
As a counselor, I have proficient skills in clinical interventions dealing with adults, children,
and adolescents dealing with addictions/relapse prevention, emotional and behavioural
problems and survivors of dysfunctional families.
My treatment approach is to use cognitive-behavioural interventions to assist my clients in
resolving the issues that placed them in need of services and facilitate their reintegration into
the community. I utilize a bio/psycho/social/spiritual treatment model incorporating Prochaska
and DiClemente's stages of change, as well as, evidence based best practices in the area of
adolescent and adult mental health and substance abuse treatment. Education, prevention,
planning, and transitional supports are an integral part of my approach to effectively counter
the negative aspects of mental health disorders and substance use in my clients. I have
collaborated and/or worked with AADAC and Nechi Institute staff to share best practices in
substance abuse treatment of children, adolescents, adults and their families.
I have received recognition for my work in the field of addictions through being nominated for a Barb
Tarbox Award for my commitment to tobacco reduction in children and adolescents. Further, the
Smoking Education/Prevention Project, that I developed and facilitated, has been nominated for a Barb
Tarbox Award and a Laurel Award. I have received “Bosco Homes – Clinician of the Year 2004” award
for my dedication and program achievements in the field of addictions/mental health with at-risk youth.
Experience Profile
Areas of Counseling Experience with both aboriginal and non-aboriginal youth and adults
Individual
Addictions Anger Management Anxiety Reduction
Family of Origin Issues Family Depression
Sexual Abuse Self-Esteem Marital/Relationship
Co-dependency Relaxation Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Pain Management Panic Attacks Separation/Divorce
Social Phobia Stress Reduction Communication Skills
Group
Addictions/Relapse Prevention
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Healing Circles for adolescents with trainers from the NechiInstitute (co-facilitated)
Anger Management
Children and Adolescent Process Groups
Program Development, Support, and Training

2. • Played a leading role in the development of the Salvation Army Addictions and Residential Centre Drug &
Alcohol Treatment program (policy & procedure development, programming, ongoing development of psycho-
educational groups, interviewing potential staff, developing training protocols, writing articles on addiction for
publication in newsletter)
• Played a leading role in the development of a residential addiction treatment program for John Bosco Child
And Family Services Foundation/Building Hope Compassionate Center
• Played a leading role in the development of Bosco Homes’ Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Prevention and
Treatment (ADAPT) program
• Developed an addiction counseling training manual for Bosco Homes Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Prevention
and Treatment (ADAPT) program
• Developed the group components (Drug & Alcohol Awareness,Relapse Prevention/Early Recovery) of Bosco
Homes’ Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Prevention and Treatment program
• Provided ongoing training to the staff at Bosco Homes’ Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Prevention & Treatment
Center in addictions treatment and in effective strategies for working with troubled children & youth
• Co-Chairperson of Bosco Homes Aboriginal and Inuit Substance Abuse Committee
• Liaising with the coordinators of the internship programs in psychology at the University of Alberta and the
practicum programs in the Mental Health program and the Correctional Services Program at Grant MacEwan
College for recruitment, selection, supervision, and evaluation of practicum students
• Facilitated a collaboration between Bosco Homes Intensive Group Treatment and AADAC 's Youth Services
Program
• Maintained ongoing consultation/support with psychiatrists, teachers,child and youth care,workers,and social
workers
• Ongoing development of a clinical perspective with regard to daily programming, education, therapy, and
overall functioning of residents
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Teaching/Presenting experience and development of psycho-educational groups and workshops
• Term Instructor, Bachelor of Child & Youth Care Program,Grant MacEwan College (January - March 2010)
CYCW 108 (700) Special Topics in Child and Youth Care - Internet
• Term Instructor, Bachelor of Child & Youth Care Program,Grant MacEwan College (May – June 2008)
CYCW 108 (600) Special Topics in Child and Youth Care - Internet
• Term Instructor, Bachelor of Child & Youth Care Program,Grant MacEwan College (January – March 2008)
CYCW 108 (600) Special Topics in Child and Youth Care - Teleconference
• Approved Supervisor - Campus Alberta Applied Psychology Counseling Initiative (2005-2006) for David C.
Musgrave’s Masters of Counseling Final Project (thesis): Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Affected Youth:
Paradigm Shift Through Skills Training for Families and Professionals
• Invited speaker - Alberta Mental Health Board – Forensic Telemental Health Series (January 2006), “Crystal
Meth – What You Need to Know”
• Invited Speaker – Calgary’s Child Magazine – Global TV interviews in Calgary for Calgary’s Child Parenting
Segment (January 2006)
• Term Instructor, Department of Psychology, Grant MacEwan College (Fall 2004) - PSYC104 (550)
Introductory Psychology
• Developed and delivered the following training protocols:
• “Crystal Meth – What You Need to Know” to Bosco Homes staff and community groups
• “Effective Strategies for Working with Troubled Children and Youth” (full day workshops) to Bosco
Homes staff and community groups
• Developed and taught psycho-educational groups on Drug & Alcohol Awareness and Early Recovery
& Relapse Prevention skills
• Received funding (AADAC) and taught psycho-educational groups on “Smoking

3. Education/Prevention/Cessation”
• Developed Program/treatment manual for the Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment
(ADAPT) Center for Bosco Homes
• Co-facilitated two workshops on Drug Awareness “Nothing to Rave About (Ecstasy)” at the
Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference (2002) with Kathy McKinnon (Director of Aboriginal
Services Bosco Homes)
• Co-developed and co-facilitated a workshop to the community with AADAC (Marty
Murell) – “Parenting Youth & Young Adults – Strategies to Recognize, Prevent,&
Intervene With Your Youth’s Drug &/or Alcohol Use – DCC’s Senator Tommy Banks
Green Room – Fort Saskatchewan
• Responsible for the initial and ongoing training/support for staff in Bosco Homes’
Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Center
Advanced skills in research, analyzing, writing and presenting
• Researched and submitted a grant proposal (2007) to Health Canada to do follow-up analyses of Bosco Homes
Smoking Education/Cessation Project 2005-2006, 2006-2007 - successfully funded approximately $50,000
• Researched and submitted a grant proposal (2006) to Health Canada to develop and facilitate psycho-
educational groups on smoking education and prevention for high-risk adolescents - successfully funded
$65,000
• Researched and submitted a grant proposal (2005) to Health Canada to develop and facilitate psycho-
educational groups on smoking education and prevention for high-risk adolescents - successfully funded
$65,000
• Researched and submitted a grant proposal (2002) to Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC)
to develop and facilitate psycho-educational groups on smoking education and prevention for high-risk
adolescents - successfully funded $25,000
• Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data/results collected from the Bosco Homes’ Smoking
Education/Cessation Project (2002, 2005-2006, 2006-2007)
• Presented the results of the Bosco Homes 2006-2007 Smoking Education/Cessation Project at the 5th
National
Conference on Tobacco or Health (October 2007)
• Presented (Poster Format) the results of the Bosco Homes 2005-2006 Smoking Education/Cessation Project at
World No Tobacco Day (2006)
• Co-facilitated 2 workshops on drug awareness at the Dreamcatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference (2002) held
at Grant MacEwan Community College
• Published articles on addiction in Parent Magazine (Sherwood Park),in Edmonton’s Child Magazine, and in
Calgary’s Child Magazine
• Ten published papers, 1 co-authored book chapter,11 conference presentations, 11 co-authored conference
presentations
Supervisory Experience
• Managed a residential treatment house/program with 11 full time employees
• Responsible for the recruitment, selection, supervision, training and evaluation of Child & Youth Care
Workers
• Responsible for overseeing and monitoring the budget
• Responsible for developing and monitoring clinical aspects of a child’s stay
• Facilitated the training of Child and Youth Care Workers
• Supervising the Bosco Homes teaching staff responsible for the delivery and data collection of Bosco Homes’
Smoking Education/Cessation Project (2005-2006 & 2006-2007) to Bosco Homes’ schools and in community

4. schools
Training
General Counseling
• Mind Matters Seminars - Understanding Anger, Diagnosis, and Treatment (April 2000)
• Professional Training Group - Tough Teens: Working with Angry and Conflictual Adolescents,
Pre-teens and their Families (November 20, 1999)
• EMDR Institute, Inc. - EMDR: LEVEL II (July 1999)
• EMDR Institute, Inc. - EMDR: LEVEL I (February 1999)
• Solution Talk - Level II: Solution Focused Therapy with Difficult Clients (November 1998)
• Solution Talk - Level I: Solution Focused Counseling (October 1998)
• International Academy of Cognitive Therapy - How To Do Cognitive Therapy (March 1998)
Addictions
• Healing & Treating Trauma, Addictions & Related Disorders Conference (Jack Hirose &
Associates – November 28-30, 2008)
• Youth-Focussed Alcohol and Drug Intensive (Jack Hirose & Associates - June 13-16, 2006)
• Treating & Healing Addiction Problems (May 5-6, 2005) Claudia Black, Ph.D. & Terence
Gorski M.A.
• Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
• Special Topics in Addictions – Crystal Methamphetamine – The Matrix Model
(September 8-9, 2003)
• Dual Diagnosis (April 1998)
• An Overview of Addictions (March 1998)
• NeuroLinguistic Programming (October 1998)
• Motivational Interviewing (October 1998)
• Cutting Edge Therapies (December 1997)
• 17th Pacific Institute of Addiction Studies (May 26 – 29, 2003)
• Substance Use, Mental Health and Acquired Brain Injury – Multiple
Disabilities
• Crystal Methamphetamine
• Grief/Loss/Issues and their Relation to Addiction
• 34th Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science (March 2002)
• Psychiatric Comorbidity and Adolescent Substance Abuse: Assessment and
Intervention Issues
• Integrative Behavioural and Family Therapy for Adolescent Substance Use
Disorders
• Brief Intervention for Alcohol Problems Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Multi-site Experiment: The Five Treatment
Models and Key Clinical Lessons
Aboriginal Culture
• Bosco Homes - Aboriginal Culture Awareness Workshop (May 2000, October 2006)

5. Crisis
• Canadian Institute for Crisis Intervention Training (Bosco Homes) – Verbal Crisis Intervention (Oct. 2006)
• Bosco Homes – Suicide Intervention Training (June 2002)
• Bosco Homes - Heart and Stroke Level C CPR and EMP Basic Plus First Aid (2000, 2006)
• Canadian Institute for Crisis Intervention Training (Bosco Homes) - Fundamentals of Non-Abusive Crisis
Intervention and PersonalSafety (2000)
• Bosco Homes - Medication Administration & Delivery Workshop (May 2000)
Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Abuse Prevention Training – Stewards of Children – Little Warriors (October 2010)
• Bosco Homes - Relapse Prevention: Treatment Applications (January 2003)
• Bosco Homes - Sexual Abuse Counselor Training II - Dr. Marlene Rankel (May 2001)
• Bosco Homes - Sexual Abuse Counselor Training I - Dr. Marlene Rankel (April 2001)
Employment History
February 2015 – Present Addiction Counselor – Salvation Army Addictions and Residential Centre
Provide addictions counseling and therapeutic interventions (individual, group) to
adult males in an intensive treatment residential setting.
February - May 2013 Addiction Programming Consultant to:
John Bosco Child And Family Services Foundation/
Building Hope Compassionate Center
January - March 2010 Term Instructor,Bachelor of Child & Youth Care Program, Grant MacEwan
College. CYCW 108 (700) Special Topics in Child and Youth Care – Internet
August 2003 – Dec. 2009 Addictions Specialist/Clinician, Bosco Homes,Edmonton, Alberta
Provide psychological/addictions counseling and therapeutic
interventions (individual, family, group) to children and adolescents
in intensive treatment residential settings.
May – June 2008 Term Instructor,Bachelor of Child & Youth Care Program, Grant MacEwan
College. CYCW 108 (600) Special Topics in Child and Youth Care – Internet
January – March 2008 Term Instructor,Bachelor of Child & Youth Care Program, Grant MacEwan
College. CYCW 108 (600) Special Topics in Child and Youth Care –
Teleconference
September – Dec. 2004 Term Instructor,Department of Psychology, Grant MacEwan College
PSYC104 (550) Introductory Psychology
July 2002 – August 2003 Clinician, Bosco Homes, Edmonton, Alberta
Provided psychological counseling and therapeutic interventions
(individual, family, group) to children and adolescents in intensive treatment
residential settings.
March 2000 – July 2002 Managing Clinician, Bosco Homes - Clare House,Edmonton, Alberta
Managed a 10-bed intensive treatment residential center and provided

6. psychological counseling and therapeutic interventions.
November 1998 - Aug. 2000 Provisional Chartered Psychologist
G. J. Meiers, Ph.D., J. Hammond Meiers, Ph.D., Ltd., Edmonton,Alberta
Provided psychological counseling, testing, and therapeutic interventions.
April 1998 - November 1998 Provisional Chartered Psychologist/Addictions Counselor (Practicum)
Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission, Edmonton, Alberta
Provided psychological and addictions counseling and therapeutic Interventions.
November 1997 - April 2000 Provisional Chartered Psychologist (Practicum)
J. Neehall, Ph.D., Edmonton,Alberta
Provided psychological counseling and therapeutic interventions.
Teaching Assistant,
1993 & 1995 Queen's University at Kingston
1989 University of Windsor
Instructed undergraduates in planning research projects and monitored
progress to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
1976-1995 E.D.P.M. Console Operator (computer operator), ChryslerCanada, Windsor,
Ontario
Awards
Minister’s Award for Municipal Excellence (2006) – Partnership Award – member of Strathcona
County Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy
Clinician of the Year 2004 – Bosco Homes Intensive Treatment
ProfessionalAffiliations
Canadian Certified Counselor – Canadian Counseling & Psychotherapy Association