Breaking the Chains of Stigma: Stories, Strategies, and Strength
Dates: June 11, 2025
Meets: W from 12 N to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom Webinar
Zoom - No Charge: $0.00
There are still openings remaining at this time.
Designed for professionals and advocates working directly with individuals and families, this webinar goes beyond awareness. It offers practical strategies grounded in resilience-building and emotional intelligence to challenge stigma, foster empathy, and create inclusive environments.
Participants will engage in reflective dialogue, storytelling, and exercises to better understand how stigma shows up—and how to dismantle it with compassion, advocacy, and strength. Attendees will leave equipped to shift conversations, challenge bias, and lead with emotional awareness in both personal and professional spaces.
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| Fee: | $0.00 |
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| Hours: | 1.50 |
Zoom Webinar
Kymberly Laube
Kym Laube is the Executive Director of Human Understanding Growth Services, Inc., HUGS, Inc., located in Westhampton Beach, NY. In this position she brings over 33 years of substance use prevention knowledge and expertise, leading the organization to provide a full array of multidimensional prevention services and recovery supports. Kym is a national trainer and speaker, working with notable leaders in prevention including CADCA.
Having participated in the HUGS, Inc. Teen Institute program in 1986 as a high school student, Kym understands firsthand, the profound impact, lifelong influence and workforce development the Teen Institute program provides to young people. From student leader to Executive Director in 2002, Kym’s mission has been to empower others to seek their full potential and become agents of change in the world. Kym offers dynamic, passionate and interactive keynotes, trainings and workshops for large and small groups with an uncanny ability to talk with and not at people. Annually, Kym presents to over 25,000 individuals, young and old across our great country.
Kym’s unwavering commitment to improving the lives of young people extends beyond her executive office and can be seen in the many leadership roles she holds. She is active on various local, state and national boards and task forces and served on the NYS Governor Opiate Task Force. Most notable is her personal recovery and commitment to push individuals to make the space better wherever they are. Her greatest joy is watching her two adult sons creating live a life of choice and forge their own course. She lives in Westhampton Beach with her husband, and way too many dogs.
