Marla Looper

Marla is a popular public speaker, a powerful coach and a charismatic teacher who has reached families worldwide with her powerful message of empowerment, purpose, public service, and gratitude. She has transformed her life from struggling alcoholic to motivational entrepreneur, and has dedicated her life to teaching others how to do the same. CEO and Founder of Intelligent Interventions, Marla is leading the Independent Spirit Movement. With more than twenty years of coaching, training and speaking experience, her inspiring message has touched many audiences. Her life’s work is about restoring dignity through clarity, courage and confidence. This year Marla is committed to her mission to get families out of the addiction nightmare and through that struggle to lives of higher functioning, deeper meaning and powerful purpose.

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Marla Looper As the founder and CEO of Intelligent Interventions, Marla has created a dynamic enterprise that is devoted to empowering individuals and families around the world through her offline and online programs, therapeutic workshops, spiritual support communities and her programs of prevention education and intervention services specializing in addictive behaviors that contribute to the delay of personal healing and recovery; and to the parallel experiences and consequences of the prolonged process of addiction and dependence of any kind and any level, affecting the individuals within the family context. 

Creator at MarlaLooper.com

February 2007 - December 1999

Detox Unit at Johnson County Mental Health Center

December 1999 - December 1999

Peering Playgrounds at Intelligent Interventions

March 2009

Teaches participating consumers specific skills relevant to providing peer support, creating a new standard for consumers providing peer support services in systems of care where credentialing requirements have traditionally excluded consumers from staff positions. As certified provider staff, peer specialists work to help other consumers with components of lifelong learning such as skill building, recovery/life goal setting, problem solving, establishing self-help groups, utilizing self-help recovery tools (e.g. WRAP), and serve as a model for personal recovery. Skills Training includes, but not limited to, 1. Crisis Intervention 2. Problem Solving 3. Conflict Resolution 4. The Cycle of Engagement 5. Cultural Competence 6. Facilitating Groups 7. Peer Mentor Faciliator Training

Bridge Advocate at Rose Brooks

February 2009

Bridge Program Advocacy Providing advocacy services to victims of domestic violence and serving as a liaison between the Bridge Program, Rose Brooks Center and area hospitals. Duties include direct advocacy to any victim seen in the hospital(s) served by the program. Duties of Bridge Advocate when responding to a call: **Provide hospital advocacy services to patients at designated hospitals and clinics. **Assist victims of domestic violence in accessing community resources. This includes but is not limited to the following: domestic violence education, emergency shelter, safety planning, coordinating and reporting to law enforcement, and Victim’s Compensation. Prepare and file Emergency Ex-Parte Orders of Protection. Maintain accurate and thorough documentation regarding contact with victims of domestic violence and other statistical information needed for program records and grant reports.

Intelligent Interventions & Sober Recovery Coaching at Intelligent Interventions

February 2007

I'm an independent, freelance sober recovery coach specializing in prevention, intervention and aftercare recovery services all of which provide comprehensive, consumer-run "skilling" programs customized for those reconnecting to the community, the family, the job or the SELF on various and personal principles of one's own understanding of a spiritual existence.

Founder at Friends Like Us

February 2007

Recovery Support Specialists wear many hats including but not limited to, **assisting consumers in identifying and accessing community resources necessary to enhance independent living and social supports. **serve as a role model for consumers by identifying as present or former primary consumer of substance abuse/mental health services **help consumers develop skills for coping and managing psychiatric symptoms. **provide individual and group peer support activities to promote skills for managing skills and symptoms **manage, monitor and report consumer progress toward identified goals. **demonstrate recovery expertise in the areas of substance abuse and mental illness **applying extensive personal and experiential know-how to support others in their recovery **experientially act using seasoned abilities from personal efforts at sustained recovery. **self identify as a present/former consumer of mental health services **understanding of the dual recovery process.

University of Missouri - Columbia

1985 – 1989

BS

Concentration: Psychology, Anthropology

Hickman Mills Senior High

Self improvement in the exchange of helping others