Dee-Dee Stout holds a Master’s degree in Health Counseling from San Francisco State University. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Human Sexuality from the same University. Dee-Dee has conducted some 900 presentations and trainings to date.

Dee-Dee is currently Adjunct Faculty at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA, and was a longtime member of the faculty at City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and California State University, Monterey Bay where she developed hybrid classes in “Drugs, Society and Public Policy” as well as “Substance Use Disorders.” She has also developed curriculum for the Northern California Training Academy at UC Davis as well as for both UC Berkeley and CSU East Bay Extensions in their respective CCAPP certificate programs.

Dee-Dee has worked in numerous treatment settings: therapeutic community (TC), social model, and medical-model settings in a variety of treatment levels for those with substance use disorders/other mental health challenges – both for individual clients and for their family/concerned significant others. Her past accomplishments in treatment include developing exercise programs; forming a relapse prevention treatment program for a large HMO; starting a family program for a residential social-model treatment program, and bringing trauma-informed treatment to female prisoners and other moms.